#bbc the cuckoo's calling

[rouyn]

"…I think they might be a bit tight on your big hairy mitts. Though Ciara certainly wasn't complaining about them. Oh no, you got quite the five star review, darling. And she's had plenty to compare you with."

Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, and Kadiff Kirwan as Cormoran Strike, Robin Ellacott, and Guy Somé in The Cuckoo's Calling, Part 3 (2017)

/ gifset requested by @capitanrobinstrike /

#cormoran strike #tom burke #robin ellacott #holliday grainger #cormoran x robin #strike x robin #cormoran strike series #cb strike #c b strike #bbc strike #strike #strikeedit #my edit #tvedit #tvgifs #my gifs #kadiff kirwan #the cuckoo's calling #filmtvgifs #filmtvcentral #crimeshowsource

[helenstella]

Seriously, Ciara Porter? (To be fair, I’d be giggling like an idiot too.)

#cb strike #cormoran strike #tom burke #bbc strike #ciara porter #cuckoo’s calling

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

[ID: Cormoran sits in a restaurant, a laden plate with a rice dish in front of him. He’s wearing a light blue shirt and a dark blue blazer. He looks at someone sitting opposite with a mild frown on his beardy face./end ID]

Breakfast with Cormoran.

#just throwing stuff out there I had sitting in my drafts #cormoran strike #tom burke #bbc strike #the cuckoo's calling

[hjellacott]

PETITION: BRING THE TRENCH COAT BACK, BBC!!!

We don't know where it went nor why (specially since in the BBC's Cuckoo's Calling Robin wraps Strike's wound not with her coat, like in the book, but with her scarf) BUT WE WANT THIS BEAUTIFUL COAT BACK.

#Holliday Grainger #Tom Burke #J. K. Rowling #Robert Galbraith #BBC #BBC Series #Robin Ellacott #Cormoran Strike #The Cuckoo's Calling #The Silkworm #Career of Evil #Lethal White #Troubled Blood #The Ink Black Heart

[cormfan-blog]

I notice trolls are letting loose on another blog of mine. They don't like the fact that I dare to actually say something less than praiseworthy about C.B. STRIKE books. That makes me a "traitor" who doesn't "really like STRIKE at all". Yeah, that makes sense. 🤦‍♀️ I don't always praise my dog either; I still love him. They've warned people off "their" tags, like they own all the STRIKE related tags. 🤦‍♀️ GOOD. Hopefully it means less moronic comments.

Anyhoo, I'll continue to make appropriate comments [positive, negative and neutral] as I see fit. And anyone who wishes to have a look and wander along is welcome. I don't think JKR is transphobic and I support her right to free speech: take it or leave it. JKR is a good writer of thrillers but I haven't read another thing she has written.

#bbc strike #strike #jkrolwing #jkr #jkr support #cuckoos calling #lethal white #career of evil #troubled blood #silkworm #ink black heart #covert narcissism #narcissists #strike series #strike tv

[cryingscreencaps]

#strike #strike tv #the cuckoo's calling #holliday grainger #robin ellacott #the silkworm #career of evil #lethal white #bbc strike

[vintage1981]

Celebrating Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.

Ingoushka Petrov was born in Warsaw, Poland, one of two daughters of a father of German Jewish descent and a Polish Jewish mother. During World War II, she and her mother were imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) but escaped. In Berlin, in the 1950s, Ingoushka married an American soldier, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., and moved to California. After her marriage failed she returned to Europe, but after a small role in a film, she took the shortened stage name "Ingrid Pitt", keeping her former husband's surname, and headed to Hollywood, where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in films.

In the early 1960s, Pitt was a member of the prestigious Berliner Ensemble, under the guidance of Bertolt Brecht's widow Helene Weigel. In 1965, she made her film debut in Doctor Zhivago, playing a minor role. In 1968, she co-starred in the low-budget science-fiction film The Omegans, and in the same year, played British spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.

Her work with Hammer Film Productions elevated her to cult figure status. She starred as Carmilla/Mircalla in The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla, and played the title role in Countess Dracula (1971), based on the legends about Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Pitt also appeared in the Amicus horror anthology film The House That Dripped Blood (1971) and had a small part in The Wicker Man (1973).

During the 1980s, Pitt returned to mainstream films and television. Her role as Fraulein Baum in the 1981 BBC Playhouse Unity, who is denounced as a Jew by Unity Mitford (Lesley-Anne Down), was uncomfortably close to her real-life experiences. Her popularity with horror film buffs had her in demand for guest appearances at horror conventions and film festivals. Other films in which Pitt has appeared outside the horror genre are: Who Dares Wins (1982) (or The Final Option), Wild Geese II (1985) and Hanna's War (1988). Generally cast as a villainess, her characters often died horribly at the end of the final reel. "Being the anti-hero is great – they are always roles you can get your teeth into."

In the 1980s she also reinvented herself as a writer. Her first book, after a number of ill-fated tracts on the plight of Native Americans, was the 1980 novel, Cuckoo Run, a spy story about mistaken identity. "I took it to Cubby Broccoli. It was about a woman called Nina Dalton who is pursued across South America in the mistaken belief that she is a spy. Cubby said it was a female Bond. He was being very kind."

In 1999, her autobiography, Life's a Scream (Heinemann) was published, and she was short-listed for the for her own reading of extracts from the audio book.

The autobiography detailed the harrowing experiences of her early life—in a Nazi concentration camp, her search through Europe in Red Cross refugee camps for her father, and her escape from East Berlin, one step ahead of the Volkspolizei. "I always had a big mouth and used to go on about the political schooling interrupting my quest for thespian glory. I used to think like that. Not good in a police state."

Pitt died in a south London hospital on 23 November 2010, a few days after collapsing, and two days after her 73rd birthday, from congestive heart failure.

Seven months before she died, Pitt finished narration for Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011), an animated short film on her experience in the Holocaust, a project that had been in the works for five years. Character design and storyboards were created by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Plympton. The film is directed by Kevin Sean Michaels; co-produced and co-written by Jud Newborn, Holocaust expert and author, "Sophie Scholl and the White Rose"; and drawn by 10-year-old animator, Perry Chen.

#Ingrid Pitt #The Vampire Lovers #Countess Dracula #Academy Award #Anne Frank #Holocaust #Nazi #Where Eagles Dare #Kevin Sean Michaels #Hammer Films #The Wicker Man #The House That Dripped Blood #concentration camp #Stutthof concentration camp

[luminarai]

more recently in mildly unhinged: the cecil story, I was at a two day seminar with all my coworkers at my brand new job and for entertainment someone had made an ‘early 2000s quiz’, featuring the question ‘which year did lordi win the eurovision song contest?’ I answered that it was around 2005 and my teammates (one of whom was my new boss) were like, sure that sounds about right. only as we went back over our answers before turning them in, I literally put my hands to my temples like some kind of really low budget scandinavian bbc sherlock and went, ‘hang on, I’m not sure. let me do the math. lordi won in greece who won in the ukraine who won in turkey. before turkey there were two Baltic winners in a row - estonia and latvia, can’t remember the order though - which brings us back to 2000 which OF COURSE is the year that denmark won. so it must have been in 2006 and not 2005.’

as it turns out, I was right, and I may have sounded absolutely cuckoo bananas to my coworkers + boss (who have known me for less than a week) BUT we also won the quiz by ONE POINT so. I’d call that a win-win really

#cecil blogs her life #for once my incredibly niche and normally practically useless knowledge came through #later I sang ABBA with the department head #but that’s a different story

[death-by-mercury]

Thank you my lovely friend @shades-of-tiefes-purpur 💕

Rules: if you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to. Then send this ask to ten of your favorite followers.

Last week I found two Rory albums (Cleveland Calling and Blues) that I thought were just compilations of studio and live with no new material but I was so wrong.

My favs from there which I cannot get enough of…

Rory Gallagher - Leaving Town Blues

May I say that the mix of acoustic blues and electric are out of this world, I didn’t even know such music was possible. It’s from 1994, I believe, shortly before his passing 😭.

Rory Gallagher - The Cuckoo

And other ones I already listened to of course…

Thin Lizzy - Dear Heart

I’ve also been listening to Randolph’s Tango more often and the BBC version of Broken Dreams (it’s absolute gold, listen to it)

Mozart - Requiem in D Minor (especially Lacrimosa which starts at 11:53, but Rex Tremendae magestatis and Confutatis are also amazing)

Donovan - Song of a Naturalist’s Wife

By far my favourite Donovan song… I love the waves crashing and birds on almost all the albums song intros and the beauty and tranquility of this… also Widow with a Shawl (A Portrait) is an honourable mention…beautiful

Tagging

@shamanbluesss @classicrockenjoyer @mayplantstarrwaters @jonesyjonesyjonesy @beanifred @thegroovywitch @childoftheriver

Anyone who wants to, please do :))

#Youtube

[denmark-street]

Seventh Strike novel to publish this September, in the tenth anniversary year of the bestselling series by Robert Galbraith  

Tuesday 26th September sees the release of the next in the bestselling series of crime novels by Robert Galbraith. THE RUNNING GRAVE is the brand-new instalment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, published in hardback, Ebook and audio editions.   

THE RUNNING GRAVE will be the seventh title in a planned series of ten, the first six of which have all been Sunday Times and international bestsellers. The Strike series has been praised as ‘the work of a master storyteller’ [Daily Telegraph], ‘unputdownable’ [Daily Express] and ‘a blistering piece of crime writing’ [Sunday Times]; with Strike and Robin dubbed ‘one of crime’s most engaging duos’ [Guardian].

2023 also marks the tenth anniversary of The Cuckoo’s Calling, the first novel in the series. A year-long run of activity is planned to celebrate this milestone, including a creative consumer campaign that will revisit key elements of Strike and give readers the opportunity to share their favourite moments.

Fans will also have the opportunity to purchase a special anniversary edition of The Cuckoo’s Calling, produced with exclusive artwork, of which further details will be released later this year. As with all previous editions of The Cuckoo’s Calling, royalty proceeds of the new edition will go to ABF The Soldiers’ Charity.

‘It’s been brilliant to see the enormous success of the Robert Galbraith books over the past ten years and an honour to publish them. With over 11 million copies sold in the English language to date, the story of Strike and Robin has captured readers’ imaginations and, like so many others, I can’t wait to see what happens to them over the course of the final four books in the series.’ David Shelley, Group Chief Executive, Hachette UK

 ‘There are few pleasures richer than knowing a new Robert Galbraith thriller is on the way!  Seven novels into the Cormoran Strike series, J.K. Rowling keeps expanding her already peerless skills in crafting drama, emotion, urgency, and capturing the infinite complexities of the human spirit—in dark and in light.’ Michael Pietsch, Chief Executive Officer, Hachette Book Group.

#Strike (books) #The Running Grave #The Cuckoo’s Calling #Robert Galbraith #rowlingblr

[jaynedolluk]

BEST TV OF 2022 PART 3

I watched quite a few films on Netflix. My favourites were: The White Tiger, Do Revenge, Werewolves Within, Wendell + Wild, Glass Onion, The School for Good & Evil, The Curse of Bridge Hollow, The Bubble, Don’t Look Up, Metal Lords (altho’ Skullflower never fails to make me laugh), Manc, Enola Holmes 2 and The Trial of the Chicago Seven. I really didn’t like Blonde tho’ – I thought it did a huge disservice to Marilyn Monroe by only showing her victimhood.

  I watch a lot of detective/crime dramas. 2022 saw the return of some of my favourites – McDonald & Dodds, Van Der Valk, Shetland, Death in Paradise, The Alienist, Vienna Blood, Traces, Grantchester, Top Boy, Bloodlands, The Capture (I thought the 2nd series was stronger than the 1st) Professor T., Gangs of London, and Strike. Also, We Hunt Together (which I think is incredibly under-rated and I can’t understand why the dark femininity crew aren’t all over it). Another couple of shows I think are really under-rated are Babylon Berlin + Snowfall – really don’t understand why they don’t get more love.

New crime dramas/thrillers included Inside Man (would love a spin-off series w/Stanley Tucci’s character), Nine Perfect Strangers, The House Across the Street, Tokyo Vice (personally, I thought it was over-rated), Wreck (pleased to see it’s already getting a second series), Sherwood, Rules of the Game and Four Lives (about the victims of the serial killer Stephen Port). A couple of BBC dramas I really liked were Red Rose, Chloe and The Responder and Channel 4 did a good prison drama, Screw which I hope gets recommissioned.

ITV also did a reasonably good adaptation of The Ipcress File as well as a drama about that man who faked his own death then turned up in South America as part of an insurance fraud – The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe – and The Walk-In w/Stephen Graham, based on the true life case of someone giving evidence against a fascist group. Channel 4 did a quick turnaround to do a show based on the Vardy vs. Rooney court case. BBC also did one called Floodlights which was the true story of child abuse in football.

I did watch Dahmer + thought it was excellent but really hard to watch. Plus, I actually loved The Watcher (despite it getting slated by the critics).

  I was glad to see the return of Chucky which was as mad as ever plus The Terror (which this time was set in World War 2 in a Japanese internment camp), Inside No. 9, the final series of Noughts & Crosses and Dr Who (seeing the end of Jodie Whittaker’s turn as the Doctor). Also returning for second series on Netflix were two favourites of my mine, Russian Doll and Umbrella Academy and I finally watched S1 of Squid Game (which I loved). There were also new shows such as Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, The Sandman and Wednesday (which was one of my favourites of the year) plus I finally got round to watching The Irregulars (sad to see it got cancelled after only one series). Sky did an adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos (which I quite liked) plus a great time travel show called The Lazarus Project (which I really hope gets another season). Harley Quinn returned + I love the relationship between Harley & Ivy.

#end of year

[rouyn]

Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike in The Cuckoo's Calling, Part 2 (2017)

#cormoran strike #tom burke #cormoran strike series #cb strike #c b strike #bbc strike #strike #strikeedit #my edit #tvedit #tvgifs #my gifs #the cuckoo's calling #filmtvgifs #filmtvcentral #crimeshowsource

[dritatoday]

Findy first love tv show

#Findy first love tv show movie

#Findy first love tv show update

#Findy first love tv show series

#Findy first love tv show tv

It certainly has a great cast going for it, led by screen legend Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase, an off-grid former CIA agent with a complicated past, who is targeted by an assassin, forcing him on the run. Thomas Perry's 2017 book, The Old Man, was called an "engrossing if not flawless thriller" by Publishers Weekly, so it waits to be seen how flawed or not this on-screen adaptation will be. Irma Vep premieres on 6 June on HBO and HBO Max in the US

#Findy first love tv show movie

He told Variety "Everything in the history of cinema seems to have just exploded, and you're trying to understand what the new picture is… it's an exciting moment to make a movie about cinema, and especially about going back to the basics." Watch the teaser trailer here.

#Findy first love tv show update

Assayas' original film was a comment on the French film industry, and this remake seems to want to update that take.

#Findy first love tv show series

The first three episodes of this eight-episode series premiered at Cannes, where Screen Daily's Jonathan Romney called it "a cannily crafted, enjoyable and sometimes cheekily scabrous show". Lost yet? Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) is Mira, a disillusioned American movie star who goes to France to play Irma Vep – but the boundaries between herself and her character begin to blur.

#Findy first love tv show tv

Now, Assayas is remaking his film into a TV series – so it's a TV series remake of a film about a remake, but this time, they're making a TV series. In 1996, Olivier Assayas released Irma Vep – a film whose plot is centred on an auteur remaking the classic silent film Les Vampires. Ms Marvel is released on 9 June on Disney+ The show isn't just your usual superhero fare either – with Vellani saying it leans into a "coming-of-age, corny vibe", taking inspiration from the likes of Eighth Grade, Ladybird and Scott Pilgrim. Speaking to Cosmopolitan Middle East, Vellani said that Brie Larson – who plays Captain Marvel – reached out to her when she got the part: "she's been my greatest resource and mentor throughout this whole process". Played by newcomer Iman Vellani, Khan loves video games, fan-fiction and superheroes – particularly Captain Marvel. She isn't a billionaire with a metal suit or a super soldier who has been injected with a potent serum to create the ultimate fighter – she's Kamala Khan, a Muslim-American teenager living in New Jersey and just trying to get through high school, a task which isn’t helped by the sudden addition of superpowers to her life. "It's not usually the brown girls from Jersey City who save the world," the MCU's latest addition says in the Ms Marvel trailer. Queer as Folk premieres on Peacock on 9 June in the US Davies, who is serving as a producer on this reboot, said in a statement: "The 2022 show is more diverse, more wild, more free, more angry – everything a queer show should be." Watch the trailer here. The regular cast includes Devin Way (Grey's Anatomy), Fin Argus (Clouds), Jesse James Keitel (Big Sky), Johnny Sibilly (Hacks), Ryan O'Connell (Special) and newcomer CG – while Kim Cattrall, Juliette Lewis and Ed Begley Jr are among the high-profile guest stars. Set in New Orleans, it follows a group of friends in the aftermath of a tragedy. Following the lives of three gay men living in Manchester, Russell T Davies' comedy drama portrayed their lives "in a frank, funny and explicit way that had never been seen on screens before," as BBC News' Joseph Lee wrote. Having been remade in the US once before, the show has spawned a second transatlantic spin-off. When, in 1999, Queer as Folk first appeared on TV, it was nothing short of revolutionary. The Midwich Cuckoos premieres on Sky Max on 2 June, and is released on Now on 3 June, in the UK The suburbs have never seemed scarier,” wrote Katie Rosseinsky in The Evening Standard. “This is a fresh and propulsive spin on a familiar story. Starring Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard) as the psychologist helping the families through this odd event, and Max Beesley (The Outsider) as the police officer trying to maintain order – all while a very sinister truth comes to light. John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel has been reimagined once again – it was also the base text for both Village of the Damned films – this time for the 21st Century, in this new adaptation by David Farr (The Night Manager, Hanna). Until one sleepy summer's day, that is, when the power and communication lines drop, people pass out in the street and then all women of childbearing age suddenly become pregnant. Midwich is as seemingly normal as any other English suburb, marked by quiet roads, nuclear families and little in the way of drama.

#Findy first love tv show

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

[ID: Cormoran, in a light blue shirt and his big coat, collar up, a bit sweaty from running./end ID]

Random Cormoran pic that’s been slumbering in my draft folder for too long.

#tom burke #cormoran strike #the cuckoo's calling #bbc strike

[deepdalecamping]

Deepdale Festival 2022 Pavey Ark Sunday - Orchard www.deepdalebackpackers.co.uk/festival/programme/34/

[shinerar]

Holliday Grainger about how she got into the saga for the preparation of Robin Ellacott [x].

#strike #holliday grainger #robin ellacott #cormoran strike #bbc one #detective fiction #looks #j.k rowling #the cuckoo's calling #my edits #Q&A #interview #troubled Blood #The Silkworm #Career of Evil #Lethal White