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Principal's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I last saw Peter Firth in the flesh, in pain and naked, on a sixth-form theatre trip in the 1970s. He was portraying Alan Strang, the deranged blinder of horses in Peter Shaffer's Equus. The pupils wondered how it passed the censor. Now here is Firth as Harry Pearce, the spy chief in Spooks (BBC One), where he again goes distressingly deep into the most painful areas of experience, testing moral boundaries....
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Screenhead (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
America’s first National Park, Yellowstone, is one of the most spectacular wildernesses on Earth and home to some of the richest wildlife beyond the plains of Africa. Yellowstone: Battle for Life reveals the beauty and struggles of this amazing natural treasure. Every family and teacher must own the documentary. It’s for nature enthusiasts everywhere. The release [...]
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Shelley Vision - Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Spooks is the BBC's answer to 24: glossy, glamorous, totally incomprehensible. It's less a spy series than one long car ad. Everything is bathed in moody, midnight blue with lots of shots of shiny, modernist architecture. Everyone wears Prada...
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The Pink Heart Society (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Last month Kate Walker talked about her love of spooky ghost stories. This time, with the must watch TV slot, her focus is on some very different sort of Spooks. Spooks is back. My autumn (Fall) viewing treat is guaranteed. I have a date and a space on my living-room sofa every Wednesday 9pm BBC 1 - for Spooks . (Well, I also have one for Flash Forward but that’s another topic.) Spooks is back...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Call it sixth sense. The makers of Spooks, BBC1's hit MI5 drama, which begins its eighth series on Wednesday, seem to have an uncanny knack of knowing what's about to happen in the news.
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The Stage | TV Today (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Into the Storm Monday, BBC2 8.30pm Brendan Gleeson stars as Winston Churchill in a drama which has already seen him win an Emmy for the role. As Winston and his wife Clementine (Janet McTeer) await the results of the 1945 General Election, we flash back...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
HOLD on to your hats, Spooks is back! In the dying moments of the last series, MI5 Section D chief Harry Pearce, having just averted a major terrorist atrocity in London, was bundled into the boot of a car by his Russian counterpart, FSB boss Viktor Sarkisian.
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Jamil Dehlavi's Born of Fire (1986) received both a theatrical and home video release in the 1980s, but the film has languished in complete obscurity since that time. This obscurity is undeserved because, as revealed by Mondo Macabro's new DVD release, Born of Fire is a rare hybrid of art house cinema and horror that delivers a strong dose of mind-bending surrealism. In Born of Fire , an astronomer...
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
punctilious \puhnk-TIL-ee-uhs\ , adjective: Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.. Origin: Punctilious derives from Late Latin punctillum, "a little point," from Latin punctum, "a point," from pungere, "to prick." cocktail weenie A person obsessed with the minutiae of bartending practices and traditions,...
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Amy Grindhouse (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Reality TV star Kelly Osbourne is 25. Actor-comedian John Cleese is 70. Author Fran Lebowitz is 59. Singer Simon LeBon of Duran Duran is 51. Actor Peter Firth That’s Life is 56. Guitarist K.K. Downing of Judas Priest is 58. Singer Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots & Velvet Revolver is 42. Actress Sheeri Rappaport CSI & NYPD Blue is 32. Actor Robert Picardo [...]
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Runs like a gay (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Happy Birthday to Peter Firth 56 today Peter was the original Alan Strang in Peter Shaffer's pseudo religious Equus , his performance was so committed and so highly praised that the talkiness and faux intellectualism of the play was completely missed. He is now a key supporting character in British TV spy series "Spooks". Make of that what you will Daniel Radcliffe.
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The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The Saracens invaded Sardinia in 710. Amsterdam was founded in 1275. Philadelphia was founded in 1682. The British government deregulated financial markets in 1986 and in 1999, gunmen stormed the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and seven others. Born today: Erasmus (1466-1536), James Cook (1728-1779), Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Dylan Thomas...
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
DVD Video Review: Gary Couzens completes his look at Optimum's Tony Richardson Collection with 1977's Joseph Andrews, a comedy based on Henry Fielding's novel, starring Ann-Margret and Peter Firth.
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
News: E1 Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Spooks Season 7 on 12th October 2009 priced at £39.99 RRP. Richard Armitage joins regular cast members Hermione Norris, Rupert-Penry Jones and Peter Firth for the seventh season of this e...
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Writing and Ruminating (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Chapter 3 - the very short version Catherine attends the Lower Rooms with the Allens and meets the hero, Mr. Henry Tilney. Since I have no Brock illustration to share with you today, I've opted to share this video starring J.J. Feild as Henry Tilney and Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland. Because I find J.J. Feild and Felicity Jones absolutely charming in their roles. Even though sometimes the screenwriter,...
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