BritBox trailer: This would be the talk of the town if it was on Netflix. There’d be features about Rose Ayling-Ellis in all the newspapers and people would be talking about it, but… It’s on BritBox. Having said that, it’s number one on BritBox, deservedly so. The only time I’ve felt this tense watching a […]

Hulu/Disney+ trailer: I know this show is a year old, but an e-mail put me over the top, I decided to check it out and I highly recommend it, I’d like to think everybody would watch it, but not everybody likes a Holocaust drama and not everybody has Hulu or Disney+. So… There was a […]

This is my recommendation of the weekend. It’s a documentary, but it’s only one ninety minute episode long, in other words it’s neither a big commitment nor a slog, you can start it on a whim and finish it shortly thereafter. There are a few re-enactments, which usually rub me the wrong way, but what […]

RE: The Ed Sullivan Documentary In 1965, having been urged to audition Trude Heller’s’ house band/recent Epic signee The Remains, Sullivan visited the club unaccompanied.  According to the band, he sat at a table by himself, watched one set, and asked them “Do you want to appear on my show?”  Simple as that. Paul Lanning […]