Game of Thrones season three launch london

Extraordinary launch in london for season three of Game of Thrones. The first episode was screened, too, about which I can say nothing, or my fingers will be cut off. He's the entertaining Q&A with four of the cast including Charles Dance. It kicks off in April on Sky Atlantic.

Tim Pigott-smith Wodehouse chat

Tim Pigott-Smith interview Wodehouse in Exile

 HE was arguably our most famous comic writer of the 20th century, but was accused of treachery during the war and then scuttled off to America, never to be seen in England again. PG Wodehouse is the focus of a new, one-off BBC4 film tonight [Sunday] giving, for the first time, a true account of why, and how the creator of the wonderful Jeeves found himself in Berlin during the Second World War broadcasting for the Nazis. The questions before us: was he a spy, a double agent, or simply a naïve old bean who didn’t have a clue what he was doing?

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Stephenson's Rocket TV Review March 25

STEPHENSON'S ROCKET

It should be titled Call The Policewoman. Instead, we have the cryptically named WPC 56 (BBC1, Mon). WC 56 would be more intriguing. This dozy new daytime drama was set in a police station in 1956, identical to the period for Call The Midwife, with another woman, in another job, struggling against prejudice. Ho hum. Bizarrely, it was also daring for daytime, with the police woman revealing her stocking tops at one point. I say! Whatever next? Gussets in the lock-up, with the grumpy sergeant? This was Keystone Cops meets Dixon of Dock Green. Bring it back!

Voyeurism is all the rage. Want to peer into someone’s front room? Try Gogglebox (C4, Thurs). Want a sneaky peak into a child’s bedroom (ick)? Go to Bedtime Live (C4, Tues). Want to see inside the nation’s downstair loos? That’s bound to be next week on C4.

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Olivia Colman interview Broadchurch

Olivia Colman is the TV actress of the moment. She can play comedy, tragedy and wins over an audience immediately. Her turn in the comedy Twenty Twelve, with Hugh Bonneville, was a highlight to the series. After film roles in Iron Lady, Hot Fuzz and Hyde Park on Hudson, the Cambridge graduate, who met Mitchell& Webb at college, is now one of a clutch of new TV detectives.

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Martin clunes interview doc Martin

For a complete bargain for DVD users, try series 1-5 of Doc Martin

Brenda Blethyn Mary & Martha interview

Ben Miller interview Death in Paradise

Why not try series 1-2 of Death in Paradise on DVD

Watching Prisoners' Wives is time well spent

From the Sunday Express

THERE are few recent dramas that can have matched the opening scenes of Prisoners' Wives (BBC1, Thursday) for shock value.

 

Returning for a second series, this daft but enjoyable soapy concoction hurled us headlong into a turf war in Sheffield.

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Top Gear drives wife to distraction?

From the Sunday Express:

TOP Gear, the BBC’s most successful global show, is now so popular wives are complaining they cannot drag their husbands away from the television to watch shows they prefer.

Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May

BBC bosses say women even wrote asking them to reschedule the laddish motoring show during the most recent series because it clashed with other programmes.

One letter read: “My husband insists on watching it live at 8pm. I am fed up!”

Presenters Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May, have taken ratings through the roof, even eclipsing the BBC’s hit drama Call The Midwife.

After what are called “consolidated figures”, which include iPlayer downloads, Top Gear reached almost 12 million viewers for each of its two recent African specials.

It may yet beat the download record set last year by the Olympics Opening Ceremony of 3.26 million.

Top Gear currently stands at three million viewings. It has finished its current series but will return in the summer.

Doctor turner pc Noakes interview Call the Midwife

Call the midwife Jenny Agutter Judy Parfitt interview

Why not try the Call The Midwife Collection

Daniel Radcliffe q & a A Young Doctors Notebook

Here's a great opportunity to listen to Daniel Radcliffe at length during the launch of a new Sky Arts comedy, A Young Doctors Notebook.

Call The Midwife Nurse Jenny interview

Here's a round table interview with Jessica Raine and Helen George from Call The Midwife, series 2 and Christmas special

Doc Martin wedding?

The on again off again wedding may be back on! Read my story about Doc Martin in the Sunday Express

Doc Martin wedding?

Dr Who draft scripts found

A great Dr Who find in Kent from the Australian writer who penned the first Dr Who episodes. Read my Sunday Express story
Dr Who scripts from 1963 discovered