#Diane Wilkinson

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The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin Trailer

Dick Turpin is the most famous and dangerous highway robber of the 18th century. Dick is "made the reluctant leader of a band of outlaws — and tasked with outwitting corrupt lawman and self-appointed thief-taker Jonathan Wilde." (Apple TV)

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin stars Noel Fielding (Dick Turpin), Hugh Bonneville (Jonathan Wilde), Ellie White, Marc Wootton, Duayne Boachie, Tamsin Greig, Asim Chaudhry, Dolly Wells, Joe Wilkinson, Mark Heap, Geoff McGivern, Michael Fielding, Samuel Leakey, Kiri Flaherty, Greg Davies, Diane Morgan, Connor Swindells, Jessica Hynes, Guz Khan, and Paul Kaye.

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin hits Apple TV+ on March 1, 2024.

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britcom comedians & panel show personalities who share your sign

AQUARIUS ♒ dara ó briain • frank skinner • glenn moore • guz khan • hugh dennis • lucy porter • maisie adam • mark watson • phil wang • vic reeves

PISCES ♓ aisling bea • alan davies • dave gorman • ed gamble • jenny eclair • katy wix • michael mcintyre • rose matafeo

ARIES ♈ andy parsons • desiree burch • ed byrne • gary delaney • jamali maddix • john kearns • josh widdicombe • josie long • roisin conaty • romesh ranganathan • rory bremner

TAURUS ♉ al murray • alex brooker • catherine tate • greg davies • joe wilkinson • john robins • mae martin • milton jones • morgana robinson • rhys james • rob brydon • sally phillips • sandi toksvig • sean lock • stephen mangan

GEMINI ♊ alan carr • bob mortimer • david baddiel • fern brady • judi love • julian clary • london hughes • mel giedroyc • noel fielding • paul sinha • rich hall • richard ayoade • sara pascoe • sarah millican • shappi khorsandi • sindhu vee • tom allen

CANCER ♋ adam hills • alice levine • david mitchell • katherine ryan • harriet kemsley • ian hislop • jack whitehall • joe lycett • paul merton • peter serafinowicz • phill jupitus • rosie jones

LEO ♌ bridget christie • cariad lloyd • chris ramsey • daisy may cooper • frankie boyle • isy suttie • lee mack • jo brand • nish kumar • victoria coren mitchell

VIRGO ♍ alex horne • dane baptiste • darren harriott • ivo graham • jimmy carr • johnny vegas • lolly adefope • miles jupp • nina conti • stephen fry • sue perkins • tim key

LIBRA ♎ diane morgan • harry hill • jack dee • jon richardson • limmy • nick helm • rhod gilbert • robert webb • tiff stevenson • zoe lyons

SCORPIO ♏ angela barnes • chris addison • elis james • ellie taylor • holly walsh • liza tarbuck • jonathan ross • kerry godliman • kevin bridges • matt forde • mike wozniak • sofie hagen • susan calman

SAGITTARIUS ♐ adam riches • david o'doherty • jessica knappett • larry dean • miranda hart • richard osman • seann walsh • simon amstell • steven k. amos

CAPRICORN ♑ ahir shah • angus deayton • bill bailey • claudia winkleman • james acaster • mark lamarr • paul foot • rob beckett • suzi ruffell

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I haven't been reading anything lately because of a lot of things going on in my life - some health things, physical and psychological - and school- and work-related. Not even beginning to touch on the international happenings as well.

I feel hopeful for next year for the book clubs I help lead at my job though. I really slacked on the SFF book club but I volunteered to lead March's read of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. I've been wanting to reread the trilogy and am excited to relive the experience and hopefully bring in more participants for the club. We're changing the day and time from Mondays at 7pm to Thursday at 6pm since surveys have shown people like programs during Wednesday-Sunday and I felt 7pm was a little too late into the night.

I also met with my other coworker for our environmentalism book club and determined the lineup for next year. We're going bimonthly since we've observed not many of our participants finish the books before we meet. We also decided on a nonfiction-nonfiction-fiction schedule. Next year's book lineup is:

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

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Anyone want another Chortle headlines roundup? I'm tired and taking some downtime in the most beautiful place in the world (that's where I am all week, if I've been a bit slow in posting), so let's have another Chortle headlines round-up.

Today in things that do not need to fucking happen:

Today in things that definitely do not need to fucking happen:

I almost called this another thing that does not need to happen, since Luxury Comedy did not give me great faith in his ability to make a TV show without Julian Barratt:

but actually they're not kidding about the star-studded thing. "Hugh Bonneville, Asim Chaudhry, Joe Wilkinson, Greg Davies, Tamsin Grieg, Mark Heap, Diane Morgan, Ellie White, Jessica Hynes, Paul Kaye, Guz Khan and Hollyoaks star Duayne Boachie have all signed up to the highwayman comedy." Yeah, I'll probably at least give that one a shot.

It's got Dominic Maxwell on it, who can go fuck himself for that time he called Andy Zaltzman a "left-behind sidekick" [to John Oliver] in 2017, but other than that the list is all right. I'm not sure exactly when I got to the point of having favourite and least favourite British comedy reviewers, and opinions on quite a few of them, but that's happened at some point in the last year.

Doesn't look all that interesting, except that there will be a Catherine Bohart special that I'll listen to. If anyone is interested in experiencing the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe from afar, the best way (that I know of... please let me know if I'm missing anything) is NextUp Comedy, streaming a whole bunch of shows, some of which are listed here:

Ones I'm interested in are Mark Watson (obviously), Shaparak Khorsandi, Ian Smith, Nick Helm (not incredibly interested in his comedy generally, but it seems like a livestream of him from the Fringe would be fun), Luisa Omielan, Paddy Young, Alison Spittle, Dan Tiernan, and I'll have to catch one Late 'n' Live. Not that I'm definitely going to see all of those, they're just the ones I'm most interested in trying to catch if they make sense. Please let me know if anyone else knows that any of the other NextUp streams happening this month are likely to be particularly good.

They're fucking not. Maybe they're welcome, but they're not appreciated. I've heard that show with people who took him up on his offer to heckle, and I've heard it without them, and the latter is much better. Don't turn up to this show to heckle, even though you're technically allowed to. He's got good material, let him do it.

1) I'd still love to see (or hear) a full Chloe Petts show, why won't anyone film one of those? 2) I briefly forgot that "Cowgate" is just my name for the time they took apart a cow at the Gilded Balloon in 2003, named after the fact that the original Gilded Balloon was in the Cowgate neighbourhood, and when The Incident took place it had recently burned down and been rebuilt nearby. I forgot that most people don't call that incident "Cowgate". In fact, most people don't call it anything, because referring to it is not a significant part of their lives. But for a tiny fraction of a second, I thought Chloe Petts was going to explain to me why they sacrificed that cow. You're right, Chloe. It was heinous behaviour. Someone make me a five-part documentary series explaining it.

God, how did a guy that annoying get made by Mark Steel's DNA?

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Barbet Schroeder and Claudine Soubrier in The Bakery Girl of Monceau

Philippe Beuzen and Catherine Sée in Suzanne's Career

The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Éric Rohmer, 1963)

Cast: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Bernard Tavernier. Screenplay: Éric Rohmer. Cinematography: Bruno Barbey, Jean-Michel Meurice.

Suzanne's Career (Éric Rohmer, 1963)

Cast: Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen, Christian Charrière, Diane Wilkinson. Screenplay: Éric Rohmer. Cinematography: Daniel Lacambre.

One-third of Éric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales series, the first two films, The Bakery Girl of Monceau and Suzanne's Career, together take up about an hour and a half of screen time and were shot on the cheap, using 16 mm film and available locations. But their greatest virtue is economy of storytelling. By "moral," of course, Rohmer meant anything but didactic; instead, his films are about the way people behave, especially in matters of sexual attraction. He leaves any judgment of what his characters do up to the audience, though sometimes his characters deliver their own verdicts about what has been done and said. Especially "said," because Rohmer's films are typically more about talk than action. Both films are also about the young in Paris in the early 1960s, a period and place on the brink of a revolution not only in politics but also in morals, manners, and style. This was a time just before the young of Paris reinvented themselves as what Jean-Luc Godard would call, in Masculin Féminin (1966), "The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola." The students in these films still wear suits and neckties, not bluejeans, to class, and even among themselves maintain a kind of politesse. The protagonist-narrators of both films are shy guys, dithering on the edges of their infatuations and needing help from more outgoing friends to make the first move at the young women they have fallen for. The young man played by future director Barbet Schroeder in The Bakery Girl is a bit more outgoing than Bertrand (Philippe Beuzen) in Suzanne's Career, but both blunder their way into romance. In fact, the former has a touch of the caddishness of Guillaume (Christian Charrière) in the latter film, hitting on Jacqueline (Claudine Soubrier), the lower class bakery girl, while trying to catch a glimpse of the more sophisticated Sylvie (Michèle Girardon), a member of his own social class. Even when the tables are turned, and he learns that Sylvie, laid up with a broken ankle, has been spying on him while he is toying with Jacqueline, he still throws over the bakery girl for her. We don't see Jacqueline's reaction to being dumped -- that might have tilted the moral tale toward didacticism. And Sylvie seems to feel no remorse about either her voyeurism or his touches of caddishness: She marries him anyway. Suzanne's Career is more complex, with money (or the lack of it) playing a key role in the amatory games being played by its quartet of characters. As in The Bakery Girl, it's the woman who apparently wins out in the end: Suzanne (Catherine Sée), after her on-again, off-again relationship with Guillaume, winds up happily married -- at least if we can judge from Bertrand's assessment of the situation. As always in Rohmer's films, the talk is what matters.

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did joe wilkinson suddenly completely ditch his old costume and character because seeing his former comedy duo mate Diane Morgan get on american late night talk shows for Philomena Cunk made him reevaluate his whole life

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ahem my turn (yippee!!)

1. Last book i read

White Nights by Fydor Dotoyevsky

2. Book i’d recommend

Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims ( @jonnywaistcoat)

3. Book i couldnt put down

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. It’s so incredibly well written and immersive, i cant put it down even when i reread it!

4. Book i’ve read twice or more

Sunshine by Robin McKinley. my copy is so battered from how many times i’ve read it! def an all time favourite.

5. Book on my TBR

Ulysses by James Joyce. while i dont really *want* to read this, my last english prof talked about Joyce in such a masterbatory fashion i have a sort of… perverse curiosity about it

6. Book ive put down

Dune by Frank Herbert. I CANT DO IT ITS SO DRY. LIKE SAND. IVE READ THE FIRST 80 PAGES LIKE 4 TIMES

7. favourite childhood book

The Dragonkeeper by Caroline Wilkinson. i’ve read it again and again and it’s still JUST as good every time.

8. Book i’d give to a friend

The Martian by Andy Weir. Brilliant read, incredible characters and wonderful form.

9. a fiction book i own

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diane Wynn Jones

10. a nonfiction book i own

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

11. What im currently reading

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. i have no clue how it took me this long to get around to it??

12. What im planning on reading next

Faust by Goethe

13. shelfie

uhh

i need to stop putting things in random piles…

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Thank you for the tag @mikichko ! Ive been a bad little reader this past year so bear with my boring answers lmao

1) last book I read

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

2) a book I recommend

God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Vonnegut goes under praised I think

3) a book I couldn't put down

Whispers in the Snow by Darcy Coates. It's not actually very good, and the sequels are even worse, but it was a page turner!

4) a book Ive read twice or more

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. Its been a hot minute so maybe it doesn't hold up, but I always found the prose quite funny and I liked the way in contrasted the pretty bleak subject

5) a book on my tbr

@400badrequest just recommended Sunshine by Robin McKinley, so that!

6) a book I've put down

Into the Woods by Tana French. This fucking book has sat on my shelf for literally a decade and the premise is convincing enough that every few years I try picking it up again but I just CANNOT get into it

7) a favorite book from childhood

Was a MASSIVE fan of the Eragon series by Christopher Paolini. So much so that even as a grown ass adult I kinda wanna re-read them so I can finally get that fourth book under my belt

8) a book I would give to a friend

A very few specific friends but, Between Men by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

9) a fiction book I own

Cities in Flight by James Blish

10) a non fiction book I own

Movements in Art Since 1945 by Edward Lance Smith

11) what I am currently reading

Nothing cause I've been awful lately but the last book I bought was You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce so perhaps that in a few days

12) what I am planning on reading next

Maybe the Leviathan Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, seeing as it comes so highly recommend by prev

13) my shelfie

I don't have a proper book shelf because my reading area is too cramped, so have some pics of the area I like to call the used book store cause it's all just kinda hanging around (featuring an overgrown dog in need of a haircut)

I'll tag req cause I already did and I want more suggestions :) and @stellewriites @duskier @dozeydaisy @dwarvenales

No pressure and sorry if there are any repeats!

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Diane Wilkinson in La Carrière de Suzanne (Éric Rohmer, 1963)

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Suzanne's Career / La Carrière de Suzanne (Éric Rohmer, 1963)

BIG MOOD

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2nd moral tale - La Carriere de Suzanne / Suzanne’s Career (1963)

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The Cockfields ~ Series 1

(I'd really recommend watching this if you want to spend 90 minutes waiting for Joe Wilkinson to turn up in a fish costume or as the hulk only to find that it is actually just a normal, very sweet sitcom)

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Behind the scenes on Afterlife Season 2!

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new additions to the masterpost :)

hey all ~

along with the few panelist collections i soft-launched yesterday (🥹 thanks for enjoying them), there is some new content on the masterpost + secondary masterpost!

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panel shows

bring the noise — complete series sky 1 series hosted by ricky wilson with nicole scherzinger, tinie tempah, joel dommett, katherine ryan

the guessing game — complete series bbc radio scotland radio panel show where guests are asked a series of bizarre questions; hosted by clive anderson and guests include alex horne, susan calman, hal cruttenden, matthew crosby, cariad lloyd, etc.

it's your round — complete series radio panel show where each guests invents the round to be won. hosted by angus deayton and guests include miles jupp, sara pascoe, rebecca front, josie long, bridget christie, tim key, etc.

richard hammond's brain reaction — complete series science-based panel show hosted by richard hammond alongside victoria coren mitchell, johnny vegas and ria lina

misc. tv

archiveologists — complete series two episodes of mash aka diane morgan & joe wilkinson re-voice archive footage to give us a twisted comedy spin on british social history and institutions in short 'information' films

beauty & the beast: a pantomime for comic relief (2021) pandemic era virtual panto starring lily james, oliver chris, sian gibson, kiell smith-bynoe, miranda hart, michael sheen, lee mack, etc.

imagine... jo brand: no holds barred (2019) documentary about the legend herself, featuring interviews with peter capaldi, alan davies, victoria coren mitchell, etc.

show & tell — complete series e4 series celebrating comic storytelling. each episode sees three comedians bring something to 'show' to viewers. hosted by chris addison and guests include roisin conaty, elis james, joe wilkinson, joe lycett, diane morgan, james acaster, etc.

staged — complete series david tennant and michael sheen didn't win a bafta for this but they should have

the complete stand up to cancer celebrity episodes of the great british bake off (i will work on the sport relief episodes!)

twenty twelve — complete series bbc mockumentary series accompanying the 2012 olympics, starring hugh bonneville and jessica hynes

who do you think you are? — david tennant

misc. radio

alex horne presents the horne section — complete series 2011–2014 bbc radio 4 series

party's over — complete series bbc radio 4 sitcom starring miles jupp as a prime minister coping with life after leaving office

women talking about cars — complete series victoria coren mitchell hosts an exploration of what cars symbolise to women today, including freedom, power, refuge, novelty and familiarity; guests include olivia colman, claudia winkleman, jennifer saunders, etc.

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ps. icymi these are the masterpost additions from last week which are well worth checking out!

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Review: Doom Patrol 1x03 - "Puppet Patrol"

Review: Doom Patrol 1×03 – “Puppet Patrol”

[Editor’s Note: This review may contain spoilers]

Director: Rachel Talalay

Writers: Tamara Becher-Wilkinson, Tom Farrell

Starring: Brendan Fraser, April Bowlby, Matt Bomer, Diane Guerrero, Joivan Wade, Timothy Dalton, Alan Tudyk, Riley Shanahan, Matthew Zuk, Phillip Morris

  Summary

Well, when the going gets tough, you know what they say: Road Trip!  That’s right all aboard the Magic School Bus…

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「 THE DECEMBRIST ( Alan Fitch ) 」

「 THE RAT ( Diane Fowler ) 」

「 THE SHAPESHIFTER ( Tom Keen ) 」

「 THE AVENGER ( Berlin ) 」

「 THE DIRECTOR ( Peter Kotsiopulos ) 」

「 THE CHAMELEON ( Matias Solomon ) 」

「 THE CABAL 」

「 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY ( Katarina Rostova ) 」

「 THE HOME ( Dominic Wilkinson ) 」

「 THE FAITHFUL FRIEND ( Ilya Koslov ) 」

「 THE GOOD MAN ( Sam Milhoan ) 」