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(17-10-2024 13:24 )Doddle Wrote:  Portrait Artist of the Year 2024
11.1 Oh blimey, now this too. Joan isn't replaced, they get the 3 judges to do more chatter to contestants instead. Saskia Reeves, Richard Madeley (boo) and the charmful Hannah Waddingham are the subjects.

PAotY 2024
11.2 Cush Jumbo, Baaba Maal and Carly Paoli were this week's guests, so it wasn't quite as lively, even with musical moments from the latter pair.

Knight Rider Ep 11 "The Final Verdict" Season 1

(16-10-2024 20:04 )Doddle Wrote:  The Art of Film
2.4 The Secret Life of Film
Since they can still talk to Angela Allen, they relate the story of the script supervisor aka "continuity girl", since she was one and worked on The Third Man, which they love discussing. They do at least name the lady who originated the role, and how it developed by saving studios money in the days before digital.

TAoF
2.5 David Lean in Black & White
His career up to Hobson's Choice. Kim Newman still on hand to pad out familiar ideas.

Agatha All Along s1 ep7 "Death's Hand in Mine"

The true identity of Rio is revealed

(02-09-2024 12:14 )Doddle Wrote:  Those British Faces - Alistair Sim
I rather regret not catching the whole series; an inevitable joy since Sim was a fine all-rounder at dramatic and comedic roles, wowed on stage and screen, and did no end of good for the young George Cole.

TBF - Anna Neagle
Usually connected with Herbert Wilcox, together they discovered Michael Wilding. Despite her fame fading in the 1950s, she lived until the mid-80s, ensuring Eric Morecambe could amusingly mistake her for Arthur Negus.

Star Trek Lower Decks Ep 1 “Dos Cerrito” Season 5 Final Season

What Do Artists Do All Day? Michael Craig-Martin is a visual/conceptual artist who was prepping an outdoor exhibition at Chatsworth House. I was interested with his works, which isn't always the case in shows like these.

Ghost Towns of Death Valley
A short doc from 1952 looking at places in Texas which aren't there (gold rush hotspots, that sort of thing).

(01-05-2023 20:37 )Doddle Wrote:  The Art Mysteries w/Waldemar Januszczak
4 - Cezanne's The Card Players saw Waldo end this run by trekking to Aix en Provence, and a cave which is claimed to be the last resting place of Mary Magdalene. The painting referred to saints carved around the entrance of a church which Cezanne walked past a lot in his commuter days.

I seem to get more out of these series either the more I see of them, or the older I get.

TAM w/WJ
3.1 Durer's "Melancholia I", with its ominous magic square referring to the Bible, where the clue is a reversed number 9.

Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along Ep 7 "Death's Hand in Mine" Season 1

Late Night w/Seth Meyers
Michael Buble was bubbly, whilst Leanne Morgan was enjoying achieving success somewhat later in life; then Jake Tapper was doing his journalist impression, before his daughter Alice Paul Tapper joined him to flog her new book and show which of her parents she takes after.