So, you may possibly be asking yer good selves - if you're, you know, really sad - "what's Big Keith been up to since his last update?"
Well, not a lot if truth be told.
A lot of work on the Charmed DVD mag, a few articles for Visual Imagination, one Book Club and several telly preview slots on the radio, getting all excited by the new seasons of Doctor Who and Life on Mars, lots of reading ... you know, the usual.
Anyway, Monday night say the latest Book Club show. I featured the following:
David Peace - The Damned United (Faber)
Iain Banks - The Steep Approach to Garbadale (Little/Brown)
Nick Kent - The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock (Faber)
Patricia Cornwall - Black Notice (Time Warner)
Justin Langer/Steve Harmison - Ashes Frontline (Green Umbrella)
Jon Savage - Teenage: The Creation of Youth (Random House)
Also reviewed recently:
Marybeth Hamilton - In Search of the Blues (Jonathan Cape)
Emily McGuire - The Gospel According to Luke (Serpent's Tail)
Ricky Tomlinson - Reading, My Arse (Sphere)
Terrance Dicks - Made of Steel (BBC Books)
Anthony Day - Will Climate Change Your Life? (Ecademy Press)
Rodric Braithwaite - Moscow 1941 (Profile Books)
Ali Dizael and Tim Phillips - Not One of Us (Serpent's Tail)
Paul Trynka - Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed (Sphere)
Mark Lynas - Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (4th Estate)
Richard Toye - Lloyd George & Chruchill: Rivals for Greatness (MacMillan)
Kenneth O Morgan - Michael Foot: A Life (Harper/Collins)
Emily McGuire - Taming the Beast (Serpent's Tail)
Brian King - The Lying Ape (Icon Books)
To catch the latest show, go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/raw/index.shtml
and click on Book Club and you should be able to access it directly.
Someone was asking me recently what I'd been previewing TV-wise on Julia's show so I thought this would be an ideal opportunity to get all Asperger's-like and list the contents of the last few shows:
(Remember, if ever you want to catch any of the regular TV previews I do, they're broadcast between approximately 2:10 and 2:40pm (GMT) each Thursday. If you miss a show it will be available on the Listen Again feature on Radio Newcastle's Homepage for approximately 24 hours after the show ends - so, basically, that's from about 4pm (GMT) Thursday till 4pm Friday. Simply go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/local_radio/ click "Listen Again", scroll down to The Julia Hankin Show and I'm usually on about one hour and ten minutes in!)
These are the TV shows that I've previewed so far in 2007:
W/c 18th January 2007
Dancing on Ice
Time Time
Waking the Dead.
Five Days
Shameless
Should I Really Give Up Flying.
W/c 25th January 2007
Five Days
Timewatch: Hadrian’s Wall
The Comedy Map of Britain
Top Gear
You Don’t Know You’re Born
Party Animals
W/c 1st February 2007
Bonkers
Benidorm
Lillies
Britain’s Worst Weather
Rough Diamond
Dragon’s Den
W/c 8th February 2007
Ugly Betty
Primeval
The British Academy Film Awards
The Verdict
Life on Mars
The Abbey
Hotel Babylon
W/c 1st March 2007
Reichenbach Falls
Time Team Special
Lewis
The Sopranos
Life on Mars
Lemur Island
Top Gear
W/c 8th March 2007
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Castaway
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Fallen Angel
Kidnapped
Desperate Housewives
W/c 15th March 2007
Comic Relief
Harry Hill’s TV Burp
Jeremy Clarkson: The Greatest Raid of All Time
Mobile
Life on Mars
CSI
W/c 22nd March 2007
The Hairy Bikers Ride Again
The Yellow House
A Class Apart
The Culture Show
The Royal
Being Ten
W/c 29th March 2007
House
Shark
Coronation Street
Doctor Who
Mobile
City Lights
Finally, a quick update on my work for Visual Imagination. I mentioned that the latest issue of Xposé (issue 102) was already out, featuring "season two on my, seemingly never-ending, seven year journey through the history and complexities of Buffy."
Well, issue 103 - featuring, by logical extension, my season three overview - will be available from 11 April. And, whilst I know I promised that, this series of articles apart, I had said everything I was ever going to say about the show, Anthony the Wiley Editor managed to get me to write a couple of pieces for TV Zone's Special #75 including what may become a rather controversial 'Deep Thought' piece on where, exactly, the Buffy legacy goes from here. (I also wrote the "Top 12 Buffy Moments" article for that issue.)
Meanwhile, the last couple of issues of TV Zone (213 + 214) have featured another Deep Thought article which I was really rather proud of and which I may put up an unedited version here at some stage called The Cancellation Game) and various reviews of Studio 60, Life on Mars and some DVDs (the first season box-set of Strangers I particularly recommend). For details of how to obtain these titles - and others - check out Visual Imagination's webpage at this address:
http://www.visimag.com/index.htm
Well, not a lot if truth be told.
A lot of work on the Charmed DVD mag, a few articles for Visual Imagination, one Book Club and several telly preview slots on the radio, getting all excited by the new seasons of Doctor Who and Life on Mars, lots of reading ... you know, the usual.
Anyway, Monday night say the latest Book Club show. I featured the following:
David Peace - The Damned United (Faber)
Iain Banks - The Steep Approach to Garbadale (Little/Brown)
Nick Kent - The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock (Faber)
Patricia Cornwall - Black Notice (Time Warner)
Justin Langer/Steve Harmison - Ashes Frontline (Green Umbrella)
Jon Savage - Teenage: The Creation of Youth (Random House)
Also reviewed recently:
Marybeth Hamilton - In Search of the Blues (Jonathan Cape)
Emily McGuire - The Gospel According to Luke (Serpent's Tail)
Ricky Tomlinson - Reading, My Arse (Sphere)
Terrance Dicks - Made of Steel (BBC Books)
Anthony Day - Will Climate Change Your Life? (Ecademy Press)
Rodric Braithwaite - Moscow 1941 (Profile Books)
Ali Dizael and Tim Phillips - Not One of Us (Serpent's Tail)
Paul Trynka - Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed (Sphere)
Mark Lynas - Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (4th Estate)
Richard Toye - Lloyd George & Chruchill: Rivals for Greatness (MacMillan)
Kenneth O Morgan - Michael Foot: A Life (Harper/Collins)
Emily McGuire - Taming the Beast (Serpent's Tail)
Brian King - The Lying Ape (Icon Books)
To catch the latest show, go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/raw/index.shtml
and click on Book Club and you should be able to access it directly.
Someone was asking me recently what I'd been previewing TV-wise on Julia's show so I thought this would be an ideal opportunity to get all Asperger's-like and list the contents of the last few shows:
(Remember, if ever you want to catch any of the regular TV previews I do, they're broadcast between approximately 2:10 and 2:40pm (GMT) each Thursday. If you miss a show it will be available on the Listen Again feature on Radio Newcastle's Homepage for approximately 24 hours after the show ends - so, basically, that's from about 4pm (GMT) Thursday till 4pm Friday. Simply go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/local_radio/ click "Listen Again", scroll down to The Julia Hankin Show and I'm usually on about one hour and ten minutes in!)
These are the TV shows that I've previewed so far in 2007:
W/c 18th January 2007
Dancing on Ice
Time Time
Waking the Dead.
Five Days
Shameless
Should I Really Give Up Flying.
W/c 25th January 2007
Five Days
Timewatch: Hadrian’s Wall
The Comedy Map of Britain
Top Gear
You Don’t Know You’re Born
Party Animals
W/c 1st February 2007
Bonkers
Benidorm
Lillies
Britain’s Worst Weather
Rough Diamond
Dragon’s Den
W/c 8th February 2007
Ugly Betty
Primeval
The British Academy Film Awards
The Verdict
Life on Mars
The Abbey
Hotel Babylon
W/c 1st March 2007
Reichenbach Falls
Time Team Special
Lewis
The Sopranos
Life on Mars
Lemur Island
Top Gear
W/c 8th March 2007
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Castaway
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Fallen Angel
Kidnapped
Desperate Housewives
W/c 15th March 2007
Comic Relief
Harry Hill’s TV Burp
Jeremy Clarkson: The Greatest Raid of All Time
Mobile
Life on Mars
CSI
W/c 22nd March 2007
The Hairy Bikers Ride Again
The Yellow House
A Class Apart
The Culture Show
The Royal
Being Ten
W/c 29th March 2007
House
Shark
Coronation Street
Doctor Who
Mobile
City Lights
Finally, a quick update on my work for Visual Imagination. I mentioned that the latest issue of Xposé (issue 102) was already out, featuring "season two on my, seemingly never-ending, seven year journey through the history and complexities of Buffy."
Well, issue 103 - featuring, by logical extension, my season three overview - will be available from 11 April. And, whilst I know I promised that, this series of articles apart, I had said everything I was ever going to say about the show, Anthony the Wiley Editor managed to get me to write a couple of pieces for TV Zone's Special #75 including what may become a rather controversial 'Deep Thought' piece on where, exactly, the Buffy legacy goes from here. (I also wrote the "Top 12 Buffy Moments" article for that issue.)
Meanwhile, the last couple of issues of TV Zone (213 + 214) have featured another Deep Thought article which I was really rather proud of and which I may put up an unedited version here at some stage called The Cancellation Game) and various reviews of Studio 60, Life on Mars and some DVDs (the first season box-set of Strangers I particularly recommend). For details of how to obtain these titles - and others - check out Visual Imagination's webpage at this address:
http://www.visimag.com/index.htm
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