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Brassic series is 3 now available watch on sky,

I’m going to start it later today after I’ve been doctor about my cough and throat.

[Susan Foreman]

Mel Brooks Is Back With ‘History of the World, Part II’ Series / Rolling Stone

"Forty years after the film’s release, Mel Brooks’ classic 1981 comedy History of the World, Part I is receiving a sequel as Hulu orders the eight-episode variety series History of the World, Part II.

The show will follow the same format as the film, which was made up of segments parodying periods of world history.

Production on History of the World, Part II is set to begin in spring 2022 with Brooks on board as a writer alongside Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen, and Kevin Salter.

History of the World, Part II will be produced by Searchlight Television and 20th Television.

“I can’t wait to once more tell the real truth about all the phony-baloney stories the world has been conned into believing are history!” Brooks said of the return."

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Emilio Estevez has been dropped from season 2 of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers after he apparently refused to say whether he'd comply with the "zone A" covid rules some production companies have brought in which requires actors, and those working closely with them, to be vaccinated. The scripts are being re-written to remove Gordon Bombay. Some are saying that creative differences played a part in him being dropped, so it may have been a little of both.

[Susan Foreman]

If you watched and enjoyed the Motley Crue biopic 'The Dirt'...

Coming soon to Hulu

[Susan Foreman]

Something for everyone over Christmas and New Year on BBC television

Including...

• Doctor Who on New Year’s Day [with the hotly anticipated episode set to guest star Aisling Bea (Home Sweet Home Alone), Adjani Salmon (Dreaming Whilst Black) and Pauline McLynn (Father Ted)]
• Two more episodes of Worzel Gummidge, with Strictly champ Bill Bailey and The A List’s Nneka Okoye joining the family as Mr Peregrine and Calliope Jane
• The first ever festive episode of Death in Paradise, which sees Danny John-Jules returning as Dwayne Myers to co-star opposite Ralf Little, who plays DI Neville Parker
• This year’s Call the Midwife special focusing on wedding planning as Lucille (Leonie Elliott) and Cyril (Zephryn Taitte) prepare to tie the knot
• The return of Lee Mack’s Not Going Out
• Brendan O’Carroll’s Mrs Brown’s Boys
• The BAFTA-nominated Ghosts, which will feature a special appearance from comedy legend Jennifer Saunders
• A Very British Scandal from screenwriter Sarah Phelps, which stars Claire Foy (The Crown) and Paul Bettany (WandaVision) as the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, chronicling their explosive divorce as it unfolded
• The Girl Before, which follows a woman “who moves into a strange house designed by an enigmatic architect”
• David Tennant in Around the World in 80 Days, a fresh adaptation of the classic Jules Verne story about intrepid explorer Phileas Fogg
• Fifty Shades of Grey alum Jamie Dornan teams up with Baptiste creators Harry and Jack Williams for The Tourist, which follows one man’s desperate plight as he wakes up stranded in the perilous Australian outback
• Mark Gatiss’ latest ghost story is an adaptation of The Mezzotint for BBC Two just in time for New Year’s Eve, with Rory Kinnear (No Time to Die), Robert Bathurst (Toast of London) and Nikesh Patel (Starstruck) rounding out the cast
• Sir David Attenborough will release two films for the BBC Wonder of Song and Mammoth Graveyard
• Festive quiz editions of University Challenge, Only Connect and a rebooted The Weakest Link with Romesh Ranganathan
• Comedy with Michael McIntyre’s Christmas Wheel, Would I Lie to You?, QI, Live at the Apollo, and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order
• Entertainment shows including I Can See Your Voice, The Hit List and The Wall also return with celebrity editions, while the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special will bring some ballroom sparkle to the big day.
• Top Gear presenters Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff get back behind the wheel for special episode Driving Home for Christmas, which kicks off in the Welsh village of Bethlehem before heading to Bath to deliver an enormous Norway Spruce
• The Repair Shop will be offering more emotional restorations of treasured family heirlooms, while The Great British Sewing Bee will return with Sara Pascoe taking over hosting duties from Joe Lycett.
• For fans of cooking programmes, there is the MasterChef Champions Special which will pit five of the most memorable contestants from previous years against each other, with The Professionals Rematch being a similar concept for the spin-off series, and of course, you can also expect a more light-hearted Celebrity Christmas Cook-Off featuring big personalities including Gemma Collins, Joe Swash, Joey Essex and Judi Love. In addition, two of the UK’s most popular celebrity chefs will be sharing their top recipes in Andi Oliver’s Taste of Home Christmas Special and Mary Berry’s Festive Feasts
• Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse will team up to catch an elusive English Salmon in Gone Christmas Fishing, while another beloved duo Dave Myers and Si King will create a unique festive feast in The Hairy Bikers Go North for Christmas.
• For the little ones, there will be new episodes of The Beaker Girls and Horrible Histories, as well as Aardman’s latest animated offering Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
• Meanwhile, Academy Award winner Olivia Colman and Doctor Who alum Matt Smith team up for an adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s The Superworm
• As is traditional, there will be more Carols from Kings and Songs of Praise over the period, while The Royal Institution will bring more Christmas Lectures, led by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam

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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...of-gamesmaster

Link quite long so here first few pharagraphs.

Get me that golden joystick! The miraculous return of GamesMaster
Please Channel 4, don’t mess it up … Sir Trevor McDonald as the GamesMaster.
It was a cult classic in the 90s. Now, GamesMaster has been revived with three new presenters and Trevor McDonald as the sadistic cyborg. It’s as smart and silly as the original – if suspiciously like Top Gear

If you happen to be in your early 40s with a particular set of interests, no two words will strike fear into your heart like “GamesMaster revival”. Between 1992 and 1998, GamesMaster, a video game challenge and review show hosted by Dominik Diamond (and, briefly, Dexter Fletcher), was appointment viewing. It was smart, it was silly, it was pitched just high enough over the heads of its target audience to make it feel cool, and it tapped into the console boom like nothing before or since. So when E4 announced a GamesMaster remake earlier this year, the tired middle-aged men of the world collectively let out a prayer. Please Channel 4, don’t mess it up.

Reader, they did not. Miraculously, the new GamesMaster series has pulled off the near-impossible trick of modernising the show while retaining its core DNA. There are still game reviews and challenges, but all the faces are new. Patrick Moore – who in the original series played the titular sadistic, spherical cyborg – has been replaced by Sir Trevor McDonald, and in place of Dominik Diamond are three presenters; the comedy writer Rab Florence, the esports host Frankie Ward and the Instagram comedian Ty Logan. It stands as a cruel indictment of time that Florence is the only one of the new presenters old enough to remember the original (and its coveted golden joystick trophy). And it turns out he didn’t even watch it that much.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Something for everyone over Christmas and New Year on BBC television

Including...

• ”
• David Tennant in Around the World in 80 Days, a fresh adaptation of the classic Jules Verne story about intrepid explorer Phileas Fogg
  
• Mark Gatiss’ latest ghost story is an adaptation of The Mezzotint for BBC Two just in time for New Year’s Eve, with Rory Kinnear (No Time to Die), Robert Bathurst (Toast of London) and Nikesh Patel (Starstruck) rounding out the cast
• Christmas Lectures, led by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam

Look forward to Tennant as Fogg.

Can't wait to see The Mezzotint. It's my favourite James story and i always watch the Robert Powell read version several times over the Christmas month.

Lectures eh? Probably get one of those from Jodie Whitaker as usual.

[iank]

Good Lord. Christmas Lectures? Are they taking the smeg?!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

Good Lord. Christmas Lectures? Are they taking the smeg?!

No, this will be the third New Years Day one running.

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First episode of Chucky is on sky max Friday 2am in the morning then later on at night.