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Oh, Brother, Why Art Thou?
Well, putting my little efforts at killing off unloved characters here paid off in spades, as a virus wiped everything off my computer. I just had to do for Izzy, as she committed the ultimate sin of stabbing Guy in the back. Boo!
Apologies for the Sooty reference - my age is tripping me up! I’ll explain for anyone who doesn’t know who he is. This ( Read more... ) -
OMG - BBC2 game show Pointless is back.
Oh yay! POINTLESS!! Never has a show been so appropriately named. I've been getting quite a few e-mails from the Beeb trying to encourage me to labour over to the Television Centre to watch ANOTHER SERIES of this being filmed. A while ago, in this journal, I was lamenting spending valuable hours of my life in viewing, and being exhorted ( ( Read more... ) -
The Spy Who Made Everyone Cold
It's Snidey Sarah's turn now - serves her right for being charmless and possibly the character possessing the least chemistry with a character played by Richard Armitage...
As Sarah Caulfield grew up, she was always a Daddy’s girl; of choice and of necessity, as it became rapidly obvious that her mother was utterly repulsed by her. That pale, ( Read more... ) -
Henry Takes the Train
OK, Henry Lennox doesn't exactly qualify as unloved in North and South but in my view, he does rate as being pompous...
With infinite apologies to Sandy Welch, and even more, if that were possible, to Elizabeth Gaskell, I have finally done for Henry Lennox. A passing acquaintance with North and South would help, but as this bears precious little ( Read more... ) -
The Potter and the Powder
Not for Bobbin fans ..blah, blah
In which the unfortunate Rebecca gets hers, as if she hasn't suffered enough by being mother to Screechy-weechy. Apologies if I've got Kate's dad's name wrong - I couldn't remember if it had ever been mentioned and couldn't bring myself to watch the bits again that might have told me.
I still feel like an imposter so ( Read more... ) -
Malodorous Malcolm and the Dart of Doom
WARNING - as usual, not nice if you like Bobbin!!
My main issue with the whole Closet Hobbit/Ghislaine scenario was how in heaven’s name she managed to see anything at all in the bloke, leave alone embark on a relationship with him. I guess that desperation leads to the weirdest things…
A working knowledge of episode 3-10 is needed for this; as ( Read more... ) -
The Preacher Pops His Clogs
Another tale in which an unloved character meets his end. Again, don't read if you're a Bobbin fan!!
Well, here it is. I’ve done for Tuck; the little devil perched on my shoulder made it just too tempting. Once again, written with the caveats that it’s both tame and crap, so read at your peril and then put it out of its misery and let it quietly ( Read more... ) -
Farewell, My Unlovely
I wrote a few short tales disposing of unloved characters as a result of jokey banter with some lovely friends on a lovely forum. I thought I'd put them here a) because they'll be stored in case my computer blows up and b) because I'd run minimum risk of anyone finding or reading them.
However, A WORD OF WARNING if anyone does stumble upon them - as ( Read more... ) -
Pointless - a new Beeb show (or there's no accounting for taste)
POINTLESS. The awful game show that I went to see being filmed has actually made it on to Beeb 2 this week. I can only assume it's because, having spent the dosh to film it, they felt that they may as well screen it. The Radio Times bod describes it as a perverse Family Fortunes with harder questions ... guess I'd agree with the use of the word ( Read more... ) -
my telly licence money goes on this?
Thanks to a friend (soon to be not, lol!!) I laboured over to BBC Television Centre to form part of the audience for a game show to be broadcast in August on Beeb 2. She'd been under the impression that it was going to be some sort of witty panel show, à la Mock the Week or QI. Oh, no!! The General Public was involved and it was ba-a-d! Two half- ( Read more... )