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Stars: Rory Kinnear, Steve Delaney, Bronagh Gallagher, David Plimmer, Andy Linden | Created by Steve Delaney

When I’ve seen Count Arthur Strong on television, I do tend to watch the odd episode, but I never seem to have the time to stick with it. Reviewing Count Arthur Strong: The Complete Third Series though has allowed me to take time with it, and give it the chance it deserves.

In the third series of Count Arthur Strong, we see the character played by creator Steve Delaney along with his friends making Michael Baker’s (Rory Kinnear) life complicated. Whether it is Strong joining Scientology, performing an exorcism or going on a day trip, things are never normal in the world of Count Arthur Strong.

Having not experienced the radio show beginnings of Count Arthur Strong, my view on the character is that created in the television show. The character himself takes some getting used to,...

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When life hurts, well-crafted, traditional sitcom like Count Arthur Strong can be an indispensable salve…

There’s a period a little while after a family death, after the days spent in a traffic jam of errands, decisions and phone calls, when you have to merge back into the regular lane. Normal life demands to re-start. The fridge needs filling and the lawn needs mowing, even if, impossibly, the person who usually does both has vanished forever.

For my family like most others, normal life means watching television. Telly is the cradle that rocked us through the decades. Whatever happened to us happened against a backdrop of soaps and sitcoms.

Losing our dad though, changed things. In the flayed-skin sensitivity of the days around his funeral, flicking through the channels meant running a gauntlet. A murder on EastEnders brought unwelcome ambulances and coroners back into our living room.

Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, Dobby (voiced by Toby Jones), Kreacher (voice by Simon McBurney), Emma Watson, Andy Linden in David Yates' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I bagged approximately $64m at the North American box office on Friday — including $24m from midnight/3 a.m. screenings — according to early, rough estimates found at Deadline.com. That means Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson-Taylor Lautner's The Twilight Saga: New Moon's opening-day (and single-day) record remains intact, much like the vampire-human-werewolf trio's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's midnight screenings remain the most profitable ever (not adjusted for inflation) even though the latest Harry Potter installment opened at many more theaters — a record-setting 3,700 sites or whereabouts. Directed by David Yates, and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Ralph Fiennes, Deathly Hallows: Part I is expected to take in...

Showing off their appreciation for having 55,000 fans Join the Battle on Facebook, Warner Bros. treats fans with a brand new clip from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I". More than one minute long, the snippet highlights on the seven Potters scene and offers a look at the transfiguration Emma Watson and five others undergo after drinking Polyjuice Potion.

"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe previously described the filming of the scene as "the single most complicated sequence we've done in any of the films". Quoted by Empire Magazine, he further explained, "Everyone's changing into me and nobody really knows what's going on. I'm dressing up as everyone else ad they're dressing up as me, and, well it's very confusing."

When asked how was it playing Emma's Hermione in another interview, the 21-year-old actor revealed he found it "fun". "The girls were very, very funny. I think the crew was...

Actor Martin Ballantyne (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1948712/), who has a minor role in Half-Blood Prince, where he played a 'Scary Face' character, has been cast in Deathly Hallows as one of Mundungus Fletcher's companions. He recently spoke (http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/Access/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=enonline&tCategory=access&itemid=NOED21%20Apr%202009%2010%3A39%3A40%3A333) about his experience working on the sixth Harry Potter film and explained what his role entails for the final installments. ---Quote--- “But in The Deathly Hallows the director, David Yates, had remembered me and I was given the part of Mundungus' Associate. He is a baddy - I'm always the baddy - and I had a few lines to learn and say.” ---End Quote--- He confirms that British actor Andy Linden will indeed be playing Mundungus Fletcher: ---Quote--- Mr Ballantyne said Mundungus is played by Andy Linton who...

Two more actors have been confirmed (after rumors) to be involved in the next Harry Potter film The Deathly Hallows Part 1.

{sidebar id=1}UniversHarryPotter.com contacted IESB this morning with some updated casting news they had received.

Andy Linden has been cast to play Modungus Fletcher and Domhnall Gleeson (son to Brendan Gleeson, who has appeared in the series since the 2005 release Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as popular character Professor Alastor .MadEye. Moody) has been cast to play Bill Weasley.

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Casting reports for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" keep on coming with the news that Andy Linden is being tapped as Mundungus Fletcher. The actor's involvement with "Deathly Hallows" has been confirmed by his agent Polly Andrews when contacted by Univers Harry Potter about the circulating speculation of him playing the Order of the Phoenix member in the film.

The confirmation of Andy Linden's involvement with the last two installments of the "Harry Potter" series came days after it was reported that actress Michelle Fairley has been picked up to star as Mrs. Granger, the Muggle dentist and the mother of Emma Watson's Hermione Granger. He will also be joining original actors, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Helena Bonham Carter, who are set to reprise their roles.

Meanwhile, a scanned photo from the set of "Deathly Hallows" has been found. The original image was published...

Rumours have been surfacing this past week that British actor Andy Linden (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511580/) has been cast to play Order of the Phoenix member Mundungus Fletcher in Deathly Hallows. Uhp (http://www.universharrypotter.com/) has spoken to Andy's agency, who have confirmed that the actor will indeed be playing Dung in the final Harry Potter films. Photos of Andy can be seen here (http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=776): Image: http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/albums/userpics/84186/normal_mURI_temp_639661d3.jpg Image: http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/albums/userpics/84186/normal_mURI_temp_39c21cb9.jpg Image: http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/albums/userpics/84186/normal_mURI_temp_f163c17a.jpg Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be out November 19, 2010 and July 15, 2011.