Paul Mount

DOCTOR WHO: THE COLLECTION – SEASON 15

He’s back! And it’s about time! Or is it? Created for a series of Barclaycard TV ads back in the late 1990s, Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling, fumbling MI7 secret agent Johnny English made his feature film debut in 2002 and, whilst the film was a significant Box office hit in the UK and across Europe, it’s […]

Oh Dear God. Someone gave  director Scott Stewart (not enough) money to make another fantasy film. They let him put British blandie Paul Bettany in it. Did no-one in Hollywood actually see last year’s pitilessly-poor Legion where Stewart cast Bettany as some sort of angel sent down to earth to ward off the apocalypse from […]

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Good news for fans of the Boys From The Dwarf – the indestructible comedy sci-fi behemoth Red Dwarf currently enjoying its second wind of success on the Dave network – as comedian Norman Lovett has let slip that he will be making a return appearance as much-missed deadpan computer Holly in the final episode of the show’s upcoming twelfth series. Comedy website Chortle! reports that Lovett, now a sprightly seventy years old, revealed the news at the Leicester Comedy Festival earlier this week. “I probably shouldn’t have told you that,” he is reported to have said after making the announcement during his stand-up comedy show. Lovett played Red Dwarf’s gloomy AI for the show’s first two series but was replaced by Hattie Hayridge for series 3 to 6 before returning for series 7 and 8, the final series broadcast on BBC2 in the UK. Lovett is said to have fallen out with the show’s creator/writer Doug Naylor in 2009 when Holly was written out of Dave’s threadbare three-episode resurrection ‘Back

Popular character actor John Carson, a doyen of many classic Hammer horror films and a regular face on British TV for nearly three decades, passed away on November 5th at the age of 89. Born in Ceylon in 1927, John Carson first appeared on screen in 1946 and in 1965 he made the first of several appearances for Hammer when he starred as Squire Clive Hamilton in Plague of the Zombies followed by roles in Taste the Blood of Dracula in 1970 and Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter in 1972. He also starred alongside Roger Moore in the memorable 1971 thriller The Man Who Haunted Himself. One of his final feature film credits saw him featuring in Neil Marshall’s 2008 viral horror Doomsday. On television, the distinguished and well-spoken Carson starred as Dr Donald Latimer in ground-breaking British medical drama Emergency Ward 10 in the early 1960s and also made numerous guest appearances in series as diverse as Dixon of Dock Green, The New Avengers, Secret Army, The Professionals, Tales of the Unexpected and, appro

Groundbreaking classic British “sci-fi” series Doomwatch originally aired on the BBC from 1970 – 1972 and, at its peak, attracted in excess of 13.6 million viewers, spawned a 1972 feature film starring Ian Bannen and a 1999 Channel 5 pilot reboot entitled Winter Angel. Only a handful of episodes have previously been released on DVD (long since deleted) but April 4th will finally see what remains of the series – series two exists in full but fourteen episodes across season one and three are missing from the BBC Archive - making their long-awaited DVD debut courtesy of Simply Media. Doomwatch Series 1-3 The Remaining Episodes will be released in a stunning seven-disc boxset, together with unseen episode Sex and Violence (originally planned as episode twelve of the third season but untransmitted due to its perceived controversial subject matter) and, as an additional special feature, the BBC documentary The Cult of Doomwatch originally screened on BBC4 in 2006. The cult series was the brainchild of Kit

Jurassic Park fans hoping for at least a quick curtain call for some of the original cast from the first movie (way back in 1993, itself almost pre-history as far as Hollywood is concerned these days) are set to be as disappointed as a tyrannosaurus rex in a vegetarian restaurant. Colin Trevorrow, director of the upcoming and much-awaited Jurassic World, has confirmed that the original Jurassic Park‘s Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern won’t be “running and screaming” from genetically-recreated prehistoric carnivores in the series’ fourth instalment. Speaking to IGN Trevorrow stated  "I know a lot of fans want to see the original characters back. They're iconic. But I respect those actors too much to shoehorn them into this story for my own sentimental reasons. Jurassic Park isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation. The only reason they'd go back to that island is if the screenwriters contrived a reason for them to go." One face from the past wi

Actress Alexandra Bastedo, best known to cult TV fans from her role as super-agent Sharron Macready in the classic 1960s ITC adventure series The Champions passed away at the weekend at the age of 67 after a long battle with cancer.  Born in March 1946 in Hove in Sussex Alexandra (whose exotic looks could be attributed to her mother who was of French, German and Italian descent and her father who was born in Canada but was of mixed Spanish, Dutch, Scottish and native Indian decent) made her screen debut in 1963 in horror film 13 Frightened Girls. Subsequent 1960s credits included episodes of The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) for ITC and feature film appearances in Doctor in Clover, That Riviera Touch (alongside Morecombe and Wise), spy thriller The Liquidator and Bond spoof Casino Royale.  In 1968 she joined William Gaunt and Stuart Damon in the well-remembered 30-episode filmed ITC series The Champions. As an agent for United Nations espionage/intelligence organisation ‘Nemesis’ Alexandra’