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I enjoyed the Storytellers session but I would have loved to see the whole of The Hobbit. Great fun.

MovieMail are a great, friendly company. I don't use them as much as I used to, but I have never had a problem with them.

The best place to order DVDs (no ' ) for me remains Amazon, despite their dodgy tax position. I generally get things as close to release as possible and I buy a lot of Marketplace titles, which I have always found cheaper than Play Trade and the like. And for Network releases I do support their own ...

Blackadder's Mum and wife of Brian Rix, I believe? RIP.

As others have said, sad but expected. I know he will be remembered primarily as a comedy actor, but his Shakespeare outings for Kenneth Branagh (as Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Bardolph in Henry V) were surprisingly touching as well as funny. RIP.

I enjoyed it first time around when I was around Adrian's age - it seemed relevant and it was funny. I only read the books after seeing the first TV series.

Revisiting it now, I wasn't disappointed and although Lulu wasn't as good a Pauline as Julie Walters, she was OK. It stands up well, IMO.

Yes, I remember it now. I recall both Massey and Bloom being excellent, but it had slipped my mind.

I remember a couple around the same time, a Screen Two in 1988 called 'Sweet as You Are' with Liam Neeson and Miranda Richardson, and a few years later, 'Closing Numbers' with Jane Asher and Tim Woodward. I'm not sure the first one has ever been repeated. There were quite a few films and TV episodes...

Watched it last year and thought it was brilliant. I did write more about it on the old site but I was engrossed throughout both series.

A colourful character who did have flashes of talent in his early films. He'll be missed I think.

Oh for goodness sake, of course it is! I have a terrible memory for plots as well.

I know the announcement was originally for 24 plays from this era of Armchair Theatre, but if sales are encouraging is there any chance at all of a volume 5?

I completely forgot he was in the Amarillo video. Such a 'cult figure' though must have been impersonated thousands of times.

Hmm, I'm pretty certain Dinsdale Landen never appeared in a Dennis Potter play but the plot you describe does sound familiar - intrigued now!

Well worth watching, this one. Thanks for the spot!

Too much canned laughter, IMO. Henry Goodman would have been OK were it not for memories of how Nigel Hawthorne played the part. The plot was a bit underwhelming. And Chris Larkin's physical resemblance to his mother Maggie Smith is rather distracting!

Has been sitting patiently in my amazon pre-orders - looking forward to this!

Looking forward to this although my bank balance probably won't thank me!

Just back from seeing the film at BFI IMAX. Thoughts: like many I view the 10th Anniversary Concert as the definitive cast. I have seen the stage show numerous times. I avoided the 25th Anniversary Concert because of the Jonas Brother factor but recently bought the DVD (unwatched as yet). So ... the...

The Olympics Opening Ceremony was far better than I ever thought it would be, and for that two weeks following there was a definite 'mood' in the capital that has never been there before or since. Which was great!

How sad to hear that the old ABC is doomed, given its history. It was a great programme but I would have liked to have heard a bit more about the performers who visited who were not northern comics, good though they were. It's a potential series, IMO, and I would like to see more footage from the sh...

90! Good night Quincy. An underrated actor, actually.

You're right Simon, I forgot the Hitchcock ones. But it would have been good to see some Garbo, Dietrich, Stanwyck, Harlow, etc to compliment this programme and the Bow one.

There's a more in-depth look at Clara Bow next week, but neither show has accompanied examples of the ladies' films. That's what makes it all the more disappointing. The only classic films on the main five channels this Christmas is a bizarre mix of Charles Laughton 1930s and 40s titles but for vamp...

I've watched almost every Holmes adaptation over the years but this one only really has the character names and one or two quirks - there was a nod to bees, Irene has been mentioned .... Jonny Lee Miller is perhaps not as manic and twitchy as Benedict Cumberbatch was in the second Sherlock series, b...

My other half has bought for me, with some prompting: Cleopatra (1934) Love Me Tonight (1932) Die Nibelungen (1924) Sous le soleil de Satan (1987) Children's Film Foundation vol.1 It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) Centennial (1978/9) The Winds of War (1983) plus very pos...

servalan66 wrote:I'd like to see Prince Regent(Peter Egan) and Oscar(Michael Gambon), I can't see why they haven't been! Also the Cleopatra's, recently watched it on 'that' visual place, and it is rather good, if over the top!

I have Oscar, a region 2 release in the Netherlands.

I'd like to see some of the plays which ran on Thursday afternoon childrens' TV on the BBC. Of course The Enchanted Castle. I'd also like to see Helen A Woman of Today, and the surviving black and white serials from classic books which ran in the 1950s and 60s (I think only Barnaby Rudge and Wutheri...

Everything is all new and shiny! Painless transition but shame about the posts not being transferred. Hello all :)