RIP, Mr. Wilson; for three seasons you were one of my favourite things about The Walking Dead. A shame that the show never did anything more with the ‘Hey, if someone gets bitten on the arm or leg and we amputate quickly enough they don’t die and turn’ revelation we got with Hershel, but that seems about par for the…

We went up in the winter time to frickin’ British Columbia and shot an exterior picture in the woods freezing our asses off in this beautiful little town up there.

Yeah, I think that in the grand scheme of things, Ted Turner more than atoned for colourised movies with TCM.

Cooper got a lot of comedy out of his ‘magic tricks’ that went wrong, and he collapsed on stage as his pretty assistant walked on. The show was being broadcast live on British TV, and at first everyone in the audience - and even the assistant - thought Cooper was goofing around, and pretending to be so struck by the…

If they ever need someone to play the Second Doctor in a TV movie, and Reece Shearsmith isn’t available, Ken Burns could be Patrick Troughton:

Apparently someone on Brill’s team saw (negative) comments that David Gosar had made about his brother online, and cold-called him. I presume the conversation was along the lines of the staffer saying ‘I wonder if you’d be interested in saying these things in an ad for Dr. Brill’s campaign,’ and David replying ‘Hell…

When I was a server I often put food in ‘doggie bags’ for people to take away (the portions were huge). I’d always caution people to take it home and get it in the fridge right away. So I wonder how many cases of food poisoning can be traced to a restaurant meal that was fine when you ate it at Sam and Ella’s Bistro,…

I just want Olivia Colman to win all the awards for everything.

An elderly, gentlemanly robber with a middle-aged gang, who has a surprisingly sexy late-in-life fling with a similarly-aged woman, and who also has a determined detective on his track who almost seems to admire him? And it’s based on true story? This could be a description of the 1982 Canadian film The Grey Fox,…

Apparently when Burt was starting out in acting his father didn’t approve of that as a career choice. Burt said that he was at some Hollywood awards show - probably around the time of Deliverance - and his dad was with him. Jimmy Stewart, of all people, came up to the pair, complimented Burt on his acting, then said…

Much as I love Sense and Sensibility and the BBC Price and Prejudice from 1995, my favourite of that year’s Austen adaptations is Persuasion (also from the BBC), starring Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds, both of whom are brilliant as Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth.

“Why would anyone want to steal a dead, naked body?

My favourite Simon work is Murder by Death, probably because it so expertly but fondly skewers every cliché of the murder mystery genre (and an all-star cast makes the most of every line). It’s endlessly quotable, but my favourite line has to be Sam Diamond’s ‘This can only mean one thing; and I don’t know what that…

I have never seen that skit before and you’re right: that is some spot-on period accurate detail. I watched the Universal Holmes films over and over when I was a kid, and this looks like it was taken from one of them. I expected to see Miles Mander turn up as one of the pub regulars.

I was surprised that The Abyss wasn’t on the list. I think that Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) was the first use of a fully-animated CGI character in movies, but its use in The Abyss went way above and beyond that.

Get it?

I think it was.

Everyone could save themselves a lot of time, money, and effort by just watching The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938 Errol Flynn version), which is still - 80 years after it was made - the best Robin Hood film of all time.

Nothing for The Terror? Really, Emmy voters? I thought Jared Harris and Adam Nagaitis would be shoo-ins for acting, and that Ciaran Hinds, Paul Ready, Tobias Menzies, and Ian Hart had decent chances, while Marcus Fjellstrom’s score was wonderful, the cinematography was brilliant, and the writing and direction were…

As soon as I heard that the boys and their coach had been found and rescue plans were being worked on, I said to my husband ‘Someone, somewhere, has already started writing the screenplay.’