MORRISSEY on a desert island?
You may have just heard him interviewed by Kirsty Young on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
I was lucky enough to be given a preview copy of the programme.
Year: 2009
JUST the briefest of glimpses.
But I’m so glad the humble cake stand is making a comeback, both on screen and off.
Not that Ros finds time to nibble a Fondant Fancy when she meets up with her former MI6 mentor Jack Coleville.
JANE Horrocks was just 15 when Gracie Fields died.
So despite sharing Lancashire backgrounds, Jane told me that, growing up, she knew very little about the woman who was once the highest paid performer in the world.
We met at the Young Vic Theatre in London, where Jane is currently starring in a revival of the Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun.
Long before series eight, episode four.
The one where Lucas North (Richard Armitage) and his past collide.
And he also visits Waterstone’s bookshop in London’s Piccadilly.
“I AM not a number. I am a free man.”
Every day’s a sunny day in The Village.
Last night I was among 400 people invited to an exclusive UK screening of a 21st century version of The Prisoner.
ROY Cropper made a big splash in Weatherfield last night.
Left to drown in a canal by killer Tony Gordon.
And summed up in two clear and simple lines:
Roy: “I can’t swim.”
Tony: “Good.”
David Neilson (Roy) and Gray O’Brien (Tony) filmed the canal scenes near Corrie’s Manchester HQ.
“I was out for every night of the canal shoot,” Corrie producer Kim Crowther told me when we met up recently.
SADLY, Matthew Macfadyen has no plans to release his latest performance as a single.
The former Spooks, Pride and Prejudice, Little Dorrit and Criminal Justice star plays Enid Blyton’s first husband Hugh Pollock in Enid (BBC4, 9pm tomorrow).
At one stage singing along to the Flanagan and Allen song Run Rabbit Run.
But the iTunes store will just have to do without Matthew’s rendition.
“WHO doesn’t want to be a dead billionaire?”
That’s the nightmare game show at the heart of Spooks episode three.
Along with very angry man in black Lucas North (Richard Armitage) having that fight in a swimming pool.
And something that may come as a shock to those viewers unfamiliar with The Way Spooks Works.
ONE of the TV highlights of the year arrives on BBC4 next Monday.
Enid won’t win massive ratings.
But I’d urge you to forget celebs in the jungle or Life as BBC1 knows it.
And treat yourself to this superb 90-minute film.
It stars Helena Bonham Carter as Noddy and Famous Five author Enid Blyton.
IT would be too easy to say ITV is hoping for a smash hit with Collision.
So I won’t go down that road.
But it might be worth the while of UK readers to watch this drama serial unfold over the next five nights.
Life of Wylie 