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Category Archives: Television
Why write fan fiction?
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
Posted in Commentary, Commentary, Entertainment, Personal, Television
Tagged fanfiction, Otalia Virtual Season, television, why people write fanfic
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Last Tango in Halifax – Series 2 – Missing Scenes [Eps 4-6]
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
Conversation with a Storyteller
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
Posted in Entertainment, Interviews, Television, Webseries
Tagged Guiding Light, Interview, Jill Lorie Hurst, Venice the Series
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Last Tango in Halifax – Series 2 – Missing Scenes [Eps 1-3]
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
Last Tango in Halifax – Series 1 – Missing Scenes (Eps 1-3)
A while back I wrote up a post entitled Last Tango in Halifax – Missing Scenes (Eps 4-6), that covered the sections of episodes that were cut from the original BBC broadcast version in order to air it on PBS … Continue reading
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Tagged Last Tango in Halifax, Series 1 Missing Scenes
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Yvonne Grace blog: ONLY CONNECT – MAKING CONTACTS IN THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY
Originally posted on Scriptadvice.co.uk's Blog:
Writing is a solitary exercise. But the business of getting your writing read, talked about and appreciated is just the opposite. You need to be a focussed solitary scriber, and then morph…
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Tagged Blog, Writing for Television, Yvonne Grace
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“Happy Valley” – One of the best dramas I’ve ever seen
By J. Lynn Stapleton, 4th June 2014 Come visit Yorkshire!…we’ve got murder, mystery and mayhem… Probably not the kind of thing the Yorkshire and West Yorkshire Tourism board teams have in mind when they boast some of Britain’s most beautiful … Continue reading
“Happy Valley”: Extraordinary drama with realistic portrayals
By: J. Lynn Stapleton In the past few days, I’ve read articles from various news sources (Daily Mail, Guardian, Digital Spy) along with blog reviews, and part of a BBC Women’s Hour Podcast of the new BBC hit series, Happy … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Catherine Cawood, Happy Valley, Red Production Co, Sally Wainwright, Sarah Lancashire
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‘Happy Valley’ continues to ramp up the tension and drama
by: J. Lynn Stapleton What can I say about the BBC’s latest series, Happy Valley that hasn’t already been said, by critics and fans alike? I have to agree with much of it, which is to say its a cracking … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Happy Valley, Red Production Co, Sally Wainwright, Sarah Lancashire, Siobhan Finneran
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A Celtic-Dragon's Blog 
Yet again playing devil’s advocate for Last Tango in Halifax
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 →