Sad news was announced recently - the beloved Australian soap Neighbours has been cancelled due to cost and the main funder UK’s Channel 5 pulling out. https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/neighbours-canceled-rested-1235194930/ I watched this show when I was a teenager in the 90s - it was always on at lunch time and repeated when I got home from school. … Continue reading Neighbours Nostalgia
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In May 2021 a small town on the North West coast of England became the focal point of Star Wars fans around the world. Cleveleys - a seaside town just north of Blackpool, Lancashire was chosen as a location for the Disney+ Star Wars show ‘Andor’. This is the prequel TV show to the 2016 … Continue reading Cleveleys – a new hope
I did manage to travel beyond the Mersey region this year to bag a few television locations, but I really didn’t need to leave my home town really – film crews descended on St Helens with surprising frequency in 2021. Three new shows used places familiar to me, some barely a 10 minute walk form … Continue reading On my doorstep – St Helens
In 2007 I visited New Zealand and I worked for a few months in a backpacker hostel in Christchurch to help fund my adventures. There were a lot of things I really wanted to do while I was in the country; whale watching in Kaikoura, boat trip through Milford Sound, star gazing at Mount Cook, … Continue reading Middle Earth memories
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