Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Author: Steve

  • Callan

    Blog follower dvikib asked this question in the comments to Rockford Redux, and I thought it worth giving some prominence because it’s another opportunity to direct attention to one of the best TV series the UK ever produced: “I envy you that you were able to see the TV version of Callan. Amazon US recently…

  • Rockford Redux

    So here I am, midway through my boxed set of The Rockford Files season two, when I see the news today that David Shore, creator and showrunner of House, is lining up a revival of the show. It’s a task both enviable and unenviable – Rockford is probably the best show of its kind, but…

  • You Don’t Say…

    “But as he came to the door of the salubrious squat close to Guildford dressed as Delores in a blonde wig, sheer black tights, a leopard skin skirt and a cropped top with prosthetic breasts, before explaining that the world as it is known will end on 23 December 2012, it is perhaps clear why…

  • Travelling in Time

    I’m seeing trailers for the new movie The Time Traveller’s Wife (as we’d spell it in the UK), and they’ve reminded me that a while back I did some thinking around the uses of time travel in fiction and on the screen. And what’s a blog for, if not to share? The most obvious form…

  • At Home on the Range

    ‘Tis truly weird. I’ve been here about three weeks now and it feels like longer… kind of like on a ship when home drops below the horizon and you can’t see it anymore, you have to imagine it instead. Which is dumb, I know, after only three weeks… but in my defence, it has been…

  • Family Ties (2)

    Well, there was an upside to the delay in getting my visa. It meant that I was in London for long enough to catch my daughter’s grad show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire – and on Father’s Day, too. It was a great gig with lots of talent all round, and seriously well-attended. I stood…

  • Screenwriting Sense

    Talks on writing can be useful and fun. Usually if they’re fun, they’re useful – at the heart of all entertainment is a sense of play, and the art of the Art is learning to play to a purpose. On the positive side, I attended a MediaXchange event in London in 2002 in which a…

  • On the Lot

    Well, now it’s official. According to my 0-1 visa I’m an Alien of Extraordinary Talent and Ability. Yeah, I know, I know. Even my bank manager thought it was hilarious. Apparently there’s also a category of Alien Crew Member in Transit. Sometimes they go on the run and we aliens of extraordinary ability have to…

  • Family Ties

    If you happen to be in West London this weekend, you can go and hear my kid sing at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Or you could take the easy way out and go to ellengallagher.co.uk with your speakers on. Now, don’t get ahead of me, but a few years back I wrote a short…

  • Let’s All Recycle

    My first toe-in-the-blogosphere was this guest post for Danny Stack’s Scriptwriting in the UK. Here it is again: I am nothing if not frugal. Danny has kindly invited me to contribute a guest post, but has concluded his invitation with that most generous of terms, “anything on any subject that you care to discuss”. If…