Bibliogryphon

Queenie needs to survive I have 25 inverse deadpool points riding on it.

I kept Valerie but left MTM off. She only scored points for me on the inverse deadpool.

There are so many potentially good picks. Went for King Michael.

Fucking show-off. What? Why? I think LFN is suggesting that only Posh people shop in Waitrose. It is great in Market Harborough Waitrose shares a car park with Aldi. People come out of Waitrose with a small bag of shopping and then go into Aldi to fill a trolley. It was Deathray, not LFN. Ironically I specifically went to Waitrose because their price for Cirio tinned tomatoes (now that possibly makes me posh) was easily the lowest of all the supermarkets available to me. I also shopped in Home Bargains and Sainsburys yesterday. I'm not a creature of habit when it comes to supermarkets. As I live several miles from the nearest town, and more or less equidistant from several towns, I go to whichever one is likely to serve my purposes at the time. So I may be spotted in Waitrose, Aldi, Sainsburys, Lidl, Tesco or occasionally Iceland. Horses for courses. Be that starter, main or dessert.

Many of these actors worked extensively on the stage both before and after Secret Army. Christopher Neame has appeared in Babylon 5 and Star Trek as well as in Ghostbusters II and License to Kill. Terrence Hardiman is best known for his portrayal of the Demon Headmaster in a BBC adaptation of the Gillian Cross books. Jan Francis went on to the long running sit-com Just Good Friends. I suspect many of these actors you may recognise the face but not the name.

Following on from the Death of Gordon Kaye and the continuing existence of Bernard Hepton and my own unique DDP Clifford Rose I have compiled a list of 20 Secret Army survivors Bernard Hepton Jan Francis Angela Richards Christopher Neame Clifford Rose Michael Culver Juliet Hammond-Hill Ron Pember Eileen Page Maria Charles Gunnar Moller Stephen Yardley John D. Collins Hazel McBride Paul Shelley Terence Hardiman Michael Byrne Stephen Chase Bruce Montague John Ratzenberger Not all of them will necessarily obit but many of them may be noted on Twitter. Big crossover with Blakes' 7 and Doctor Who

Nobody has picked Andy Burnham which is going to make the Manchester Mayoral election in May much less interesting.

Try reading Earthworks by Brian Aldiss (it is turgid and really only for SF completists but mercifully short) his solution to a world riddled with pollution and over population is a nuclear war.

Fucking show-off. What? Why? I think LFN is suggesting that only Posh people shop in Waitrose. It is great in Market Harborough Waitrose shares a car park with Aldi. People come out of Waitrose with a small bag of shopping and then go into Aldi to fill a trolley.

None have any kind of months to live type cancer at the moment, but enough are in in their 80s or 90's that law of average should see one of them drop this year. Glad to see your irony filter is installed and in full working order CC. :-)

Shaun, there are probably other with better experience on here than me to advise you but remember we are thinking of you and wish you all the best.

Word is he won't be coming back and his show is being axed, with Dermot O'Leary replacing it http://radiotoday.co.uk/2017/01/dermot-oleary-hosts-his-last-radio-2-afternoon-show/ I may be new on here but if that Dreary 0'Leary takes that spot thats one less listener for Radio 2. Yes but hopefully it will get him off Saturday afternoons

Hope everything is OK. Biblio Snr went into hospital on Christmas Eve and had to spend Christmas Day there he had fluid on the lungs. He is back home now and getting better. 88 next week.

Disney is a massive commercial entity and they will merchandise a film to death. However since the moving on of Michael Eisner they have had enough commercial sense to allow the creative talents sufficient freedom to provide good quality entertainment that they can then merchandise to death. Both Rogue One and The Force Awakens benefited from not being written by George Lucas. Remember in recent years Disney have given us Pirates of the Carribbean, Frozen and the entire Pixar studio output. Mrs B and Baby B went to see Moana just before Christmas and they really enjoyed it.

On the plane on Sunday I watched Your Name which is a Japanese animated movie (not Ghibli) with subtitles (I don't know whether there is a dub available) but it starts out as a high school body swap comedy then about half-way through goes in an unexpected direction. I would recommend.

I have just PM'd my list

Haven't seen it. I have absolutely zero interest in a "dark and gritty war film" version of Star Wars, which is what i have heard it described as. It would appeal to me even less than the main films do. I hold on to the slim hope that Valerian might be a good film. I like the comics so if they stay true to that and don't turn it into a big dumb action film it might be okay. It is hardly dark and gritty. It is still basically a Star Wars film. It can get a bit clunky with them trying to shoe horn references to the original movies in and I was not happy about the necromancy of reanimating Peter Cushing (though Guy Henry) does a fair impression of the voice. The star of the film is undoubtedly the droid. Okay, thanks. I still won't see it. (The only tempting thing is my inner seven year old would like to see Vader's castle but that wouldn't be enough for me to give Hollywood my money.) Are you interested in seeing Valerian? Haven't seen it. I have absolutely zero interest in a "dark and gritty war film" version of Star Wars, which is what i have heard it described as. It would appeal to me even less than the main films do. I hold on to the slim hope that Valerian might be a good film. I like the comics so if they stay true to that and don't turn it into a big dumb action film it might be okay. It is hardly dark and gritty. It is still basically a Star Wars film. It can get a bit clunky with them trying to shoe horn references to the original movies in and I was not happy about the necromancy of reanimating Peter Cushing (though Guy Henry) does a fair impression of the voice. The star of the film is undoubtedly the droid. Okay, thanks. I still won't see it. (The only tempting thing is my inner seven year old would like to see Vader's castle but that wouldn't be enough for me to give Hollywood my money.) Are you interested in seeing Valerian? I had to look that up. This is a new one on me and I am not familiar with the source material. I see it has Rihanna in it. Will it be as good a Battleship? ;-)

Haven't seen it. I have absolutely zero interest in a "dark and gritty war film" version of Star Wars, which is what i have heard it described as. It would appeal to me even less than the main films do. I hold on to the slim hope that Valerian might be a good film. I like the comics so if they stay true to that and don't turn it into a big dumb action film it might be okay. It is hardly dark and gritty. It is still basically a Star Wars film. It can get a bit clunky with them trying to shoe horn references to the original movies in and I was not happy about the necromancy of reanimating Peter Cushing (though Guy Henry) does a fair impression of the voice. The star of the film is undoubtedly the droid.

I thought Rogue One was quite good and probably more respectful to A New Hope than Revenge of the Sith was.

I bet Toby has a database.

So many Doctor Who actors are dying now. Soon we won't have any left ! I am going to take issue with that. I have been running Scavenger Hunt Bingo since the beginning of June and this is the first hit in the Doctor Who actors category which was by far the one with the biggest number of picks. Burt Kwouk died just before the game started. any show with alot of actors that has been running for a long time will have alot of dead names attached to it. Just look at the Simpsons. I'd rather not thank you.

Hilary Bailey. Helen Bailey is the author who was murdered, along with her little dog, by her scumbag of a partner and dumped in a cesspit. Currently on trial but it couldn't be more obvious that he dunnit. Whoops my bad.

So many Doctor Who actors are dying now. Soon we won't have any left ! I am going to take issue with that. I have been running Scavenger Hunt Bingo since the beginning of June and this is the first hit in the Doctor Who actors category which was by far the one with the biggest number of picks. Burt Kwouk died just before the game started.

Just last week we were watching the BBC 1983 version of Mansfield Park where Gordon Kaye played Doctor Grant. Can't believe Bernard Hepton (who played the character in Secret Army which Rene was based on) outlasted him

Two for the price of one collaborators Emma Tennant & Helen Bailey died within two days of each other. Helen Bailey was the former wife of over-rated fantasy writer Michael Moorcock.