Monthly Archives: August 2012

Gary Ablett, Everton And Liverpool legend Dies Aged 46.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 3rd 2012.

The world of football was once more thrust into mourning as the news filtered through the wires and news services that Gary Ablett had lost his fight against cancer. The 46 year old former Liverpool, Everton and Birmingham footballer had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lympoma 16 months ago.

Gary Ablett was one of handful of footballers to cross the divide of Liverpool and remain popular with both sets of fans. Starting his career with Liverpool he went onto become a lynch pin of a side that would go onto win the F.A. Cup in 1989 and more importantly was one of the public figures alongside Kenny Dalglish who bore a very public presence at the funerals of those who needlessly lost their lives at Hillsborough against Nottingham Forest.

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Endeavour. Television Review. I.T.V.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 4th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Patrick Malahide, Danny Webb, Abigail Thaw, Flora Montgomery, James Bradshaw, Rachael Heaton.

I admit; I was quite prepared to hate it. However, the moment Barrington Pheloung’s musical composition started, a new dawn in the life of Morse began. This though wasn’t the chiselled, finally tuned, instinctive Morse that viewers first came across 25 years ago, this was a Morse that was nervous, shy, prone to mistakes, somewhat damned egotistical but still instantly loveable.

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(522 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Sherlock, Televsion Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 5th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Lara Pulver.

It’s been a long wait but finally television audiences were able to greet Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ version of Sherlock Holmes with open arms and once more willing to see the great detective transplanted from the ideal of 1880’s London through to the present day.

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(536 words, 1 image, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Ronald Searle, Creator Of The Comic Strip St Trinian’s Dies Aged 91.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 5th 2012.

Probably best known as the creator of the St. Trinian’s School drawings, the artist Ronald Searle passed away on December 30thaged 91.

Born in Cambridge in 1920, Mr. Searle, like many of his generation, found his studies suspended at the outbreak of war and found himself stationed in Singapore. After a month of fighting against the Japanese in Malaya, Singapore fell and Ronald Searle was captured and held as a prisoner of war.

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Great Expectations (2011), Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 5th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Gillian Anderson, David Suchet, Douglas Booth, Ray Winstone, Shaun Dooley, Claire Rushbrook, Mark Addy, Jack Roth, Vanessa Kirby, Harry Lloyd, Tom Burke, Oscar Kennedy. Izzy Meikle-Small.

One of the big shows for the B.B.C. this Christmas period has to have been the latest big budget version of Great Expectations. An all-star cast, one of the biggest for a television series for a while on the channel, was greatly added to by newcomers Oscar Kennedy as the young Pip, Izzy Meikle-Small as the young misguided and manipulated Estella and a towering performance by Douglas Booth as the elder Pip.

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(548 words, 1 image, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Television And Radio Host Bob Holness Dies Aged 83.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 6th 2012.

The world of radio and television was in mourning today with the news that game show host and B.B.C. Radio 2 presenter Bob Holness has died aged 83.

There can’t be too many game show hosts who had the genuine people touch who also had the distinction of being one of a handful of people to have played the iconic and suave British spy James Bond. If that wasn’t enough for one life,  to be the subject of one of the greatest urban myths of all time is just outrageously phenomenal for 10 life times, let alone just one.

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Sherlock, The Hounds Of Baskerville. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 9th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Russell Tovey, Amelia Bullmore, Clive Mantle, Rupert Graves, Gordon Kennedy, Mark Gatiss, Sasha Behar, Una Stubbs.

The second of three new stories for the world’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat bring the wonderful and tantalising story of The Hound of  the Baskervilles completely up to date and leave the Victorian era behind completely and utterly forever.

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(698 words, 1 image, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)

Dodgy, Stand Up In A Cool Place. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 9th 2012.

L.S. Media Review. ****

You only need one word to describe the Dodgy album, Stand Upright In A Cool Place, you could search through every edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, every thesaurus possible and spend hours looking for that one perfect platitude and it will all boil down to the same thing…stunning!

It’s not just the songs themselves that make up this exquisite album it’s the sound that seems to traverse musical boundaries whilst retaining the beauty of the band. Like last year’s awesome release by The Waterboys An Appointment With Mr. Yeats, by doing something against the grain has propelled the band into an area that their music will thrive and no doubt be remembered just as fondly as their Brit Pop era.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 13th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Alun Armstrong, Ron Cook, Julia Mckenzie, Janet Dale, Rory Kinnear, Freddie Fox, Tamzin Merchant, Sacha Dhawan

How exactly do you finish of someone else’s work after they have died so that’s its deemed worthy enough for an audience’s appreciation? Beethoven, Schubert,  and Charles Dickens have one thing in common and that is they died before they could finish a major piece of work.

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(485 words, 1 image, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

British Crime Novelist, Reginald Hill Dies aged 75.

Reginald Hill’s erstwhile DetectivesDalziel and Pascoe.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 15th 2012.

Reginald Hill, one of Britain’s most successful and finest crime writers of the last 40 years passed away on the 12thJanuary. The creator of the much televised detective series Dalziel and Pascoe novels died aged 75 after suffering from a brain tumour.

Reginald Hill was born in West Hartlepool in 1936 to a “very ordinary family”. The son of a professional footballer, he discovered the world of literature whilst fetching books for his mother from the local library. After passing his Eleven Plus exam he attended Carlisle Grammar School where true to those days of carrying his mother’s books, he excelled in English.

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(480 words, 1 image, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)