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I went to see Mamma Mia! last night. I’d been wanting to go and see it for a while. Not because I’m an ABBA fan, but just because I thought it looked like a feel-good, summery movie.
In reality, I thought it was the weirdest film I’ve ever seen. I kept getting embarassed when people in [...]

Obviously an earthquake isn’t pleasant. Out of all the ways this could have been captured however, the fact tat it was captured during a taping of Judge Judy (out of all programmes!) is just brilliant….

If you are mad enough to have missed Laurence & Jackie’s Northern Exposure, episode 1 is now available on the iPlayer.
This week’s programme, 9pm on BBC One Northern Ireland repeated on Sunday evening, sees L&J take to the roads of County Armagh. Tune in and see Laurence micro-lighting! (BBC One NI is avilable on [...]

Taking a bit of a break from getting Northern Exposure ready for TX every week, I joined me old mucker Feargal and the ATL / ATL TV crew (I’m not producing this series) for a trip down to the Glasgowbury festival near Draperstown on Saturday.
Glasgowbury is a small, growing festival - their slogan is “small [...]

I saw An Inconvenient Truth this week. I’d been meaning to get round to watching it for absolutely ages, but finally sat down on Friday night and watched all 90 minutes of it. If you don’t know about it, it’s basically a film of a presentation that ex Vice President Al Gore has been giving [...]

I’ve been a bit slow with posting ‘cos I’ve been up to my eyes getting my show ready for transmission tonight. Anyway, you can watch Laurence & Jackie’s Northern Exposure at 9pm on BBC One Northern Ireland. If you’re outside Northern Ireland in the UK, you can catch it on Channel 973 on Sky Digital or Channel [...]

Hoorah! The week before last, we wrapped filming on “Laurence & Jackie’s Northern Exposure“. All six episodes are now in the can, and the first two are edited and ready to go. I’m going to be spending up to the end of August editing programmes 4 and 6, while another producer does 3 and 5.
I’m [...]

So I’ve been sweating it out recently series producing a new six part series for BBC Northern Ireland. It’s called “Laurence & Jackie’s Northern Exposure” and starts transmitting at the end of July.
The idea behind it is that Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife, Jackie, spend 48 hours in a different county in Northern Ireland every [...]

I am going to South by Southwest in Austin, TX the week after next to film for a week for ATL TV, following bands from Northern Ireland as they do their thing out there. It’s basically the biggest music industry showcasing event / conference in the world! I am extremely excited, ‘cos it’s meant to [...]

I watched a great DVD at the weekend - The Lives of Others. It’s a German film, and is all about how the East German secret police - the Stasi - spied on lots of people during the time that East Germany was still under communist rule. The film follows a team of secret service people [...]