Hadn't seen the Basil Rathbone Holmes films since I was a kid and I needed something light to give me a lift. Just right, terrific fun. All for Nigel Bruce's comedy Watson who carries the films as Rathbone gets less interested in the later movies.

A correct set of opinions. Would love to know what happened with 5. I wonder if Downing Street thought it would be seen as a sop to the left of the party, given El-Fattah's cause was taken up by some of them. (+ Greens / Your Party / Gaza Independents)? edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Half watching Four Weddings and a Funeral for the first time in years and its got to the ridiculous bit where Kristen Scott Thomas reveals she's in love with Hugh Grant and the film doesn't end immediately with him dumping the dull American for her.

The best thing about working 12 hours without a break and serving over 600 covers is then going home and prepping your own Xmas dinner. Because now there will be Whisky.

A lot of pressure on the birthday boy

This is why Muppet Christmas Carol is a classic and Muppet Treasure Island is less good. Michael Caine is playing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and Tim Curry is playing Tim Curry in a Muppet film at volume 11.

Story from Joolz Denby over on Facebook. A bad day at TotP in 1985 with New Model Army, and Chris Rea suddenly appearing and being compassionate and gernerally decent.

James Herbert, probably Terry Pratchett soon, in fact the vast majority of authors shortly after they die.

hi please can you all tell me what drugs you have all replaced alcohol with? there is no way you're all out there raw dogging living in the UK www.ft.com/content/0f42...

Charles Saxon’s wonderfully evocative wintery cover to December 19th 1959’s The New Yorker.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

Someone who works in a restaurant seeing all your "Out of office" posts.

They decided they'd made enough money out of him then.

In the movie Grease John Travolta sings "Sandy baby, I sit and wonder why you left me." But we all saw why she left him, it was because he tried to feel her up and wouldn't take no for an answer. It only happened five minutes ago, how have you forgotten?

Simon Thomas on Soccer Saturday confidently and repeatedly saying "Wearside derby" as if that's something that exists. It really is a load of shit these days.

The Rebel Alliance after the second Death Star blows up.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

Expelled for dealing Acid, his mate and fellow dealer wasn't, copper's son. Headmaster later hanged himself, Moore claims it was partly because his school had to take in working class comprehensive school kids like him.

From SCTV, Martin Scorsese's Jerry Lewis LIVE on Les Champs-Elysées. This is such a *perfect* parody, Martin Short is incredible. Best bit: Lewis in a goofy sailor suit ranting bitterly about the movie business. The anger, madness and neediness, it's all here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgwV...

Something a little bit different for the YouTube channel this festive season. I give to you these compendiums of Christmas continuity, idents, trails and assorted miscellany. First there's one from the 1980s...

The best Christmas Song is One More Skeep Till Christmas.

It's almost as if this whole thing is just a massive ego trip from two absolute twats.

Quite a bold claim.

"Who's our Party?" "It's Your Party." "It's not your Party?" "Yes Our Party is Your Party." "But is it your party? "Well Your Party is For The Many." "How can our Party be for the many?" "Oh, we'll just fucking call it the Popular Alliance."

I'm astonished the Chancellor has put up some taxes on budget day. Luckily some of these taxes are the good taxes that only effect other people. Sadly some of these taxes are the bad taxes that effect me.

'I wouldn't trust Thatcher if she told me not to look directly at the sun' - "Blind" Dave Smith.

The premiere of Marvel's new movie "Rapists Assemble"

Well done the Jocks. Scotland absolutely deserve their chance to go out in the group stages.

When I see something beautiful ruined - litter in a park, say - I always think of Daphne’s family showing up in Frasier.

Just flicked onto I'm A Celebrity.

This is just great.

‘Recycling By’

there are Oasis records on Antiques Roadshow

Weird thing to call your readers.

If by celebrate you mean a few of the local bullies coming round to demand money with menaces and then egging the house when you didn't answer the door, sure.

No. Go to the fucking pub.

What If Bruce Springsteen, But He Looked A Bit Like Gene Wilder (2025)

"And then my kids told me he's from a comic book, I had no idea, they showed me the comic, he's this little geezer in his underwear with kitchen knives on his hands."

Thirty odd years ago, this night was the best night of the year, because the clubs could stay open for an extra hour, so you could be up later getting more pissed and partying. Now I am awake because I have indigestion.

Just kill someone at Center Parcs

This is the moment for me that Claudia Winkleman became one of my all time favourite faces on television and all she says is “stop speaking”. youtu.be/cPpac4QGmXE?...

This man just wants to play murder mystery and you’re ruining it #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

"Isn't that just a convincing argument?" Joe Wilkinson sums up the world 2025. #TheTraitorsUK

A brilliant film, not a bad film like the stupid people think.

In ‘Linear TV is dead news’ news, the first episode of The Celebrity Traitors has been watched by over 11.7 million viewers; episode 2 had overnights of 6.9 million

The Traitors is a brilliant television programme with lots and lots of obvious problems with the format and this is one of the ways it can be broken. With people getting more media literate it is a problem for the show.