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Tag: BBC

  • Queer as Folk creator Russell T Davies has a brand new TV series we cannot wait to see

    Queer as Folk creator Russell T Davies has a brand new TV series we cannot wait to see

      Queer as Folk creator Russell T Davies has written a brand new TV series for the UK’s BBC 1 who have just released a first preview prior to its launch later this year.  Called Years and Years the six part drama series which follows the  Lyons family in Manchester and their tumultuous life across…

  • Princess Margaret : The Rebel Royal

    Princess Margaret : The Rebel Royal

      Like most Brits we always had a great deal of affection for Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister Princess Margaret which started at our Protestant kindergarten (many many years ago) when we were all asked to pray for her.  Not that we understood what it meant but  we were told it was because she had decided…

  • Britains first-ever gay TV program 23 years ago was such a hoot

    Britains first-ever gay TV program 23 years ago was such a hoot

      In 1995 the UK National broadcast the august BBC launched the country’s very first all gay TV show.  Gaytime TV was a  late night comedy and lifestyle magazine that naturally was completely groundbreaking at the time, and although they managed to secure excellent guests like Harvey Fierstein and Martina Navratilova for the very first…

  • Nothing Like A Dame

    Nothing Like A Dame

      Nothing Like a Dame  ☆☆☆☆☆ What a wonderful change for a Saturday night in front of the TV in the UK, Ladies in Lavender with Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and great eye candy Daniel Brühl, but the main event is the 90 min documentary, directed by Roger Michell of Notting Hill fame. It is about four…

  • A  Very English Scandal

    A Very English Scandal

      The political scandal of the 1970’s when Jeremy Thorpe the Leader of British Political Party went on trial for planning to kill his younger lover Norman Scott seems relatively tame compared to the outrageous shenanigans of today’s politicians.  However, at the time, it threatened the very existence of the Liberal Party that Thorpe had successfully transformed into…