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About Bernadette Angell

After cutting her journalistic teeth in Boston USA, Bernadette met and married an Englishman, whom she followed back to London. Two decades and three children later, they divorced. She now occupies herself as a freelance writer (credits include television soaps and radio plays) and occasional amateur gardener. More Posts

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Tv drama: new and old

I watched the final episode of “THE NIGHT MANAGER” and was disappointed. Aside from the acting of Hugh Laurie as Richard Roper, the amoral arms dealer, there was little to engage and no improvement on the original. It bore all the formulaic trademarks of modern drama; incessant gizmos [...]

February 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

Amadeus and the Night Manager

The above programmes were the BBC’s Xmas offering and I was underwhelmed by both. Although centuries separated Mozart and the Night Manager the two dramas reflected the BBC’s emphasis on diversity. In Amadeus,  Mozart’s librettist Carlo Ponte was played by à black actor. that was not the [...]

January 2, 2026 // 0 Comments

Foyle’s War

They say a book improves in its second reading. I am now on my – at least third – viewing of “FOYLE’S WAR” and. if anything, am more impressed than ever by its script, acting and attention to detail. It’s written and directed by the celebrated writer Anthony Horowitz [...]

December 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

The White Lotus & other TV dramas

The White Lotus reached its final episode last Monday and there were two fatalities. I shall not give any spoilers –  matters were resolved, but not so finally as to make another series impossible. One does wonder how actors written out of the series by their premature deaths feel. I think [...]

April 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

Recent TV dramas

I was delighted that Ten Pound Poms – about the British emigration to Australia in the 1950s – is now in its second series. I can claim a connection as my parents knew an eccentric travel agent (S.G.) whose main business was the repatriation of such emigrants. Well do I remember visits [...]

March 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

Towards Zero and White Lotus

These TV dramatisations on BBC and Sky Atlantic reflect the great divide between the two broadcasters. Time was when the BBC drama department produced such cutting edge plays as Cathy Come Home and TV playwrights like Dennis Potter, but Towards Zero was sterile. Having read every Agatha Christie [...]

March 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

Bergerac – classic & new

On Thursday – as is my wont – I watched first classic Bergerac on US Drama and later the new version with Damien Molony playing the Jersey detective. Gone is Charlie Hungerford, necessarily so as Terence Alexander passed in 2009. The relationship between the detective and his [...]

March 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic) – Mondays at 9-0pm)

We have now reached the second episode of the third series of The White Lotus. Some have criticised it at formulaic but I think it is watchable and possibly the best series HBO have produced since The Sopranos. The series is located in a high-end well being resort in Ko Samui, Thailand, It’s true [...]

February 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

Surprising actors in a 1980 TV series

On Monday I watched Bergerac, now shown at 3.00pm on the UK Drama channel. It featured – as Belle Young, an eccentric boatowner and smuggler – the 1970s actress Judy Cornwall. Yesterday’s episode about a computer convention in Jersey also featured a computer nerd and mogul Jordan [...]

January 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

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