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Review: The League of Gentlemen in Conversation

League of Gentlemen

Well, you asked for it, so here it is: it’s a write-up/review of the League of Gentlemen in conversation at the NFT/BFI last month. Sorry it’s taken a while, but I’m all busy moving flat, getting snowed in, working, etc.

All the League were there on stage, including Jeremy Dyson, all in a row. For some weird reason, Dick Fiddy who was hosting the event decided to sit Reece Sheersmith on his left and everyone else on his right, resulting in a decidedly hacked-off looking Sheersmith moping behind Fiddy for most of the evening.

Anyway, since I can’t be arsed to construct even a halfway decent narrative for this, I’m probably just going to dump my copious notes down after the jump.

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennants (from Rosby and Rullsenberg): The Stolen Earth and Partners in Crime

Billie Piper and David Tennant

David Tennant in Partners in Crime

Time for the weekly Sitting Tennants. In this case, we have two Doctor Who shots, one from Ms Rosby showing behind-the-scenes fun during The Stolen Earth, and one from Ms Rullsenberg in which David Tennant is channelling Colin Baker during Partners in Crime: “See the pretty thing swing back and forth.” Phnar, Phnar.

That means Rosby’s clawed her way into second place on our picture competition leader board:

  1. Rullsenberg: 4
  2. Rosby: 2.5
  3. Jaradel: 2

In the witty caption competition section, there’s much confusion (in my head anyway) over exactly how many pictures everyone’s captioning with each comment. But fingers crossed, this is how it stands, with Marie’s super-powered, story-telling, four-picture-captioning wittiest and topical* comment giving her an unprecedented nine points and taking her to the top of the leader board.

Oh, yes, and a bonus point to Persephone for using Gary Numan lyrics. What? You didn’t know about that secret rule? Must have slipped my mind.

  1. Marie: 16
  2. Toby: 12.5
  3. Jane Henry: 10
  4. Persephone: 9
  5. Rullsenberg: 6
  6. Rev/Views, Jaradel: 5
  7. Scott: 3
  8. Aaron: 2
  9. Electric Dragon: 1

As always, captions and new submissions for the gallery, please. Remember, you can submit as many (witty) captions as you like for each and every picture, with topical captions (and pictures of David Tennant in current productions) getting extra marks. The wittiest caption for each picture will get double points. And there’s a bonus point for using Gary Numan lyrics appropriately.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.

* Topical once you realise that Marie has sympathetic back pains, poor lass

Friday’s “not very impressive Torchwood trailer” news

Doctor Who

  • Trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth

Film

Theatre

  • Michael Bogdanov’s theatre company to fold after staging Thorn Birds musical
  • Les Dennis to star in Priestley comedy

British TV

US TV