TV Now is not much to look at, design-wise, but it's a good site for looking up TV listings for your favorite actors.

Colin Firth, for example. Here, you can find a listing of his TV appearances for this month. If you wanted to, I mean.*

And here are the listings for Ciaran Hinds, also known as "that guy in the big hat, from Persuasion." My friend Mary brought this guy up last night when we were on the phone. I'd forgotten all about him. But he's very interesting to watch. Especially in Persuasion and Jane Eyre.

* For those of you following along with the home edition of the Colin Firth game, I now give you my latest moves:

• I added several FirthFilms to my Half.com "items I'm watching" list.


• I ordered the books Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason for very good prices, also on Half.com.


• This morning before work, I called Riverside Studios in London to inquire about Hamlet tickets for next year. Unfortunately, sales of these tickets are currently suspended. Apparently the response was quite overwhelming, and Riverside decided to hold some back to sell closer to the performance date. Otherwise all the shows would have been sold out by now. So I am going to call back when the rest of the tickets go on sale. (However. The fellow I spoke to on the phone this morning also mentioned vaguely that they were trying to get some details "sorted out" before selling the rest of the tickets... which I can only hope means, they are trying to lengthen the run of the play. Surely, surely it will end up running for more than 5 weeks.)

But yes, if I can get tickets, Marty and I are planning a trip to London for next winter. And I am very happy about that.