West Wing actor John Spencer died yesterday aged 58 after suffering a heart attack. He played Chief of Staff Leo McGarry in The West Wing, one of my favourite characters in the show. Apparently he had appeared in 7 of the first 14 episodes of Season 7 before he died. The show is in hiatus […]
Mr. Bronson , scariest fictional schoolteacher ever, played by Aberdonian actor Michael Sheard, has died, aged 65 . Best remembered for Mr. Bronson in Grange Hill, Admiral "You have failed me for the last time ..." Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back and also for playing Adolf Hitler five times (in Rogue Male , The […]
BBC Three's End Day — utter tripe .
Lawrence Lessig has taken the time to comment on his appearance on The West Wing . Except it's not him—he's played by Christopher Lloyd. Bit weird thinking that one of the foremost legal minds of our time would be represented on-screen by Jim from Taxi :)
My folks got me the new Season 3 West Wing DVD boxset for my birthday yesterday. I was expecting greatness, and instead was delivered mediocrity. I've complained thusly: Hi, I would like to complain about the UK (Region 2) DVD release of "The West Wing - Complete Season 3" box set. The booklet contained inside […]
US budget airline JetBlue have satellite TV built into the aircraft . Each passenger can watch live TV as broadcast on the DIRECTV platform (similar to Sky here in the UK), which is pretty damn cool. Something similar could surely be done with Sky on UK domestic flights, which would make up for the utter […]
Looks like my fun with BBCi URLs isn't solitary, as has been discovered regarding BBC iCan URLs , a reasonably major service the beeb have been pimping promoting ... Yoz has set up a wiki to document bbc.co.uk site hiccups (what's a wiki? I'm glad you asked ... here's the answer ).
Channel Four have slipped out a Flash movie advert which ... well, it's basically people who are on, or have been on programmes on Channel Four, such as The West Wing, ER, Big Brother, yadda yadda ... and they're swearing. A lot. I've no idea where it came from, but it's certainly starting to gather […]
I've been home since about half past ten this (yesterday) morning, caught up on email (about 2,200), said lo to lots of online people, slept, watched some stuff I'd taped onto the TiVo and Sky+, slept a bit more, ate, and I'm here typing now plugging in all the offline blog entries I'd made and […]