A recent conversation I had here with Last Hussar left me thinking a lot about entertainment. I watch a pretty fair amount of television. I watch a lot of movies. I read a lot of books. I also read a lot of comic books. Then there’s music.
I’m a pretty heavy consumer of entertainment.
That conversation left me realizing that I owe a huge amount of my enjoyment of each of those medias to the British. From Doctor Who to Sherlock Holmes to The Beatles, a startlingly large percentage of what I enjoy stems from the British aisles.
So, I’d like to publicly thank my friends from across the pond. To some degree you have made life more bearable for me.
Below the fold you’ll find a partial list of the writers, actors, characters, series, musicians and other things I’m thankful for.
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Arthur Conan Doyle
Herbert George Wells
Agatha Christie
Margery Allingham
Bram Stoker
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
Gilbert and Sullivan
Mary Shelley
Percy Shelley
Lord Byron
Warren Ellis
Alan Moore
Garth Ennis
Jamie Delano
Wallace and Gromit
Dr. Who
Judge Dredd
2000 AD
John Constantine
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Quatermass
James Bond
Vincent Price
Peter Cushing
Christopher Lee
Christopher Plummer
Alec Guinness
Peter Sellers
Monty Python
Rowan Atkinson
John Gielgud
Amanda Donohoe
Ken Russell
Patrick Stewart
Christopher Eccleston
Anthony Stewart Head
Jeremy Brett
Hugh Laurie
28 Days Later
Shaun of The Dead
The Prisoner
The Avengers
Cracker
Black Adder
Harry Potter
Fawlty Towers
Wire In The Blood
Murder City
Hammer Horror
Blake’s 7
Red Dwarf
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Etc, etc, etc…….
Did you get you meds thrixed up?