“Mellow Yellow” by Donovan is the most beloved 1960s song with the word “yellow” in the title that wasn’t released by The Beatles. During an interview, the “Atlantis” singer opined that his catalog was a lot more diverse than The Beatles’, to the point where he sounded like a completely different artist from song to song. Donovan also said something about his background made him similar to George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. While “Mellow Yellow” might be one of the most unusual hits of the period, it wouldn’t be the same without a little help from Paul.
Donovan said ‘Mellow Yellow’ and ‘Barabajagal’ were more original than any Beatles songs
During a 2016 interview with Best Classic Bands, a reporter asked Donovan why “Mellow Yellow” was so different from the rest of his catalog. “Why were they all so different?” he replied. “I displayed more of the painterly,...
Donovan said ‘Mellow Yellow’ and ‘Barabajagal’ were more original than any Beatles songs
During a 2016 interview with Best Classic Bands, a reporter asked Donovan why “Mellow Yellow” was so different from the rest of his catalog. “Why were they all so different?” he replied. “I displayed more of the painterly,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
As the 56th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s April 4th, 1968 assassination approaches, we’d like to make a suggestion for anyone looking for content about the late civil-rights leader: Season 4 of National Geographic‘s insightful and effective Genius. Entitled MLK/X and starring Kelvin Harrison Jr. (The Trial of the Chicago 7) and Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad) as King and Malcolm X, respectively, the eight-episode bio-series charted the concurrent yet dramatically divergent paths both men trod during one of the most important eras of modern history. It’s also filled with information many viewers may not be aware of (they only met once?!). But far from a musty retelling, the series—as Genius has so far done with Picasso, Aretha Franklin, and Einstein—digs beneath the facade of the famous men to examine what drove them and, as Harrison, Jr. puts it, amplify the fact that anyone can make a difference.
- 3/21/2024
- TV Insider
Intelligence is about to say goodbye to one of its own, with Tracy Spiridakos exiting at the end of Chicago P.D. Season 11. The season began with Detective Hailey Upton struggling and opening up to Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), who has seen multiple members of his team leave (tragically and on their own). So how will he handle the latest departure? “My favorite quote personally, and I kind of probably apply it to Voight, is somebody asked Picasso, ‘How do you plan a painting like Guernica?’ And he said, ‘I paint the picture to find out what it looks like,'” Beghe tells TV Insider. “So I want to find out how it affects Voight. I don’t want to plan that, and it’ll depend on what the circumstances are, which are, as yet, certainly not written in stone.” We very much hope he’s right when he suggests,...
- 3/17/2024
- TV Insider
escultor valenciano con un recorrido por toda su trayectoria artística desde sus inicios en los años 50 hasta su muerte en enero de 2023
La muestra incluye esculturas, pinturas, dibujos, instalaciones, tablas y collages, y permite contemplar algunas de sus creaciones más icónicas junto a otras piezas que se muestran por primera vez al público
Nassio Bayarri
Valencia, 1 de marzo de 2024. La Fundación Bancaja ha presentado esta mañana en su sede en Valencia la exposición Nassio Bayarri, una de las retrospectivas más completas realizadas hasta la fecha del escultor valenciano. La muestra transcurre por toda su trayectoria artística desde sus inicios en los años 50 hasta su muerte en enero de 2023.
La presentación ha contado con la participación del presidente de la Fundación Bancaja, Rafael Alcón; y de los comisarios de la exposición, el arquitecto Javier Domínguez y la escultora Amparo Carbonell.
La exposición realiza un recorrido atemporal por la evolución de la producción artística de Nassio Bayarri,...
La muestra incluye esculturas, pinturas, dibujos, instalaciones, tablas y collages, y permite contemplar algunas de sus creaciones más icónicas junto a otras piezas que se muestran por primera vez al público
Nassio Bayarri
Valencia, 1 de marzo de 2024. La Fundación Bancaja ha presentado esta mañana en su sede en Valencia la exposición Nassio Bayarri, una de las retrospectivas más completas realizadas hasta la fecha del escultor valenciano. La muestra transcurre por toda su trayectoria artística desde sus inicios en los años 50 hasta su muerte en enero de 2023.
La presentación ha contado con la participación del presidente de la Fundación Bancaja, Rafael Alcón; y de los comisarios de la exposición, el arquitecto Javier Domínguez y la escultora Amparo Carbonell.
La exposición realiza un recorrido atemporal por la evolución de la producción artística de Nassio Bayarri,...
- 3/2/2024
- by Art Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
The caper or heist film is one of the sub-genres of action that has a lot to offer thematically and stylistically if done correctly. If we think back to “To Catch a Thief” or even the “Oceans”-series, the world these stories show are a reflection of a society based on materialism and property, with the thieves sharing the same obsession as the owners of the object they want to steal. On the other hand, given its potential to be an ensemble piece, the caper/heist feature also offers actors the chance to shine. Steve Yuen's “The Moon Thieves”, the director's third feature, tries to combine the two aspects of the genre, but fails to offer some depth to its otherwise intriguing premise.
The Moon Thieves is released exclusively in UK cinemas by Central City Media
Uncle (Keung To) is a major player in the Hong Kong underworld and...
The Moon Thieves is released exclusively in UK cinemas by Central City Media
Uncle (Keung To) is a major player in the Hong Kong underworld and...
- 2/29/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Sports fans tend to feel proprietary about their heroes, as if stars owed us more than the heroics and physical sacrifice they provide on the field or court. The better the athlete, the more we expect and demand. So, when all-world Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders announced his retirement in 1998, after ten exemplary seasons with a largely losing team, fans were angry. How dare he? Doesn’t he know we love watching him? Some of the aggrievement was due to the way Sanders walked away, with a fax (remember those?...
- 11/21/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
Greenaway is being honoured at this week’s IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
Peter Greenaway is not a face to normally be found at a creative documentary festival like International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
However, the director of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover (1989) and A Zed And Two Noughts (1985), both screening at the festival as part of a Greenaway retrospective, has always blurred genre boundaries.
His work combines elements of art history, anthropology and magical realism - and he has made both documentaries and mockumentaries. Greenaway lives in the Netherlands and has strong Dutch connections. Perhaps, then,...
Peter Greenaway is not a face to normally be found at a creative documentary festival like International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
However, the director of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover (1989) and A Zed And Two Noughts (1985), both screening at the festival as part of a Greenaway retrospective, has always blurred genre boundaries.
His work combines elements of art history, anthropology and magical realism - and he has made both documentaries and mockumentaries. Greenaway lives in the Netherlands and has strong Dutch connections. Perhaps, then,...
- 11/14/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Cage leads a strong cast into the wilderness in an adaptation of John Williams’ punishing novel that cannot quite convey the full horror of its events
John Williams’s punishing 1960 western novel Butcher’s Crossing was described by Bret Easton Ellis as “a precursor to what Cormac McCarthy would do with the genre”. It follows Will Andrews, a dreamy 23-year-old Harvard dropout, as he tags along with Miller, a buffalo hunter targeting hidden valleys in the Colorado territory in the late 19th century. Will hopes to learn “more about this country”; what he gets, as the four-man crew shoots and hacks its way through dwindling herds in ever more treacherous conditions, is a lesson in remorseless brutality. Any screen version would need to find a cinematic equivalent for the prose’s tensile strength, and for what critic Leo Robson calls the “regime of methodical close description” from which Williams offers no respite.
John Williams’s punishing 1960 western novel Butcher’s Crossing was described by Bret Easton Ellis as “a precursor to what Cormac McCarthy would do with the genre”. It follows Will Andrews, a dreamy 23-year-old Harvard dropout, as he tags along with Miller, a buffalo hunter targeting hidden valleys in the Colorado territory in the late 19th century. Will hopes to learn “more about this country”; what he gets, as the four-man crew shoots and hacks its way through dwindling herds in ever more treacherous conditions, is a lesson in remorseless brutality. Any screen version would need to find a cinematic equivalent for the prose’s tensile strength, and for what critic Leo Robson calls the “regime of methodical close description” from which Williams offers no respite.
- 11/1/2023
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Depiction doesn’t equal endorsement, director David Fincher helpfully reminded folks in a new interview.
The filmmaker, whose new movie “The Killer” is out now in a limited release before arriving on Netflix next week, was asked in an interview with The Guardian how he felt about his 1999 movie “Fight Club” being embraced by misogynists and those who align with the far right of the political spectrum.
“I’m not responsible for how people interpret things,” Fincher said when the topic of “incels” and the “alt-right” appreciation of his film was broached. “Language evolves. Symbols evolve.”
Pushed by the interviewer about the film becoming a “touchstone” for the far right, Fincher added, “Ok, fine. It’s one of many touchstones in their lexicography,… we didn’t make it for them, but people will see what they’re going to see in a Norman Rockwell painting, or [Picasso’s] Guernica.”
“Fight Club...
The filmmaker, whose new movie “The Killer” is out now in a limited release before arriving on Netflix next week, was asked in an interview with The Guardian how he felt about his 1999 movie “Fight Club” being embraced by misogynists and those who align with the far right of the political spectrum.
“I’m not responsible for how people interpret things,” Fincher said when the topic of “incels” and the “alt-right” appreciation of his film was broached. “Language evolves. Symbols evolve.”
Pushed by the interviewer about the film becoming a “touchstone” for the far right, Fincher added, “Ok, fine. It’s one of many touchstones in their lexicography,… we didn’t make it for them, but people will see what they’re going to see in a Norman Rockwell painting, or [Picasso’s] Guernica.”
“Fight Club...
- 10/31/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
It can sound pretentious, but art really can truly be interpreted in any way by the viewer. In some cases, there are villains in movies that can win over audiences if they’re written well enough or performed well enough. Michael Douglas once expressed his frustration over some people taking to his Wall Street character, Gordon Gecko, even though it was intended that he was the antagonist. Al Pacino’s Scarface is seen by some as sort of a folk, anti-hero as Tony Montana came from the gutter and became a powerful figure with an unbreakable spirit. And now, David Fincher is being asked by The Guardian about his feelings of disenfranchised extremists holding his Fight Club film to high regard with its anti-establishment theme.
According to Variety, the director of the upcoming Michael Fassbender film, The Killer (check out our review), doesn’t feel it’s his duty to...
According to Variety, the director of the upcoming Michael Fassbender film, The Killer (check out our review), doesn’t feel it’s his duty to...
- 10/31/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
From Patrick Bateman to Tyler Durden, Men’s Rights Activists, incels, and other misogynistic men have a tendency to idolize fictional characters that are meant to be cautionary tales. David Fincher — who brought Durden to the big screen with Fight Club — is as baffled by it as you and me.
Starring Edward Norton as the disaffected Narrator and Brad Pitt as Durden, Fight Club — Fincher’s 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel of the same name — tackled the same middle class ennui as Office Space, but took its characters’ frustrations to much more violent ends. Steve Rose of The Guardian asked Fincher about the film’s negative impact in a new interview, but Fincher was quick to avoid taking any personal responsibility for the rise of incel culture.
“I’m not responsible for how people interpret things,” Fincher said. “Language evolves. Symbols evolve.” Pressed on the number of male supremacists...
Starring Edward Norton as the disaffected Narrator and Brad Pitt as Durden, Fight Club — Fincher’s 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel of the same name — tackled the same middle class ennui as Office Space, but took its characters’ frustrations to much more violent ends. Steve Rose of The Guardian asked Fincher about the film’s negative impact in a new interview, but Fincher was quick to avoid taking any personal responsibility for the rise of incel culture.
“I’m not responsible for how people interpret things,” Fincher said. “Language evolves. Symbols evolve.” Pressed on the number of male supremacists...
- 10/31/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Film News
David Fincher was recently asked by The Guardian about how his 1999 directorial effort “Fight Club” has become a favorite amongst incels and far-right groups for depicting disenfranchised white men coming together to rally against capitalist society. The director distanced himself from such a topic, telling the publication, “I’m not responsible for how people interpret things…Language evolves. Symbols evolve.”
“Ok, fine,” Fincher replied when the Guardian writer said “Fight Club” has become a touchstone for the far right. “It’s one of many touchstones in their lexicography.” Is the director bothered by that? “We didn’t make it for them, but people will see what they’re going to see in a Norman Rockwell painting, or [Picasso’s] Guernica,” he reasoned, reiterating that he’s not responsible for how people interpret his work.
“It’s impossible for me to imagine that people don’t understand that Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is a negative influence,...
“Ok, fine,” Fincher replied when the Guardian writer said “Fight Club” has become a touchstone for the far right. “It’s one of many touchstones in their lexicography.” Is the director bothered by that? “We didn’t make it for them, but people will see what they’re going to see in a Norman Rockwell painting, or [Picasso’s] Guernica,” he reasoned, reiterating that he’s not responsible for how people interpret his work.
“It’s impossible for me to imagine that people don’t understand that Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is a negative influence,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Since its release in 1999, “Fight Club” has become a cultural touchstone for a subset of the human population referred to as the manosphere — men who are known as “incels” and are typically steeped in misogyny and Neo-Nazi beliefs. If anyone is surprised by that, it’s the movie’s director David Fincher.
Addressing the extremist audience that has embraced a film he himself hasn’t seen in two decades, Fincher told The Guardian, “We didn’t make it for them, but people will see what they’re going to see in a Norman Rockwell painting, or [Picasso’s] Guernica.”
“I’m not responsible for how people interpret things. Language evolves. Symbols evolve,” Fincher added. Still, he understands that the movie is “one of many touchstones in their lexicography.”
This echoes comments from the author of the “Fight Club” book. In 2018, Chuck Palahniuk told the same outlet that it’s “fascinating...
Addressing the extremist audience that has embraced a film he himself hasn’t seen in two decades, Fincher told The Guardian, “We didn’t make it for them, but people will see what they’re going to see in a Norman Rockwell painting, or [Picasso’s] Guernica.”
“I’m not responsible for how people interpret things. Language evolves. Symbols evolve,” Fincher added. Still, he understands that the movie is “one of many touchstones in their lexicography.”
This echoes comments from the author of the “Fight Club” book. In 2018, Chuck Palahniuk told the same outlet that it’s “fascinating...
- 10/28/2023
- by Stephanie Kaloi
- The Wrap
The subject of time travel and quantum mechanics is an interesting topic for sci-fi filmmakers to munch on, and Larry Wade Carrell’s 2023 film, The Quantum Devil, is no exception. It’s a sly wink at the fact that not every quest for knowledge yields Nobel-worthy results. Sometimes, it lands you in a parallel universe where the extraordinary is the new ordinary, and danger lurks around every corner. Meet our fearless foursome: Matthews, Luke, Ivanna, and Sophie, who’re on a wild goose chase to solve a riddle that’s more mind-boggling than a Picasso painting. As they go down the rabbit hole, they come across a dimension where the rules of life and death don’t matter, old secrets pop up, and who knows what else!
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Plot Synopsis: What Happens in the Film?
The Quantum Devil begins with Luke Matthews (Tyler Tackett) stepping inside a taxi...
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens in the Film?
The Quantum Devil begins with Luke Matthews (Tyler Tackett) stepping inside a taxi...
- 10/25/2023
- by Rishabh Shandilya
- Film Fugitives
Previously, in Class Act Episode 3, Bernard Tapie had immense success with the Diguet-Deny factory. Tapie briefly considered a slaughterhouse venture but shifted his focus to buying a battery company named Wonder. Despite financial challenges, Tapie pursued buying Wonder but faced competition from his wife’s friend, Alexis. Tapie devised a clever scheme and gained control of Wonder. However, he found Wonder in debt and was compelled to choose between saving his workers in Diguet-Deny and securing Wonder’s success.
Spoilers Ahead
What Were The Workers From Wonder Striking For?
In Class Act Episode 4, things took an intense turn when a massive strike was organized at the Wonder factory, led by the union representative, Mrs. Leduc, to fight the layoff. Frustrated and desperate, the workers wanted to confront Tapie about his unfulfilled promises. However, much to their disappointment, Tapie was nowhere to be found. Instead, they had to deal with Nicole,...
Spoilers Ahead
What Were The Workers From Wonder Striking For?
In Class Act Episode 4, things took an intense turn when a massive strike was organized at the Wonder factory, led by the union representative, Mrs. Leduc, to fight the layoff. Frustrated and desperate, the workers wanted to confront Tapie about his unfulfilled promises. However, much to their disappointment, Tapie was nowhere to be found. Instead, they had to deal with Nicole,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
In the midst of recording his 2021 album Quietly Blowing It, Hiss Golden Messenger — the nom de plume of M.C. Taylor — seriously wondered if it was the end of the road for his indie-rock career.
“That record was made during a time of absolute chaos — in the world and also in my brain,” Taylor tells Rolling Stone. “I can hear myself struggling on that record. I knew I needed to change it up. If every record felt like Quietly Blowing It, I don’t know that I would want to keep doing this.
“That record was made during a time of absolute chaos — in the world and also in my brain,” Taylor tells Rolling Stone. “I can hear myself struggling on that record. I knew I needed to change it up. If every record felt like Quietly Blowing It, I don’t know that I would want to keep doing this.
- 9/13/2023
- by Garret K. Woodward
- Rollingstone.com
Ellen Kuras is having a full-circle moment.
The celebrated cinematographer, who has worked for directors including Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee and Michel Gondry, wanted to be a politically minded filmmaker like Costa-Gavras when she was starting out, but found herself primarily working behind the camera for many years. With “Lee,” a Toronto premiere starring Kate Winslet as famed World War II photographer Lee Miller, she is finally making her debut as a feature film director.
“It’s actually been a pretty smooth glide from the dolly to the director’s chair,” says Kuras, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc “The Betrayal,” commercials and episodes of “Ozark” and “Catch-22” before tackling “Lee.”
Her work on the project is an outgrowth of a connection she made with Winslet as cinematographer on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” At a bookstore, Kuras spotted a tome about Miller, and, taken by Winslet’s likeness to her,...
The celebrated cinematographer, who has worked for directors including Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee and Michel Gondry, wanted to be a politically minded filmmaker like Costa-Gavras when she was starting out, but found herself primarily working behind the camera for many years. With “Lee,” a Toronto premiere starring Kate Winslet as famed World War II photographer Lee Miller, she is finally making her debut as a feature film director.
“It’s actually been a pretty smooth glide from the dolly to the director’s chair,” says Kuras, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc “The Betrayal,” commercials and episodes of “Ozark” and “Catch-22” before tackling “Lee.”
Her work on the project is an outgrowth of a connection she made with Winslet as cinematographer on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” At a bookstore, Kuras spotted a tome about Miller, and, taken by Winslet’s likeness to her,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Diane Garrett
- Variety Film + TV
Toufik Ayadi and Christophe Barral’s Srab Films has a slate of social justice titles.
Toufik Ayadi and Christophe Barral’s Paris-based Srab Films, which is heading to Toronto next month with Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables, has unveiled a slew of projects including the next features from Ly and Alice Diop, whose Saint Omer the company produced last year.
Ly is in the writing stages of the third of what will be a trilogy of titles set against the same backdrop of his native Montfermeil neighbourhood following Les Misérables (also produced by Srab) and Les Indésirables.
“After Les Misérables,...
Toufik Ayadi and Christophe Barral’s Paris-based Srab Films, which is heading to Toronto next month with Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables, has unveiled a slew of projects including the next features from Ly and Alice Diop, whose Saint Omer the company produced last year.
Ly is in the writing stages of the third of what will be a trilogy of titles set against the same backdrop of his native Montfermeil neighbourhood following Les Misérables (also produced by Srab) and Les Indésirables.
“After Les Misérables,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Drake has unveiled the special cover art for his upcoming album, For All The Dogs.
On Monday, the rapper uploaded a photo of the all-black cover featuring a doodle of a dog with red eyes to his Instagram account alongside the caption, “For All The Dogs. Cover by Adonis,” revealing his son is the artist behind the drawing.
Read More: Drake’s Son Adonis Can’t Stop Singing ’21, Can You Do Something For Me?’ After Attending His Dad’s Gig
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In the comments, many fans dubbed the 5-year-old a “young Picasso,” adding that Adonis “snapped” with his “talent.”
“Adonis resume looking crazy already,” one person wrote.
Drake’s announcement comes one day after he shared a sweet pic of Adonis dressed cozy next to his grandmother, Drake’s mother Sandi Graham.
Read More: Drake Narrowly Avoids Being Hit By...
On Monday, the rapper uploaded a photo of the all-black cover featuring a doodle of a dog with red eyes to his Instagram account alongside the caption, “For All The Dogs. Cover by Adonis,” revealing his son is the artist behind the drawing.
Read More: Drake’s Son Adonis Can’t Stop Singing ’21, Can You Do Something For Me?’ After Attending His Dad’s Gig
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In the comments, many fans dubbed the 5-year-old a “young Picasso,” adding that Adonis “snapped” with his “talent.”
“Adonis resume looking crazy already,” one person wrote.
Drake’s announcement comes one day after he shared a sweet pic of Adonis dressed cozy next to his grandmother, Drake’s mother Sandi Graham.
Read More: Drake Narrowly Avoids Being Hit By...
- 8/22/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Tony Bennett, who died today at the age of 96, was a singular figure in music — a classic crooner who weathered the fickle winds of popular music over multiple decades by adapting but never fundamentally changing who he was. His initial rise and success were astounding in their own right, but the second half of Bennett’s career is just as fascinating. Starting in the Nineties, Bennett didn’t so much try to court younger audiences or artists but find some kind of common ground with them.
Related Tony Bennett, Beloved Standards Crooner Who Bridged Generations,...
Related Tony Bennett, Beloved Standards Crooner Who Bridged Generations,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In the early scenes of “Oppenheimer,” J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), an American physics student attending graduate school in England and Germany in the 1920s, with bright blue marble eyes and a curly wedge of hair that stands up like Charlie Chaplin’s, keeps having visions of particles and waves. We see the images that are disrupting his mind, the particles pulsating, the waves aglow in vibratory bands of light. Oppenheimer can see the brave new world of quantum physics, and the visual razzmatazz is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from a biopic written and directed by Christopher Nolan: a molecular light show as a reflection of the hero’s inner spirit.
But even when “Oppenheimer” settles down into a more realistic, less phantasmagorical groove (which it does fairly quickly), it remains every inch a Nolan film. You feel that in the heady, dense, dizzying way it slices and dices chronology,...
But even when “Oppenheimer” settles down into a more realistic, less phantasmagorical groove (which it does fairly quickly), it remains every inch a Nolan film. You feel that in the heady, dense, dizzying way it slices and dices chronology,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Warning: This contains spoilers for Not Going Out
Back in 2015, during a BBC Breakfast interview about series seven of Not Going Out, presenter Bill Turnbull asked Lee Mack: “Did you ever imagine when you first got that pilot that you’d get seven series?”
“I didn’t think we’d even get a series,” Mack answers incredulously, explaining that even going from script to a pilot episode felt like “the biggest hurdle”.
And yet, eight years later (17 since the show began in 2006), Not Going Out has now almost doubled its series from seven to 13, still regularly pulling in audiences of over four million, with the newest series arriving on BBC One on Friday 23rd June at 9pm. As ever, the show will focus on Lee Mack as a fictionalised version of himself, alongside his landlady-turned-wife and sparring partner Lucy, and their eventful and often farcical life together.
Series 13 will...
Back in 2015, during a BBC Breakfast interview about series seven of Not Going Out, presenter Bill Turnbull asked Lee Mack: “Did you ever imagine when you first got that pilot that you’d get seven series?”
“I didn’t think we’d even get a series,” Mack answers incredulously, explaining that even going from script to a pilot episode felt like “the biggest hurdle”.
And yet, eight years later (17 since the show began in 2006), Not Going Out has now almost doubled its series from seven to 13, still regularly pulling in audiences of over four million, with the newest series arriving on BBC One on Friday 23rd June at 9pm. As ever, the show will focus on Lee Mack as a fictionalised version of himself, alongside his landlady-turned-wife and sparring partner Lucy, and their eventful and often farcical life together.
Series 13 will...
- 6/23/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Fresh from her annulled marriage this weekend pop star Britney Spears has a fresh offer of romance - from Playboy magazine publisher Hugh Hefner. Hefner, 77, well known for his love of women, is pursuing the 22-year-old singer in his current quest for beautiful blondes. He says, "Britney would make a great girlfriend. Picasso had his pink period and his blue period - I am in my blonde period right now. I think it's related to those early movies that had such a great influence on me when I was a kid." Hefner would also like his prospective girlfriend to strip for a saucy shoot in his magazine - but if he can't persuade her, then he'd settle for movie star Catherine Zeta-Jones. He explains, "They really epitomize the type of beauty that we like in the magazine."...
- 1/8/2004
- WENN
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