mabrookes: I don't think anyone has mentioned Ideal yet, that was a fantastic series.
Theta_Sigma: I met Doug Bradley actually, fantastic guy; very friendly and you can tell he loves his fans. I got that vibe from him, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Englund, Felicia Day, Voltaire, Tom Savini, Tom Noonan, Nathan Fillion, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Baker, George Takei, Ron Perlman, Carrie Fisher, and a few others I've had the good fortune to meet.
mabrookes: Would love to meet some of those people. I have met Bill Baily, Dylan Moran and Derren Brown before. I have met Rose Leslie from Game of Thrones (she was filming in the university nearby for the new series of Utopia that will be coming out and my gf was helping out).
I also briefly met Natalia Tena who played Tonks in Harry Potter. The street outside my building was used to shoot scenes for a film coming out later this year. I attached a photo of the view from the window of our flat; we were looking straight out at the filming crew, it was pretty interesting. The film is low budget but sounds ok
http://www.screendaily.com/news/alex-garcias-residue-begins-shoot/5063750.article.
The list after that gets very unimpressive, with Hulk Hogan and Charlotte Church being the highlights!
Those are some awesome people indeed, Natalia Tena in particular would be awesome to meet in my opinion. On the topic of Utopia, that was definitely an odd series, I remember watching it on Space and thinking how odd it was for them showing something that graphic that early on in the day.
Theta_Sigma: Yeah, Hattie would be another good choice. Well to be honest I liked having both on board the Red Dwarf; it was one of the things I really enjoyed about the reconstitution of the Red Dwarf at the end of the original run.
ReynardFox: Yeah I agree, Norman was on fire in the last season too.
"I hope we don't get stopped by the cops, they don't like it when you're rat-arsed"
Haha, yea. I remember when they first showed him back when the episode aired way back when and being all "yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes" as I missed Holly in the episodes previous. My favourite quote of Holly still has to be from "The End"..."They're all dead Dave...(12x)" :P.
Theta_Sigma: Actually, George R R Martin is from New Jersey. While you are correct on most of what you said, for example the locations (filmed in Ireland), he is very much an American. I kind of lost faith in the series (though I still love the books), so I'm giving season 4 a chance otherwise I think I might stick to the novels.
deadfolk: Not to derail the thread, but I couldn't stop myself from pointing out that Ireland is not in Britain/UK.
Having said that, I think that GoT may have been partially filmed in Northern Ireland, which is a different country from the Republic of Ireland and IS part of the UK.
/pedantry
Oh I didn't mean offense, but I meant Northern Ireland (aka the part of the UK), I was not trying to generalize at all. :)
Theta_Sigma: Like others have said, I have to concur with:
Dr. Who and the Daleks & Dalek Invasion of Earth (Peter Cushing movies but worth every second of glorious cheese)
Fever_Discordia: Oh yeah, Peter Cushing, of course, committing the cardinal sin of saying
"Hello, I'm Dr Who!"
In those films!
I know it's not a canon Doctor Who set of films, but I still enjoyed Peter Cushing in the role. That being said I look at the films as either "fiction within fiction/play within a play" as in the story exists in the DWU like the play in Hamlet or what have you, OR possibly a World of Fiction story since that is actually a thing in the DWU. Regardless it is still a fun, cheesy, and cornballish movie to watch. :)