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No, I think Claire mentioned on Twitter that it was a Ben’s Stunt mans wig. Will have to compare Martin’s and Amanda’s hair to see if they shot it in 2013

Aren't we talking about how in the modern era scenes Ben is wearing a wig? Whoever made that wig deserves an award

Remember the Special was filmed in January 2015. Ben hasn’t had his hair Sherlock-long since 2013.

sherlock: the abominable bride download links

yes it is i again. here to help u out

let me know if they’re not working

link 4, link 5, link 6, link 11, link 12, link 13

720p: link 1, link 2, link 3,  link 7, link 8, link 9   

1080p: link 10 

1080p torrent: torrent 3

720p torrent: torrent 1 

torrent 2, torrent 4

watch online

BBC iPlayer (install hola if you’re not from the uk)

link 1, link 2 click proceed to video

link 3 (vimeo)

i’ll keep updating this list!

please reblog to save a life i can’t spread this alone

sometimes I think he tries to go incognito,but fails every time :D

Martin Freeman at Mark Powell Bespoke https://www.instagram.com/p/_zEAgAsIyK/

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec15AZ1-Q1I)

or how to park your car in space :D

I’ve been tagged by beautifulfic :)

Name: Sandra Nickname: Sunny Star Sign: Lion Gender: female Height: 5′4 Favorite Colors: green, purple Time right now: 20:50 GMT+1 Average hours of sleep: 8, but can’t sleep well recently... 5 Lucky Numbers: I dunno, but one is 13 :) Number of blankets I sleep with:  1, sometimes +sheet Favorite fictional characters: Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, all Sherlock characters Favorite books:The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Wicked Favorite bands: Queen Dream job: something where I can use my english speakig abilities What am I wearing right now: black top and black leggins When did you create your blog: a few years ago when I saw it on a fanfiction site Current amount of followers: 24 What do you post about: mostly Sherlock reposts or random stuff.  Do you have any other blogs: No When did your blog reach its “peak” (when did you get more followers, have popular posts, etc.): I have no idea ;) Who is your most active follower: Dunno What made you decide to get a tumblr: When I started reading fanfiction Do you get asks on a daily basis: No Why did you choose your url:   I love the Hobbit

ISS Spacewalk

My ringside-seat view of yesterday’s #spacewalk – taken from the cupola. https://t.co/Dr2gtEmAtk pic.twitter.com/momY28yZVr

— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) December 22, 2015

Today Mr. Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor and the crew members visited Shechen Monastery [x]

He looks very happy to be in Nepal :)

While whole of Kathmandu was crazy bout Beckham I was chilling with these guys today [X] Chill man its just a picture and was giving them some info bout meditation and had good chat.

Regarding posting pictures of Martin Freeman’s and Amanda Abbington’s children

I have recently found some pictures of their cildren on the web, some old ones that really should’t be there anymore and some new ones. I really hope that they are gone by now. It is not easy to alert the Freeman family whenever I accidentally see some of those pictures. I don’t feel very comfortable with writing to Amanda’s twitter account, as many can see my tweet. I really don’t want to get any attention, just alert them.

The privacy of an actor - and his family- is very important to me. I happened to see both Martin and Benedict walking in private in London (not together) and I just thought: No, let them walk as much in peace as they can, I can ask them for autographs at “official” events like a red carpet. They are people like you and me.Do you want to be secretly photographed when you have an outing with your children? I don’t think so.

Raises hand!

HANDS UP IF YOU’VE JUST CAME BACK FROM THE LIVE SCREENING OF HAMLET

WHEN WATSON COCKS HIS GUN REBLOG IF YOU AGREE

Awww, the cuteness of it!

A very happy looking Benedict Cumberbatch arrives for the Burberry Spring/Summer 2016 collection during London Fashion Week. [x/x]

I love Willemijn! Have seen her as Elphaba man, many times!

You’ll Be In My Heart (from Tarzan) - Willemijn Verkaik

Willemijn Verkaik in Concert - 25th August 2015

She’s currently playing Kala in the German production of Tarzan

This is something that’s on my mind for weeks now: Can we somehow prevent the media from using the term Cumberbitches? 

I can’t hear and read that word anymore and I think I’m not the only one.

I had to hear from some new collegues when they found out that im a fan of BC: Oh you are are Cumberbitch! I was not amused. And I don’t want to be called that at all!

Tim Roberts, misogyny & social media conduct

As a social media professional and a theatre fan, it could hardly have escaped my attention that a light technician with The Phantom of the Opera called Tim Roberts quit his job after being disciplined for his conduct on social media. It is an extreme result of some very unpleasant back and forth, but it’s another example of a long line of men receiving backlash after making offensive comments to women. 

It was only in June that Sir Tim Hunt, at a conference in Seoul, remarked that the “trouble with “girls” is three things happen when they are in the lab … you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticise them, they cry” and that scientists should work in gender-segregated labs. The women of the Internet responded with justified anger and, much like Mr Roberts, Sir Hunt resigned from his position at UCL for making offensive remarks. 

The attack on the fangirl is the only acceptable misogyny left 

The tweets that got Tim Roberts into trouble fall into the same offensive category, but his target was a certain type of young woman who often come under attack. While a general swipe at women is enough to set sensors off and rile everyone up, taking a pop at the much maligned fangirl is sadly fair game. But it is arguably the most toxic kind of misogyny. Where young women that are passionate about something are made to feel like they’re wrong and are criticised for being who they are by an older straight white man.

Roberts’ earliest tweets started with an ugly offensive tone:

For clarity, Roberts used the horrific situation with refugees in Calais to offend fans seeing Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet at the Barbican. Quickly following that up with ableism. (A ‘Sunshine Bus’ is the name used for bus trips for young people with special needs, suggesting that those with special needs should be ‘locked up’)

He also took a particularly misogynist swipe at young women:

Edited since publishing to add this gem:

Some women were offended by his comments as they back and forthed with him over his comments about fangirls. However he continued on by calling his haters neo-Nazis:

And advocating that fans should be shot:

Tim Roberts offended the young women he was attacking so much that they forwarded his tweets with a complaint to his employer. Really Useful Theatres (RUT) then took Mr Roberts in for a disciplinary. Roberts quit when faced with this process. 

Should Tim Roberts have been disciplined?

The key question that has emerged as a result of this whole affair is whether Tim Roberts should have been disciplined by his employer for these tweets that he sent on his own time (remember, he did not lose his job, he chose to quit when faced with disciplinary action.)

Roberts, of course, says no. The argument that RUT are suppressing his freedom of speech is one that Roberts and his supporters are running with. It’s his personal Twitter and thus he argues that he can say anything he likes on his own time. He wasn’t attacking the company he was working for and thus, he believes, should have the right to say what he wants. Tim Roberts has also gone as far as to compare his predicament to those Spain, Egypt and Iran, who fought censorship on Twitter to enforce political change. His right to tweet using offensive language, he argues, is comparable to their struggle:

It seems disingenuous to argue that Tim Roberts’ predicament is anything like those of political activists during the Arab Spring. In fact, it’s actually a pretty offensive self-important claim. 

The RUT have argued, according to Roberts, that he brought their brand into disrepute, and that’s where the professional Social Media Director in me comes out. Although Roberts may not have said anything about his employer, he was tweeting in a professional capacity - he was always talking in the context of the industry he works in and thus to potential clients of RUT. All these young women he insulted and offended are theatregoers and thus their potential clients.

Let’s look at it this way, if Roberts had stood outside Her Majesty’s Theatre before work one day and shouted abuse at people walking by and as they purchased tickets, would anyone say that was ok? 

Advice for brands

Social media is a complicated new problem. What can brands do if their employees behave in their personal life in a way that does not align with their ethics? Furthermore, what can brands do if an employee is offending potential clients? This is an absolute minefield, but a sturdy and clear social media policy is absolutely vital. 

Clients are well within their rights to request employees do not use social media to bring their brand into disrepute. A really high profile case of this recently was the appointment of 17 year old Paris Brown as Britain’s youth police and crime commissioner. She was discovered to have sent several offensive tweets the years before her appointment, but was subsequently forced to resign because her values did not align with that of her employer’s.

Some might argue that if you are tweeting in your personal time, it shouldn’t have anything to do with your employer, but legal guidelines provided by Linklaters, a global law firm, state that the cases in tribunal seen so far indicate that “the exact details of how the posting is made are generally less important. For example, there is limited focus on whether it is made in or out of normal working hours. Instead what is important is whether there is a clear connection to work (for example, because of the nature of the posting or naming of the employer) and the impact on the employer.” 

It’s clearly vital for brands to have clear social media guidelines in place for all staff. But, additionally, I recommend professional social media training. As someone that has conducted plenty of social media training sessions for large corporations and their staff in the past, it’s interesting to get those who aren’t familiar with social media into a room and discuss it with them. They may not realise the risks they take when posting on social media, as well they may not understand their own responsibility as an employee. We always look up an attendee’s social media profile prior to the session and screencap their tweets and show them to the room. Believe me, there’s nothing like bringing home how exposed you are than your tweets going up on a screen in a room with your colleagues. It’s not done to embarrass anyone (very few people have anything embarrassing anyway), it’s done to remind you how vulnerable you are when exposing yourself online.

Tim Roberts tweeted to me that he is in charge of Twitter accounts with followers numbering 30,000 (this tweet has since been deleted). 

He feels this gives him some kind of experience and knowledge of social media and how it works. Yet, clearly this isn’t the case. It is a clear example of how organisations with small budgets cut costs by not employing experienced professionals to manage their social media. I would be pretty worried that someone with a similar attitude, in charge of my social media profiles, wouldn’t know how to protect my brand from defamation, contempt of court, libel, wouldn’t know the brand’s responsibility for child safety, ASA advertising law, the important role of PR on social media, and wouldn’t respect the ethics and brand personality in a public space. All things that professionals from social media agencies specialise in and can navigate with confidence without it being the focus of their jobs. 

Sadly, Tim Roberts has probably done very little for his employability now. Everyone knows that employers check public social media accounts when recruiting. He is highly visible and, despite attempts at revising history and deleting tweets, there are many posts correcting his version of events. (Read @losethehours post here as well.)

(Note: If any theatres wish to talk to me about social media training for their staff, specifically tailored for theatre and entertainment, please feel free to get in touch either here, on Twitter or google me.)

Thank you for that post!

Tim Roberts vs. the Cumberbatch Fandom: a long post

As you all probably have noticed already, a story about how a theatre worker named Tim Roberts got fired/quit for tweeting about Benedict Cumberbatch fans is spreading through the internet. I’ve noticed that some people seem to be taking his side, considering the fact that he has been fired/forced to quit to be an overreaction, or as he would like us to believe, a gross infringement of his free speech rights.

For a clarification, he wasn’t fired, or forced to quit. When faced with a private investigation from his employers, he decided to quit. Why do that if you have done nothing wrong? I’ll leave it out to you to decide.

But why did all this happened? As I’ve been told, he has deleted most of the “offensive” tweets about it, but according to him, this is the reason of all of his misfortunes:

He insists on pointing that this tweet, and only this tweet, is the only reason he got into trouble, and he says so several times on his timeline. If you didn’t know better, you would totally believe this guy’s story and considered it a gross miscarriage of justice, am I right? After all, that tweet is just an observation, that doesn’t contain any foul language. Just a criticism of the way some people behave during live theatre.

Except, dear old Tim isn’t being truthful. That’s not the tweet that got him into trouble. That’s not the reason his employers decided to do a review of his behaviour on social media. And that’s not the reason he decided it was best for him to quit before being investigated either. Dear Tim, being so completely tone-deaf about how incredibly gross, hateful and misogynistic his words are, has deleted some tweets, but the ones that are still on his timeline, will give you an idea of what kind of person he is, and why people got so riled up with his comments:

I am not going to insult your intelligence and point out the obvious. But let me tell you that he’s not the first person to get canned because of hateful speech (Remember Justine?).

Mr. Roberts seems to regard his current predicament as a great injustice, and as a sign that his freedom of speech has been thwarted. But the thing is, freedom of speech does not mean that you can spread hate and nobody has the right to challenge you. Freedom of speech means that you can say whatever you want (as he has rightly done), but it does not protect you from the consequences of your words. It does not mean that anybody who disagrees with you is a bully. And it certainly does not mean that your employers are weaklings that bow under the pressure of the public opinion. As Tim’s employers, the Really Useful Theatre company can be held accountable about the way he and all the people who work with them express themselves on social media. Tim’s words and unjustified attacks on female fans reflect very poorly on RUT, so it’s completely understandable that they would want to get to the bottom of the issue and sever ties with him immediately.

I’ve seen that Tim is not only orchestrating a campaign to tell his very biased side of the story by rewriting history on his Twitter, but he is also contacting members of the press. The Independent has fallen for his excuses, as you can see on their article. Tim has also contacted via his account the Evening Standard, the BBC programme Victoria LIVE, and The Sun, as you can see:

He’s also receiving the help of other like-minded individuals, but the way they are going about it is probably not helping that much Tim’s cause:

I will end up this very long post (sorry, I wanted to get this out of my chest and move on, this man is not worth my time) by pointing out that he is claiming he’s being bullied and threatened. And, he chose this to exemplify his claims:

Does that person sound like a troll to you? or a bully? Because to me it looks like Tim likes to dish on people, but when said people fight back, he cannot take it and starts crying about being the victim of bullies.

About Amanda, I think she simply does not know the whole story. If you go by what Tim says in his timeline, he is a completely innocent victim of evil Cumberfans, just like Amanda and Ben’s wife (according to him, that is). I hope she decides to take a closer look to his timeline and realizes who this guy really is.

ETA:

Thank you to all the people who is sending me links and screencaps to the original tweets that were deleted. The internet never forgets, Tim!

OMG! The cuteness of the second one! *melts*

Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter attend the after party for the press night performance of ‘Hamlet’ at the Barbican Centre on August 25, 2015

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Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet x Sherlock [S6 RB]

John Watson: looking down and smiling

“Please do not record during the play and if you could do one thing for me: please spread this via social media.”

Our take on the #HamletBatch situation

I have so many feelings on this situation at the moment and most of these are directed towards certain areas of the British press.

It seems that just because Mr Cumberbatch is taking the lead role, all rules need no longer apply. Certain members of the press appear to have forgotten themselves: first preview reviews, photography during performances, slanderous remarks about those who have paid their money for tickets.

I’m sorry, but did we slip into an alternate universe at some point! The press behave worse than the ‘rabid fans’ that they are so keen to label. Obviously everyone needs a ‘label’ for the world to function normally….of course how silly of me.

London. home of Theatreland, has upheld a particular type of etiquette when it comes to all things ‘show’. Hence the establishment of a certain thing called ‘a PRESS night’ and why production company PR people still have jobs.

Theatre is a wonderful opportunity to discover and experience something live. In my opinion there is another else like good theatre.

Theatre lives and breathes emotion. The mark of a good stage actor is one that can take every single member of that audience with them on a journey and allows them to experience that with them. If that audience leaves feeling that they have experienced something together then you have achieved the mark of a great storyteller.

There is a new(ish) culture emerging both here in London and across the Pond, on Broadway, of screen actors treading the boards. Personally, I feel this is a marvelous concept, the difference in experience from watching someone on a screen and experiencing a performance in the flesh are worlds apart. Everyone should experience that at least once.

With that preamble being said, here is what is bothering me with what is happening at the moment:

1. Press portray of rabid fans/traveling fans/Cumberbitches etc etc

Why is it such an issue if fans were drawn to the play because of the person playing the lead? Surely this offers playwrights/directors/actors the opportunity to expand their work into a wider audience. It may offer someone an experience that they have not yet had. God forbid this allow someone to experience Shakespeare for the first time. Even more so if they are then inspired to see more works. Obviously this would be a very, very bad thing.

I, like so many others, purchased tickets over a year ago for this particular production - I am no stranger to the theatre or to Shakespeare, neither is my partner who I bought the tickets for. Hamlet is his favourite Shakespearean play (mine is Othello, FYI) and we both enjoy strong productions with good acting. We happen to think that Mr Cumberbatch is a good actor and Ms Turner puts on excellent productions. But apparently only rabid fans desperate to catch a glimpse of said actor want to see this show?! Oh dear.

2. Early reviews and photography

Poor, poor show here from the British papers ( yes, you know who you are). This is just unacceptable, and completely unfair on all of the people involved with the production. I would love theatres/production companies to ban certain papers from future press nights in protest. This is simply not how we do things. These individuals have behaved in a manner worse than what they predicted from this type of audience. You are ruining the whole experience. It would seem that it is only the press behaving in a frenzied manner over Mr Cumberbatch. The fans who have attended have behaved well, there has been no shrieking or screaming from the stalls, mobbing of theatre doors (you get the idea!). They have behaved respectfully - that is more than can be said for the press. Does it really matter if someone wants to queue for a ticket? No one makes a fuss if someone queues for hours on end to get front row at a concert.

Did Hiddleston fans ruin the production of Coriolanus for other theatre-goers inside the Donmar, or how about people flocking to see James McAvoy in The Ruling Class, or any other actor - male or female - in any other production for that matter? Simple answer is no, they didn’t.

I am so disappointed in how they seem determined to taint and tarnish people’s experience, or perception of an experience. Spare a thought for the wider cast and how hard they have worked. Of course, it is no secret that this is the role that Cumberbatch longed to play. Don’t ruin that for him, the cast, the production team or the audience. It is simply a poor show to do so.

*climbs down off soapbox*

PS: To everyone going to see Hamlet, i hope you have a wonderful experience despite this crazy business

OMG that must have been frightening! Thank god for Martin’s quick reaction!

This happened to me in Giffoni on 7/19/15 (and of course the video is mine). I met this amazing man and he saved me and my friend’s life. Literally. I went to the Giffoni Film Festival to meet Martin Freeman aka the cutest person in the world. I was in first row and people were literally beasts: I still have bruises and I hurt everywhere. When he walked on the carpet to sign autographs I thought I was going to pass out or even die, people were so horrible and some girls were literally thrown out of the queue. So when he was right in front of me and my friend he saw that we were dying and we couldn’t breathe so he helped us and made people go back by saying “These girls can’t breathe, go BACK!”, he tried to calm us down, telling us to “BREATHE”, then he called the security. This man literally saved us. I’m still shaking at the thought of it. Thank you Martin.

Transcript of Martin Freeman’s reply to “Has any childhood experience influenced your success as an actor” 19.07.15

Martin Freeman:

I can’t think of one time, but I do... as a kid I was ill, I was small , my parents where divorced, I was the youngest of five.

You know, I don’t wanna paint myself as a Dickens victim, but I was not an Alpha male.

So you have to find other ways to, you know, succeedig I guess. I wasn’t able to beat anyone up at the playground, but I could make people laugh.

And I found that you can... you can get through in other ways. I was in and out of hospital for various things as a kid an I do think it really strenghtened me.

You know, I wouldn’t wish hospital on any child, but when things are difficult, when things aren’t ideal... well the old saying “ what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is very, very true and I think... I dunno wether those things mean... that means I’m successful.

I knew that life wasn’t going to... Even I’ve been lucky, but I knew that life just wasn’t going to give me a free path and everything was gonna fall into my lap. You have to work, but you have to also be sensitive and open and just recognize opportunities and things and people. And which people are good for you and which aren’t good for you.

But I know I always felt that I was a little kid with a dodgy leg and dodgy teeth and my parents where divorced - which wasn’t very common in an English Catholic school .

I kind of... I quite liked beeing a bit outside of all, I quite enjoyed that and I think that might have helped.

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Note: I’m not quite sure about some parts of that answer but I did my best to write down what Martin said :)

Martin Freeman with THESE GLASSES. (X) (X) (X) [sighs]

Looking for Hamlet Ticket...

If anyone out there need to sell a Hamlet Ticket for the 15th or 16th of September, please contact me here or on twitter: @Sunny_820

Hamlet on a budget

I’m really in dilema right now... I want to try and get a 10 pound ticket for Hamlet and I’m on a really tight budget. Meaning that I don’t have money for two nights in a hostel.

If I book my bus for the overnight trip from Germany, I’ll arrive around 7 AM at Victoria. But I’m afraid that this is too late to go to the box office to queue.

I could book a bus and arrive the previous evening at 8 PM. But where to stay at night then?

I need to book the bus in the next  two days for mid Septmeber, I really don’t know what to do!

Versucht mal den Film jemanden in der UK zu erklären :D

Coloring books for grown ups

Why is it, that it takes the Germans years to discover those coloring books, which you can get a lot in the UK?

Now that they discovered it, you can get it everywhere in magazines, but they cost far too much.