This week on my Twitter feed, I find myself slightly more interested in the Les Misérables movie than expected. It's mainly Aaron Tveit-related ( Read more... )

It’s the X Factor semi-final! As defined by some people who don’t know what “semi-final” means! It’s actually the show-before-the-last-one but whatever! And we’re also repeatedly told that the judges lose their power this week, and who goes is entirely down to the public vote! Like it has been almost every week this series but go with it, this is ( Read more... )

Merlin Series 5, Episode 9, "With All My Heart" - aka the one where Merlin disguises himself as the Dolma.

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This week on my Twitter feed, my usual Sunday night grumbling about The X Factor gets livened up with some grumbling about the Evening Standard Theatre Awards ( Read more... )

ABBA and Motown, ABBA and Motown, go together like a horse and carriage, as precisely nobody sang, ever. Yes, we’ve sat through this much X Factor and this is the thanks we get, two sodding songs per act. Dermot’s done his sports mime, Nicole Shitsinger’s been made to apologise for not actually swearing, let’s get this horror show over with.

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So, Gwen's still evil then. ( Spoilers for ‘The Hollow Queen' )

This week on my Twitter feed I'm trying to shift a couple of theatre tickets for the next few days so, er, yeah, have a look at that. Also, other stuff ( Read more... )

Last week on The X Factor: We spent Saturday being repeatedly told that it was “the battle of the boybands” and “can there conceivably be two boybands in this competition?” and so on. Then on Sunday, surprise! It was the two boybands up against each other in the bottom two, almost as if the whole thing had been planned. Why exactly The X Factor ( Read more... )

Dun-dun-duuuun, in this week’s Merlin, ( Spoilers for ‘A Lesson in Vengeance )

This week on my Twitter feed, there's a non-apocalyptic election result in America, whereas the search terms leading to my theatre blog stay as apocalyptic as ever, and I finally watch SkyfallCongratulations to the new President-elect of the USA, Emeli Sandé ( Read more... )