What have Sparky and Jack Davenport been up to, lately?

We’ll get to Jack Davenport’s whereabouts in a minute, but let me introduce a friend of mine first: Frank the Poodle! As you can tell, Frank’s a bad role model. Frank doesn’t care, though. Nor do I. So please, no emails about the dangers of smoking again, cheers. He’s not particularly interested in Jack Davenport [...]

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Friends, Romans, countrymen: we have a winner!

SPARKY’S BIG YULETIDE CONTEST is over, and our mailbox was flooded with mails from all over the planet, giving the correct answer: In the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, Jack Davenport played James Norrington. The winner was drawn this morning, and it is ~~°~~ JEMMA ~~°~~ Congratulations! The DVDs of “That Deadwood Feeling” and “A [...]

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Rumours: Jack Davenport in “Bridget Jones’s Diary: The Musical”?

Various sources on the internet, among them Playbill, have informed that Helen Fielding’s “Bridget Jones’s Diary is being adapted as a stage musical. According to a report in London’s Daily Mail, Fielding has been working on the book for the musical for several months, though no director, composer or cast are yet attached. But at [...]

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Jack Davenport: “That Deadwood Feeling” out on DVD in 2009?

News can be found in the most obscure sources – for example in the “Car Clinic” column over at The Sunday Times. “(…) I bought it over the phone from a film director in Ealing who had used it as a prop in a film starring Dexter Fletcher, David Soul and Jack Davenport. I drove [...]

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Rumours: Jack Davenport the new Doctor Who? Will Norrington return from the dead?

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! “Will Jack Davenport be the new Doctor Who?” I’m very sorry, dear Whosians; I understand that you want to know, but I don’t have the foggiest. I don’t know it. I sort of kind of like the idea of Jack Davenport as Doctor Who, but I really can’t [...]

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Swingtown: Tonight, tonight…

… the stars will hopefully shine bright on the final episode of season 1. Or will it be the finale for Swingtown, period? We still don’t know. What we do know, however: CBS is doing the rounds with it’s vendor’s tray from cable door to cable door, trying to shop the series. So keep your [...]

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Rumour: documentary about the “Barnardo’s” exhibition?

Do you remember the “Home Time – Photography Finding A Home” exhibition in benefit of Barnardo’s Charity? According to photographer Cambridge Jones, Channel 4 are “in discussions with Shine TV to make a documentary of the whole project.” The exhibition at The Getty Images Gallery in London consisted of pictures taken by children of celebrities [...]

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