Month: July 2003

  • Bob Hope dies

    Bob Hope’s died.

  • Blake’s 7

    Blakes 7 to come back according to it’s website. With my finger on the pulse, I heard about this the other day, but forgot to mention it. I’d love to say that I have mixed feelings as many of the Slashdot lot have, but I don’t. I’d love to see it return. I own all…

  • Five In A Row

    Armstrong did it. Well, after Saturday, it was no surprise. The green jersey was won and lost on the line, and overall the centenial Tour was the best in years and years. I still can’t get over the fact that I was able to watch the end of it on ITV live on a Sunday…

  • Love Again

    This great TV film told me more than I’d previously known about the life of Philip Larkin. Granted, that I didn’t know anything at all before, aside from one famous line from one of his poems. Outstanding performances from Hugh Bonneville (who seems to be something of a literary actor coupled with his performance in…

  • The Way We Live Now

    Back in the autumn of 2001, this was the big BBC costume drama, and for reasons I don’t quite recall now, I missed it. It’s been on a couple of times since on UK Drama, and I missed it both times, so I resolved not to do so again. Saturday night saw episodes one and…

  • Enduring Love

    Enduring Love is the third Ian McEwan novel I’ve read. The first was the very poor Booker winning Amsterdam, which was more of a short story than a novel, and hence exceptionally poor value at 6.99 for 178 pages (of largish type as I recall). None of the characters were particularly likeable, and the whole…

  • Armstong’s Nearly There

    Well this year’s Tour has been superb, and it was all set up for this afternoon’s time trial with Jan Ullrich chasing a lead of Armstrong of just over 1 minute on Lance Armstrong. Ullrich crashed within the last few KM although he was never likely to take much out of Armstrong. At that point,…

  • Gerald Kaufman

    I know that they do it on purpose, but today’s Broadcast (no direct link to the story since they’re subscription only) has a piece by Mr Kaufman once again banging on about how the BBC have handled the David Kelly mess badly. His main issue is that the BBC talked about an “intelligence source”, and…

  • Football on TV

    I must admit to being truly fascinated by the ongoing televised Premiership football wranglings. Here’s where we stand at the moment. The premier league started off by breaking the rights into three groups: The Gold Package of 38 first choice games on Sundays at 4.00pm, The Silver package of 38 games on Mondays at 8.00pm,…

  • Reversible Errors

    I’ve only ever read one previous Scott Turow novel – Presumed Innocent which of course was made into a Harrison Ford film. I don’t know how many books he’s written since but when this came out in hardback, it seemed to receive good reviews, so I thought I’d give it whirl. I was a little…

  • David Kelly Affair Rumbles On

    Well Sunday arrives and now it seems that the blame is being placed on the BBC. The only big defence of the BBC I’ve seen was a vehement one from Rod Liddle, ex-Today editor until fairly recently. All this nonsense about sources is pathetic and not worthy of a reply, but it worries me when…

  • Le Tour’s Hotting Up

    This year’s Tour is excellent. Armstrong is in his expected yellow, but it turns out that Jan Ullrich is second by just 15 seconds and only a week to go. And Alexandre Vinokourov from Kazakhstan is just 3 seconds further behind. Another big day in the Pyranees tomorrow, and there’s another Time Trial, where Ullrich…