Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts

Monday, 26 July 2010

Elementary dear Watson


So there’s a rather fabulous programme on BBC1 : Sherlock

Not just any Sherlock Holmes, a Holmes and Dr Watson brought kicking and screaming to the 21st century.

They still live in 221B Baker Street , Holmes mentions a violin and Mrs Hudson is still around. But this Sherlock prefers to txt and Watson packs a gun being an ex-soldier after being wounded in Afghanistan.

And the whole thing plays out like CSI meets Law and Order meets iconic British made up detective.

I hope all my bloggie friends from far and wide get to see this soon.

My only beef in the first episode was the use of this:



Not only was this prolific in the first episode but a few of them had phones in them that worked!

In reality these red boxes are slowly being eradicated from the London landscape and if you do see one – you’re guaranteed a phone that’s been vandalised and worse.

There’s a great 30 second scene where a traumatised Dr Watson (fresh from Afghanistan) is told by his therapist to blog about his experiences as a form of therapy!

Charlie says: My form of therapy are eat, play and rest all funny with my tail up in the air like I just don't care!


Have a momentous Monday everyone!

Saturday, 20 February 2010

My nth attempt at loading a YouTube thing. :-) And other writerly things.

To keep within the theme of the winter weather, here is Snow Business, parts 1 & 2.

I waited a LONG time for part 2 and here is the ever wonderful and ever lovely Simon's cat.

Before any of you go "Lordy not another kitty thingie" just think - it takes Simon forever to create a 2 minute cartoon sequence AND he has to create a story too. And if that isn't writer-ly I don't know what is!

Oh and if you really, really want a writer-ly fill, I found this piece from the BBC Writer's Room. It may be concerned with scriptwriting but I think the topic discussed here goes to the very heart of writing, i.e. just how many minutes - oh ok - hours- do writers spend a day actually writing?