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Mrs Merton : a true British comic legend
Mrs Merton is a quintessential British TV legend. The creation of the brilliant comedienne/writer Caroline Ahearne, this ‘elderly’ agony aunt was the host of an BAFTA Award-winning mock TV chat show that ran for three years from 1995 on the BBC. Celebrities lined up to be her guest even though none of them were spared…
Happy Birthday to a Real Queen
queerguru maybe inordinately proud of our fairly newish US Passport and therefore part of a country that will later this year elect its first ever female President, but even so, once a Brit always a Monarchist. So very Happy 90th Birthday Your Majesty : you are the reason that I am so thankful to have…
Award-winning British Comedian Victoria Wood dies
The UK lost one of it’s much loved comedian/writers today with the untimely death today of the multi-talented Victoria Wood at the age of 62. Since she burst on to British television in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces, Wood became one of the most popular award-winning comic performers of her generation. Her…
Departure
Beatrice (Juliet Stevenson) and her 15 year old son Elliot (Alex Lawther) have arrived at their family’s getaway vacation home in the South of France for one last time. As the house is now to be sold as Beatrice and her husband are finally getting a divorce, they are there to pack up all its contents.…
