A few months ago I decided to put two of the apps I have on my phone on my tablet. One being the Channel 4 television network app and the other being Instagram. Now the the Channel 4 television net…

The special technically is the last episode of the entire premise but it auto plays as the next episode on the BBC iPlayer. It’s also an extra on the DVD box set, it’s  strangely c…

This is the second series of Marion and Groff there is a slight tweak to both the length of each episode and the situation Keith finds himself in.The episodes are now 30 minutes long and there are …

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So the last review was all done from my memory this review is having watched both series and the special we shall begin with Series One. First broadcast in September to November 2000 on Tuesday nig…

Marion and Geoff is a comedy series that ran on the BBC in the early 2000s. Filmed in the style of a single person talking to a camera in a very similar way modern YouTube videos and vloggers do no…

Through a handful of the posts I’ve been writing about watching the old television programs I grew up on and reading books. And that got me thinking about  some of the things you watch, …

Warning this review contains spoilers for The Enigma Girl by Henry porter This is your only warning do not read beyond this point if you want the book to be spoiled The back of the book- Slim Parso…

A few weeks ago I found myself sitting at a desktop computer.  The first time in years and I did what I always do I put my hand on the casing too felt the quiet soft hum of the fan. But it was&#821…

One of the longest running American television police procedurals to my knowledge, is NCIS or the original titles would call it naval criminal investigation service. It’s currently in its 23 …

In February of 2013 I wrote the following. You lift up the arm over the slowly spinning turn table and as the label of the LP travels around and around with fingers shaking a little you place the n…

So a few months ago my Dad’s landline (phone line) stopped working, so long story short and after a lot of messing about three sets of engineers and a myriad of phone calls, he now has a mimi…

For the past 50 days I re-joined the crew of the starship Discovery and worked my way through an entire series rewatch for the first time. You see thanks to the joy of the streaming services, I mis…

In April of this year I had the privilege of visiting the Bury Museum and Art Gallery which was holding a retrospective of the comedic actress Victoria Wood. She was born in Prestwich one town over…

Around May time of this year I wrote about the different interpretations of certain songs, Well that got me thinking about singers and their families. Some have their immediate family join them in …

I’m currently working my way through the entire cinematic universe that is Rocky, from its very beginning to its evolution into the two films that do not even star Sylvester Stallone. And the…

Growing up I was one of the lucky ones, I was able to have my own television in my room, so I had access to all kinds of television programs that were deemed to shocking for a mainstream audience c…

Rent Party – a social gathering, originating in 1920s Harlem, where tenants hired musicians and charged admission to raise money for rent. These lively, often boisterous events allowed Black …

Sometimes you witness a thing and you really don’t have any concept of the thing you just saw. That happened to me a few months ago, when I took a small little trip to Morecambe Bay. To visit…

Now I am of no religious persuasion whatsoever, I was given the choice very early on in life to choose what I believe in. But I sometimes understand people’s need for it. A few weeks ago I fo…

The outside world or people of a strange disposition. War in their minds has been painted as some great wonderful boy’s own adventure story. All jolly little incidents with a cartoonish evil.…

At the end of March, I wrote about how the advertisement industry on the internet was changing language and dividing generations. As an excuse to fan the flames of hatred in there ridiculous non-ex…

Around a week ago, I wrote about Decoder Ring Theatre and one of its title flagship shows that being The Red Panda Adventures, this time I am going to write their other main title show that is Jack…

I don’t talk a lot about what I do for a living here and there reason, it’s never defined who I am it’s just something I do. But in late 2016 I was privileged to be paid to take p…

As you may have noticed I write a lot about audio documentaries, dramas and single voiced narratives. That all stems from the fact I used to listen to cassette tapes as a child and have people read…

‘My name is Michael Caine’ but it’s not. it was at one time Maurice Joseph White Jr, for like many aspiring actors he needed a distinct name to be recognized with. And that’…

One of the major events to happen in the Star Trek universe was the meeting between Captain James Kirk and Captain Picard which took place in Next Generation film generations. And previously before…

“… many lady friends, but married only once. Wife killed —”, Bond cuts her short by saying, “Alright, you’ve made your point”. Anya comments that…

A few weeks ago I wrote about the abandoned and forgotten Instagram/YouTube account on the internet, that I still follow. And how they are now just frozen in time and are an act of remembrance. Wel…

Past, present and future collide as the Thirteenth Doctor meets classic Doctor Who companion Ace, in a epic novel written by Sophie Aldred Once, a girl called Ace travelled the universe with the Do…

Warning Torchwood contains adult material and themes that may not be suitable for young readers and listeners this review may have spoilers. Torchwood – Sabotage – 80 Vultura has starte…

Warning Torchwood contains adult material and themes that may not be suitable for young readers and listeners this review may have spoilers. Torchwood – Death in Venice – 65 Dorothy McS…

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Warning Torchwood contains adult material and themes that may not be suitable for young readers and listeners this review may have spoilers. Touchwood – The Red List – Number 56. At fir…

In 2024 I wrote a little about Dorothy ‘Ace’ McShane outside her life with the 7th Doctor. How a simple throw line gave the world of Doctor Who A Charitable Earth. Then Chris Chibnall g…

Several weeks ago in fact for the last couple of months, if not years one of these idiotic papers, the legacy media in its death rattle have bemoaning the fact language changes and they can’t…

Now the strange thing about watching television something I’ve not done for ages. Is I find myself returning to television programs that I’ve seen a thousand times before one particular…

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A Novel by Alistair MacLean, a long time ago at the very start of making this blog I reviewed, (or talked about would be a better way explaining it) the book and the film When Eight Bells Toll by A…

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Now as the whole world is being subjected to the propaganda and the b******* and the evil that is Deepfake, Grok and whatever else those idiots call it to sound clever. Or hide their sick societal …

The ever changing skyline of the city of Manchester, is a fascinating thing. I’m not talking about adding to it I’m talking about subtracting from it. Before the end of last year, …

I don’t own a television, I listen to podcasts mostly, when I’m on Ezri and watch a lot of wild camping videos.  So as I listened to a podcast a few months ago and they talked abou…

Factual drama about Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who cracked the Enigma code.

A lot of people have a  shall we say interesting, relationship with the Star Trek Picard show. Some people say it is a complete waste of time and the person in charge did not have the first id…

Being on any social media these days, whether it be Instagram, blue sky or here on my blog. You get a lot of requests. Most of them are fake accounts usually have a handful of stolen pictures or ot…