Michael Billington in The Guardian ponders the shortening running times of new plays and if this is having a detremental effect on quality s...

TV Surpirising no one, but yet still desperately excitingly, David Tennant has been announced as the new Doctor. Which is just fabulous ...

Film Star Wars III will be a PG-13 which usually translates lately as a 12a over here. [Thanks Chris!"]

Life Every now and then I reach overload. There are so many films to see, so many books to read, so much musicto enjoy and there isn'...

I had to post this. It's an amazing way of introducing a pretty dry news story by invoking The Dane. What does the following have to d...

History Long term readers with good memories might remember that I posted a story some time ago about the pain which a bunch of scientists...

Google Or rather Shmoogle the new approach to search engines in that it neutralises page ranking so that you might find what you're l...

Geography Leah has some great tips for visiting Seattle . In particular: Here's a good navigation tip for downtown Seattle: Jesus Chr...

Film The adage 'everyone is entitled to their opinion' is being stretched to the very limit by the web's reaction to M J Simps...

Shakespeare I've just published the about page to The Hamlet Weblog (about time too). I think this paragraph explains what I'll...

The Welsh Rugby Team only seem to win the Grand Slam in a year the Pope dies. They won it this year the same year Pope John Paul II dies, an...

Music Well I didn't think I'd ever end up buying the number one album in the country in the first week of release. Not anymore, n...

TV I had to post this before going to bed . The clue why is in the quote: "According to The Washington Post on Tuesday, gamblers ca...

The Road To Beijing The 2005 Salford Triathlon ITU World Cup has been launched although there's no word yet of whether last year'...

Life The need to collect . I suppose there is a gene in some of us which leads us to keep wanting variations on something. My Mum knows ...

TV For anyone who hasn't noticed, I reviewed Saturday night's episode of Doctor Who for Off The Telly . With that and Hamlet I...

I'm playing away this week, so my review of The Unquiet Dead can be found posted at Off The Telly .

Shakespeare I spent the afternoon listening to an audio production of Hamlet with Simon Russell Beale. I've posted a review at The Ha...

Hamlet played by Simon Russell Beale Directed by Clive Brill There are generally three approaches to Shakespeare (and theatre for that matte...

TV Just in case anyone else has missed this, and to prove the BBC do know something about scheduling after all, Simon Callow's The Mys...