Archive for August, 2008

h1

Merlin / Robin Hood

August 31, 2008
Colin Morgan as Merlin
Colin Morgan as Merlin

UPDATE : This starts tonight (Saturday 20th September 2008) at 19:30 on BBC One!

BBC One seem to have commissioned a new drama in place of Robin Hood for this autumn – Merlin.

The Official Website is also well worth a look.

I must say, I am rather intrigued and excited about this, as the BBC tends to do drama for the autumnal Saturday peak slot rather well!

Bradley James as Arthur
Bradley James as Arthur

BONUS PICTURE BELOW OF ARTHUR/Bradley James IN THE FINAL EPISODE OF SEASON ONE! (Merry Christmas! hehe)

arthur19
FINALLY!

With Last Choir Standing finishing last week, I would speculate that it could be airing as soon as this week perhaps – although I’ve yet to see a confirmed date. Scheduled for a Saturday evening, I would presume that Strictly Come Dancing would start around the 6pm slot and this will go on about 7pm as per how they schedule Doctor Who / Robin Hood. As soon as I find the confirmed transmission date, I’ll update this page :o )

UPDATE : This starts tonight (Saturday 20th September 2008) at 19:30 on BBC One!

With Merlin having an all-star cast with a few promising new additions to boot, I think that this could easily become compelling viewing and, if as good as it’s contemporaries, be well worth the license fee alone!

Jonas Armstrong as Robin Hood
Jonas Armstrong as Robin Hood

I hear that Robin Hood, which is normally on at this time of year. will be coming back for a third series in 2009 (though I am not sure how well that bodes for a possible second series of Merlin), although with Jonas Armstrong (Robin) leaving Robin Hood at the end of the third series, I don’t think that Robin Hood will be able to continue past the forthcoming series.

Below is the press release for the show.

MERLIN
A new fantasy drama for BBC 1

Merlin is a thrilling fantasy drama set to enchant family audiences in a brand new 13-part series on BBC One this September.

Every Saturday night audiences are destined to experience a series of magical adventures, as they follow the unlikely friendship of a would-be wizard (Merlin) and the future King (Prince Arthur).

The drama brings together a cast of acclaimed British actors (Richard Wilson as Gaius, Anthony Head as King Uther Pendragon) as well as exciting new faces.

Colin Morgan is the young wizard Merlin, Bradley James is the arrogant but brave Prince Arthur, rising star Angel Coulby is Guinevere and newcomer Katie McGrath is Morgana.

Multi-award-winning actor John Hurt has just been cast as the Voice of the Great Dragon. Enigmatic and powerful, he alone knows Merlin’s true destiny.

Julie Gardner, Head of Drama, BBC Wales, says: “In this new version, Merlin and Arthur are young contemporaries for the first time ever, bringing a much-loved tale to a whole new generation with a fresh, youthful new look and approach for Saturday nights this autumn on BBC One.

“I am thrilled to announce John Hurt has just been cast as the voice of the Great Dragon. He is Merlin’s mythological mentor and the only dragon left with magic powers.

“It is an absolute privilege to be working with him, as he brings real gravity to the series, alongside a strong core cast and brilliant guests.”

He will be joined by Heroes star Santiago Cabrera as Lancelot and Bionic Woman Michelle Ryan as the wicked sorceress Nimueh.

Further guest stars include Eve Myles (Torchwood, Doctor Who) as Mary Collins (episode one), Will Mellor (Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps) as Valiant (episode two) and Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing) as Edwin Muirden (episode five).

The eagerly anticipated series begins long before Arthur becomes King.

Arthur’s father is Uther Pendragon, the tyrannical King of Camelot who has outlawed magic in the mythical city.

Gaius is the court physician who takes Merlin under his wing and helps guide him with his magical powers.

It’s a rites of passage story which sees Merlin and Arthur on the cusp of adulthood – both on their journey to greatness in a time before history began.

Merlin is created and produced by Shine Television – the International Emmy Award-winning production team behind Hex and Sugar Rush – Julian Murphy, Johnny Capps, Jake Michie and Julian Jones.

Johnny Capps, Shine Television, says: “It’s a privilege to be given the opportunity to reinvent a classic British legend for this important family slot.

“We have a wonderful cast and fantastic locations, which we hope will bring alive the magic and myth of Camelot for a new audience.”

Merlin is being filmed in Wales and France for transmission on BBC One in September.

Spectacular CGI effects are being created by The Mill, the Oscar-winning visual and special effects team behind Gladiator and Doctor Who.

BBC Executive Producers are Julie Gardner for BBC One and Bethan Jones for BBC Wales.

Merlin was commissioned by Jane Tranter, Controller, BBC Fiction.

h1

Last Choir Standing – The Final

August 31, 2008

** Spoilers! **

So, last week I said that I would be happy whichever choir won this competition, and I still stand by that sentiment. Albeit I did have a preference, which Revelation were definitely at the top of.

However I think that both Ysgol Glanaethwy and Only Men Aloud both had a good mixture of stong performances and not-so-strong performances that, for me, was enough to justify their place in the final. I must say, I much prefered Only Men Aloud’s performance of Angels to Don’t Rain On My Parade, however I think that they deserved to win and hopefully will be able to do something with this victory in order to strengthen their choir’s standing even further.

I wasn’t overly enamoured with some of the performances this week, I enjoyed the ones that I’m posting below a lot more than the other ones.

Ysgol Glanaethwy – O Fortuna

Revelation – Ain’t No Stopping Us Now (especially when they broke it down)

Group Performance : Never Forget

Group Performance : I’m Still Standing

I’m Still Standing was definitely one of the series highlights for me – so infectious and great to see the studio audience/judges/presenters having a boogie too hehe.

I also really liked Russell Watson and ACM Gospell choir singing Stevie Wonder’s Heaven Help Us. Another season highlight I thought – I wasn’t too sure that the song suited him at first, but by the end I was completely sold.

Alas, the BBC haven’t uploaded that clip, and so I’ll post the original song instead – though I was also surprised to see that My Chemical Romance have a version of the song too!

It’s just dawned on me that the BBC probably won’t be able to commission another series of this, as the choirs that would make it to the next series of finals would most likely be the same choirs as were in it this year. I think it’s a lot harder for someone to form a choir than it would be to wake up one morning and just say “I think I’ll apply for X-Factor this year” and so the percentage yield of fresh new choirs who hadn’t already entered would probably be diminished in comparison.

But back to this year’s show, I think that all of the choirs have done a sterling job and hats off to them. I have been entertained, emotionally moved and at times danced along to the wonderful sounds that they were making. Here’s hoping that they’ve helped to update the image of what a choir is. I’m all for retaining the choirboys in cassocks image as well, however I see no problem in opening up the genre of ‘choral music’ and broadening it out to include styles such as these.

Congratulations to all choirs, and I’m sure that there’ll be a BBC album out soon (which I’ll be first in line to buy!)

NB – The BBC’s “Last Choir Standing ” YouTube channel has most of the performances from this, and prior, weeks on it is well worth a look; and as always, their official website has a run-down of exactly what went on during the show.

h1

Last Choir Standing – 23rd August

August 26, 2008

*** SPOILERS ***

Oh my goodness! What on Earth was with the judges’ decision this week?! ACM Gospel really didn’t deserve to go – they’ve been amazing and consistent throughout, much more so than Ysgol Glanaethwy have.

Mister Greg and I really didn’t warm to Ysgol Glanaethwy’s performance of “Circle of Life” at all, and in fact felt a little embarrassed for them. Therefore we were both hugely surprised with the judges’ comments and ultimate decision!

This week was always going to be a tough one, with all four choirs really deserving to be in the final. I like all of them. I was especially pleased to see that Revelation went straight through this week – they’re now the choir that I would like to see win.

Strong performances from the choirs tonight, although one or two songs weren’t really getting through to me – Only Men Aloud’s “Luck Be A Lady” and Ysgol Glanaethwy’s “Somebody To Love”. Ysgol Glanaethwy don’t seem to be fully understanding that this is a choir based show, and that they cannot continue to raise one member up in front of all of the rest of them. I would love to see them all working together doing proper harmonies, and think that some of their stuff by Adiemus and other classical artists sounds much better. Plus doing a song by the same artist two weeks out of three was a poor choice I thought. I did rather like their bi-lingual song though.

Looking forward to the final next week, I wish that ACM were still in it, and if I’d had to pick my final three, I think that I’d have let Only Men Aloud go this week. Revelation to win!

NB – The BBC’s “Last Choir Standing ” YouTube channel which, once updated by the BBC, will have most of the performances from the week on it is well worth a look; and as always, their official website has a run-down of exactly what went on during the show.

h1

Manchester Pride 2008

August 25, 2008

As regular readers of my blog may have been aware, I was immensely looking forward to this year’s Pride event back in my hometown of Manchester. Held over the August Bank Holiday weekend each year, and currently in it’s 18th year, it truly is the social highlight of the year.

This year’s event was held between Friday 22nd and Monday 25th August – I was up in Manchester for the Friday and Saturday, before traveling home on the Sunday. Didn’t want to stay until the Monday as I knew that I’d be exhausted so wanted to factor in for a day snuggled up in bed too before heading back to work hehe.

I went up and took Alex with me, with plans to meet other London friends from our group in Manchester once we were up there. Really weird to see people that I associate with London hanging around in Manchester!

So anyways, getting to Manchester on the Friday was a little bit of a nightmare – the Virgin train that we were on managed to get as far as Watford Gap before being turned back due to there being a freight train on fire in front of us which had closed the track. Consequently, we had to turn around and go all the way back to London. Instead of taking the West Coast Mainline, which would have taken two and a half hours, we had to go up via the East Midlands from Kings Cross, to Derby, Derby to Sheffield and Sheffield to Manchester Piccadilly – which took around six hours! To say the services were busy would be an understatement! The train from Derby to Sheffield was a really old East Midlands Train service whereby you actually had to lean out of the window to open the door! It was also rather funny to watch people’s faces when they saw the Sheffield to Manchester train was only two carriages long (local service) – Londoners don’t seem to grasp the concept of trains that are shorter than eight carriages long hehe!

We arrived in Manchester at 19:00 and headed over to our hotel – the Travelodge on Blackfriars Street, just off Deansgate. Not too badly priced at all – £30 pppn. it worked out as. We also came across the most remarkable object:

We also had some really cracking views from our 7th Floor room (though admittedly not as good as our friends who were staying on the top floor of the Ramada on Piccadilly). Views included The Edge and Lowry Hotel:

Whilst out and about in Manchester in the evening, I also had the chance to take a few cool snaps of the modern architecture which has recently sprung up in Manchester, especially around the side of the River Irwell and Spinningfields:

We dined in a restaurant called “Strada” on the Irwell on the Friday evening which I have since found out is a chain of restaurants across the country. I must say, I would rate that as the BEST dining experience in my life! Absolutely delightful and I really can’t wait to go back to them! Even better news is that their ‘London’ restaurant is in Kingston – which will be right on my new doorstep!

Having eaten, we headed down to the Pride Site to go and pick up our wristbands (sparkly green this year) and have a mooch around. I must say, Manchester City Centre was terribly quiet on Friday night! We ended up in Spirit, and boy was it great to hear the sort of music that they play in Mancunian gay establishments as opposed to the tat that is played in London!!! :D Carlos and co. joined us and so we had a few drinks in Spirit before heading off to Cruz 101. Getting folk to go there was easy as none of them really knew what to expect from it, and by the time they’d seen the carpeted floors, it was too late hehe!! Rather weird to see people I know from, and associate with, London against the Manchester backdrop though.

Cruz was a rather good night – we all had a good ol’ boogie upstairs, and then Edd, Carl and I went downstairs to check out the dance music floor – which was deserted. Not wanting to let that stop us, we started dancing and pretty soon the room had filled up - hurrah! We’re crediting ourselves with the success of the dance floor on that night hehe.

Urban Cookie Collective did a PA with her song “The Key, The Secret”, which I really enjoyed! Wasn’t too keen on the rest of her songs though.

We got back to the hotel around 03:30, which wasn’t too bad, though getting up at 9am the following morning was a bit of a chore!

We went for a bit of a shopping trip, and I went to H&M to purchase a few bits and bobs. We also went shopping for a watch for Alex and I came across a watch that I rather liked. Didn’t get chance to purchase it in Manchester and so I think I shall be purchasing it when I get chance to later this week. It’s the one with the green face.

We also went onto the big wheel that we’ve had in Exchange Square for a few years now. I’ve wanted to go on it since it first arrived, however this was the first time I’d been able to. The height and wobbliness scared me a little at first, however by the second time round, I was fine hehe.

After that we headed off to watch the parade – which was absolutely marvelous!!!!

We encamped over by the art gallery on Princess Street and I managed to take quite a lot of great photos (modesty should kick in soon… hmmmm… hehe). I’ve posted a selection of by favourites below, however I did take around 200 pictures of the Parade alone! The full photo set can be found on my Facebook page as it’s too large to host anywhere else.

I really love how we all march up to the village once the parade has passed, it really does make it feel a lot more powerful and emotive. It’s always great to see how much support the community has up in Manchester, from the local council who facilitate so much (they even have the rainbow flag flying over the town hall every year) to the people on the streets who line the route cheering and celebrating with us.

It’s especially nice to see the emergency services being applauded, they really do deserve recognition for all of their hard work and it seems that Manchester is the only Pride which continuously does this, which is a huge shame!

After the parade, we had a quick mooch back to the Pride site, however didn’t hang around too much as it was so busy – very hard to get around as always due to the masses of people!

We met up with Carlos and co. again in the evening and went to Wagamama for dinner, before heading back to their hotel for a few drinks prior to going to Poptastic Under The Arches. At £17 to get in, I really was hoping for something decent. Having worked for Poptastic, I was sure I’d really enjoy it, but I had no idea just how much I would! :D Amazing – the venue itself was the best I’ve ever been in. A carpark by day, they really did manage to transform it into a fab place by night! At times, if you stood in the right place, you could hear the backing music but all of the crowd singing as opposed to the artist, which made it really uplifting. The usual mix of camp classics, coupled with plenty of Glo-Sticks, glitter and studenty types. Really made me start to miss living in Manchester. The highlight of the evening for me was dancing along to Whigfield’s Saturday Night at about 2am hehe. I danced my lil heart out (bless me hehe) and if I looked stupid, then at least I was happy looking stupid and camp hehe!!! :P

We stayed until 03:30 before deciding to call it a night – which was a good thing really as my train home was at 11am the morning after, and so I wanted to get at least an hour or two of sleep first hehe!

The train home was via the same route as we’d come (although at least this was our planned route!), though took 7 hours and involved 3 trains and a bus – not bestest!

The one good thing about the journey home was the hour stop-off in Sheffield which we had whilst we waited for interchange on the trains. Outside the station there is perhaps one of the best sculptures that I’ve seen. There was a huge water sculpture which when you looked at it up close, made it seem as though you were looking into yourself in another world. Very “through-the-looking-glass”-y!

As previously mentioned, these are but only a VERY small selection of the couple o’hundred pictures that I took whilst in Manchester – Facebook carries the full selection over around 6 different galleries. Feel free to check them out, some really memorable moments have been captured and I’m really pleased that I managed to get so many of them on ‘film’.

I had an absolutely spiffing Manchester Pride this year, my thanks go to everybody who has helped to make it so unforgettable. Cartainly my best Pride ever. The only thing that would have made it completely perfect would have been if Mister Greg’s employers had given him the time off so that he could have attended, though I’m sure that he will definitely be with us next year – hurrah!

Roll on Manchester Pride 2009!

Thanks for reading xx

h1

The X Factor doth commeth!

August 17, 2008

This post relates to 2008; for my main posts on X-Factor 2009, please click HERE.

*******************************************************************

So, as I’m sure we all know (well, at least 11 million of us do!), the X-Factor kicked off again last night in awesome style!

I’ve already spotted my potential winner I think – Austin Drage!

(NB – ITV.com posted this lovely backstage picture on their website – YUM! – though how he happened to have his top off, God only knows!).

Here are a few other yummy ones courtesy of Google! It would seem that getting his muscles out is a bit of a trademark look (and one which I approve of wholeheartedly hehe!).

Most years, I have been able to pick a winner from the auditions who comes within the top 5 (Niki Evans was mine last year, Brenda Edwards the year before) and so hopefully Austin Drage will do me good this year. I linked to his seemingly abandoned MySpace account above – really recommend you head over and have a listen. The BBC News page also has some of the high and low-lights of the auditions from this week – inc. Drage’s.

Drage also auditioned for X Factor last year, getting through to the boot camp, but not into the final 24.

Bit of controversy surrounding him, he was in a TV show called ‘Boys Will Be Girls’ - where a group of lads had to try and pass themselves off as a girl band (surprisingly not as bad as it sounds – on reflection I remember watching this, though not him!). Though one wonders if the also yummy Nikk, who was a finalist in Popstars The Rivals, had gotten through if the same kids would be screaming about how that was unfair too?! Niki Evans too had also auditioned for Popstars The Rivals – and so a bit of experience is nothing to scream about. It makes for a better, more varied, competition of a higher standard, and furthermore the person without any experience at all is usually the person who wins anyway!

This year, I really am missing Mrs O, and I thought I’d really detest Cheryl Cole as I’m really not a fan of hers. Surprisingly, I wasn’t too riled by her presence on the show and so I may actually be able to bear watching this year after all! Simon’s the only judge left that I like though.

Quite a few strong auditions in this weeks show, hopefully future auditions will have some equally strong characters.

As always, it is annoying me how they are cutting from location to location, in some cases pretending to be somewhere that they’re not – but that’s just typical X-Factor for you. In fact, these auditions are the 3rd ones, and not the ones that are the prelims in the stadiums. That said, it’s clever TV and helps make it so good.

Another thing to look out for next week – the word PIMP seems to be written on the side of Simon’s helicopter – DOH! hehe.

h1

Last Choir Standing : Sat 16th Aug

August 17, 2008

Just a quick note on the latest round of Last Choir Standing from the BBC. As always, spoilers are present!

I thought that all of the choirs, with the exception of Bath Male Voice Choir, were absolutely and phenomenally outstanding this week! Cor blimey!

As usual, I really didn’t ‘get’ Bath, although I did find their sing-off song a whole lot better than any of their previous material. With all said and done however, I was happy with the decision made by the judges to eliminate this choir from the competition.

Really not sure why Revelation keep getting dropped into the bottom two – I would presume it’s a negative impact resulting from their size, and also because they are not linked to a school or local community project. As a free-standing choir, it must be much harder for them to compete as they won’t have as large a fanbase on ‘home soil’ as some of the other, larger, choirs…

Semi-Final next week, and I’m rather excited. I’ll be very impressed if the choirs can find a way to top their preformances from this week. Ysgol Glanaethwy and ACM Gospel Choir remain my favourites to win – however at this stage, I would be happy for any of the remaining four to take the title!

The BBC’s “Last Choir Standing ” YouTube channel which, once updated by the BBC, will have most of the performances from the week on it is well worth a look; and as always, their official website has a run-down of exactly what went on during the show.

h1

Last Choir Standing – 9th August 08

August 16, 2008

*+* Spoilers relating to Sat 9th/Sun 10th Aug 08’s broadcast *+*

OK, so firstly apologies for the delay to this post – it’s been a busy week! Additionally, the BBC didn’t upload the final show to BBC iPlayer so that I could see it until Tuesday! They must be too busy with the Olympics I guess.

Anyways, I was disappointed with some of the performances last week – and I still really am not warming to Bath Male Voice Choir. I think they did well at the audition stages although they’ve lost a lot of the magic in my opinion. I would have much rather have seen them go than Sense of Sound, who I actually thought weren’t all that bad. I was VERY surprised to find Revelation in the bottom two! I can’t quite comprehend that one…!

Here is a link to the BBC’s “Last Choir Standing ” YouTube channel which has most of the performances from the week on it; as always, their official website has a run-down of exactly what went on during the show.

I was surprised to find that the format of the show was not as I’d expected… I’d thought that last week was going to be one huge final between the six (kind of how the heats had worked) and so wasn’t expecting for the show to run for another few weeks.

What with this and X-Factor, my Saturday nights are well and truly booked up in front of the telly me thinks!

h1

Brighton Pride 2008

August 16, 2008

So, the first of several catch-up posts :- BRIGHTON PRIDE

On Saturday 2nd August 2008, Greg and I decided that we would go down to Brighton Pride. I’d never been to Brighton before, and it had been years since Greg had been. I was also rather surprised to find that this was to be Mr Greg’s first pride!

Alas, the weather was a little icky on the way out there (London Bridge –> Brighton) and when we got to Brighton and took our position near to the church to wait and watch the parade go by, it was raining somewhat – gah! My hair was ruined!

Greg took the below picture which I think really captures the momentum and purpose of the parade:-

I love how the splash of colour contrasts with it's comparatively mundane surroundings

I love how the splash of colour contrasts with the rather normal/mundane aspects of the life around him.

Greg also managed to get a few other pictures of folk in the parade (though has only uploaded a few so far as he took that many!):-

 

All in all, a parade which wasn’t all that different from the Manchester pride parade to be honest. The same groups were represented and for me, gave it a really homely feel.

After the parade, we headed off to have a look around Brighton, and ended up on Brighton Pier. Had a good ol’ nosy around and went right to the end, before heading back and treating ourselves to Fish and Chips on the pier – yum! I was also amazed at how clean/green the sea was - that said, I am used to the scummy water at Blackpool – ugh!

After finally finding a hat that I really liked (I’m not normally a hat person, but the rain really had buggered my hair!) we headed down to Preston Park to meet up with friends and while away the afternoon. Huge crowds down there, largely well behaved, though I was surprised and a little disappointed by how much drug taking was going on by folk (not our group, I hasten to add – we’re all well behaved… well, in that sense! :o P).

I also had some crazy lady try and pretend that she was my ‘Mum’… that was… erm… interesting! When she turned around and we could see the remnants of a line of cocaine under her nose… well, that explained a lot!

After much gaiety in the park, we headed over to the Hilton Metropole on the seafront as a good friend of ours, David,  was hosting a soirée in his suite to which we’d been invited, along with several others from the group.

The room had a GORGEOUS and terribly romantic view of the old pier - never mind the gathering, I could have remained out on that balcony with the view all night!  (Thanks to David for allowing me to post the below picture that he took of the view)

The soirée was a lot of fun, and a really great way of catching up with folk who I’d not seen in a while!

Getting home was a bit of a nightmare; though it could have been a lot worse. It took 4 hours to get from Brighton back home (it took 90 mins total on the way) partly due to huge queues for trains, having to interchange at Clapham Junction for London Bridge and then having to get a night bus home.

All in all, Greg and I had a smashing time and really enjoyed ourselves. For anyone interested in seeing more pictures of our escapades in Brighton, both mine and Greg’s Facebook profiles carry further pictures from the day.

Roll on Manchester Pride next weekend!!

h1

Dammit Janet!

August 13, 2008

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

According to the BBC news story below, there is going to be a remake of the film version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show!

How/why on Earth could they / would they?!

The tacky cheapness of it all defines not only the movie, but also the musical and it’s original, and current, roots! The scripting, the audience participation that, by virtue of the fans, has arisen for the original and the staging were already pure perfection!

It doesn’t sound like a cinematic release, however I’m sure that it will be played continuously on Sky and MTV before being repeated several times on the mainstream digital channels.

Will I be surprised and find that I really enjoy the remake (after all, I had said you could never remake Hairspray and look what happened!)? I see, dear reader, that you shiver with antici...

…. pation!

** IMPORTANT EDIT ** – the BBC have now posted a ** new news story ** in update to their previous article (below) to say that Richard O’Brien DOES NOT support the new film, and in fact is very angry over it. Bad reporting by Sky it would seem (no surprises there then!)!

Rocky Horror movie to be remade

Cult musical film The Rocky Horror Picture Show is to be remade 33 years after it was first released, it has been announced.

The film, which will be co-financed by Sky Movies in the UK and MTV in the US, is to be co-produced by Rocky Horror creator Richard O’Brien.

The original 1975 film, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Meat Loaf, has become a kitsch classic.

The cast and director of the new version are yet to be announced.

The plot revolves around young American couple Brad and Janet who accidentally stumble into a strange world of alien transvestites and overt sexuality.

Stage show

Lou Adler, executive producer on the original film, will return in the same role.

Our hope has always been that each new endeavour and rebirth will expose the Rocky Horror experience to new audiences and expand the fan base
Executive producer Lou Adler

“The Rocky Horror phenomenon has a life of its own that has reincarnated itself in numerous ways since its birth,” he said.

“Our hope has always been that each new endeavour and rebirth will expose the Rocky Horror experience to new audiences and expand the fan base.”

He said the original film would continue to be enjoyed “by new fans and old alike”.

Jim Sharman, who co-wrote the original screenplay and directed the film, said: “The original has some qualities that can’t be reproduced but a remake could have its own very different strengths and qualities.”

The new film will have its UK premiere on the Sky Movies channel.

The film started life as stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973.

It was adapted for cinema as The Rocky Horror Picture Show two years later and has generated an enthusiastic and dedicated following.

Audiences to both the stage and screen versions are encouraged to dress up like the show’s characters.

h1

I Am Chicken!

August 12, 2008

Yet another great clip from Sesame Street!

I’ve been humming this one all chuffin’ evening and can’t get it out of my head. Good thing that I’m not having chicken for tea tonight is all I can say, otherwise I’d be unstopable hehe!

At this rate, I’m going to have posted enough ‘amazing’ Sesame Street clips to my blog to be able to put together a whole ‘amazing’ episode! hehe! Oops!

Try to humour me… it helps! :o P