Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Author: Steve

  • Oscars, Before and After

    I was going to drive down to Hollywood Boulevard last night to take a look at the Oscar preparations, but it was raining fairly steadily (‘a storm’, in local parlance) and I was frankly not that arsed. At the moment, everything’s locked up around there – when I last looked they appeared to be tenting…

  • For Virtual, read ‘Nothing There’

    Back when I was working on BUGS we grappled with several ‘virtual reality’ story ideas and none of them ever worked out. We finally concluded that they never would; an action show is about real perils, not perils that you know are merely perceived. When you send your characters into a virtual reality you’re essentially…

  • Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure

    My first movie Tarzan was stuntman and former Range Rider Jock Mahoney in Tarzan Goes to India, so maybe it was TV that introduced me to Gordon Scott’s take on the ape man. All due respect to Mahoney, but he didn’t look right and he was on the wrong frickin’ continent. He looked like he’d…

  • Shutter Island

    I’m not trying for spoilers, here, but if you want to keep yourself pure, don’t read on. Read this instead. It’s probably my most popular post. I set out to see The Wolfman at the weekend, but got there an hour before showtime so bought a ticket for Shutter Island instead. (I saw The Wolfman…

  • I’m the Axeman, Baby

    Let me get one thing straight. I’m no musician. I don’t play, I don’t perform. But I’ve owned a guitar since I was a teenager and, when no one’s listening, I get pleasure from stumbling my way through the dozen or two chords that I learned back then. I could probably manage a tolerable Kumbayah…

  • On My Radio

    I love the radio ads for casino resorts and hotels here. They all end the same way: “Please gamble responsibly.”

  • Back in LA

    Last night’s wrap party was great. I knew so many people there that I always had someone to talk to, unlike those vast BBC affairs where you just keep circulating because you don’t want to stand on your own looking like a tool. There were loads of people I didn’t know, as well, and some…

  • STFU, Parent

    Whose blog is it, anyway?

  • My Favourite Headline

    Some headlines just stick in your mind. Like BUDGIE DIES IN FIRE, from the Bolton Chronicle. The Chronicle was the local freesheet that was pushed through our letterbox once a week back when I was living in Bolton and working in Manchester. It featured several pages of classified ads filled out with a minumum of…

  • Chimera on DVD

    From Revelation Films with a launch date of May 24th, if you’re interested… Chimera wasn’t my first TV work but it was the one that upshifted my career and spoiled me for anything less than big-budget ‘event’ TV. Few official details yet but the product description reads, First broadcast on British TV in 1991, Chimera…