My weekend TV viewing was dominated by The Passion and Ben-Hur. Well, it WAS Easter. But the rest of the TV schedule had me heading for Blockbuster - how very 20th century. What about you?
God bless Channel Five for showing Ben-Hur, the perfect way to waste... sorry, wile away four hours of your Bank Holiday Monday afternoon. I got so involved I even forgot to look out for the digital watch.
You saw rather more of Jesus in BBC1's The Passion than you did in Ben-Hur - which famously never showed a close-up of JC's face - and I thought Joseph Mawle did a remarkably good job.
It helped that you didn't recognise him from something else, unlike James Nesbitt who played Pontius Pilate. But I found myself getting caught up in The Passion as well and it left me wanting more. Perhaps I'll listen to this next.
The Observer's Kathryn Flett was less keen on The Passion than me, although my Guardian colleague Gareth McLean thought it was "wrenching stuff". The reviewer in the Sunday Telegraph worried that Jesus looked too much like Mick Fleetwood, a thought that hadn't occurred to me.
Easter Sunday was all about The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The Guardian's Sam Wollaston was not keen, neither was Andrew Billen in The Times, who thought it was overly sentimental and blamed the late Anthony Minghella's co-writer, Richard Curtis.
The screening Minghella's last directing job before his untimely death last week rather overshadowed the first part of ITV1's He Kills Coppers, which I recorded. Worth a look? Sam Wollaston thought so.
In the meantime, a bit like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, I have to return a DVD. Kingdom of Heaven, obviously. Well, it WAS Easter weekend.
