Telenovela Lover Gifts

The best way for you not to lose your Spanish skills is to watch Spanish TV. New rule! Every Wednesday night is mandatory Spanish TV night!"

Trial by Media

"All our extras are ex-soccer players - they're the best at dramatically faking injuries."

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

'A sitcom has to be quirky or formulaic. There is no middle way.'

"And by president we mean the one on Saturday night tv, not the real one. He kinda sucks."

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

'Gosh, really? You've never been on any reality show at all?'

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"I'm Lester Holt, and this, is date night."

"Spoiler alert."

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

"I'll be glad when the television is fixed."

'Choose, Fenster

"No Hand Sanitiser"

Barry Unsworth

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Menopause and the City

Lord Byron

"It's a novel about interest rates."

Foxy lady

Mr. Merdle becomes a borrower

The old fashioned, never say die author: 'All right, if they're remaindered, I'll sign the remainders.'

Book

Clownton Abbey

'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

Sylvia Plath

Eleven/Millie Bobby Brown (caricature)

A new book with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

"It's a stream of consciousness novel like 'Ulysses' I just sort of sat down and wrote it without even thinking of a plot have you had drink I', going to get a seat where do you come from it's hot in here I like blue do you like blue..."

Ernest Hemingway

Trilby - The flexible flageolet

"Hi, we're Intensive Care Bears."

Alan Davies.

Sue Perkins