Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Author: Steve

  • Richard Williams

    You could do worse than hop over to Blowing my Thought Wad for this piece inspired by a recent Foyles event featuring ‘veteran animator’, Canadian-born Richard Williams. Williams is an animator of eclectic achievements, the most well-known of which I imagine to be Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I suppose Williams is to drawn animation what…

  • Star Wars

    Star Wars? I was right there at the beginning, I tell you. Well, when I say the beginning, I mean I got into the press show. In Manchester. All right, so it was hardly the creative coalface, but looking back on it I can feel that I was a witness to something. I saw the…

  • The Forgotten

    Just a quick heads-up – tonight’s story is one of mine: The team investigates the killing of a John Doe found buried at a popular vacation destination; a stray dog standing vigil over the grave is the only clue in the case. On ABC, right after Dancing with the Stars.

  • A DVD Competition and a Trailer

    Over at the Are You Screening blog, reviewer Marc Eastman writes about the Eleventh Hour DVDs and offers the chance for readers in the US and Canada to win a set simply by adding to the comments section. “Starring Rufus Sewell, on the short list of most underrated actors, as one of the world’s leading…

  • The Avengers Guy

    I had to miss last month’s UK Fantasycon, but I’d already been asked to write an appreciation of Guest of Honour Brian Clemens for the Convention’s programme book. Here’s what I said. It was one o’clock in the morning and I had stuff on my mind. I turned on the TV for distraction. In a…

  • Eleventh Hour on UK Freeview

    The show starts a run on the UK’s Virgin 1 Freeview channel on October 28th. Click here for screening times and details.

  • Look What Ships Today

    All eighteen episodes, from Resurrection to Medea. Here’s the blurb: Acclaimed film and television producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean, CSI) is back again in the nick of time with… ELEVENTH HOUR. Starring Rufus Sewell as Dr. Jacob Hood, a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government, the series follows the enigmatic…

  • Old Sitcoms Never Die…

    These days, they surface on Hulu. Gail Renard made the comment, “Speaking of star cars, I wonder what ever became of the one from the Smothers Brothers’ TV epic, “My Mother The Car.” A title and a pitch all in one.” Someone else in the UK remembers My Mother the Car! Were the Smothers involved?…

  • What I did on my Birthday

    The night before my birthday, I had an idea for a way to mark it. I’m spending a lot of time on my own here in Los Angeles, but it was no big deal being alone on my birthday. It’s not like I’m twelve or anything. But… one of the routes from my place to…

  • John Stroud

    A shadow is cast across the day as I learn of the untimely death of John Stroud, a talented director and one of the most pleasant and engaging people I’ve had the honour of working with. Many of John’s achievements were in television comedy, so it was surely no coincidence that he brought a light…