R.I.P. – Peter Mayhew, aka Chewbacca, dies at 74
The London-born actor played Chewbacca, the greatest of all Wookiees and co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon on ‘Star Wars.’
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‘The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin’ is set to rise again … in musical form
David Nobbs’ late ’70s sitcom, ‘The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin,’ is getting ready to have more lives than Reggie himself with word that a Perrin stage musical is in development.
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The day the British Invasion ‘invaded’ The Dick Van Dyke Show
By the mid-’60s, the British Invasion had taken America by storm. So much so that even popular TV sitcoms wanted to join in the fun. Often mistaken for another British singing duo, Peter & Gordon, Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde, aka Chad & Jeremy, made the leap to the small screen, appearing as characters on The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Patty Duke Show, and as themselves on Batman.
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Nicky Henson – From ‘Fawlty Towers’ to ‘Downton Abbey’
What well-known British actor appeared in one episode of the greatest British comedy of all-time (Fawlty Towers) AND played a returning character in Downton Abbey?
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Inside Sherlock’s mind palace — How do you film ‘thought’?
Capturing Sherlock Holmes’ deductive process was difficult enough for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss capturing it on the small screen is nothing short of amazing.
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It’s Shakespeare in a nutshell this St. George’s Day, courtesy of ‘Upstart Crow’
St. George’s Day is being moved around a bit this year. The patron saint of England is typically celebrated on April 23, the same day Shakespeare’s birthday is celebrated. Which reminds me how reminiscent BBC Two’s ‘Upstart Crow’ is of old school British situation comedy.
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As you seek the Grail this Easter, heed the words of Tim and always ‘fear the bunny’
One simply cannot let Easter pass without paying tribute to the genius that is ‘Monty Python & the Holy Grail.’ More specifically, to the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
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‘Midsomer Murders’ enters third decade as filming begins on season 21
With a premise of, “Something investigation-worthy happens somewhere rural and two policemen turn up to find out what’s gone on,” Neil Dudgeon, who plays DCI John Barnaby in Midsomer Murders, says that “the show can go on and on.”
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1920s Melbourne becomes 1930s Shanghai as ‘Miss Fisher’ gets a Chinese adaptation
1930s Shanghai should be a brilliantly cool setting for the first-ever Mandarin-language adaptation of an Australian TV series, ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.’ Ma was named best actress at the 2017 Shanghai Television Festival and Jin Weiyi is the head writer and one of the producers, so there’s a really good possibility that this will have a chance.
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Lost footage of the Beatles on ‘Top of the Pops’ surfaces in Mexico
Sadly, the silent 11 second bit is all that exists of the Fab Four miming to “Paperback Writer” in June of 1966. The lost footage was shot by a family in Liverpool filming their TV set with an 8mm camera.
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