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I was asked about this in a comment on an earlier blog so this should be considered a slightly overblown off the cuff answer - I haven...

In which John Cleese and I do an Involuntary Recreation of the Classic Cheese Shop Sketch in the Covent Garden Branch of Waterstones I was ...

My friend has just flat out refused to do another month and I think we have enough data to answer our main question if only we could remembe...

January was an interesting month; we started without Burn Notice and The Closer and said goodbye (permanently) to the US version of Prime Su...

The downside to the wham episode cliffhanger season closer is that, when the new season finally rolls around, you have to sit through a dul...

Ninety percent of what is written about diets is total bollocks. If you want to lose weight then you've got to eat less and exercise mor...

I frequent cry I hear during the Leveson Inquiry is that the public were as much to blame as the press - after all are we not celebrity obse...

Grimm, read the script for the pilot and didn't like it. Was given a preview of Episodes 1 and 2 and... It could go either way but why? ...

The programmes watched by my informant this month were; Castle. Hawaii 5.0. Unforgettable, The Mentalist, Prime Suspect, Person of Interest ...

I was watching Castle one week and there was a character, a former career criminal, who was being forced back into a life of crime by a much...

The trouble with taking a smug superior attitude is that you can't always be sure it's justified and if it isn't then one leaves...

I couple of reviewers have commented on the presence in my books of what some might call British-isms which others might call English. Sorry...

I was once again contemplating the problem of pushy minor characters and how they can encrust the bottom of your narrative like barnacles wh...

For writers of everything from Cyberpunk to Literary Fiction the multinational corporation has provided a fruitful source of menace, bad guy...

You read your own reviews - this is a given. It's not that I wouldn't believe a writer if he(1) said he never read the reviews of hi...

Well it's not the combination that sprang to my mind...

The Evil Monster Boy wanted to go see Sucker Punch really badly and not just in an ordinary digital print but in super migraine inducing si...

Strictly speaking the UK no longer has what you'd call an actual 'film industry' but occasionally a good script will fight it...

I apologise for the sparsity of blogs recently but I'm under orders, from mein publishers, to work on my website and blog in readiness f...

I was going to have a blog about my signing yesterday but I can't find the USB cable that connects to my camera :(. Instead you're j...