television
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Poirot And More At The Rep, Birmingham
David Suchet has had one hell of a career. A renowned character actor of over 50 years, he has a role call of films and television that is to be proud of. Add into that his leading roles as a Shakespearian actor and you begin to understand that having David Suchet in a production is a sign of quality. And then there is Poirot... From the late 1980s David Suchet was Poirot, Agatha Christie’s beloved Belgium detective, playing him in a way that nobody had before, ultra intelligent, fastidious, with clear attention to detail, and also with a personality that was there to admire, rather than make fun of. Now,…
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Friday Fashion: Keeping Faith
Have you been watching Keeping Faith? The brilliant programme is currently in its third (and I believe final) series, showing on Saturday nights on BBC One, and tells the story of lawyer Faith, played by the amazing Eva Myles, who was pulled into a dark web of murder and gangland when her husband Evan, also a lawyer, mysteriously went missing. Now in series 3, the mystery of where Evan was, and who was holding him, is past history, but Faith is now divorcing Evan and is involved in an ongoing custody battle over their three children. She is also having to contend with the return of her mother, a women…
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Love Island – It’s back!
It was the surprise Summer TV hit of 2017, and the viewing figures and Twitter excitement looks set to make the 2018 version an even bigger hit. Yes, I am talking about Love Island, ITV2’s show where a host of beautiful people aim to find love in a gorgeous villa in Majorca. Think inane chatter, lots of fake tan and buff bodies, and not much in the way of clothing. It is gorgeously escapist, full of beautiful blue skies and it is totally addictive – but why? Sex Sells I think part of the reason for Love Island’s super popularity, especially amongst the younger generation is down to our attitudes…
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Stylish Television – The Last Post
My Sunday night viewing is currently dominated by ‘The Last Post’ a series set in the mid 1960s in the British territory of Aden (now part of The Yemen). Aden was a jewel in the British Empire, but this was a time when the Empire was very much in its last throes, and the hidden conflict in Aden very much reflects this. Programmes that are centred around war and the armed forces are not my usual viewing, but ‘The Last Post’ also features on the lives of the army wives, and I am totally in love with their pretty incredible wardrobes. The key looks are those worn by actresses Jessica…
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An evening with Mary Berry at Birmingham Town Hall
Mary Berry is the grand dame of British cookery. The star of the Great British Bake Off, and a face in British television cookery since the 1970s, she is a real icon, has loved for her fashion sense as she is for her slightly naughty personality (soggy bottoms anyone!). Last Thursday a packed Birmingham Town Hall sat enthralled as Mary talked all things cooking and family in her own inimitable way. Here are some of the highlights of a fascinating evening with the woman rightly described as ‘one of the most important voices in food in this century and the last century.’ On the National Television Awards I didn’t think…
