Showing posts with label Benidorm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benidorm. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Fun and laughter on our summer holiday


Britons have asked their government if it would mind not sending the pound into freefall right before their summer holidays every bloody year.

Threats of a no-deal Brexit have once again sent the pound plummeting against the euro, the dollar, the Turkish lira and all other currencies of hot countries where the UK has two weeks booked.

Tom Booker of Derby said: “It might be nice to have one holiday where the government isn’t snatching cocktails from my hand and dashing them to the ground. Just one.

“Instead, ever since 2016, the Tories decide to engage in July-August economic brinksmanship and I run out of spending money four days before my flight, while the Germans watch and laugh.

“I suppose last year they did vary things a bit by sending the pound into freefall at the beginning of December, depriving thousands of kids visiting Lapland of a reindeer feeding experience. So that was good of them.”


Chancellor Sajid Javid said: “Thing is, politics is a bit boring in summer so we play a game of chicken with the Eurozone’s larger economies to keep our adrenaline up.

“If it’s ruined your holiday it serves you right for not choosing a patriotic British break. We’re dynamiting the Channel tunnel next year anyway.”
The Daily Mash

Of course.

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Give me your life



I think another "timeslip moment" is upon us - in particular as we have been listening to quite a bit of "old school" House music here at Dolores Delargo Towers since getting in from work...

Let's take a trip (and it is a trip) back twenty years again to celebrate another delirious new UK chart entry for a superb dance number (in a year that saw some of the very best choons of their genre).

It's "back to the baggies" with Alex Party and the marvellous Don't Give Me Your Life!


Alex Party on Wikipedia


STOP PRESS

In case anyone's wondering (or should I say, "Is anybody actually reading this?"), that is indeed the lovely Jake Canuso aka Mateo from Benidorm shaking his tush in the video...

Thursday, 31 July 2014

Swing no more



With a final "cheers" to one of telly's greatest "swingers", we bid a fond farewell to Kenny Ireland - aka "Donald Stewart" from house favourite TV comedy Benidorm (and prior to that, "Derek the handyman" in Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques). He died today, aged just 68.

Things at the "Hotel Solana" will never be the same again.


RIP Kenny Ireland (7th August 1945 – 31st July 2014)

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Alexis plays Crystal!



We finally got around to watching the fantabulosa grand finale of the wonderful ITV series Benidorm last night, and it surpassed itself on the camp comedy front, tying up loose ends (and loose morals) with a raft of guest appearances...

..not least that by "Dame" Joan Collins (as the redoubtable Crystal Hennessy-Vass)!

[2019 UPDATE: all clips gone from the interwebs]

We love Benidorm! I am going to miss it.

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Costa del Carrington?



Oh my gawd... Can this programme get any more camp? According to the BBC:
Joan Collins is heading back to the small screen to join the cast of ITV sitcom Benidorm.

The former Dynasty star will play hotel guest "Crystal" in the forthcoming sixth series of the show, set in the Spanish resort.

Collins played Alexis Carrington Colby in the 1980s drama alongside Linda Evans as her rival Krystle Carrington.

The actress told fans: "I'm playing Crystal, yes I am!! But not the Dynasty one."
More about Benidorm.

Saturday, 13 April 2013

Fun and sunshine



Hoorah! One of our favourite TV series here at Dolores Delargo Towers is coming back...
ITV has confirmed details about the forthcoming sixth series of its hit sitcom Benidorm.

Seven new episodes are currently been filmed on location in Spain for broadcast on ITV later in the year.

Returning to enjoy the 'four star hotel treatment' in the new series are Mick Garvey (Steve Pemberton), Janice Garvey (Downton Abbey's Siobhan Finneran) and Madge Harvey (Sheila Reid).

Madge
Producers add: "Viewers will be surprised to see how grown-up Michael Garvey (Oliver Stokes) has become - he's now an adventurous teenager who's set to cause his parents many troubled afternoons by the pool."

The Dykes, a new family, are also set to be introduced in this series. Heading up the group are Clive (Perry Benson) and Tonya (Hannah Waddingham) - a lively Watford couple with Clive firmly under the thumb of his no-nonsense wife. They bring their two children with them, Bianca (Bel Powley) and Tiger (Danny Walters) - both are young, single and looking for fun.

Characters returning from previous series include popular swingers Donald Stewart (Kenny Ireland) and Jacqueline Stewart (Janine Duvitski), who fully intend to claim the free holiday that new manager Joyce Temple Savage (Sherrie Hewson) promised them at the end of the last series.

Jacqueline and Donald
The new series also sees Liam (Adam Gillen) join Kenneth DuBeke (Tony Maudsley) at his hair salon 'Blow & Go' - the very discreet and selective hair and beauty emporium within the Solana resort.

And hunky barman Mateo (Jake Canuso) still holds the fort behind the pool bar with the help of friendly transsexual Les/Lesley (Tim Healey).

Mateo
ITV has also revealed that Series 6 will see the return of Martin Weedon (Nicholas Burns), who was last seen in the sitcom in Series 3. Martin arrives on a loud and lairy stag do and, now very single, finds himself having a drunken 'encounter' with one of the well-known female holidaymakers.

Benidorm includes notable guest stars in each series, and Series 6 is set to see Ken Morley, best known for playing Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street, making a guest appearance. Additionally Hollyoaks pin-up Philip Olivier will play a new character, and Matthew Kelly will return as Joyce's old flame, Cyril Babcock.

The Garveys with Cilla Black
Benidorm creator Derren Litten, who after sharing writing duties with Pemberton and Neil Fitzmaurice during Series 5, has returned to pen all seven episodes, says: "I'm so excited about Series 6 of Benidorm, probably more excited than all previous series.

"Apart from Dynasty Series 5 of course - what could possibly top the Moldavian Massacre?"
Campness abounds...




I can't wait!

Benidorm at the British Comedy Guide

Friday, 6 November 2009

Very authentic entertainment, indeed

Since our return from Spain, we had loads of recorded telly to catch up with - the BBC4 Art Deco season, Brian Sewell's Grand Tour, and our favourite comedy of the moment Benidorm. We love this programme!

Having spent an inordinate amount of time on the Costas, I can assure you that it isn't really a drama at all, but more like a true-to-life documentary. I can guarantee that we have probably met all the characters at some time or another!

One (very new) character we would really love to meet, however, is "Dirty Diana from Torrevieja". In case you haven't seen it, here is one of the best scenes from the recent series, as Diana (Una Stubbs) enjoys some of the local "entertainment"...Happy Friday!!