Tag: Nigel Planer

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TV Review: Dreamland

Lily Allen makes her TV acting debut alongside a brilliant Freema Agyeman in Dreamland “Why are you…

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TV Review: Jonathan Creek Specials (2009–2013)

The Jonathan Creek specials from 2009–2013 undo much of the damage from Series 4, with Sheridan Smith…

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TV Review: Jonathan Creek, Series 1

I turn to a rewatch of Jonathan Creek to get me through Week 2 of Lockdown #2…

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Album Review: Chicago (1997 London Cast Recording)

  “A lot of people have lost faith in America” I quite like the film version of…

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Album Review: Wit and Whimsy – Songs by Alexander S Bermange

“If only I were famous from the telly” Across its two discs and twenty-three tracks, there’s an…

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Film Review: I Give It A Year (2013)

“Is it possible that some people just aren’t supposed to be married” Joseph Millson having a threesome…

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Album Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Original London Cast Recording)

  “That’s my Charlie, that’s my son” At a time when big new musicals have been dropping…

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2014 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood – Almeida / Harold Pinter 1984 by George Orwell, adapted…

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2014 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Helen Mirren – The Audience at the Gielgud  Anne-Marie Duff – Strange Interlude at the NT…