Let's all be honest: going out and having to converse with actual people is massively overrated. Not when there's a warm sofa, shelter from the cold - and a cracking lineup of exciting shows to wind down on those Autumn nights.
Sure, maybe there's not the abundance of new series we've been spoiled with lately, but there's still the latest Bake Off rival, shocks and gore aplenty in The Walking Dead and Jekyll and Hyde. And the end of one of TV's biggest properties...
1. Downton Abbey - Sunday, 9pm on ITV
One of your last chances to play Downton bingo: ahead of its proper finale on Christmas Day, this feature-length episode sees the Abbey doors close one last time on Sunday nights, as the sixth series reaches a dramatic climax.
So will Mary finally find love? Will Robert die of gastric bleeding? Will the workers overthrow their bourgeois oppressors in a glorious socialist revolution?...
Sure, maybe there's not the abundance of new series we've been spoiled with lately, but there's still the latest Bake Off rival, shocks and gore aplenty in The Walking Dead and Jekyll and Hyde. And the end of one of TV's biggest properties...
1. Downton Abbey - Sunday, 9pm on ITV
One of your last chances to play Downton bingo: ahead of its proper finale on Christmas Day, this feature-length episode sees the Abbey doors close one last time on Sunday nights, as the sixth series reaches a dramatic climax.
So will Mary finally find love? Will Robert die of gastric bleeding? Will the workers overthrow their bourgeois oppressors in a glorious socialist revolution?...
- 11/1/2015
- Digital Spy
Simon Cowell has candidly admitted that last year's X Factor "just didn't feel right from the minute [he] started recording it".
The music mogul - who, along with Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, had been on the judging panel with Louis Walsh and then-newbie Mel B - revealed that the atmosphere during the last series wasn't that enjoyable.
Speaking to The Sun, Cowell explained: "I don't know what it was about last year. It just didn't feel right to me from the minute I started recording it. I never felt it was going to be that fun.
"This year, it feels different. I'm not putting it down to Cheryl, but she's in a different place and I'm in a different place."
Cheryl surprised her fellow X Factor judges and fans when she married French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini after a whirlwind romance last year.
"Cheryl's definitely happier than she was a year ago," Cowell continued.
The music mogul - who, along with Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, had been on the judging panel with Louis Walsh and then-newbie Mel B - revealed that the atmosphere during the last series wasn't that enjoyable.
Speaking to The Sun, Cowell explained: "I don't know what it was about last year. It just didn't feel right to me from the minute I started recording it. I never felt it was going to be that fun.
"This year, it feels different. I'm not putting it down to Cheryl, but she's in a different place and I'm in a different place."
Cheryl surprised her fellow X Factor judges and fans when she married French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini after a whirlwind romance last year.
"Cheryl's definitely happier than she was a year ago," Cowell continued.
- 8/3/2015
- Digital Spy
Russell Crowe-Directed Movie Up for Australian Film Award; Crowe Shortlisted Only in Acting Category
Director Russell Crowe Movie up for Best Film: Australian Academy Awards 2015 nominations (photo: Actor-director Russell Crowe in 'The Water Diviner') Aacta Awards: Feature Film Categories Best Film The Babadook Kristina Ceyton and Kristian Moliere Charlie's Country Nils Erik Nielsen, Peter Djigirr and Rolf de Heer Predestination Paddy McDonald, Tim McGahan, Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig The Railway Man Chris Brown, Andy Paterson and Bill Curbishley Tracks Emile Sherman and Iain Canning The Water Diviner Andrew Mason, Keith Rodger and Troy Lum Best Director The Babadook Jennifer Kent Charlie's Country Rolf de Heer Predestination Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig The Rover David Michôd Best Actress Kate Box The Little Death Essie Davis The Babadook Sarah Snook Predestination Mia Wasikowska Tracks Best Actor Russell Crowe The Water Diviner David Gulpilil Charlie's Country Damon Herriman The Little Death Guy Pearce The Rover Best Supporting Actor Patrick Brammall The Little Death Yilmaz Erdogan...
- 12/3/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Who thought we'd ever reach the day that we'd be watching The X Factor and wonder, 'Seriously, I'd love to hear what Louis Walsh thinks.'
The X Factor's club mascot has barely been seen in the first five episodes of the new series, reduced merely to giggling and guffawing on the sidelines at every Simon Cowell one-liner, as if the high-trousered one is the lovechild of Eric Morecambe and Tommy Cooper.
If Walsh has barely been noticable, Dermot O'Leary has been like a TV version of Where's Wally. There hasn't even been room for his famous bulge to spin its way onto the screen.
On the Live Shows, he may be more slick than scintillating, but he's not even had the chance to wheel out his usual monster hugs at the auditions this year. Poor old Derm's been reduced to a role shorter than James Arthur's record career.
The X Factor's club mascot has barely been seen in the first five episodes of the new series, reduced merely to giggling and guffawing on the sidelines at every Simon Cowell one-liner, as if the high-trousered one is the lovechild of Eric Morecambe and Tommy Cooper.
If Walsh has barely been noticable, Dermot O'Leary has been like a TV version of Where's Wally. There hasn't even been room for his famous bulge to spin its way onto the screen.
On the Live Shows, he may be more slick than scintillating, but he's not even had the chance to wheel out his usual monster hugs at the auditions this year. Poor old Derm's been reduced to a role shorter than James Arthur's record career.
- 9/13/2014
- Digital Spy
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