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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View PostHe lives in Wrexham, doesn't he.
I was making my way down Regent Street (the main thoroughfare in the town centre) and Taylor senior and junior were walking in the opposite direction. As our game of chicken commenced, a gust caught my bag of games and missed junior's fizzog by about half an inch.
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Originally posted by KGR View PostYou never see on the telly any more....
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Judi Spiers
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Originally posted by irony towers View Post
This evening I turned on the radio and caught Deayton's unmistakeable tones. (Two minutes later I switched channels - does anyone actively enjoy those Radio 4 sitcoms?)
Originally posted by irony towers View PostHe was in Nighty Night and presumably now sees himself as a comic actor.
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Does Joan Bakewell ever appear on TV these days? She's 86 (good grief!) so probably not often, but in the 60s she was the BBC's "thinking man's crumpet" and a weekly treat (yeah... it was a different era.) Also the embodiment of West Hampstead intellectualism.
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She is now Baroness Blackwell (Labour peer) and serves in that role, as well as popping up on arts panels occasionally. Still famous enough to get on Have I Got News For You last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIabe6JLVCk
David Bellamy - impossible to say if his climate change denial affected his inability to get series commissioned by the BBC or if he has just outlived his shelf life as TV boffin, in favour of younger, less eccentric versions. "The BBC are turning down my ideas because of my views" seems like an excuse in his case, given his peak was around 1980 (when Lenny Henry was impersonating him).
Regarding another Lenny Henry impersonatee, I was rather disappointed to see that Trevor MacDonald is spending his newsreader retirement doing stuff like "James Bulger: A Mother's Story" and "Fred & Rose West: The Real Story", which (judging from the titles) seems beneath him.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 14-10-2019, 00:42.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostRegarding another Lenny Henry impersonatee, I was rather disappointed to see that Trevor MacDonald is spending his newsreader retirement doing stuff like "James Bulger: A Mother's Story" and "Fred & Rose West: The Real Story", which (judging from the titles) seems beneath him.
Yes, Sir Trev M. is seen on our screens quite a lot, usually doing programmes with a crime angle, for some reason. Maybe it's a fascination of his.
Actually, if anything I may have undersold his obsession:
- In 2009, McDonald travelled to the Caribbean and hosted the series The Secret Caribbean with Trevor McDonald. Three parts.
- In 2011, McDonald travelled around the Mediterranean and hosted the series The Secret Mediterranean with Trevor McDonald. Four parts.
- In 2012, McDonald travelled along the route of the Mississippi River and hosted the series The Mighty Mississippi with Trevor McDonald. Three parts.
- In 2013, McDonald visited death row inmates in Indiana and hosted the series Inside Death Row. Two parts.
- In early 2015, McDonald travelled to New York City and hosted the 2 part series The Mafia with Trevor McDonald.
- In late 2015, McDonald presented Las Vegas with Trevor McDonald, a two-part series for ITV.
- In September 2016, McDonald presented a two-part series called Inside Scotland Yard With Trevor McDonald for ITV.
- In February 2017, McDonald presented two-part documentary Mafia Women with Trevor McDonald for ITV.
- In late 2017, McDonald presented a documentary called An Hour to Catch a Killer for ITV.
- In February 2018, McDonald presented Death Row 2018 with Trevor McDonald for ITV.
- In February 2018, McDonald presented James Bulger: A Mother's Story with Trevor McDonald for ITV.
- In September 2018, McDonald presented To Catch a Serial Killer with Trevor McDonald for ITV.
- In February 2019, McDonald presented Fred & Rose West: The Real Story with Trevor McDonald for ITV.
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