#leslie grantham

[beautyofthend]

28.02.85

This naffin' party's costing me a fortune and it's gonna be a bloody disaster.

[joplinsibtainappreciation]

Joplin Sibtain [Chook Sibtain] as Richard Asher in The Stretch (2000)

He’s handed over all aspects of his businesses to you. Legitimate and…otherwise. You’ll have complete control over all his companies and signing rights for his bank accounts. All we need for you to do is sign a few forms.

[tragedyontoast]

i’m near the end of july 1989 in my own personal quest to watch eastenders from day one so den’s original stint ended for me a few weeks back… and now the drama reruns have aired den’s second death. he’s gone for good. i never have to see that man ever again. finally i am no longer like hm prison kingston (rip): haunted by dirty den

[kanunacikmaviylealakali]

Downton Abbey 1S

[sir-griswold-of-macelwain]

OK so.

There are multiple actors in Downton Abbey whose first name was later given to a character. Barring very common first names like Jim or Charles or Thomas, here's a short, non-exhaustive list:

Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith): Laura Edmunds

Phyllis Logan (Mrs Hughes): Phyllis Baxter

Rose Leslie (Gwen): Lady Rose MacClare

Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham): Hugh MacClare

Raquel Cassidy (Baxter): Rachel Aldridge, Lady Sinderby

(also, Hugh Dancy and Laura Haddock came later on to play in the movies)

Also shout-out to Brendan Coyle and Kevin Doyle (Mr Bates and Mr Molesley) whose last names might have been inspirational for Peter Coyle, the never-seen crook from Baxter's past. And also to Zoe Boyle (Lavinia Swire). And Maria Doyle Kennedy (Mrs Bates). Wait. How many different "Consonnant-Oyle" people do we have on this show.

Back to the purpose of this post:

If you are ever looking for a name for a character in a downton abbey fic, the closest method is to just go to the list of characters and pick and mash from two actors. I, personally, intend to use Tuppence and Penelope in a near future. (Tuppence Middleton: Lucy Branson. Penelope Wilton: Isobel Crawley)

[kwebtv]

The Jewel in the Crown - ITV - January 9, 1984 - April 3, 1984

Period Drama (14 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Peggy Ashcroft as Barbara Batchelor

Janet Henfrey as Edwina Crane

Derrick Branche as Ahmed Kasim

Charles Dance as Sgt Guy Perron

Geraldine James as Sarah Layton

Rachel Kempson as Lady Manners

Art Malik as Hari Kumar

Wendy Morgan as Susan Layton

Judy Parfitt as Mildred Layton

Tim Pigott-Smith as Supt./Capt/Maj/Lt Col Ronald Merrick

Eric Porter as Count Dmitri Bronowsky

Susan Wooldridge as Daphne Manners

Ralph Arliss as Capt. Samuels

Geoffrey Beevers as Capt Kevin Coley

James Bree as Maj/Lt Col Arthur Grace

Jeremy Child as Robin White

Warren Clarke as Cpl "Sophie" Dixon

Rowena Cooper as Connie White

Anna Cropper as Nicky Paynton

Fabia Drake as Mabel Layton

Nicholas Farrell as Edward "Teddie" Bingham

Matyelok Gibbs as Sister Ludmila Smith

Carol Gillies as Clarissa Peplow

Rennee Goddard as Dr Anna Klaus

Jonathan Haley and Nicholas Haley as Edward Bingham Jr

Saeed Jaffrey as Ahmed Ali Gaffur Kasim Bahadur, the Nawab of Mirat

Karan Kapoor as Colin Lindsey

Rashid Karapiet as Judge Menen

Kamini Kaushal as Shalini Sengupta

Rosemary Leach as Fenella "Fenny" Grace

David Leland as Capt Leonard Purvis

Nicholas Le Prevost as Capt Nigel Rowan

Marne Maitland as Pandit Baba

Jamila Massey as Maharanee Aimee

Zia Mohyeddin as Mohammad Ali Kasim

Salmaan Peerzada as Sayed Kasim

Om Puri as Mr de Souza

Stephen Riddle as Capt Dicky Beauvais

Norman Rutherford as Edgar Maybrick

Dev Sagoo as S.V. Vidyasagar

Zohra Sehgal as Lady Lili Chatterjee

Frederick Treves as Lt Col John Layton

Stuart Wilson as Capt James Clark

Leslie Grantham as Signals Sergeant

[notasapleasure]

The Stretch (2000)

So pleased I managed to dig this one up!

Turns out all three hours are on YouTube! Don't mind me, I'm just humming Cornershop as we wait for Richard Asher (yes different spelling to the song, I know).

"Let me do the worrying for you! That's what you pay me for..." He's a high-flying-wheeler-dealing naughty tax-dodging accountant >:3

Baby. *Pinches his cheeks* Looooook at those sideburns :3

Richard and Lawrence are Terry's accountant and solicitor. Terry's been jailed for life for murder. His wife Samantha, who stood by his alibi and everybody believes lied for him, is faced with the fact he's currently too broke to appeal.

She and Terry split up 18 months ago (per Richard). 15 months ago (per Samantha). Richard is indifferent to such details.

Samantha: "So what you're trying to tell me is if Terry drops his balls I'm out on the street."

It's ok! Terry's arranged for a consignment of cannabis resin to be brought into the country :)

Also in a 'currency deal' in Spain :))

He's signed all his business deals legitimate and....otherwise .. over to Samantha :)))

A man who is not taking the piss and would just like the hysterical lady to sign some forms pls.

Sam: "You're as bad as he is!! .....both of ya!" (wouldn't want to leave Lawrence out)

Oh, Alistair Petrie is here being menacing! i.e. beating up his wife, Sam's daughter >:( BAD.

So ginger!

And bb Graham McTavish!!! The trustworthy and loyal tough guy and driver. VERY GOOD!

Sam gives in and goes back to the lads Richard and Lawrence when her mother-in-law's on the verge of being kicked out of the private care home she's in.

Richard says nothing but we keep seeing his hand fiddling round his face. Coke fiend? Or oral fixation?

Much drama in the meantime, but I clowned myself saying 'I'll go back to work when we get another Richard scene'. Nearly an hour on and we're still waiting...

Here we go! End of the first half. Of course loyal associates are invited to Terry's getting-out-of-jail-because-someone-else-admitted-to-the-crime party!

He's taller than everyone else at the party by a mile :')

Episode 2...

Joplin's voice is in the 'previously on' but I'm holding out for another scene or two :')

Besides, this is genuinely pretty good. Slower and more thoughtfully written than TV tends to be allowed to be these days.

Aaaaand it all comes out. Sam learns about Terry getting with widow of the dead man pregnant. She learns about all the people who've been paid off, and that Richard Asher, like everyone else, knows everything, and he's the one who's been paying people off for Terry.

Sorry the image quality is abysmal :')

Things keep going tits up, but Terry's convinced he can get them out of their financial problems with One Last Deal. He just needs some money to buy the heroin first.

Oh dear me no, solicitors and chartered accountants draw the line at heroin deals!

Terry rightly notes that the rest of the money they've handled for him hasn't exactly been squeaky clean.

We are not thrilled at having this pointed out.

Terry: "The chance for one last...HOO-RAH."

And in the end they probably just end up somewhat out of pocket, but this is the last we see of them.

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Rating

Dead? Nope!

Evil? Go to jail for your crimes against the tax man you horrible little inside trader :3

Affects the plot? Technically, yes, but not in a way with any actual agency/character acting with their own motivations

So this is a genuinely fun thriller! The lead actors are Leslie Grantham aka Dirty Den from EastEnders (that's a wild Wikipedia page, let me tell you. Life sentence for murder. Inspired into acting by T. Dan Smith while they were in prison together. EastEnders. Attempted suicide three times after a sex scandal) and his on-screen wife from EastEnders, Anita Dobson. Who is actually married to Brian May. Yeah, that Brian May, who does the soundtrack to this film. Which is, for the most part, pretty cool - though now and again I had a Pavlovian response to the screaming guitars and started looking for Clancy Brown in leathers or a pouting Christopher Lambert. I will say though the eagle screech that happens when the camera focuses on Terry remains unjustifiable, Brian May or not.

Uhh where was I

Oh yeah, rating. Idk, like...2/5? Joplin's not in it much, but he's very cute when he is there. And I genuinely enjoyed watching the rest of the show. The ending is so nearly perfect (I think the final shot through a scope was unnecessary).

[polikszena]

Ficlet advent calendar - The best of snow

In this post I have collected entries from the challenges that are related to snow. There will be snowball fights, snowmen and personal traditions! You can access the chapters by clicking on the fic’s title.

Tradition

Fandom: Turn: Washington’s Spies Characters: Caleb Brewster, Benjamin Tallmadge, George Washington Word Count: 594 Rating: General Summary: Abraham Woodhull may not like snow, but not all the boys from Setauket feel the same way. Sets in Valley Forge, 1777.

Snowball

Fandom: Turn: Washington’s Spies Characters: Ensign Baker Word Count: 413 Rating: General Summary: Ensign Baker engages himself in a snowball fight with some Setauket locals.

Snow

Fandom: Downton Abbey Characters: Mr Carson, Mary Crawley Word Count: 541 Rating: General Summary: Charles Carson loathes snow: it makes everything more difficult. But then he sees Lord Grantham's children playing in the snow. Can the Crawley sister make the young butler change his mind? Sets way before Season 1 of Downton Abbey.

Battlefield

Fandom: Ted Lasso Characters: Ted Lasso, Coach Beard, Rebecca Welton, Leslie Higgins, Colin Hughes, Jan Maas Word Count: 897 Rating: General Summary: Due to the snowy weather, Ted challenges his team to a snowball fight on the football pitch. But before the battle, he prepares a small surprise to Rebecca.

[novumtimes]

Major EastEnders legend returns after 19 years in truly historic comeback | Soaps

Watch out Walford, Chrissie Watts is back! (Picture: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron) EastEnders is set to welcome back Chrissie Watts as Tracy-Ann Oberman reprises her iconic role for a short stint 19 years on. A return almost two decades in the making, Chrissie was introduced in April 2004 as the second wife of original Queen Vic landlord Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) following the publican’s…

[beautyofthend]

26.02.85

He can't keep his hands to hisself, can he?

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

Thirteen episodes into the Ray Peacock podcast, I finally found a clip that seems clean enough to share on Tumblr (full disclosure: that's not true, I cut out a couple of fat jokes directed at Ed Gamble in the middle of that segment, because those didn't seem like they needed to be taken out of context and shared on social media 17 years later). Sharing this one because I could swear I've heard Nish Kumar tell this story before, but I can't think where. I think it might have ended up in one of his early (well, early compared to where he is now, but a while after this clip from 2007 - I'm thinking 2011-ish) stand-up sets that are floating around on YouTube. But I can't place it. Has anyone else heard this story before and can remember where?

Context that I've worked out from listening to the podcast/a bit of Googling because I did not spend the early 00s watching soap operas in Britain: EastEnders was a soap opera, they introduced a family of characters named the Ferreiras, that family was meant to be Asian representation on a majority white TV show but it seems that many people agree it was representation done badly, Leslie Grantham is a white guy who played a different major character on the same show. Raji James played a member of the Ferreira family, meaning he sometimes worked with Leslie Grantham on the EastEnders set, and disliked the guy for various reasons. A few years later, the Ferreira family was gone from EastEnders, and Raji James took a job getting professionally bullied on a podcast by a man whose name isn't really Ray Peacock and a child who'd just finished university named Ed Gamble. That child then convinced one of his friends to tell the the actor whom Raji James disliked that he was in the Ferreira family, even though he wasn't, he was another child who just happened to be the same colour as the Ferreira family. The disliked white actor believed it, which proved that he was racist and thought all brown people were the same, and the first child went back to tell his friends on the podcast about it. And I think the second child might have grown up to tell that story in his stand-up act at some point. Maybe. Does anyone else know if that's true?

[tragedyontoast]

so fucking obsessed with how some dude is convinced leslie grantham haunts the prison he spent time in with their evidence being they heard someone who sounded like dirty den saying ‘search them’ and ‘release them’ and then when they asked if anyone was there the voice just said ‘yeah’. it’s so insane that i’ve chosen to believe it. rumour has it if you go there with your ouija board on christmas day it spells out H-A-P-P-Y-C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-A-N-G-E

[babygirlgalitzine]

Who was a murderer????

leslie grantham

[cleowho]

“I need Dalek tissue...”

Resurrection of the Daleks - season 21 - 1984

[gin-and-anguish]

‘We found a rhythm immediately, rehearsing the first scene,’ says Anita. ‘As soon as we started doing the dialogue, Leslie turned around and went, “Yes, brilliant!” From the start, it worked [...] There was just an indefinable connection between us,’ she says. ‘We just clicked. We had each other’s backs.’

- Anita Dobson discussing her chemistry with co-star Leslie Grantham in TV Years magazine (issue two, 2018)