time for some good news about this place I think
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4648357.stm
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:40, archived)

that's not good news at all!
It'll be shit and in day glow colours and the books will be 5 pages long!
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:41, archived)

ahh now
I assumed they were going to re-run the old stories, but youcould be right... there's nothing in the article that clarifies either way. though for all there were complaints about the Rik Mayall one, I thought it was fantastic. I'm a big Roald Dahl fan, and Rik Mayall too.
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:43, archived)

I never saw it.
What did he read and what happened?


I remember he used to do a childrens poetry show called "Starverry Jam".


Ahhh the days when not all of kids TV was shit.
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:45, archived)

it was fantastic
he rarely sat in the Jackanory chair. the set was done like the farmhouse and he leapt about recreating George making up the medicine and stuff
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:53, archived)

Bernard Cribbins
What a man.

Havent even thought about him for years.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:42, archived)

I love him too.
And he was in those Dalek movies.
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:44, archived)

I had no idea
he'd done quite so much Jackanory! he's still alive isn't he?
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:44, archived)

I like him.
He has a good way with him.
(Small Beer, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:45, archived)

They're going to resurrect Kenneth Williams?
Disclaimer: I only read the headline, and looked at the picture.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:43, archived)