RIP Julian McMahon

[George 1978]

Wayne Dobson always seemed to me as a supporting act rather than a star himself - I know that he had his own series on Saturday night ITV in around April 1991 called "A Kind of Magic" but I also remember him as being the resident act during The Joe Longthorne Show (who I started his obituary...

[George 1978]

Julian McMahon, the Australian actor who I believe was related to a former Australian Prime Minister, has died aged 56 from cancer. I once guessed the month and year that he was born in and assumed that he was born towards the end of July 1968, and I was just a few days away from being spot on! McMahon...

[George 1978]

Radio Trent, now Capital Nottingham, reached its 50th birthday on Thursday 3rd July 2025. Pity that John Peters never lived to see it....

[George 1978]

Making comparisons against various teachers has been something that youngsters have been doing for donkey's years, and when it comes to supply teachers, many of these comparisons made are more than worthwhile. Everyone who had gone to school has had a stint without their regular class teacher and they...

[George 1978]

It's up to us, it's up to us; it's up to us, it's up to us... The Code of the Gnomes - that's Us! Two gnomes outside a fish and chip shop, watching out for "The Big Ones", hence their size.

I believe that the title had inspired real-life chip shops to adopt the spoonerism as...

[George 1978]

I thought that British Rail was still nationalised when Network South East was going - its name sounds like Newsroom South East - the BBC's regional news programme of the 1990s....