TV Sorry for the low creativity of today's post but I have the sniffles. Amid my sniffles I've been watching the BBC's adapta...

TV Popular television review website Off The Telly celebrates its tenth anniversary. Graham Kibble-White offers some history : With this ...

The Media James Murdoch (who gave this year's Edinburgh MacTaggart Lecture) is an irony free zone isn't he? "James Murdoch, t...

Elsewhere I really wish this had been better than it was . I'd love to know how they managed to nudge Elizabeth Shue into playing her...

Hamlet played by Octavio. Directed by Dana Marschz. Without hopefully giving too much away (!) it’s important to note, right up front, since...

The Shakespeare Geek compares and contrasts film and tv versions of the 'remembrances' scene : "The big question, in my mind, ...

Music Stop now, what's that sound? It's Apple shooting itself in the foot by approving the official Spotify application. On the...

TV AJ Langer who played Rayanne in My So-Called Life has just given birth to her second child. Which is great news of course, but the rea...

Politics I couldn't help thinking when I read this that there will are some public meetings where citizens actually get less sense wh...

Liverpool Life The Josephine Butler House at the junction of Hope Street and Hardman Street in Liverpool, one of the great old landmarks ...

TV Our trip to the 90s continues with the shooting script for the final episode of Quantum Leap with a cliffhanger ending that might have...

TV Rick Berman Talks 18 Years of Trek In Extensive Oral History . Surprisingly candid. TrekMovie offers some notes: Billy Campbell cast...

News of another new screen Hamlet this time directed by Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke and starring Emile Hirsch as the young prince and...

Film My copy of Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder begins with a BBC announcer suggesting that fans of Columbo will be in for a tre...

Film Elizabeth Wurtzel picks her five favourite films about drug use : "It’s hard to narrow down a list to just five, and of course t...

TV The new line-up for Strictly Come Dancing has been announced . There's really only one barometer required to see how successful it...

TV Victoria Coren is on Charlie Brooker's You Have Been Watching tonight : "Then there were the chairs. The chairs worried me mos...

TV For some reason, this reminds of career changing puppetry justification documentary in Being John Malkovich : [ via ]

Theatre It occurs to me that when I talked about visiting the RSC I missed out something 'important', largely because I wasn'...

I've been talking to the people at Shakespeare 4 Kidz who announced recently that they're working on a 3D film version of their Ham...