Watching Roger

Devoted to smooth-talking old sky god, epic villain and everyone's dad, Britain's favourite actor, Roger Allam. Send me video ideas or requests. youtube.com/WatchingRogerAllam

[dearwatson]

must feel good af to be a 1920s dandy calling your gay lover "old thing"

[watchingroger]

Hello I've recently become a fan of Roger and very much enjoyed finding your blog. Just thought I let you know there is very rough recording on Youtube of him in City of Angels. Can't post a link in here but easy to find under City of Angels West End (1994)

What a find, anonymous benefactor!

Thank you so much for letting me know about this!

[ikeepseeingghosts]

[watchingroger]

Hal An Tow Henry IV Part 1 at Shakespeare's Globe with Roger Allam and Jamie Parker

[watchingroger]

Conversations from a Long Marriage returns on Monday, somewhat bafflingly to those of us who were assured it would end with the couple moving away from their beloved home, a position shared by the BBC continuity announcer at the time (it's the last series of Endeavour all over again isn't it)

Anyway I'm not complaining and I'm holding out hope that we might get to hear this fucker sing. And not pretend he can't sing.

[watchingroger]

further to this, they're trailing this on radio 4 at the moment and they've started calling the characters Joanna and Roger and I don't like it

[watchingroger]

Conversations from a Long Marriage returns on Monday, somewhat bafflingly to those of us who were assured it would end with the couple moving away from their beloved home, a position shared by the BBC continuity announcer at the time (it's the last series of Endeavour all over again isn't it)

Anyway I'm not complaining and I'm holding out hope that we might get to hear this fucker sing. And not pretend he can't sing.

[watchingroger]

A handful of images I picked up about the place of Roger in ITV's Secret Service. Reviews are mixed but I think we can all agree with Sarah Dempster at The Guardian that "there is no programme on Earth that wouldn’t benefit from his [Roger's] presence."

[lovesicklobotomy]

Project - GIF all of the Globe Theatre’s 2013 Production of “The Tempest” #28/32

All torment, trouble wonder and amazement, inhabits here, Some heavenly power guide us out of this fearful country!

[mifhortunach]

“People saying Douglas was too mean to Arthur / Martin in Qik - I love how protective people have got these days of Martin and Arthur! Sadly, things going wrong and people being mean to you is very much the lot of a sitcom character. If nothing goes against you, there’s nothing to deal with in a hopefully funny way. For instance, Benedict fans - remember, if Douglas hadn’t been mean to Martin, you’d never have got to hear Ben’s French accent. Swings and roundabouts…”

— John Finnemore (via tabbykatification)

[mjn-air]

i’ll never get over just how much softness douglas puts into his voice when arthur has the frozen keys in his mouth in st petersburg

“of course you did”

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like, there’s no annoyance, no hint of “you fool, what else to expect” there’s just… adoration? pls go and listen and hear for yourself

[sircarolyn]

and, if I may add, go listen to the end where Arthur’s fallen asleep on watch and Douglas says ‘behold the ever vigilant watchdog’ and then, and you have to concentrate, but he does this little chuckle before Martin speaks

and it’s so soft

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

they hate us control freaks for making sure everyone else does things the correct way

[zeroatthebone]

[magicratfingers]

never thought the dad was hot before

[blondebrainpowered]

Tim Curry photographed for After Dark Magazine, March 1975

[librawritesstuff]

MARK YOUR 2027 CALENDARS: Roger Allam in King Lear at Orange Tree

(Now if they could only sign up Evans as Edmund…)

[ravelle001]

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I really like the dynamic between Morse and Thursday. I would like to draw more of them, but I have few ideas about what to draw.

[mjn-air]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

[coveredwithsnow]

I was just planning on making a Valentine’s Day card for my friend and I got a little carried away, so here are all my Arthur Shappey Valentines. Happy Valentine’s Day!

[patrice-bergerons]

You know, I don't see Thursday and Morse's dynamic as sexual at all, but I do think that nothing would make Thursday happier if Morse got married to a nice girl and the two of them then came over to the Thursdays for a nice dinner every Friday (and Morse maybe named his firstborn Fred and asked Thursday to be his godfather). Similarly, you could not waterboard it out of him, but Morse would be utterly delighted if Thursday developed a sudden interest in opera and wanted to hang back after work to talk about or listen to Wagner together. To take this a step further, in their heart of hearts and beyond a thousand layers of repression, what those two really want is to have a bit of a snuggle in front of the telly while Fred watches TV and Morse does the crossword, and it is precisely this lack of snuggling firstborn naming and opera listening that has them SO insane and not normal about one another; thank you for coming to my tedtalk.