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The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Everton 3

The walk alongside the Thames from Putney Bridge is often heralded as the loveliest way to à football stadium. Yesterday I walked in a different direction – along the towpath from Hammersmith – and it was no less lovely. Blocks of flats have been built where one flat must cost £1 [...]

May 11, 2025 // 0 Comments

VE Day: 80 years on

Broadly I was in favour of an 80th anniversary remembrance of VE Day. There are only some 50 veterans left and it’s right that a new generation knows of the incredible sacrifices made. I say ‘Broadly’ as I thought it wrong that the Poles were not invited. They smuggled out the machine that [...]

May 7, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Sporting Saturday

No doubt about the greatest sporting achievement yesterday – Northampton Saints’ monumental victory over Leinster in Dublin, 37-34 in the semi final of the Champions Cup. Leinster field an international team and had previously put 52 points past Glasgow and 62 past Harlequins. They are [...]

May 6, 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

Personal attendance versus watching on TV: the debate continues …

Having spent my normal weekend sports-watching on TV I am going to add two critical logs to this fiery debate, namely adverts and pundits. Like many, I suspect the ad break in sports coverage is an opportunity to visit the loo, fetch a beer or a cuppa and do chores. Yet if you stay by the TV you [...]

April 1, 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

Weekend TV sport

With no Premiership or Championship soccer taking place you might have thought some of the internationals between European titans (e.g. Netherlands v Spain or Italy v Germany) might be broadcast, but the powers that be apparently imagine that we prefer women’s football or Scotland or Wales [...]

March 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

Greta Scacchi

One of the reasons why I enjoy the repeats of Bergerac is the casting of the young actors and actresses who appear on it. In the first series – made in 1981 – appeared a young actress aged 21. I thought at first she was Liz Hurley because of  her fine facial features. In fact it was [...]

March 20, 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

Endgame/BBC 2

After a few years it was good to see chess back on our screens. The format of Endgame was a series of lightning chess matches (known as blitzes) between contestants. One of them – known as the Swashbuckler – had discovered chess in prison and was a better talker than player. David [...]

March 11, 2025 // 0 Comments

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