Finally, in 2004, Channel 4 did the decent thing. Rumours persisted: a Peruvian broadcast, a missing castmember, skulduggery in high places. Two long decades of misinformation separated us from a truth too shocking to screen. They’d managed to keep it under wraps for twenty years: hiding the tapes, suppressing the press coverage. Now interested to know how many audiobook narrators have multiple edits to cut out swears? If it is standard practi… twitter.We should have seen it coming. On page 132 of The Lost Princess, by Connie Glynn /user_status/sh… 4 days ago RT WardChrisi884: Love is love! International day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia! I stand with my friends, colleagues.?️?… 3 days ago RT RedDogTweets: Saddened this morning to see UK dropping out of the top ten 'most #LGBTQ+ friendly countries' in Europe. RT LiaBetti: So here's the news: Uni of Roehampton is planning to make almost half of its academics redundant (226!), then ask them to com… 2 days ago I am happy for pictures/posts to be shared on sites like Pinterest, bo.lt, facebook as long as I am credited through a link back to the original URL as a minimum. If in doubt please use the contact me form. fiction or poetry) or original photographs shared through this site for which I retain copyright. Please note that this only applies to standard blog posts and not related to my creative writing (e.g. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you are a fan of GMD share with us your top quote/scene/episode. Thanks for the intro Cath – just finally watching the last two episodes as I’m writing this post.ĭo you like seeing the same story retold in different versions? If you took away my ink I would write on the wind ‘As a writer if you took away my paper I would write on my heart You are entering my Darkplace.’ (Opening lines)Īnd my favourite – which I need to get into my PhD thesis somehow (from episode 2 – Hell Hath No Fury) You’re about to enter the world of my imagination. Crowd fame) and Matthew Holness (Garth Marenghi himself). I’m still not sure that Mr King isn’t implicated here though.Īnyway if you like your comedy very surreal then GMD is a must see and it is immensely quotable – it was penned by two of its stars Richard Ayoade (Moss from the I.T.
A bit of searching showed that this was released before KH and that they were both based on Lars Von Triers The Kingdom (which I haven’t seen). When watching Darkplace I was immediately reminded of Kingdom Hospital – Darkplace is a hospital after all – and I wondered if it was a spoof of that and Mr King himself. A quick search and we found it on 4 on demand and proceeded to watch the first episode in all its deliberately shoddy acting glory.
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She described it as a mockumentary about the writer of horror books and the ‘80s’ TV show Darkplace where they show the series interspersed with interviews’ with the actors. Recently one of my good friends Cath stayed with me and she was talking about a Channel 4 comedy series from 2004 called Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. I believe the series has had mixed reviews but I enjoyed it for what it was. It had a similar feel to American Gothic (who got the briefest of mentions in my A post). This isn’t one I can pick out top episodes because it is a continuous story really. Peter ends up in the hospital after a hit and run accident, whilst he is unable to communicate with anyone he starts seeing a ghost girl called Mary and spends the series (13 episodes) trying to help her. The hospital was built on the scene of a fire where lots of children died so lots of spooky Poltergeisty type things happen. It is set in a hospital in, where else but Maine. In fact they are very related because I believe that the opening accident scene of Kingdom Hospital is based on King’s personal experience as discussed in On Writing (the book I am reviewing in my other K post today).Īs a Stephen King fan I had to watch this series when it was released (2004 according to imdb). Odd how both of my K posts today are Stephen King related – I didn’t plan it that way.