@winston

Shaun Dooley (Epzo from The Ghost Monument) got a similar surprise in his cover of Never Grow Up (he was nervous and singing with his eyes closed, to imagine he was just with his kids – so didn’t see Taylor Swift come in).

Fair bit of Who connection: David Tennant, Suranne Jones (Idris) and Olivia Colman (Prisoner Zero) do,…[Read more]

Jodie Whittaker rehearses Yellow, for Children in Need: gets a bit of a surprise:

https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1189643383066759175

@thane16

The closing line of that PotN is just genius.

@winston

LOOK AWAY NOW!!!!!

@mudlark

Dracula in Buffy (riffing on the high camp Hammer Horror, not Bram Stoker) served the purpose it was intended to serve – to be a massive misdirect for what happened at the end of that episode (which itself had been carefully set in motion two years earlier).

Its secondary purpose was re firmly re-establish…[Read more]

@thane16

The funny one.

It occurs to me that you may not have seen this:

@thane16

I have lost count of the number of times I have walk past that piano. Never seen it not being played, always on my way to an appointment.

@winston

Watch it how you want. Seriously. Ignore the blather.

But be aware that S6 has some seriously heavy duty material that you might want to ease up to, given your current situation. Both @thane16 and I had this in mind with our comments.

But I would recommend, if you can, watching it in order (ideally on DVD because the version on Amazon…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

You might want to remove the spoiler there….

@winston

I’m an with @thane16 – Buffy, if you have never sat and watched it, has a through line (well, two really) that runs across all 7 seasons, with season 5 – imho – the finest single season of serial TV ever made, a perfect collision of character, metaphor, arc and theme. But it was that because each season built upon the one before, with…[Read more]

@thane16

The boogie-woogie pianist in in St Pancras International station, one of the business railway stations in the country (Eurostar terminus (on the upper deck to the pianists right), and trains from both the places I have lived in the past 20 years).

It used to (possibly still does) boast the widest single-span roof in the world and is…[Read more]

With @winston in mind, The Cure and the impossible sad and beautiful Pictures of You. 

@notoriouszero

The usual sources. It might be on Netflix or Amazon Prime (or other streaming services) in your area, and is certainly available on Bluray/DVD it most regions.

Then of course there are the various totallylegitimatedownload sites, but those you will have to find for yourself with all of the attendant risks to the health of your…[Read more]

Various celebs are contribution to a collection of covers for Children In Need (annual telethon type thingy)

Jodie Whittaker covers Yellow, by Coldplay

@notoriouszero

You are not alone in being banjaxed by S7. Netflix had completely the wrong running order, with Day of the Doctor erroneously at the end of S8, and did have Time of the Doctor.

Until *cough* somebody *cough* patiently explained it to a CS helper…, much like @mudlark has done for you.

Before watching Day of the Doctor, you could…[Read more]

@craig @jimthefish

I think it is time for a new sofa. Let’s go all in with the pink dayglo this time.

The TV thread is getting there too.

Those of you of a special effects nerdy disposition may enjoy this: NerdyMcNerdFace(book)

@all

Another Netflix bit of wonder stuff, prompted by @thane16 the Elder.

Watch Unbelievable, an 8 part “limited series” (ie only one season, I think) dealing with the Washington and Colorado serial rapes and starting with the truly shocking and infuriating treatment of the first victim, bullied into retracted her complaint.

What it does…[Read more]

@ichabod

I thought I was more concise 😉 but a bit of Ursula is never wasted.

(I did my Masters ta LSE and, in true LSE style, we had our own term: “Ideologically sound”, used in exactly the same way – always satirical, usually self-deprecating.)

@craig @jimthefish

I don’t think Dr Sachin Gupta is the right kind of Doctor…