Killing Eve is fab - nice mix of semi-serious drama and humour. Great performances by Comer, and particularly Sandra Oh, of Korean descent, whom I thought was superb. Just watched the first episode of Chernobyl. Promising. Summer of Rockets is getting some poor reviews because the way Poliakoff wrote it, it's based on little fact apparently. Shame. Kenneth Williams is masterful, but I find it difficult to get over the fact that he almost certainly poisoned his father to death. What is it with the animosity between gay performers (eg Elton John) and their fathers?
Get yourself into killing eve uber Bloody brilliant tv Watched series one and two over two weeks Can't wait till series three although I will have to watch it as it screens One episode per week Binge watching can be so much more satisfying
I'd not heard of that previously, Goldie, so just now Googled it. Very interesting. Chemical cleaner stored in a cough medicine bottle. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1082192/Did-Kenneth-Williams-poison-father.html Frying inside! (Sorry).
Yes, the police took the likelihood of his involvement seriously, and as your article said, he was denied access into the US, and I think a cloud of suspicion hung over his professional career thereafter. May be guilt got the better of him, because he killed himself in his early 60's.
One can only assume that this is a generational trait. When Williams was "coming out", homosexuality was still a criminal offence. It would have been abhorent to his working class father that his son was a "namby pamby" as he called him. I'm pretty sure that homophobia, whilst not totally eradicated, is much less of an issue in the 21st Century, especially within the family group.
Agreed, and it's people like Williams and John that have helped bring about the change. We're so relaxed about an individual's sexuality now that it's easy to forget the atmosphere right up to the 1960's. At my school at that time, there were 300 plus boys and apparently not one of them was gay! Highly unlikely of course, but in those days, you could call someone a murderer or a rapist, but worst of all was "queer"! I think most of the Muslim community have yet to see the light and this is reflected in the present problems over sex education in schools
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Chernobyl is now the highest rating TV Show on IMDb ... https://www.imdb.com/chart/toptv/ I think it's the best thing I've seen on TV too, not that I watch a lot of if it. I just thought what could I do while Mrs Nines had a dinner party for a few of her friends last Friday for her birthday. I went into the living room and pressed the Sky button and was given this as an option. I only usually watch sport and witnessed this gem. The filmogrophy and soundtrack is amazing. The composer went to Lithuania and recorded the sounds from a defunct nuclear reactor and formed the soundtrack from that ... genius. Even Mrs Nines commented on the soundtrack while I was watching it in the next room on Saturday ... '' What are you watching? The music sounds a bit grim. '' https://grapevine.is/news/2019/05/2...sed-only-sounds-from-an-actual-nuclear-plant/
Interesting documentary on bbc iPlayer - Last Breath. Worth a watch, about a deep sea diving accident.
On the iPlayer I'm watching an old David Frost interview with Brian Clough recorded after he left Leeds. As interesting as it is, I can't shake off the feeling that I'm watching Michael Sheen talking to Michael Sheen.
For some reason the One Show is on our telly, featuring the new all northern line up of Top Gear. Paddy whatisface, Freddie Flintoff and another bloke who may or may not know something about cars. I haven’t watched this show, or the version on Amazon, for years, it had its day a decade ago. The performance of these three trying to promote the new version is like an enormous neon sign shouting ‘stay away, this is crap’.
Hard to believe that the beeb still believe they can re-create the cameraderie and banter of Clarkson, May and Hammond by just throwing any three numpties together and hoping it works..... You would think after the abysmal efforts with Evans and LeBlanc they would just cancel the thing
Just seen this trailer..... One of the greatest films of all time, in my opinion, re-released in full, 4K UHD, with loads of unseen footage (not so sure about that, isn't that what the Directors Cut years ago was all about?). Anyway, definate trip to the cinema for this one....
