So long, and thanks for all the fish!

All good things must come to an end, and who am I to argue with Nelly Furtado? Unfortunately, it was never possible to fully restore the Goodboy, Sparky! Website, and the days of website are probably over, anyway, what with everybody hanging out on Instasnapfacetwitindr (or like me, binge-watching RuPaul’s Drag Race. So sue me, Dorothy).

Also, the last three years have been a bit of (well, monumentally) bollocks, healthwise, and while things are luckily looking much better now, I had to set priorities: Jack Davenport’s fans don’t really need a fansite, but I need my energy to live and make a living, sooo… I’ll pull the plug on the website on 4th of June, 2018. If there’s anything on Goodboy, Sparky! you like, download now, last chance!

Tumblr, Twitter and LJ accounts have already been deleted. This account here will stay up, because there’s a lot of information here which is still often visited, and I don’t want that to take away from you people. Have fun with it, my dears!

Thanks to everybody who contributed to the website for twelve marvellous years, to Jack Davenport for his work and of course to Sparky for inspiring the whole thing in the first place. Dismissed!

Ho Ho Ho! Santa came early…

… unfortunately, he didn’t bring anything.

“We have unfortunatele to notify your about a MySQL1096 database losst of your Webhosting content.”

If you ever get a mail with that content, your website will look like this:

“We are very sorry about this issue and kindly ask you to create new database and import your backup.”

Too bad he backup of the new website is, for whatever BLOODY REASON not accepted, and all you get is error upon error upon error.

Bollocks to that. Christmas is just around the corner, and I will not spend it hitting my head on the keyboard. I’m currently uploading the last backup of the old website, which is outdated, but at least there and has many pretty pictures of Jack Davenport to look at. I’ll see what I can do about this problem next year.

“As a compensation we have added 1 month of free hosting to your account.”

New Movie: “Gernika” – Jack Davenport AND James D’Arcy – could this possibly be any better?!

Only if they threw Andrew Buchan into the mix, but as things are, this is going to be fantabulous as it is!

Thanks to Karen and the fine folks over at James Darcy.net for the heads-up that the casting for “Gernika” has been confirmed. Our very own Jack Davenport and the very lovely James D’Arcy! Mr Norrington and Mr Pullings in the same movie, be still, my heart of oak…

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE

If you hear “Guernica” you think, of course, of Picasso’s painting with the same title (Gernika is the Basque name of Guernica). It shows the horror and devastation of the bombing of Guernica/Gernika during the Spanish civil war.

According to IMDB:

The fates of Henry (James D’Arcy) – a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul – and Teresa (Maria Valverde), one of the Republic’s censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.

Jack Davenport will play “Vasyl” – more information will follow as it becomes available.

The Key Man Trailer and New Audiobook

Finally a trailer for The Key Man! And you will not only get to see Jack Davenport, but also the great, the fantastic, the one and only Mitzi, Elrond, Hugo Weaving! Woo-hoo! Yeah! Applause!

And now for something completely different.

If you don’t need visuals: here is something while you wait for Jack Davenport to finally record a reading of the telephone book:

THE FIFTH GOSPEL

Written by: Ian Caldwell
Narrated by: Jack Davenport
Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
$ 22.67

In 2004, as Pope John Paul II’s reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of Rome. The same night a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator’s research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his five-year-old son.

Happy Birthday, Jack Davenport!

Huzzah, it’s Sparky-Day!

Jack Davenport to star in Sarah Silverman’s HBO Pilot

This just in: Jack Davenport will star in a yet unnamed comedy thingy for HBO next to Sarah Silverman. It’s written by Secret Diary Of A Call Girl *cue eerie organ music* creator Lucy Prebble.

Jude (Silverman) is a “pathologically honest woman” having a modern midlife crisis. Blake (Davenport) is a “broken Brit” (so he’s on a zero hours contract?) who ends up in a relationship with Jude, despite getting caught up in his own virtual reality in Seattle. – Quoi?

More news as we get it.

 

“Kingsman” Interview with Jack Davenport

Jack Davenport talks about his role as Lancelot in “Kingsman: Secret Service” at the New York Premiere of the movie.

http://v.traileraddict.com/99387

And another soundbite!

Thanks to Karen for the tip!

Ta taaa! The new and improved Jack Davenport Website is now online!

And we even stuck to our deadline!

Good Boy, Sparky! is online again, and we hope you will like the new look!

As you know, the main reason for the move was to simplify the maintenance of the website for yours truly. Good Boy, Sparky! is now wordpress-based, which makes it a little less colourful, but updating waaaaay easier and faster for me (I can even update it from my smartphone!), and it comes with additional features for you. There’s a handy search box and drop-down menues (which you don’t have to use, the good old text-based links are still there).

The filmography is now up-to-date as well, with all the latest projects listed, as are the galleries.

The individual pages have changed, though, but with the new layout, it shouldn’t be difficult for you to find what you’re looking for, as the 404 page of doom will provide you with the menu. It will take a while for Google bots et all to index the new pages, but never mind.

Though we have checked the whole site three times over, it’s possible that you might encounter errors. In that case, we’d be really grateful for a heads-up.

Sooo… all that’s left for us to do now is wishing you “happy surfing!” and thanks for your patience. Now all we need is Jack Davenport to give us something to update!

Woof!

 

Check, check, microphone on…?

I hope you all had a good start into 2015! This is just a short notice to let you know that the big move for Good Boy, Sparky! will take place on the weekend of

21st/22nd February, 2015

and that the website won’t be available for the majority of those days. Furniture is already moved now, though, so you might notice things changing and disappearing. Patience, patience, we’ll get there, eventually. Thanks! 🙂

Kingsman – Lancelot (Jack Davenport)

Ho Ho Ho! Christmas has come early for the Fans of Jack Davenport :-)

Well, not for all his fans, but for the regulars of “Good Boy, Sparky!”

I’m very happy to share the news with you that a way has been found to save the website!

Not exactly in its current form, but with all information and pictures intact plus – and here comes the Christmas bonus – it will be updated again!

For that reason, the website will be unavailable for some time during the next weeks, you might be re-directed elsewhere or encounter the 404 of doom. No worries, please, nothing will be lost, and regular service should resume by mid-January. Thanks to the smart person who came up with a simple solution for the problem. Consider yourself firmly hugged.

And now I’m off on holidays. I wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Bless Yule!