aww, me too. I scared the crap out of my boss with their screaming screensaver.

Get Carter Iconic Carpark To Be Demolished

Miss Marple actress to leave show.

ITV usually do quite a good job with crime dramas, but I can't say I'm sad about this, as I thought Hickson was much better - even if the BBC version of Marple has dated now.

Two shows to looks out for ths autumn, Sharpe's Peril and Little Dorrit.

It seems Comedy is pretty low on most channels agendas these days.

Ooh, apparently they made one in 2006 as well. I didn't know they were still making Sharpe. I always thought it was the best period drama on TV, cause it had guns and soldiers and stabbing with bayonets and stuff. The fact they had a proper decent actor to play the main role helped too, although later roles, like in Goldeneye and Ronin, give him a slightly pathetic, grovelling edge which he never had when I was a kid.

Sharpe's Challenge, it's been a while since I saw it, but it was quite good.

All Sharpe dramas are good. It's a good bit of buckle-swashing.

I thought that they'd finished with the battle of Waterloo as that was the end of his story really. Are they still based on Bernard Cornwell's books?

They were selling a complete boxset in Virgin a few months ago for quite cheap but I resisted it's charms.

That's why we decided not to go with him as the lead in our film.

They did finish the regular series at Waterloo, but then Cornwell wrote some more novels set around Sharpe's earlier exploits in India. If I remember rightly, they adapted the plot of one of those to make Sharpe's Challenge to set it after Waterloo.

I don't know what this story is based on.

You could get the box set of the original series in WHSmiths for £30.00 just after Christmas, and I was tempted as well!

Come on... he got Lord of the Rings... he was fantastic in that... Especially in the special edition Two Towers...

My dad remembers him best as Sean Miller, the guy who's out to kill Harrison Ford in Patriot Games, which, if IMDb is to be believed, predates Sharpe by a year.

Stupid, stupid movie.

I didn't think it was so bad, so long as you don't take it any more seriously than the average action flick.

Yep, another traitor/backstabber role. I forgot that one.

Ooh, wasn't he a traitor to Father and the ideals of the State in Equilibrium?

He was too, you're right. But at least he was a good traitor in that one. All these roles where he's a bit weak and whingey completely fly in the face of Sharpe, who is hard as nails, as loyal as they come despite being screwed over repeatedly, and a un-wavering in his prosecution of a mission.

Ebert & Roeper film reviews available online. Has a pretty extensive archive too

BBC Looking Into Enlarging Credits After Complaints

Online Alan Moore documentary

Interesting stuff.

andy lau steps in, when venue security go overboard...

Pretty cool.

18 Film Stars Impervious To Box Office Flops

Star Trek: The Tour

Grange Hill to close.

ETA:



Crumbs, that's an old article - Star Trek.com stopped being updated before Christmas, when NBC sacked the staff who were writing the site.

About time really. It's been poor since they stopped finding stray donkeys and secretly looking after them behind the caretaker's back.

This woman scares me slightly...



I bet she even tells them off while wearing an ill fitting toupee.

As someone who remembers watching Grange Hill from the very start (hell, I even remember a preview on Blue Peter prior to episode one) this is a shame.

Can any of you whippersnappers confirm if the quality has kept up over the years? I stopped watching around the time that Imelda got expelled.

When Mauler and his mates started running around the school dressed in American Football kit, it had gone for me.

It's been shit. Over populated by over acting drama school kids and not enough talent picked up from local schools, like they used to, who would give good naturalistic performances.

Plus, they moved the school to Liverpool - which made no sense.

I always found Grange Hill uncomfortable to watch, and it's probably directly responsible for my dislike of soaps because you were always waiting for something nasty to happen to someone, or people to start shouting at each other.

Granted, in its heyday it was a jump forward for kids TV, but I preferred Danger Mouse and He-Man.

I gave up when it moved to Liverpool, Phil Redmond said it was never supposed to be set in London.

*In Phil Redmond's office, 25 years after the first episode of Grange Hill aired*

"Hang on. That's London. It's meant to be in Liverpool. Oh my gaaaaaaaawd..."

He reckoned it should have been generic. They perhaps should have been a little more selective about casting a bunch of Londoners in it.

You could make a good living as a message board impressionist.

Do Ricky Gervais next.....

So that's why I found one of her kids dead in my car.


I didn't know it moved to Liverpool, that's just dumb.

*Ricky on stage at yet another big benefit concert in front of 1000s*


"No, I'm *cackle* not doing the dance. I'm not doing it. *sighs* No really, I'm not...doing...the dance. *cackle*. No! Stop asking. I'm not doing it. *sighs*"



*Does the dance...again*



*Dies on his arse...again*

Bravo!

It's like he's posting on the board.

My boss has just asked why I nearly choked on coffee.

*doths top hat and walks into the sunset*

And that's where the impersonation ends.

Ricky would have got at least another ten years out of that routine.

Only 11 months until a christmas special.

A Wife Of RoleXmas?

Who would be the special musical guest?

Why would you need a separate musical guest? Ricky Gervais is multi-talented.

Elaine Paige, naturally.

Dissing Gervais and Blade: Trinity? I don't think I like this place anymore.

I could start on Russell Brand again, if you like, Zoe?

Despite my mocking, I do actually like Gervais...to a point. He's brilliant sometimes but there are times when he's crushingly embarassing to watch and they usually come when he's not acting.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I remember about 10 years ago when there was a fire in the school and this girl fell to her death. Saw her lifeless body with her limbs at weird angles, and this is a kids show at 4:25 or whatever time it aired.

It's a shame, much like it was a shame when Byker Grove ended.

I was always more of an Aquila man myself. And The Odyssey (set inside a kids coma dream). Nobody I know seems to remember those, though. Especially not The Odyssey. It was Canadian I think.

I loved Aquila. Great little show. The Odyssey I could take or leave but I still quite liked it.

What was the name of that show set in Australia where a bunch of English schoolkids got lost? It was all to do with aliens and aboriginal spirits and was really spooky and cool. I liked that.

Just checked and found that it was called Jeopardy. It was all kinds of ace.

Agreed. When Gervais is on form, he's brilliant. But he self-references more than Kevin Smith for gawd's sake.

Byker Grove isn't on anymore either?

It ended a couple of years ago, now.