Recent Posts
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It appears Saint Marie will be getting a new sheriff, or DI, for ‘Death in Paradise’ S14!
With the sun finally setting last night on series 13 of Death in Paradise, we will resist the temptation and urge to begin wild speculation and refrain from too many spoilers given the series has yet to have its small screen premiere on your local public television station in the U.S. at this point. It is […]
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The Rutles: A look back at Dirk, Stig, Nasty and Barry!
With the recent attention given to the 60th anniversary of The Beatles first ever appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Tellyspotting turns its attention to another British rock group worthy of our collective attention. Sadly, the early 60’s were not especially kind to The Rutles. Languishing in the Rutland Cavern for years, it wasn’t until 1975 when this […]
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The best of ‘Red Nose Day 2024’!
Once again,Red Nose Day has distinguished itself as the single most brilliant example known to man and/or woman of how an entire country demonstrates the ability to create brilliant content and rally around a charitable cause. To label Red Nose Day in the UK as a cultural phenomenon is doing it an injustice. It’s an institution. The entire […]
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Another year, another raising of a ‘virtual jar’ to Frank McCourt this St. Patrick’s Day!
Regular readers of Tellyspotting may recognize this annual post from St. Patrick’s Day in years past. Given it’s officially St. Patrick’s Day 2024, I thought it was worth repeating another year as not only is it hard to let St. Paddy’s Day pass without thinking of Frank, the fact that many of us probably will spend tonight […]
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A belated Happy National Pi(e) Day, America!
The first pies appeared around 9500 BC in the Egyptian Neolithic period or New Stone Age. Whether you bake or cook or venture out, National Pi(e) Day is, ultimately, about the enjoyment of eating, what else, pie. One can never have enough pie be it American or British so, no matter where you are and whether you […]