David Tennant’s back from his summer holidays everyone! What’s he been up to? Find out after the jump.
Sitting Tennant
Year: 2012
Sitting Tennant
Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 32, 2012)
David Tennant’s back from his summer holidays everyone! What’s he been up to? Find out after the jump.
How Steven Moffat invented the Weeping Angels
He explains all in this video that also features new Doctor Who producer Caro Skinner trying to talk but being interrupted by Steven Moffat.
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Dick Heads
Dick Heads: The Hobbit
It’s been nearly a year since our last Dick Head, but since it’s Richard Armitage’s birthday today, what could be a more appropriate way to celebrate than this new picture of our Dick as Thorin the inappropriately tall Dwarf, in the forthcoming The Hobbit?
Feel free to compose poems and haikus as you see fit – extra bonus points if they’re about gold and you can sing them.
Got a picture of Richard Armitage’s head, preferably wearing a hat? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Dick Heads” gallery.
Classic TV
Nostalgia corner: Mulberry (1992)
Sitcoms, as a whole, don’t do science-fiction. Fewer still do fantasy. You get the occasional one, such as Kröd Mändoon, but you’d be hard-pressed to come up with even 10 fantasy sitcoms once your initial flurry of 1950s/1960s sitcoms The Munsters, The Addams Family, Mr Ed and My Mother The Car was out the way, I reckon (challenge: extended).
1992’s Mulberry, created by UK sitcom stalwarts John Esmonde and Bob Larbey (The Good Life, Please Sir!, Ever Decreasing Circles), is one of these unicorn-tears rare few: a primetime fantasy sitcom. Intriguingly, for a whole series, it wasn’t even obviously a fantasy sitcom.
It starred Karl Howman (Jacko from Esmonde and Larbey’s womanising painter sitcom Brush Strokes) as the eponymous Mulberry, who appears at the country house of a crotchety spinster, Miss Farnaby (Geraldine McEwan of Marple), wanting to become her servant – a position which hasn’t yet been advertised. Over the course of the first series, it becomes clear that the mischievous Mulberry may not have Miss Farnaby’s best interests at heart: he’s in cahoots with a mysterious man in black (John Bennett of Saracen), who appears to want Miss Farnaby killed, even if Mulberry appears to be having second thoughts.
But all becomes clear by the end of the sixth episode: Mulberry has come to kill Miss Farnaby… because the mysterious man in black is Death, Mulberry is his son and Miss Farnaby is his test job for the ‘family business’. Here’s the title sequence and you can watch the whole thing after the jump.