Douglas Booth: Expectation

This Christmas, a new king of the tellybox was crowned!
Douglas Booth won much praise playing Pip in the BBC's Great Expectations.
Young Mr Booth's best-known previous roles have been Boy George in the biopic, Worried About The Boy, and Isherwood's rough trade lover, Heinz, in Christopher And His Kind.
Tis the final instalment of Great Expectations tonight - haven't seen it, but I guess it's safe to assume he'll get buggered in this, too.

Update: Who the Dickens is Douglas Booth? Meet TV's latest teen heart-throb The Sun.
"He also recently appeared on the cover of Gay Times magazine. But don't worry girls, he is straight."
Phew!

Christopher And His Kind: Sign Of The Times

"Congratulations to Matilda Walter of London N1 for a potentially award-winning complaint to Radio Times about BBC2's bookish docudrama Christopher and His Kind. Instead of merely voicing the usual criticisms (Doctor Who having gay sex, a rerun of Cabaret without tunes, etc), she homed in on a central but overlooked issue: faced with a publicity still of 'semi-naked actors Matt Smith and Douglas Booth' sunbathing on lakeside decking, 'I couldn't take my eye off the photo. But the more I ogled, the more disappointed I became – Phillips decking screws used in a drama set before 1933?'"

From The Guardian's Media Monkey blog.

Christopher And His Kind: Christopher Who?

I like the way the cover of the new Radio Times - "Your actual quality guide..." - operates on the assumption that no-one will know nor care who this Christopher Isherwood bloke is that Matt Smith's playing in this TV drama, only that the Dr gets "Naked" and "sexy"...

Update: On Friday, several of the broadsheets profiled Smith and/or Isherwood.
Best headline: 'Nudity, Nazis and the Doctor' - The Daily Mail, natch.
The Mail's best question: "So IS he worried some Doctor Who fans might be horrified when they see their hero playing a dissolute boulevardier?"
Translation: "So IS he worried some Doctor Who fans might be horrified when they see their hero playing a poof?"
"No, because it’s just pretend," Matt Smith explained helpfully.