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Post by theatreian on Mar 10, 2019 22:17:20 GMT
Elaine Paige, first lady of musical theatre and everyone's favourite Sunday afternoon radio presenter, is the special guest artiste on tonight's episode of Midsomer Murders. Elaine was great. A touch of the Norma Desmond In her character and outfits. A real star turn. Lovely to see the ageless Anita Harris too. She barely looks any different to when I used to see her as David Nixons assistant when I was a kid. She is 76 now! |
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Post by crowblack on Mar 16, 2019 15:18:24 GMT
A slight variant, but the Netflix comic-book series The Umbrella Academy uses the much-recycled two hitpersons from The Dumb Waiter really well, complete with a 'dumb waiter'-type device, those old fashioned message tubes with orders that keep materialising in unexpected places. It's a good series, sort of 'Grant Morrison's Royal Tenenbaums', though I'm holding off looking up anything about it (the writers etc.) until I've finished the bingewatch.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 17, 2019 10:48:46 GMT
More murder: she's in Marple on ITV3 this morning. |
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 17, 2019 13:05:13 GMT
More murder: she's in Marple on ITV3 this morning. I hope my very good friend Tibidabo spotted it in the schedules, so she could watch it on her numerous televisions. Percy Shaw had fewer. 😉 |
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 17, 2019 15:13:50 GMT
Aw shucks, I missed her. Next time, could you page me please TallPaul? |
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 17, 2019 15:27:35 GMT
Aw shucks, I missed her. Next time, could you page me please TallPaul? You want me to page you about Paige? Have you forgotten I live in the grim north? What I could do is tear the page from my copy of TV Choice, and get my page to hand-deliver it to you in Hemel Hempstead. |
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Post by Deal J on Mar 27, 2019 18:49:14 GMT
Pointless Celebrities on Saturday 18:05, BBC One has a Musical Theatre theme, with the following contestants:
Ray Quinn
Joanne Clifton
Ben Forster
Kerry Ellis
Jenna Russell
Hannah Waddingham 🤩
Duncan James
Jade Ewen
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Post by tysilio2 on Mar 29, 2019 22:26:40 GMT
Norm Lewis on Bull tonight
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 7:12:51 GMT
Not specifically theatre actors (though there are some recognisable faces from the British stage among the cast) so much, but the channel 4 adaptation of Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica starts next Wednesday.
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Post by crowblack on Apr 17, 2019 13:47:00 GMT
I've just noticed Chimerica is starting tonight - has there been much publicity for it? I haven't noticed any, though I rarely watch 'live' TV with adverts these days.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2019 13:52:56 GMT
Oh, I saw a couple of ads for it (channel 4's online catch-up service won't let you skip ads, and I kept missing Derry Girls when it was on) but yeah, I don't think there's been a big push or anything. Even the Almeida Twitter feed only seems to have mentioned it once last week.
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Post by dontdreamit on Apr 17, 2019 13:59:02 GMT
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Post by crowblack on Apr 17, 2019 14:53:18 GMT
I don't think there's been a big push or anything I don't suppose Ch4 have a big ad budget but I would have expected a Guardian feature or something. I hope it's not a reflection on the programme quality. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2019 14:56:40 GMT
They probably spent all the budget on the show itself and left nothing over for marketing, it's a pretty impressive cast list.
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Post by waybeyondblue on Apr 17, 2019 20:31:23 GMT
channel 4's online catch-up service won't let you skip ads It will if you look hard enough. ITV different story. |
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Post by crowblack on Apr 17, 2019 21:41:44 GMT
I'm enjoying it so far. I missed it on stage and tried reading the playtext but lost the thread of it (lots of names, and I'm really crap at remembering names!). All episodes are now on All4.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Apr 18, 2019 8:58:17 GMT
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Post by d'James on Apr 18, 2019 13:14:23 GMT
In case anyone didn’t know, Genesis Lynea is in Casualty at the moment.
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Post by crowblack on Apr 24, 2019 21:37:08 GMT
I didn't catch up with the rest of MotherFatherSon: if anyone here watched it all, was it worth it?
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Post by crowblack on Apr 25, 2019 22:28:24 GMT
probably spent all the budget on the show itself The reviews are good, but I saw on Twitter today the viewing figures are only a quarter of a million. The later episodes of MotherFatherSon didn't do much better, half a million. I think Chimerica could have done with household names in the cast, or some younger actors to bring in younger viewers, but I suppose the good weather hasn't helped. |
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Post by crowblack on Jun 3, 2019 12:44:37 GMT
Old Vic-wise, The High Life with early Alan Cumming is back on UK-wide BBC iplayer at the mo - I think the rest of the series will be added after the TV repeats on BBC Scotland.
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Post by winonaforever on Jun 3, 2019 14:38:10 GMT
Old Vic-wise, The High Life with early Alan Cumming is back on UK-wide BBC iplayer at the mo - I think the rest of the series will be added after the TV repeats on BBC Scotland. I LOVE that show, I've got it on DVD. And I saw Siobhan Redmond (Shona) last Saturday in Top Girls at the National  |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Jun 3, 2019 16:14:54 GMT
I'm just getting around to Chernobyl; Jessie Buckley again! I did a search first and she's mentioned earlier in this thread in Woman in White, Beast, War and Peace, The Last Post (being reshown on one of the Sky channels this week) and Endeavour. I'm looking forward to seeing her in Wild Rose (89% Rotten Tomatoes too).
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Post by learfan on Jun 3, 2019 16:44:53 GMT
Old Vic-wise, The High Life with early Alan Cumming is back on UK-wide BBC iplayer at the mo - I think the rest of the series will be added after the TV repeats on BBC Scotland. I LOVE that show, I've got it on DVD. And I saw Siobhan Redmond (Shona) last Saturday in Top Girls at the National Me too! So funny |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2019 18:11:21 GMT
Old Vic-wise, The High Life with early Alan Cumming is back on UK-wide BBC iplayer at the mo - I think the rest of the series will be added after the TV repeats on BBC Scotland. I LOVE that show, I've got it on DVD. And I saw Siobhan Redmond (Shona) last Saturday in Top Girls at the National I'd forgotten how much I loved it until I saw a clip somewhere, bought the DVD, and watched the whole thing again. I loved that they managed to get an F-bomb on to prime time TV.
("You f*** off, eh?" "EH?" "You for coffee?")
Ooh, deary me!
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