Can't wait for someone to make a film about the captain Tom foundation. The whole story is just my favourite fking thing. It's like a funny/sad milkshake duck story but also about our particular national decline into madness. Sometimes I go back to the wiki page just to remind myself what happened
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr0erg9wdpo
Imagine the celebrity guest casting for this (Rory Kinnear as his dad....). You could use it as a framing mechanism for the rest of the show.
Details of the process and creator https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/05/destroy-spa-pool-captain-tom-moores-daughter-new-video-game-20229238/
And we’ll do it again and again.
'Quiz' was a similar sort of story albeit much MUCH smaller scale and MM aced that
"That trip to the Caribbean was a holiday of a lifetime for him. He sat outside in 29 degrees, in shorts, short-sleeve shirts and sandals," she said.
Yeah, pretty sure it helped kill him.
Guest appearance by Russ Abbot as well, I believe.
Captain Sir Tom Moore's 2020 bid to walk 100 laps of his front garden in Marston Moretaine before his 100th birthday has gone down in pandemic history.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66134840
You've really made the grade
& the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the garden if you dare
This is Cap'n Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
& I'm cash-rich in a most peculiar way
& the kids look very different today
Michael Caine as Field Marshall Colonel Obergruppenfuhrer Captain Tom; Olivia Colman is gonna be BRILLIANT as the daughter.