#BBC producer

[grandmameredith]

Is it just me or is the beginning of Season 2 just so funky??

Like Arthur decides to swap his entire identity because he got offended no-one wanted to kill him and steals Gwen's bed in the process, Uther marries a troll?? Lancelot comes back, 3 couples fall in love, approximately 60 thousand people die (from either magic gargoyles or magic-related genocide), gay people eyefuck each other for 13 more episodes etc...

[streetsofdublin]

FATHER FLYNN MEMORIAL AT PASSAGE WEST IN CORK

Such was his reputation for curing speech impediments that the BBC producer Hywel Davis made a half-hour documentary based on his life

HE HAD A REPUTATION FOR CURING SPEECH IMPEDIMENTS It has taken me many years to establish the story behind this memorial which has 1881-1961 on the base instead of 1881-1962. Such was his reputation for curing speech impediments that the BBC producer Hywel Davis made a half-hour documentary based on his life entitled ‘It happened to me’, broadcast in June 1961. As a result, O’Flynn received…

[itscherryterry-again]

yea

[hotvintagepoll]

Hi, I'm the same person that said Lee and Price for vintage MCU XMen and I now have an addendum (slightly anachronistic for the date range of the poll, since neither of them were really "in movies" until the 70s...): vintage Days of Future Past featuring up-and-comers Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen as Young Professor X and Magneto in a pre-reprisal of their roles when Wolverine (to me, a noir heavy) is sent to the past to fix things.

this is now outside the realm of my superhero knowledge but I can provide the electorate these pics of them from 1969 to aid in the thought process:

[leo-lem]

arthur, if he were a farmer.

[thewingedwolf]

this being the second time i’ve been screaming a character is clearly bisexual in a show on fox and then the show is canceled, picked up by abc, and that exact character is revealed to be bisexual literally the next season and the actors imply they’ve been thinking about this for awhile makes me so conspiracy brained. i bet any amount of money that andy samberg wanted jake and rosa to both be canon bi by like season 3 and fox put a hit out on him, stephanie, and andre just to be safe. i bet they were gonna make schmidt and nick bi in canon and have cece enter a long relationship with a woman but fox threatened to shave zoey’s head in her sleep if elizabeth merryweather even let cece mention another woman outside of reagan. i bet the executives watched the finale of house where house and wilson ran off together and started crying screaming and sent fake anthrax in the mail to hugh laurie to scare him off from doing an american tv show again. i bet wentworth miller AND carlos valdes had to be physically stopped from kissing another man on set. fox who else are you silencing i need to know.

[bearsbeetstextposts]

to all the pieces of media I’ve loved before

Sitcoms: Arrested Development, Frasier, 30 Rock, The Office, Young Sheldon

Musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Producers, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Hamilton, Falsettos, 1776, Fermat’s Last Tango

Other shows: Supernatural, Invincible, Hazbin Hotel, The Boys, Legends of Tomorrow (and other Arrowverse stuff), BBC Sherlock, The Bear

Movies: The Social Network, The Matrix, The Death of Stalin, Motorcycle Diaries

YouTube: Tom Scott, Jreg, JJ McCullough, Good Work, old Epic Rap Battles of History vids

If you like any one or more of these… do interact!! Or don’t that’s okay too :D

[whiskeywithrayna]

!!!!!!

[mariocki]

Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (BBC, 1980)

"Complacent with your mission, Dominick? Amusing, the history of transport. We've made a modicum of progress: trips are regulated to microseconds, punctuality taken for granted."

"Yes."

"Why then were you two minutes late on your double return? Machine fault?"

"No. I'm sorry."

"I accept apology. Reason?"

"It was raining. Rain slows everything. I saw an old woman knocked down and I was checking how long before help reached her. The medi-car was blocked in progress, I think she died."

"So?"

"I thought it might be interesting."

"People are not your conspectus, Dominick. If you wish to study people, watch old films."

[vi-visected]

remus left these frankly fucking hilarious tags on a reblog and i couldn’t leave them unrealized. mergwenthur only-modern-no-magic au where they have to keep merlin on a leash because he has a terrible habit of wandering off after anything that catches his eye and they got tired of making intercom announcements. arthur’s annoyed because they moved his fucking banana chips AGAIN.

tags via @not-rome

[katzell]

Charlene Kaye sings the song Taylor Swift would write after breaking up with John Robins

[k1ngl30n]

Doing Physics homework with @nickydoesadraw Obviously, there was no possible universe where we could be normal about it

It starts. Relatively normal

Gets a bit messier. Obviously had to have him fishing in the hydroelectric power plant

We were originally going to have him say something here but dear Nick decided that it is a whole lot funnier if we just left it (I wholeheartedly agree)

Oh! Uh oh! He's not doing so well! (The lengths I went to in order to get that FUCKING SCREENSHOT is not a story that you want to be retold! Believe me!) My favourite bit from that slide is the fact that we're completely going to ignore how it's getting a bit Will's clock-esque and the 'Renewable energy resources are unreliable. This can be counteracted by taking lots of aspirin.' We're literally just going to read over it and pretend like it isn't there

Then, suddenly! And without warning! His encephalitis is fixed!

Thanks for listening to our presentation

[arguablysomaya]

actually after thinking about it for a while bbc merlin is the same kind of weirdly self-aware genocide propaganda that israel puts out now

[notmoreflippingelves]

Every year, I tell myself that I should really consider taking off work for Father Brown premiere day, and then it comes around and I forget to do it, and I spend all day thinking about how I would so much rather be sitting cozy under a million blankets and going back to Kembleford than being forced to do boring work things.

[peterlorrefanpage]

"I strongly urge that we all smother our justifiable grievances and pretend to be having a very devil of an uproarious carousal. Let us close our eyes to the fact that we all look a bit moth-eaten and concentrate on getting through this with a show of good grace." -Poffy (Reunion in Vienna)

Here is Robert E. Sherwood's 1932 play for "Reunion in Vienna"!

See all previous pics here.

While the 1955 television episode (pictured above) is currently lost, and I haven't gotten ahold of the actual 1955 script, I can but hope that Peter Lorre, who played Poffy, still got to say awesome lines like the above in the episode. And these:

"Because you realize this celebration will be nothing more than a gathering of broken-down old outcasts, like myself—with no one to give us animation, no one to give us the illusion of youth . . . but . . . I'm afraid that it may not be quite what you expect. . . ."

Poffy is a tragic but gallant ex-officer of the Imperial Army, who is now engaged in the great work of guiding American tourists about the Hofburg.

Other versions:

There was a 1933 John Barrymore picture that seems hard to find commercially, but here's a deliciously spoilery review. The Poffy character isn't mentioned once.

We do have this 1966 radio broadcast:

If the above won't play in your country, try this site instead.

Incidentally, in the play, Poffy is Baron Povoromo, which became Lord Pofferoff in Barrymore's version, et al. It's just as well I saw the latter first because I dearly love the alliteration. And I'm definitely keeping it as such for my Blackadder II crossover story, ahem, ahem, start here. :D

[dragonlordofmiddleearth]

I wish the Merlin 6: kingdom come people would be more upfront about their script being fanfic and not official because I am sick and tired of seeing people bitch about the bbc "scrapping" the supposed sixth season. There was no sixth season. Merlin did not get cancelled, it just ended. Afaik the kingdom come peeps have no affiliation whatsoever with the original merlin team, other than their contacting some of them to be like "hey would you want to make our script?" and the representative being like "appreciate the offer but no thanks". The script is no more canon than any fanfic you or I might write, it just so happens that they did it in script form which seems to have confused a lot of people, and no-one seems to have corrected the massive misunderstanding for some reason