27 April 2012
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A few years ago Jane and I joined one of those film clubs where you could sign up for and borrow an number of DVDs, receiving and returning them through the post. We did not last for long because if … Continue reading
25 February 2012
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No, I haven’t given up blogging for Lent. It is still just late nights I have given up. Having said that, I am still bleary-eyed this morning. Last night was my weekly “night of grace”, where I allow myself a … Continue reading
7 January 2012
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Thumbs up for Endeavour, ITV’s recently broadcast programme which takes us back to the early years of Inspector Morse’s career and his first case in Oxford. They did brilliantly with the choice of actors (for example, Shaun Evans uses several … Continue reading
3 November 2011
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I have just finished re-reading Peter Robinson’s Friend of the Devil after having seen the recent ITV adaptation. It confirmed my suspicion that the the screenwriter and casting director were playing fast and loose with the source material. As well … Continue reading
14 August 2011
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Aha! Browsing through ITV’s online offerings this weekend, we spotted Vera. This is the TV adaptation of Ann Cleeve’s novels about Vera Stanhope, a detective who can come across as an old bag but who is also revealed to be … Continue reading
7 January 2011
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I watched another of Lassgård’s depictions of Wallander last night, One Step Behind (now gone from the iPlayer site — you have just a few more hours to catch the one I watched earlier this week). Again, it was very … Continue reading
3 January 2011
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The BBC has recently been showing another Swedish adaptation of Henning Mankell’s p0liceman, Wallander. This one is played by Rolf Lassgård and a couple of episodes can be found on the iPlayer site until Friday this week, including the one … Continue reading
9 October 2010
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We noticed last night that a Peter Robinson Inspector Banks novel had been televised and was available on the ITV Player. For some reason they picked Aftermath, which is a long way into the series and probably the most harrowing … Continue reading
2 July 2010
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I have watched a couple of episodes of Lewis this week from ITV’s online player. Benefiting from very high production values, these programmes equal and exceed the Morse series which preceeded them. As with Morse, one of the main stars … Continue reading
25 July 2009
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One of my favourite fictional detectives is Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander. I only discovered him a couple of years ago but have read quite a few of the Wallander novels since then. Last year the BBC released a series of … Continue reading