Television

Big Finish announced yesterday that that the third series of the Missy audio dramas will be released on 30th September 2021. Subtitled "Missy and the Monk", the new series will reunite Michelle Gomez as Missy with Rufus Hound reprising his role of the Meddling Monk. Missy Series 03 is already available to pre-order from the Big Finish website.

In other news, the Twitter account @NetflixGeeked has teased a Netflix release date of 20th August 2021 for The Loud House Movie, an animated film in which Michelle Gomez will voice a character named Morag alongside fellow Whovian David Tennant. With ...

I've found it!!! That elusive mystery programme referred to in Michelle Gomez's biographies only as "Pinkerton Files" is in fact a half-hour dramatised documentary for BBC Scotland called "Pinkerton - The Eye That Never Sleeps". It was shown on BBC 1 Scotland as part of the Scottish arts series "EX-S" and starred Peter Capaldi as the famous private detective Allan Pinkerton. Yes, Michelle and Peter have worked together before Doctor Who!

My breakthrough came just a few days ago as I was trying yet another search on The British Newspaper Archive. I've searched there ...

I've just added new images of theatre programmes, flyers and other publicity material to the theatre listings for Boeing Boeing, The Taming of the Shrew and If There Is I haven't Found It Yet, all from the Very Gomez private collection. Yes, that means they're mine ;)

In other news, I believe I may have finally, at long last, solved the mystery of "Pinkerton Files"!! That is, I have found a programme that fits the bill perfectly. I'm still looking for proof that it is the Michelle Gomez early work I'm searching for so I won't say any more until I've confirmed it.

Very exciting news that Doom Patrol S3 is expected to premiere on HBO Max on 26th August 2021 with episodes 1 & 2 both airing the same day. This is according to Lance Aufresser of The Doom Patrol Facebook Group. It was announced in March that Michelle Gomez will be joining the third season cast as a series regular, playing Madame Rouge, "a complicated and electrifying eccentric".

Additionally Doom Patrol has just been renewed for a fourth season, though no other details have been released yet for S4.

Featured image was posted on Instagram by Michelle Gomez on 27th April 2021 from behind ...

Some months ago I began searching for a television programme called "The Ladies' Man" or "The Lady's Man" as it's variously named in a number of Michelle Gomez's bios in theatre programmes, including the one shown for Trainspotting, as well as in a BBC press release from 2004. IMDB has no such programme listed for her and just the name and indication that it was a Granada production isn't much to go on. However, with some detective work and a bit of lateral thinking, I identified a strong candidate shortly before the world shut down to pandemia.

IMDB and the BFI catalogue both list an ...