Category Archives: Entertainment

Last Tango in Halifax – Series Three – Missing Scenes [Eps 304-306]

Posted on 13 August, 2015 by jlynnstapleton

This post concludes the missing scenes from second half of series three of Last Tango in Halifax. Okay, so these episodes were probably the hardest to re-watch, and possibly one of the reasons for the delay – in addition to … Continue reading →

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Last Tango in Halifax – Series Three – Missing Scenes [Eps 301-303]

Posted on 19 July, 2015 by jlynnstapleton

Here we go again for another series of Last Tango in Halifax being aired on PBS with clips and sections edited out for various reasons, the choices in the edits I don’t always understand. For me, whether you like the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering those lost gems: “Gillery’s Little Secret”

Posted on 7 February, 2015 by jlynnstapleton

Following a discussion the other day when I was talking with a friend about shows with lesbian characters and interesting stories, I remembered a short film that I bought several years ago called Gillery’s Little Secret. I’m not positive about … Continue reading →

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My Thoughts on Series 3 of ‘Last Tango in Halifax’

Posted on 2 February, 2015 by jlynnstapleton

Okay, this is a bit more long-winded than I had planned when I started writing it, but there it is. Storyline-wise this series took place over a span of seven months (February-August). I occasionally thought it was uneven at times, … Continue reading →

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Getting caught up on ‘Five Days’

Posted on 26 January, 2015 by jlynnstapleton

You know how sometimes you’ll get a DVD set and make plans to watch and then life happens and you don’t get back to it for a while? Several months ago I’d ordered the DVDs for the BBC/HBO produced series … Continue reading →

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Yet again playing devil’s advocate for Last Tango in Halifax

Posted on 12 January, 2015 by jlynnstapleton

Another series and another set of knee jerk reactions from a group of fans (if you don’t know that I’m lesbian in all my writings thus far, so be it) pissed off with the direction of the series, saying they’re … Continue reading →

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Why write fan fiction?

Posted on 10 October, 2014 by jlynnstapleton

This article was originally posted on 5th September 2011 on my old blog. ____________________ I was talking with my mother about a week or so ago about writing, specifically my interest in writing fan-fiction, which she doesn’t entirely get. ‘Why … Continue reading →

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Last Tango in Halifax – Series 2 – Missing Scenes [Eps 4-6]

Posted on 4 August, 2014 by jlynnstapleton

Here we are again, for the missing scenes in second half of Last Tango in Halifax as aired by PBS. Hope you like the lines/scenes that were dropped. For those of you watching this series in North America, do yourselves … Continue reading →

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Conversation with a Storyteller

Posted on 3 August, 2014 by jlynnstapleton

Interview with Jill Lorie Hurst By J. Lynn Stapleton In the several months previous to the American soap opera, Guiding Light, being cancelled and subsequently going off the air, I made friends with numerous other fans of the show, resulting … Continue reading →

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Last Tango in Halifax – Series 2 – Missing Scenes [Eps 1-3]

Posted on 19 July, 2014 by jlynnstapleton

The second series of Last Tango in Halifax has recently started on the American PBS network, and in keeping with the tradition that I started for series one, I’ve continued marking the missing scenes that had been cut from the … Continue reading →

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