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I’m really getting into Little Dorrit now, and lo and behold, the Autumn TV schedule has provided more delights for us to watch.

Starting last night, Channel 4 has a new drama about the Civil War called The Devil’s Whore.  I am particularly interested in this period of history so I am quite impressed with it so far.  The end of the episode was quite shocking, I watched with my hands over my mouth!  How creepy was Peter Capaldi as Charles I?!

I have also just heard that there is going to be a new drama series, which was entitled The Last Van Helsing, but now appears to be called Demons.  It stars Philip Glenister as a Van Helsing, and was produced by the same people as Hex, which I also loved.  You can see a trailer here.

Has anyone else tried Apparitions starring Martin Shaw?  I’m not sure what to make of it yet.

I’m quite excited about this new series, as I really enjoyed Bleak House several years ago.

Obviously, this is a very different story, but it is being shown, I think, in a broadly similar format.

Anyhow, I have been recording the first few episodes so that I can watch them altogether, and see if I like it enough to continue.  Any fans out there?

Little Dorrit Video

As promised, the trailer is here at last.  Hakeswill!!

A quick note to any Sharpe fans out there.  Sean Bean has completed another drama based on Bernard Cornwell’s books.

Sharpe’s Peril will be showing in the UK on ITV1 in November, with a DVD release set for December.

I will post a video as soon as there are any promos about.

Talking of Autumn/Winter TV drama, there is also going to be a drama showing in November set during the 17 Century Civil War.  I have lost my note of its name, but as before, will post promos when I find them.

Yay, Strictly Come Dancing starts again next Saturday.  I’ve been watching the preview tonight, and it looks like it’s going to be another fun year.

You can always tell when Winter’s coming, when good TV is back on our screens!  I’m really enjoying Who Do You Think You Are?, Lost In Austen, Medium, Ghost Whisperer and The Tudors (believe it or not about The Tudors, I didn’t like the first series much).  Plus, I just heard that there is a new series called Merlin starting next week.  It’s in Robin Hood’s timeslot, so let’s hope it turns out to be better than that.

Now, all I’d like is for Channel 5 to show the latest series of NCIS, as I’ve got confused with which series I’ve seen or not, and for Bones to be back very soon.

Mmmm, cold nights, great books and TV.

I’ve a couple of things to talk about that are coming up for our viewing pleasure.

Most of you will probably have heard that the film ‘The Duchess’ based on the bio by Amanda Foreman about Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was being made.  It’s actually coming out at the cinema next week.  I’m not that enamoured of the book, or what I’ve seen from the trailer (voiceover has an alarming tendency to call her Georgina, and don’t annoy me with the whole Diana comparison please), but the person herself is interesting and you might want to give it a whirl.

There is also ‘Lost in Austen’.  This begins next Wednesday at 9pm.  From the trailer this looks to be quite amusing.  Let’s face it, how many of us have fantasised about meeting the characters of ‘Pride and Prejudice’?  Just me?  Oh well.

Hello fellow genealogy fans!  Those of you based in the UK, or with access to BBC TV will be pleased to know that the programme ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ is back this Wednesday 13 August, BBC1 at 9pm (repeated the next day).  The first episode is about the family of the actress Patsy Kensit.

For those of you that haven’t seen it before, it is a programme tracing the genealogy of celebrities.  The last few series have been very high quality indeed, so I am looking forward to this one.

More details about the show can be found here.  The BBC website also has some handy tips and tools for the beginner.  Why not start tracing your family tree?

I managed to miss most of season 3 of Supernatural dagnammit, what with the scheduling changing quite a few times and it being on a bit too late. I might have to purchase/borrow it.

However, at least I managed to see the last few episodes, so I am mostly up to date. My absolute favourite moment so far in the entire series has to be Bon Jovi. Watch and see, I can’t help but laugh at this one!

I don’t want my last moments on earth to be socially awkward. Heh.

In other related paranormal TV news, if you get SkyTV in the UK there is now a paranormal channel. It is more horror films/ghost unexplained programmes at the moment by the makers of Most Haunted. But I like the earlier series of MH, so this is good.

There’s hope yet for us Vamp TV addicts!

I started reading Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire tales, aka the Sookie Stackhouse books years ago (when they first came out in the US) starting with Dead Until Dark.

I just recently heard that a TV show called True Blood is being made of the series of books!  It has already been picked up by HBO, and I understand shows are currently being made starring Anna Paquin as Sookie ( a waitress) and Stephen Moyes as her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton.  It premieres in the US in September.

Let’s hope it has more luck than the last ones!  Anyhow, I definitely recommend reading the books, even if we never get to see the show.

Charlaine Harris’ website

I love Foyle’s War.  Or should I say loved…the final series just showed recently.  I’m not normally a fan of WWII dramas, but Michael Kitchen is just a fantastic actor, and really sold Foyle to me.

At the moment, I’m watching all of series one again on DVD, and hope to acquire the others in time.  If you haven’t seen it, you’re in for a treat.

In the meantime, you can visit the website here, and there’s talk of a peacetime spin-off show.  Yippee!