Sport

Sport is coming back to the world, and to TV.

Oh joy.

We have football, horse racing, snooker, formula 1 cars, darts and much more.

For some sports, on tv, not having an audience/crowd makes little difference. F1, for eaxmple, you can barely hear the crowd if they are cheering and they are mostly just a blur filling the stands in the background. As I have mentioned before, I believe, tickets cost hundreds of pounds.

For football, they add on fake crowd noise. As the seating is empty and covered, it is totally weird. Cricket don’t so much, just add a sort of ambient background.

I know there are people who do like watching sport, but I just wanted to record how wonderful it has been for all these weeks with sport missing.

Fame

It has been announced that Alan Parker, famed British film director, has died.

If you don’t know Sir Alen, he directed Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, Fame and the Pink Floyd film, The Wall.

I remember seeing Sir Alan at the NFT some years ago. It was a jolly evening, but I seem to remember he was not so well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53614490

Butler

It is possible that you recognise this gentleman, though I doubt it. I knew the name but not the face as, although he works in tv and is famous, it’s not in front of the camera.