Father Ted festivals

I get some odd press releases sometimes.

AER ARANN SERVING CRAGGY ISLAND FROM LUTON, MANCHESTER, LEEDS, NEWCASTLE AND EDINBURGH

Book flights with Aer Arann, go on, go on, go on….

Followers of Father Ted will be making a pilgrimage to the hallowed Craggy Island later this month to pay homage to their hero at the official Ted Fest.

They will be winging their way with Aer Arann, one of Europe’s fastest growing regional airlines. Aer Arann is pleased to announce it is an official Ted Fest Travel Partner.

Colin Lewis, head of sales and marketing at Aer Arann confirms “The bishop doesn’t know yet, but we will be transporting priests, nuns and lovely girls to the Aran Islands”.

The festival takes place in two locations, inland Ireland at the town of Kilfenora (25-27 February), and on the Aran Island of Inis Mor (29 February – 2 March). Celebrations on Inis Mor will celebrate the island’s alias of ‘Craggy Island’, starting with a cabaret night, and leading onto ‘Sporting’ Saturday and ‘Spiritual’ Sunday.

There will be plenty of goings on (go on, go on, go on) including Dermot Morgan Memorial Priests and Nuns 5-a-side, the ‘Lovely Girls Competition’, and every punter’s favourite – ‘Dunk the Monk in the World’s Biggest Cup of Tea’

Aer Arann is proud to sponsor this particular occasion – “it has been ten years since Father Ted had its last hurrah with the filming of the final episode, we are glad to be blessed with the prestige of being an official carrier a decade later” adds Colin Lewis.

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Review: Primeval 2×6

Remember Crimson Tide? No, probably not.

It was this submarine movie starring Gene Hackman. Thing was, they had Quentin Tarantino as script advisor.

You’d have never known for most of us. It chugged along like a regular movie. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, there’s this bizarre scene where they all discuss which version of the Silver Surfer was their favourite. Stood out like a bodybuilder at a vegetarians convention.

I mention this purely because tonight, I seemed to wander into a completely different show from the Primeval I’ve been watching for the last few weeks. No surprise there though: it was written by Paul Cornell.

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Life on Mars series one for free

Life On Mars: Complete Series 1

FYI, if you buy today’s Daily Star and then sign up for a 30-day free trial with Lovefilm, they’ll send you a free copy of the first series of Life on Mars. You can keep it and everything.

Which is nice. Or would be if I weren’t a member already.

Actually, I caught an episode of the first series of Life on Mars on Bravo the other night and it’s weird how it’s so much better and Gene Hunt is such a better character compared with Ashes to Ashes.

Still, Phillip Glenister says it really gets going with episode three, and episode two was very good, so I’m going to go with that recommendation for now.

Questions and realisations from television last month

After a long absence, here are my latest questions and realisations that my brain has generated over the last month that I couldn’t be arsed to put into individual entries. Actually, I didn’t have any questions, just realisations

  1. Realisation: There’s nothing more disconcerting than a first-run Christmas episode in January.
  2. Realisation: The 80s were small and blurry
  3. Realisation: Sayid is the most interesting character in Lost
  4. Realisation: It’s now possible to spot a Groundhog Day episode within its first three seconds

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