Stewart Lee’s got a new series starting soon – Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, which begins March 16th on BBC2 at 10pm. You can read an interview with him about it (and other things) over at The Scotsman.
In the meantime, here’s a little documentary (in two parts) called Don’t Get Me Started in which he discusses blasphemy and its place in comedy with various religious types – and Alan Moore, who’s religious in a completely different way. It’s not that funny, but it’s interesting.
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A very slightly exciting technical innovation: it’s now possible to log in to the blog with your FaceBook account and have your profile pic and a link to your profile appear next to your comments (comme ça). There’s a very slight formatting issue and it goes a weird if you log out, but it seems to work fine otherwise.
A very slightly less exciting technical innovation: it’s now possible to ‘follow’ the blog using the widget underneath the Recent Comments/News/Latest/Popular/Tags thingie in the sidebar. I think it means you get to find out when there’s an update or something, but I guess it’s also a way of showing support in a Web 2.0 sort of way.
Let me know if you have any problems.
UPDATE: If you want to link to a site other than your FaceBook profile such as your blog, let me know, either directly or in your first comment, and I’ll make it so – as I’ve just done with Marie’s comments (fingers crossed).
Blimey. That was quick. Is it over already? Still time flies when you’re having fun. TNT’s Leverage might not be the most original, smartest or even edgiest of series, but if you’re looking for a piece of entertainment to keep your mind vaguely occupied – but not too occupied – you didn’t need to look a whole lot further.
A sort of Hustle-light, it’s seen Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf and Aldis Hodge as a bunch of criminals who turn their talents to helping the little guy fight back against big corporations who have tried to crush them.
And now it’s over, but there’s a second season on the way this summer.
It can’t have escaped many people’s attention but at a lot of British television is now being made in Cardiff, including Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who, Casualty (soon) and, of course, big chunks of S4C’s output, including the perennial Pobol Y Cwm.
Not many actors live in Cardiff, though, so where do they stay? The Beeb does have some flats on Cardiff Bay where it puts up actors, but a lot of the time, they end up in the St David’s Hotel and Spa (pictured above. Photo copyright to me. It’s mine.). And, at least one actor is known to take his (usually blonde) conquests there on occasion.
What’s it like inside? Lush, to be honest – and I’ve been there a few times now. But those of you living an inconvenient distance away from Cardiff or who live in Cardiff but have never worked up the courage to go in might well be wondering what it’s like inside – if only to plan your outfit and shoes to suit the decor, should you intend on being one of the aforementioned conquests.
Stop wondering – here’s Caerdydd to show you.
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