Holding pattern

Hello, all. Another rolling apology for not tending to the blog garden as regularly as I should be. Not only am I up against the aforementioned Mr Blue Sky script delivery deadline, which looms ever closer each day (the first full cast read-through happens on March 5, on which day all six scripts will need to be in shape), but I'm doing 6 Music Breakfast all this week and next. It goes without saying that I enjoy both jobs, and could have said no to 6 Music, but I am determined to fit both in, and emerge triumphant and not as throaty and tired as I feel today. (I'm mainlining Vitamin C, and going to bed as early as 9pm, and not drinking, so I'm looking after myself.)

Breakfast is a blast. I like the photograph above of me hugging Alex Horne, and he hugging me back. I thought I'd publish it to raise a smile. Also, lest we forget, it means I am podcasting on a daily basis. The bite-sized best-of Breakfast Podcast is available all week right here. Yesterday's includes the Alex Horne interview, too. (He does too many things, as I do, many of them in the evening when I am nodding off in front of Friday Night Lights, and he has a young family. I don't know how he does it.)

I am also beholden to Radio Times to supply at least a weekly blog for their website, so, if you don't already, why not bookmark this page, and maybe have a glance at my most recent blogs about The Muppets, and J. Edgar. I've been managing to fit in numerous film screenings, so there's a massive backlog of reviews I've not had time to write: Martha Marcy May Marlene, A Dangerous Method, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Girl Model, Carnage, the DVD of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Pt 2, the list goes on.

Thank you for bearing with me. It's amazing that the blog still gets over 500 visitors a day, even when I don't post anything new. Normal service will be resumed. And there'll be another Telly Addict on Saturday. I don't remember when I was last this busy, but the self-employed do not complain about such things.