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2024-02-22T21:46:51Z

A quote by Neil Gaiman, following David Tennant and Michael Sheen presenting the award for Best Mini Series at the BAFTAs 2020, which they did Staged style:

One day, when I'm dead, someone at the Gates will ask me if I did anything to qualify for admission to Writers' Heaven. And then I'll list all the books I wrote, and all the good deeds I tried to do, and the worthwhile causes I supported, and they will just stare at me, unsmiling and unimpressed. And finally, in desperation I'll say "Well, I was the first one to put David Tennant and Michael Sheen together..." And the unimpressed expression will become a huge and delighted smile. "You did that?" they will say. "God LOVES them!"

They probably still won't let me in to Writers' Heaven, but I will take that one thing with me as my fragment of Grace, as I trudge down the stairs to Writers' Hell.
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The 2020 sketch was fun, but this was the opening sketch for the BAFTAs 2024:

They're just so delightful and their friendship is simply beautiful! And incredibly silly.

Honorary mention must go to David and Georgia on the red carpet. David's outfits on the night were spectacular, but Georgia's dress is simply divine. (If Anna was these also, I apologise. I have not come across pictures of her.)

In short this. <3

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What a time to be alive

2023-09-29T11:08:27Z

Just David Tennant and Michael Sheen being an old married couple for 11 minutes straight

ETA: omg, just had to share this. From a Tumblr Ask

aurora-b asked:

The most important question about s3, is David Tennant going to be set on fire?

neil-gaiman answered:

If Amazon decide not to commission Season 3, I will personally set David on fire to make up for it.

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Year 2 of Lockdown, Day 8

2021-03-24T22:03:40Z

So, it was Red Nose Day...

<3

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Lockdown Update Day 349

2021-03-01T18:11:39Z

IT IS MARCH AGAIN (or still...)

March 1st March 1st
2020 2021 pic.twitter.com/Bv8TS7TBqB
— Librarianshipwreck (@libshipwreck) March 1, 2021

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Tumblr post about the effects of lockdown, with an addendum about the issues we might face now it's been a year.

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And speaking of lockdown, came across this delightful interview about Staged:

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Lockdown Update Day 331

2021-02-11T22:20:40Z

Today you get... cats. Sorry, that's it.

pic.twitter.com/XXu1MJVC2P
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) February 11, 2021

OK you get DT and Georgia also - talking about Staged, but also lockdown generally.

<3

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Lockdown Update Day 293

2021-01-04T17:29:32Z

They got the gang back together:

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Tonight on ⁦@BBCOne⁩ at 9:45pm the mind-bending (and possibly mind-numbing) #Staged2 begins with the usuals PLUS a serpent, a nation, an imp & an exclamation.... pic.twitter.com/0BcdTbSwh5
— michael sheen (@michaelsheen) January 4, 2021

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The UK’s Covid-19 curve is now almost vertical. pic.twitter.com/ZtRCJRDzwA
— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) January 3, 2021

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‘You boy! What u-turn is it?’ pic.twitter.com/SyJpFm8sgu
— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) January 4, 2021

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Oooh ooh no.

THEY SHOULD USE POKEMON FOR COVID RATINGS!

MATT HANCOCK: Cornwall is still Pikachu, but we need to move London to Mewtwo. Manchester will be Psyduck until further notice.
— John Bull (@garius) January 4, 2021

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So to summarise: Thank goodness for Staged.

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ETA: Covid: New lockdown for England amid 'hardest weeks'

“Ah, well” - Translation: Everything’s as bad as can be expected.
— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) January 4, 2021

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT:

We did not plan the new lockdown.

END OF PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT.

PS. See you in an hour. #Staged #Staged2
— Staged (@staged2020) January 4, 2021

(Also Darcy did a big Aldi shop today, and could report that what people appear to have been panic buying this time round is... cat food and yogurt?)

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Lockdown Update Day 269

2020-12-11T19:21:34Z

Trailer!

I can't with all the Brexit stuff. Here, have nice things. First two drabbles by
kerk_hiraeth.

Naked Confessions
SUMMARY: Old companions hangin' out; very AU;
CHARACTER(s): Sally Sparrow; Amy Pond; Larry Nightingale; Rory Williams

Fencing Venice
SUMMARY: The Ponds do a little 'cash'ing in while on a break from travelling with The Doctor...

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The nursing home staff wanted to do something special.

So they gave out Nerf guns — put on antlers and reindeer costumes — and held a "deer hunt."

We’re all kids at heart...pic.twitter.com/69DnhN24CQ
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) December 10, 2020

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And RIP Barbara Windsor.

Babs was once in Filthy, Rich & Catflap which was filmed in front of a live audience. There was a tech fault, the lights went off and they couldn’t get them back on. Babs pipes up: “It’s alright my darlings, we’re all stars - we can fucking twinkle”
— Adrian Edmondson (@AdrianEdmondson) December 11, 2020

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Staged

2020-06-21T13:33:24Z

I love this show SO MUCH.

It's funny (VERY funny, especially if you are familiar with the world it depicts, the actors and directors and writers etc etc), it's clever, it's touching, it's silly, DT & MS are beyond delightful being the daft BFFs we love so much (bitching and making up and generally being amazing, conveying entire conversations in a single look or raised eyebrow or facial expression), EVERYONE is great (ye gods the guest stars! If you haven't watched yet, don't spoil yourself, trust me) and everything is wonderful. (ETA: Spoilers in comments!)

(The music is wonderful too - snippets of the soundtrack here.)

But above all that, there is something about it that is both incredibly specific and also very difficult to explain. There are the obvious zoom jokes and all the little details that show how life has changed. But also the 'action' is interspersed with more general shots... Empty streets, NHS rainbows, rolls of toilet paper, wide shots of the countryside, bathed in sunshine... And it's like an encapsulation of lockdown. March/April, when time seemed to both slow down and speed up. The tone, or mood, of the whole country.

We watched the last three episodes last night, and those moments struck me like a sucker punch. I can't even really formulate why, just that it was a very very specific moment in time and this show manages to capture it within all the other things it does. Staged somehow is Britain in lockdown. It was living history, a pandemic sweeping through the nation (and we locked down too late, the death toll climbing daily...), but it felt mundane. (Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives.)

Lockdown when Boris was sick, before Cummings made a travesty of the rules, before the BLM protests and all the rest of the madness this year has brought (so far). Those quiet, endless weeks. Maybe the show didn't strike anyone else like that, and I didn't even know that it had become such a specific moment in time already. But for me, that's what it hit.

ALSO IT IS VERY VERY FUNNY, and David Tennant and Michael Sheen are my darlings forever. I have a feeling I will be watching it repeatedly. A lot. It's so pure, and joyful; something properly GOOD to come out of this whole sorry mess of a year, like a warm blanket to wrap up in - oh, like people get a blanket when they're in shock. 2020 is a shock, and this show is our blanket.

ETA: Re-watching, and I feel I must re-iterate two things: The odd, languid pace, and the fact that it is VERY VERY FUNNY; I literally can't stop giggling.

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