Bibliogryphon

Totally selfish of me but... If the next Deathrace hit was 1 March we'd be in danger of repeating the nightmare scenario we once saw in which nobody hit a winning points total all year. I'm not sweating my other teams like the HPDP or DDP (where a few bankers like Wilko Johnson and Sally Farmiloe might hang on for months), just anxious to stage a decent Deathrace and slightly embarrassed to be sitting on top of my own rankings. I was thinking about this last night and trying to do the mental arithmatic - basically we need six or seven hits before the calander dips below 300 (6th March). I have no points yet in any of my teams. I also have noticed no Richard Attenborough on the list this year. Thought he was a stayer. Ho hum.

Is this true? (I am not a medical man) I was under the impression that he was being kept articially in a coma to prevent pressure building up on his brain. If he wakes up surely then this is when he might be in some danger.

Do not be faint hearted in the record year of 2003 the first hit did not come till the beginning of March.

Shrien Dewani has lost his appeal and will be extradited to South Africa to stand trial. He is currently in hospital in Bristol One less bed blocker, then. I see where you're going with this, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, and now a trip to the heart of the South African justice system. I wouldn't sell him life insurance this month. Speaking of South African justice the trial of Oscar Pistorius will have its own 24 hour TV channel. Not sure what it will be showing at 4am but if you can't sleep it would probably be better to watch that than blow holes in the bathroom door with a shot gun

Shrien Dewani has lost his appeal and will be extradited to South Africa to stand trial. He is currently in hospital in Bristol

That's the idea break it to him gently.

I didn't see it myself but heard it wasn't up to much. The reason it scored such a high rating was partly nostalgia and the fact it was on Boxing Day, a time when most people are sat vegetating in front of the tv It was an easy watching piece of TV whimsy but the thing that everyone seemed to think was how much everyone missed Ronnie Barker. The new series will need to establish something more than just characters coming on and saying all their recognisable lines otherwise it will end up like the later series' of Allo, Allo.

For those who miss the excitement of predicting which cast member of Last of the Summer Wine will not make it to the end of the series the BBC allows more elderly Northern folks onto our screens with a full series of Still Open All Hours

Jeremy Beadle was one of the people that inspired me to start deathlisting. His death came as such a surprise we started talking about 'who would of predicted that' and our workplace competition came into being it was several years later that I discovered this site. JB was very annoying on TV and introduced that sort of game show/public interaction telly that has now come more popular but he had serious opinions and made things happen.

Well this is the RICOH arena If you are looking for inaccurate descriptions how about a Coventry City home game........ in Northampton.

If so obvious, why didn't you have any of the misses on any of your lists? Picking just 50 people and knowing which one will and will not is a delicate skill. I have a spreadsheet with over 1400 names on it all of whom have some (even if very small) reason for inclusion. If Seeger was so obvious why was he not in the top 40 of peoples DDP teams. When there was discussion over who to drop at the end of last year a number of people said drop Seeger, myself amongst them. The committee have to take decisions, for everyone they include they leave someone out sometimes they make back the wrong hearse but it is their decision. I didn't see many people on 02nd January saying "This is a rubbish list cos Pete Seeger isn't on it" In my work's game, with 42 players, of people born before 1920 Pete Seeger had the second lowest number of picks behind Sheila Mercier.

But rainbow flags draped around their shoulders is OK?

Picture of John Lithgow at the Sundance festival on BBC website. Doesn't look too well - long term.

No but Ringo was photographed with Yoko Ono, who may not be one of the worlds oldest people but she looks like she is.

Will the funeral notice request no flowers?

They just need a couple of pints of Guiness and everything will be OK. Er.... eh? Ernest Saunders...

They just need a couple of pints of Guiness and everything will be OK.

Jocelyn Hay - Campaigner who protested against proposals to turn R4 into an all news network dies

Well that's not true now obviously. Did anyone else catch this on BBC4 earlier? It still holds up quite well. So what is the oldest sitcom where all the main cast are still with us? Red Dwarf maybe? It might be stretching the definition of sitcom, but The Goodies began in 1970 and all 3 principals are not only still with us but all are still working. Definitely in the sitcom bracket is Love Thy Neighbour, which began in 1972; all four leads are still with us (Jack Smethurst, Kate Williams, Rudolph Walker and Nina Baden Semper) though the support cast (Tommy Godfrey, Keith Marsh & Paul Luty) have departed. Not sure I can compete with Love Thy Neighbour but To The Manor Born has its three main leads (Penelope Keith, Angela Thorne & Peter Bowles) and a fair number of bit parts still present as well. Thought I better get this in before Gerald Sim died.

Bob finally shows up at the funeral of the last of his siblings. False alarm But he must be feeling distinctly mortal now.

Know the feeling. For a start, Legolas wasn't in the book. That'll be because Tolkien hadn't thought him up yet. But his presence makes perfect sense. Whilst I could just about cope with the presence of Legolas as a marketing tool and a link to the LOTR films, the presence of Tauriel and her imagined interspecies romance with Kili is unforgivable.

Went to see The Desolation of Smaug at the weekend. I have now decided to re-read The Hobbit to remind myself what didn't happen in the book.

He needs to take over now. I'm getting so bored of the annoying cow who has only lasted this long by being a faceless opinionless diplomat, I want a guy who is willing to have a moan about things....... like bloody carbuncles...... This is missing the point. Charles has the freedom to express his opinions because he is not the monarch when he inherits he will be expected to be constrained by his constitutional role. These were the shutters referred to previously!

Emma Willis is much better on The Voice than HW but who thought that replacing Rastamouse with 20% (w/w) of JLS would be a good idea is sorely mistaken.

Is George Alagiah suffering from anything? I saw 6 O'Clock news on BBC last night and thought he looked terrible. I can find nothing on the web to suggest he is but if not why does he look so bad?