The secret behind the success of hit children s show The Tweenies
They don t make children s television like this anymore
Jake , Fizz and Doodles the dog from hit children s show The Tweenies visiting Victoria Square in 2005 (Image: Jason Skarratt / Birmingham Post)
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In the coming months, Bizzarri says, her aim is just to keep her head above water. Da Lucia restaurant was started by her great grandmother in 1938, and closed only once during World War II when the city was bombed. It shut down for the second time last March when Italy went into lockdown. Bizzarri says all she wants now is to continue her great-grandmother’s legacy.
“The big fear was that I would have to close, after 82 years. So now, I just hope to be open for the next few years.”
‘The magic of theater is lost’
German business owners are experiencing similar pains. In Germany, a strict lockdown is already in place with only essential shops allowed to open. Christmas markets, an intrinsic part of the German Christmas, have been broadly banned, and the popular Gluhwein stalls ordered to close. Berlin’s famous theater, the Friedrichstadt-Palast, has been dark since last March.
Behind the scenes with Coventry s pantomime dame
Iain Lauchlan has now played the pantomime dame for the Belgrade in 26 shows!
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Iain Lauchlan in Beauty and the Beast at the Belgrade Theatre
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Craig Hollingsworth as Simon Trott and Iain Lauchlan as Dame Trott
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He may have started his TV career going through the round window in an iconic children’s TV show, but Iain Lauchlan remains a big favourite with a young audience.
Iain has written, directed and stars in Jack and the Beanstalk, a drive-in pantomime screening which will be screened with Pop Up Pictures at the Norfolk Showground from Saturday December 19 to Tuesday December 22.
Playing a number of characters in the show including the Dame and the Giant, he promises the show - set in Prickly Bottom during Lockdown 17.5 - will be a fun-filled experience.