Monthly Archives: July 2011
Downton Abbey 2: The Press Launch
“YOU’LL find there’s never a dull moment in this house.” Just one of many classic new lines from Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Dame Maggie Smith) in the second series of Downton Abbey. The press were invited to Downton on … Continue reading
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The Hour
“THE newsreels are dead. We’ve bored the public for too long.” So begins The Hour, a fascinating new BBC2 drama series set in the changing media and political world of the 1950s. Episode one finds the BBC News at London’s … Continue reading
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Silver Shadow: All At Sea
MY recent week on the Budapest set of ITV1 2012 drama Titanic brought back memories of a much happier voyage. As did a trip last week to see Jamie Cullum in concert at Kew Gardens. The below feature was published … Continue reading
The Night Watch
“IF you go to the cinema midway through a film, you watch the second half first, don’t you? “So you see how the characters end up in the story. “What happened to turn them into the people they became. “It’s … Continue reading
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Titanic Set Visit
BACK from an amazing week in Hungary, on the Budapest set of ITV1 drama Titanic. Written by Julian Fellowes, it is due to be screened both in the UK and around the globe in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary … Continue reading
