IT begins with a funeral. Most Spooks fans will know who for. And ends with…
Spooks series nine, episode one. BBC1, 9pm next Monday.
There is much to report about the return of Sir Harry Pearce in a terrific opening hour.
COULD Michael Sheen star as Tony Blair in a fourth film about the former prime minister?
I met up with Michael at a round table interview in London last month for a feature – still under embargo – to be published next week.
And also attended a special UK preview screening this week of The Special Relationship, the third in writer Peter Morgan’s trilogy about Blair after The Deal and The Queen.
Followed by a late night Q&A with Michael, Peter, producer Tracey Scoffield and Creative Director of BBC Films Christine Langan.
YOU’VE got a mobile phone, right? Facebook page? Twitter?
Perhaps you’re even one of those people on social networking sites who like to let others know which coffee shop or train station you’re passing through?
“The whole Orwellian Big Brother thing is that it would be imposed on us by a government,” actor David Morrissey told me recently.
“But what he didn’t realise is that we would impose it on ourselves.
STREET dreams are made of this.
Coronation Street: A Star Is Born is the highlight – for me – of BBC Four’s new autumn and winter 2010 season.
It was previously titled Florizel Street and may change its name again before we see it.
But whatever it ends up being called, my money is on this drama being a cracker.
MISS Marple returns to TV in a new film this Bank Holiday Monday.
Including a hair-raising experience for Holly Willoughby as a 17th century witch.
The Dancing On Ice and This Morning presenter is famous for her flowing locks and bubbly smile.
But she looks very different in her cameo appearance as Goody Carne in ITV1 Agatha Christie film The Pale Horse.
“WHAT a fantastic way to kick off the next series of X Factor.”
Cheryl Cole is talking about the very first act you will see on stage when The X Factor returns for a seventh series this Saturday night.
House husband Steve, 41, whose Disco Inferno really does burn, baby, burn in its own special way.
But Cheryl could have been describing the entire opening 90-minute show.
“THAT was amazing,” declares Dr John Watson.
Watson (Martin Freeman) is talking in the back of a black cab to Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch).
But he could also be describing new BBC1 drama series Sherlock.
One of the best small screen debuts I have seen in years.
YOU would think filming a series about identity fraud might lead the cast to tighten their own home security.
“I’m laid back about it myself,” says Aidan Gillen, who plays Det Insp John Bloom in ITV1’s Identity.
“I’m not going to go through my bins,” he told me when we met up earlier this summer.
“HOW crazy is the life?”
Rafa Nadal speaking at his press conference last night after winning the Wimbledon men’s singles title for a second time.
It also sums up 13 long days and nights covering my fifth Championships at the All England Club.
KEELEY Hawes is reported today to have “slammed” Ashes To Ashes “for its weak storylines”.
Which didn’t ring true to me when I read it first thing this morning.
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