Rarely does adaptation work well. Most of the time you hope for the best and accept OK. With Hap and Leonard though, Joe R Lansdale's novels live and breathe on the small screen. This is a look at how that transfer works so well, from the eyes of a fan on a couch in leafy Surrey, a long way away from East Texas.
Read MoreA love letter to the finest TV Show on air at the moment, Hap and Leonard. No spoilers contained within, just an attempt to spread the joy of proper television and two towering performances from Michael Keneth Williams and James Purefoy.
Read MoreSunday sees the BBC's take on John Le Carre's The Night Manager. I love this book and to celebrate, I'm giving away a copy signed by the man himself, Le Carre, not the hotelier. Here I talk about the book and how you can win this via the old Twitter machine. A little note, this is one of my favourite of Le Carre's novels.
Read MoreThe other week Sky Sports popped up saying they were opening applications for the audience for The F1 Show. The F1 Show is a live weekly magazine show on the Sky Sports F1 channel that discusses that week’s developments in F1. Hosted by the pitlane team of Ted Kravitz and Natalie Pinkham, they have a few guests on and generally chat away an entertaining hour. When I say chat, I mean Johnny Herbert is one of the guests, full time it seems, and chat is what he does. Stopping him seems to be the trick…
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