The Return of Frannie Hughes.

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TV In 2010, US daytime soap opera As The World Turns fell off the air after over fifty years of continuous broadcasting (begun in 1956)....

Leland Chee has wasted his life.

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Film The Star Wars EU is dead. Long live the EU. As I sort of suggested they should and as I suppose was expected, as of today's a...

The Films I've Watched This Year #15

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Film Evening. Another short list this week because I spent Sunday night in the company of that disappointing All About TWO panel game a...

A Fish.

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Art TARDIS caretaker manager Peter Capaldi (keeping the console warm until Romola takes over), wearing something akin to the Doctor'...

Arcangel Grabs Warhol.

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Art Cory Arcangel, whose work was major hit at the Liverpool Biennial last decade has helped to recover long lost art work created by Andy...

"If Lego made Doctor Who Lego, then all Lego becomes Doctor Who Lego."

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Toys I've just phoned Lego. It was as you might expect an awesome experience. I mostly phoned Lego because I didn't want to have...

The Feeling Listless Soundtrack 1.0:
Feeling Nothing.

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Written by Joey Lauren Adams [Chasing Amy soundtrack unavailable] Music ... [Commentary: If that seems remarkably short, it's ...

Forty-five Hamlets.

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Yesterday for Shakespeare's birthday, The Guardian published forty-five images of Hamlet from various productions. Which was essentially...

Shakespeare at the British Pathe Archive: Happy Birthday!

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Today would have been Shakespeare's 450th birthday, so to celebrate let's delve again into the Pathe archive to see how it was marke...

Liverpool in the British Pathe Archive:
Sefton Park.

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Life  Let's go hyperlocal now  and search in the archive for my general area in Sefton Park, Liverpool offering a short history of the r...

In Your Eyes. The future of film?

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In Your Eyes from Bellwether Pictures on Vimeo . Film  Find above an embed for the In Your Eyes which as you can see was written and e...

I care.

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Film Well, not really, but this whole thing is a getting a bit interesting. In previous posts ( here and here ) I've discussed exact...

The New Yorker's Relics.

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Shellshocked. That's the only reaction one can draw from receiving a PR email from the venerable The New Yorker magazine about the Shak...

Doctor Who in the British Pathe Archive:
Jon Pertwee.

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TV There's nothing I could find for Patrick, so it's straight on to Jon. Not the last time Pertwee will wear a coat like that....

Doctor Who in the British Pathe Archive:
William Hartnell.

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TV Some silent footage of the First Doctor actor in a script conference with Stanley Holloway, Griffiths Jones and Clifford Evans, thoug...

"The play was chippy all the way through."

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Sport On this day 28 years ago, the Montreal Canadiens fought the Quebec Nordiques in the National Hockey League. Literally fought. At a...

Doctor Who in the British Pathe Archive:
Daleks!

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TV Happy Easter! After last night's Yeti revelation, here's the handiwork of one Victor Sherlock of Horsham, West Sussex, his ...

Doctor Who in the British Pathe Archive:
Monsters!

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Tv Amazing! Yeti! Cyberman! Schoolboys and girls Exhibition. Olympia, London (the annual holiday time event for youngsters)! Has thi...

Hamlet at the British Pathe Archive.

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As you might have heard, British Pathe have taken the rather epic decision to upload much of their archive to Youtube , around eighty-five t...

Internet "to reach Wales by 2020".

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Progress indeed! @MissAlexjones :-) pic.twitter.com/Jhz4FFEEm3 — Nick Boxall (@Nickbox1) April 19, 2014 History The best bit: "W...