This year’s BBC Children in Need is to feature an exclusive preview of the forthcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special.
The clip, from The End Of Time: Part One, is never-seen-before footage and will keep fans all over the globe wondering what’s in store for the Doctor as David Tennant departs and Matt Smith becomes the 11th Doctor.
What a sad but ultimately revealing and enlightening film this was. As part of the BBC’s Wonderland series of documentaries, this one followed Emma Bishop and Ben Marshall as they deliberated the pros and cons of getting married.
But what sets Emma and Ben apart from other couples in their twenties who are contemplating the same thing is that they both have Down’s Syndrome, therefore their lives are not truly their own because they must be, in many ways, reliant on others to sanction or veto various aspects of their lives.
Because of the propensity for Down’s sufferers to be subject to what many consider vulnerability and an inability to make life changing decisions, there was to be no rushing into anything for this couple. Despite the fact they’re clearly devoted to each other, and I can think of few young people better suited to making a real go of a marriage than these two based on what we saw last night, there are hurdles for them at every step. Read more & comment »
Eastenders actress Lacey Turner has revealed that she doesn’t want to take part in February’s live episode of the soap.
Bosses are planning to air a live episode as part of the show’s 25th birthday celebrations. However when asked if she would be taking part, Lacey who plays Stacey Slater told MSN:
Eastenders actress Patsy Palmer has revealed that she was bullied as a child because of the colour of her hair.
Speaking to BBC Newsbeat Palmer admitted:
“I was picked on because I had ginger hair so I was obviously different from the other kids.
“I didn’t have a lot of friends in school and I felt really scared. So I would lie to mum and tell her I felt ill all the time.
Hannah Rothschild made this film which amounted to following Nicky Haslam around for a year. Why? I don’t know. And having watched it, I still don’t know.
If I were in a generous mood, I might presuppose she made it to dig deeper than the very shallow level on which Mr Haslam lives – to reveal a ‘different’ side to him – but frankly, he’s a shallow swimmer in a shallow pool full of shallow sharks.
But they’re rich and famous these swimmers and if they’re not, they’re not in sight. So if you, like me, can’t air-kiss, can’t say “darling” every two seconds and don’t have a propensity to drink only the most expensive champagne – then eat a blini before throwing it up – you and I are not welcome in Haslam’s circles.
A deaf girl witnesses a murder.…. THE SILENCE.
18 year old Amelia Edwards (introducing Genevieve Barr) has recently been fitted with a cochlear implant, enabling her to hear, but she struggles to accept that she has a place in the hearing world.
I had absolutely no idea that my fuzzy, warm image of one of my favourite childhood authors was totally out of whack. Enid Blyton wasn’t so much warm and fuzzy as cold and barbed it would seem.
I’d heard some rumours about Blyton’s taciturn character but I’d never really taken much notice, and I suspect that’s because, as I mentioned, her work ranks right up there on my Top Ten Childhood Memories, in the Rose Coloured section, so it was rather a disappointment to me to witness her vileness.
But Helena Bonham Carter did a remarkable job of portraying a woman who was no doubt plagued by inner demons but thought nothing of making miserable lives – quite by design – for those who crossed her or didn’t interest her, her own children included. Read more & comment »
British actor Edward Woodward has died , aged 79.
Woodward, most famous for his role in 80’s crime drama ‘The Equalizer’, had been suffering from various illnesses including pneumonia and died in hospital, said his agent Janet Glass.
Edward was last seen on our TV screens as Tommy Clifford on Eastenders earlier this year.
Fans of David Tennant will have been drinking him in as the Doctor last night, for his time is nigh. After two Christmas episodes, Matt Smith will become the eleventh incarnation of the famous Doctor, and Tennant shall be a mere memory. Awwww.
But what a way to go; sticking his beak in on Mars in the year 2059 where there a real problem with the water. Not just those air bubbles you get sometimes and wonder if it’s something icky – this water can kill you. And unpleasantly at that.
On Bowie Base One – love that – Captain Adelaide Brooke, excellently played by Lindsay Duncan, is showing that in the future, women are still in charge of anything that’s important. However, Brooke and her team dropped a clanger in that they melted some ice in the ice fields and let loose a nasty virus. Worse than Swine ‘flu even. Or David Cameron. Read more & comment »
Eastenders actress Lacey Turner has admitted that she hadn’t heard of bipolar disorder before her character Stacey Slater developed it on the soap.
Turner told MSN: “It was a real shock – I went to a storyline meeting and Diederick (Santer – the executive producer) said ‘how do you feel about bipolar?’ And I said ‘what’s bipolar?’ – I had no idea.”
Big Top is a colourful, upbeat comedy series for BBC One from Big Bear Films set in and around a travelling circus.
Amanda Holden (Wild At Heart, Cutting It, Britain’s Got Talent), John Thomson (Cold Feet, The Fast Show), Sophie Thompson (EastEnders, A Room With A View), Ruth Madoc (Hi-de-Hi!, Little Britain), Bruce Mackinnon (The Office, The Catherine Tate Show) and Tony Robinson (Time Team, Blackadder) star as the performers and backstage staff who make up Circus Maestro.
David Haye and Sarah Harding join Jonathan Ross for this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.
Sarah Harding tells Jonathan that Girls Aloud will get back together but they don’t know when: “We’re simply taking a break, we all felt it was time… we said about a year, but we’re going to see.”
John Simm has admitted that he has played The Master differently in the upcoming Doctor Who specials.
The actor will return as The Master later this year and warned viewers to expect a much less subtle performance from him.
He told the Daily Mail: “If you thought I was hamming it up in the last one, wait till you see this. I like to be quite subtle, but this doesn’t call for subtle. The Master is insane.
Bradley Branning will make a huge exit from Eastenders next February, in a storyline written to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary.
Before his departure Bradley will briefly reunite with his ex-wife Stacey and bosses are promising that his exit will be one of the most memorable yet.
The latest Wonderland series offering was no less quirky and odd than its predecessors, and last night, we saw the six-degrees-of-separation like stories of the paths taken by seven Staffordshire Bull Terrier pups, their subsequent owners, as well as their original breeder.
Born of Uggs, whose owner Jackie wanted to make money from selling her pups, the seven puppies were destined for very different lives, but more or less to a man, or pup, their futures weren’t looking especially bright.
That said, one of them did fare very well; Jackie’s sister-in-law Maria bought one of the pups to help her children to get over the grief of losing their dad, and of all the puppies, this one seemed the most suited to getting along with fragile children. Read more & comment »
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