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On Sunday 8 December 2024, BBC One broadcasts My Life at Christmas with Anita Rani!

Rudolph Walker Season 1 Episode 2 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “My Life at Christmas with Anita Rani” promises to be a heartwarming journey as Anita Rani sits down with the esteemed actor Rudolph Walker Cbe. Known for his role as Patrick Trueman in the long-running soap opera EastEnders, Walker has a rich history that many might not be fully aware of.

In this episode titled “Rudolph Walker,” Anita explores Walker’s Christmas memories, taking a deep dive into his life story. Born in Trinidad, Walker’s childhood was humble, filled with experiences that shaped him into the man he is today. As he shares his memories, viewers will get a glimpse of how his early life influenced his career and passion for acting.

The episode will also touch on Walker’s significant contributions to British theatre and television.

On Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 8:40 Am, fans can look forward to an engaging new episode of Classic Doctors titled “Love Thy Neighbour.” Set in the bustling medical centre of Letherbridge, West Midlands, this episode promises to dive into the lives of doctors, nurses, and staff as they tackle both medical mysteries and personal dilemmas.

In this episode, viewers will see how the medical team navigates the complexities of relationships while providing care to their patients. The staff’s interactions with each other and the community highlight the challenges and rewards of their profession. As they work through various cases, their dedication to patient care is tested in unexpected ways, leading to moments of tension and compassion.

With a blend of heartfelt drama and intriguing medical challenges, “Love Thy Neighbour” is sure to captivate viewers. This episode not only showcases the skills of the healthcare team but also explores the deeper...

Derick Dillard‘s recent tweets about transgender teen Jazz Jennings have sparked outrage on social media.

The father of two — who stars on TLC’s Counting On alongside his wife, 19 Kids and Counting alum Jill (Duggar) Dillard — took to Twitter on Wednesday to issue his take on 16-year-old Jennings, the star of TLC’s I Am Jazz.

“What an oxymoron … a ‘reality’ show which follows a non-reality,” tweeted Dillard, 28, in response to a promotional tweet from the network about Jennings’ series.

” ‘Transgender’ is a myth,” he added. “Gender is not fluid; it’s ordained by God.”

What an oxymoron… a...

Almost identical as they are, we look at what’s actually been changed between episode 1 of Broadchurch and Us adaptation, Gracepoint…

Warning: contains spoilers for the first episodes of Broadchurch and Gracepoint.

With the same story, characters, scenes, dialogue, male lead and screenwriter, episode one of Fox’s Gracepoint is no fuzzy “inspired by” adaptation, but a shot-for-shot impersonation of the Broadchurch opener. If Fox hadn’t paid what is probably a handsome sum for the privilege, we’d rap its knuckles with a ruler for copying ITV’s homework.

Perhaps because it’s kept so close to the source, so far Gracepoint makes for a pretty decent murder mystery, if an entirely superfluous one for audiences of the original. If you know Broadchurch, then Gracepoint’s opening episode makes for an uncanny hour of déjà-vu television. Explaining it to someone else is like explaining the illogic of last night...

Actor best known for playing the officious Arp warden William Hodges in Dad's Army

In his early days as a cabaret artist, the actor Bill Pertwee, who has died aged 86, did a manic cricket revue sketch at a fashionable club in central London. A haughty and inebriated diner kicked over his stumps and shouted: "How's that?" Pertwee punched him in the stomach and was escorted out by the head waiter, who informed him that the customer was always right. "As far as I'm concerned, he isn't!" retorted Pertwee.

This bubbling belligerence was successfully incorporated into the bossy character that made Pertwee famous: Arp Warden William Hodges in the celebrated BBC television series Dad's Army (1968-77), written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Hodges, he perpetually clashed with Captain George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) of the Home Guard.

The inspiration for the way Pertwee played the warden came from his boyhood during the second world war,...

The BBC's cutting of racial insults from a repeat of The Germans has brought the integrity of the hit comedy show into question. But the words are clearly used to satirise English upper-class bigotry

Rivalled only by Dad's Army as Britain's most-loved sitcom, Fawlty Towers seems an unlikely candidate to merit comparison with the movies of Quentin Tarantino. But the BBC has cut from a repeat of the episode The Germans (screened many times since it was first seen in 1975) a speech in which the blimpish hotel resident Major Gowen uses two outlawed racial insults while reporting on a trip to see an England v India cricket match at the Oval.

It is impossible to discuss properly the censored dialogue without quoting the line. Very sensitive readers should stop now and it should not be assumed that I, the Guardian – or, indeed, John Cleese and Connie Booth, the show's writers...

The Seven Network is to air a sitcom about the “hilarious antics” of a self-appointed Muslim community leader.

According to the description of the show:

“Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of self-appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan and his long-suffering family. Things would be so much easier if everyone listened to him and followed his lead, but his obsessively house-proud wife and two feisty daughters have other ideas. He finds a refuge of sorts in the local mosque run by new mosque manager Dave – who to Mr Khan’s chagrin is not only white, but ginger.”

The show has been bought from BBC Worldwide. The first series of six episodes aired in the UK earlier this year. A further seven episodes have been commissioned.

Angus Ross, Seven’s director of network programming: “The BBC has an established history of producing quality comedies and Citizen Khan is no exception.

Disclaimer: This article is not an attack on football fans in general; the majority of which follow the game because of their love of the sport. It is simply an observation I have made about a small minority of people that I have met, spoken to or overheard. It isn’t my intention to offend anyone.

I’ve never been one for confrontation. Raised by parents who spent a combined 45+ years in the Police Force, I went to a Church of England Primary School, played for the football team that was often too nice to win games and the nearest I got to witnessing a fight before the age of 16 was watching ‘Ali’ (worth the wait). Say what you will about my sheltered childhood, it led me to becoming the person I am today. But before you condemn me for posting this article in the wrong section of this website...

Coming up this Diwali, October 26th is the Anubhav Sinha epic superhero/adventure/action/romance/comedy/music okay pretty much everything good all rolled into one film that stars the good Shah Rukh Khan, the beautiful Kareena Kapoor and the bad (we think since we have not seen him yet but sure he looks great) Arjun Rampal. Add to that are the exciting special appearances from Sanjay Dutt as The Villianous Villan – Khalnayak and Priyanka Chopra as The Damsel in Distress. Intriguing? We think so!

With the music release of the film happening tomorrow and with the totally killer cool Ra.One website live and since we promised you lots of treats leading up to the release of the film in October we thought we would give you a bit of the inside data on the characters that make up the Ra.One world!

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A father trying hard to...

The Inbetweeners: The Movie sees Will, Simon, Neil and Jay transported, in all their puerile glory, to Crete. But do the writers and cast realise this is the end?

The feature film-of-the-sitcom is one of the less heralded genres in cinema. Forty years ago, when Hollywood's vision of a low-budget hit was the cool and radical Easy Rider, the British film industry couldn't have been eulogising a less glamorous form of transport, when Hammer brought the sitcom On the Buses to the big screen.

That first On the Buses film made more than a million pounds, and sparked a gold rush. 1973 saw nine films based on sitcoms, including Love Thy Neighbour, Father, Dear Father and even For the Love of Ada. By the end of the decade, though, the notoriously thin quality of the adaptations meant the genre had become irrevocably tarnished.

But in 1997, the astonishing success of Bean,...

Series two of Channel 4's Three In A Bed debuted with just over 1 million viewers on Thursday night, while Monroe again owned primetime, the latest audience data has revealed. Three In A Bed, in which three B&B owners rate each other's establishments, averaged 1.1m (4.8%) for Channel 4 in the 8pm hour and 317k (1.4%) on Channel 4 +1. Medical drama Monroe continued with 4.63m (20.2%) on ITV1 and 134k (0.8%) on timeshift, beating Crimewatch's 3.95m (17.3%) on BBC One. Earlier, Tonight: Charities In Crisis fetched 2.71m (12.8%) on ITV1 from 7.30pm and Diy Sos: The Big Build built 4.49m (19.7%) on BBC One in the 8pm hour. Question Time brought in 2.47m (21.6%) on BBC One from 10.45pm. Channel 4's Love Thy Neighbour found harmony with 920k (4%) in the 8pm hour and 159k (0.9%) on +1. 10'Clock Live (more)...

With the controversial A Serbian Film released from 10th December, FilmShaft thought it would be a rather prescient time to have a good old chat with the British Board of Film Classification’s Senior Examiner Craig Lapper about working at the BBFC, how it makes its decisions and defends accusations levelled at the organisation.

For non-uk readers this interview offers an insight into the British way of doing things. It was director Jake West who suggested I talk with the BBFC when we met to chat about Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide.

The history of film censorship in the UK has always been a hot topic, sometimes draconian and more often than not led by a moral panic or two. Recently A Serbian Film was cut by four minutes plus. It is the most butchered movie in sixteen years and after the ‘James Ferman Years’ many assumed the BBFC were...

Former Doctor Who and Cutting It actress Annette Badland is to make another guest appearance in BBC One's daytime medical drama Doctors. The 59-year-old takes on the role of Angela Lombard, a parish secretary at the centre of a hate campaign against a new female vicar. When Daniel Granger (Matthew Chambers) offers to help, it soon transpires that Angela was in love with the former priest and is furious with his successor. The episode, titled 'Love Thy Neighbour', is due to transmit on Monday, July 5 on BBC One. Badland last (more)...