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Joseph Hewes May 9, 2017 |
Mother isn’t feeling well…
I’m always harping on about television sequels and prequels, and new adaptations of classics that were better done in the past. To me they are proof pudding of the lack of originality among writers and producers. ‘Endeavour’ is the prequel that’s the odd one out: beautifully written and acted with the directors keeping well out of the way….
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Joseph Hewes May 3, 2017 |
I think it’s a female talent…
I’m talking about doing two things at once. Or even two things in succession, to say nothing of three, four or five. Plate spinning. My inability may just be the result of the business I’ve been in for the past 200 years, but I find it extremely difficult to write in the morning, stop working, stop thinking about…
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Joseph Hewes March 13, 2017 |
Do you know what happened to ‘Nor’? Neither do I…
I don’t usually care if words drop off the edge of the plate, with one exception. Whatever happened to the word ‘nor’? It’s not a particularly beautiful word in its own right but it has a purpose without which some sentences don’t make sense. ‘Nor’ is being constantly replaced by ‘neither’. I watched an episode of Suits the…
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Joseph Hewes February 13, 2017 |
It’s been done before, only better….
I’ve been harping on about television’s lack of new material lately, so much so that I’m beginning to feel like a regular TV columnist. I tend to home in on the re-hashes of old, ostensibly ‘safe’ stories, though why 10 Rillington Place should have attract so many writers/producers down the years I can’t imagine. Can it be that…