[S1E1] Late Registration
Ragnar's Lands, Northumbria; Years later, Uhtred is grown up. He has a close relationship with his Danish family and is encouraged by Ragnar to marry Brida. That night he goes to Brida in the woods to make love to her.
[S1E1] Late Registration
Ex-soldier Jonathan Pine, the night manager at the Nefertiti hotel in Cairo, is approached by Sophie Alekan, a guest who is the kept woman of businessman Freddie Hamid, and who asks him to copy some documents for her. These turn out to reveal Hamid as an arms trader and a concerned Jonathan takes them to the British embassy, from where they are sent to Angela Burr, who heads the International Enforcement Agency in London. Jonathan fails to save Sophie from being murdered and, four years later, is working at a Swiss hotel where Richard Roper and his entourage briefly stay. Angela summons Jonathan to her office, telling him that Roper is an international arms dealer who was doubtless involved in Sophie's death and asks him to go undercover to help her to trap him.
Five years later, Jonathan shaves his face inside his apartment in Zermatt, Switzerland. He makes his way to the Meisters Hotel to relieve Herr Strippli of his shift. Fraulein Vipp greets him in German.
Later that evening, Jonathan makes his rounds and asks Fraulein Vipp for a copy of the hotel's late arrivals registration forms. After Fraulein Vipp leaves the desk, Jonathan picks up Roper's parcel and removes the contents: SIM cards. He writes down the numbers and then places them back into the package. In the kitchen, Jonathan asks the bellhop Alfred to deliver Roper's parcel and empty his trash.
Moments later, Roper's girlfriend, Jed, descends the stairs in just a robe and asks if the pool is open. Jonathan obliges, brings Jed towels for her moonlight skinny-dip and then heads to the garbage bins. He finds six SIM cards hidden in a champagne bottle.
Lucille, of course, complies on both counts, and later, the couple is ready to let the midwives take their baby away. They give him a last kiss and hand him to Sister Julienne. Later, back at Nonnatus, Lucille returns to find Cyril waiting for her. Neither of them have had any luck in finding him a new place yet, but they still have each other, at least.
When Morse goes to interview Johnny Franks at the garage where he works, he admires a maroon Jaguar Mark II on the forecourt. This is the same car, registration 248 RPA, that Morse drives in Inspector Morse (1987).
The bus viewers see driving in the rain at the start of the film is going to "Woodstock". This references the first novel that Colin Dexter wrote: "Last Bus To Woodstock". The unofficial title for the this pilot episode was revealed as "First Bus to Woodstock" by Damian Michael Barcroftin in an interview between him and Shaun Evans in his website, and later mentioned again in an interview with writer Russell Lewis.
Morse gallantly tells Rosalind that his recording of her singing is the one record he would "save from the waves" on "my desert island". This refers, a little obscurely, to the legendary BBC radio program, "Desert Island Discs", in which famous people are asked what eight records they would want to bring with them, were they to be marooned on a desert island. The program began on British radio during the second world war and is still going in 2021, more than 75 years later.
When Morse removes Rosalind from the stage, he picks up a single rose from those that had been tossed on stage, hands it to her, and then he respectfully says to her in Italian, "Brava. Bravissima, Divina". Roughly translated, Brava means well done (girl); Bravissima is a higher form of praise in the theater meaning splendid or perfect. However when he calls her Divina, he is actually bestowing the highest honor of referring to her as divine or even angelic for having touched another's heart, in this case his own.
In 2021, the final episode of season 8 was titled "Terminus", and also related to a bus journey. If the series follows the unofficial rule of only 33 episodes, as it would also run as long as "Morse" and "Lewis", and no further, this may now make an interesting sub-plot to spot all the bus route references.
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien.[1] NBC aired 2,725 episodes from September 13, 1993, to February 20, 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am Eastern/11:37 pm Central and 12:37 am Mountain in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, Andy Richter served as O'Brien's sidekick; following his departure, O'Brien was the show's sole featured performer. The show's house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7 and led by E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg.
Upon Johnny Carson's retirement from The Tonight Show in 1992, executives at NBC announced that Carson's frequent guest-host Jay Leno would be Carson's replacement, and not David Letterman. NBC later said that Letterman's high ratings for Late Night were the reason they kept him where he was. Letterman was bitterly disappointed and angry at not having been given The Tonight Show job; and, at Carson's advice, he left NBC after eleven years on Late Night. CBS signed Letterman to host his own show opposite The Tonight Show. Letterman moved his show to CBS virtually unchanged, taking most of the staff, skits, and comedy formats with him. However, NBC owned the rights to the Late Night name, forcing Letterman to rename his show Late Show with David Letterman.
NBC was not prepared to replace both Letterman and Late Night. Aside from the name, it needed to build a new show.[5] Both Dana Carvey and Garry Shandling declined to host it.[6] Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels was brought in to develop the new show,[5] and comedians Jon Stewart, Drew Carey, and Paul Provenza auditioned to host.[6] Michaels suggested to Conan O'Brien, an unknown writer for The Simpsons and former writer for Saturday Night Live, that he should audition for the job. Despite having "about 40 seconds"[7] of television-performance experience as an occasional extra on Saturday Night Live sketches, O'Brien auditioned for the show on April 13, 1993. His guests were Jason Alexander and Mimi Rogers, and the audition took place on the set of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[6] NBC offered the show to O'Brien on April 26, and O'Brien made his first meaningful television appearance later that day when Leno introduced him on Tonight.[7] On the final episode of his 16-year run, O'Brien stated that he "owed his career to Lorne Michaels."
O'Brien's inexperience was apparent, and the show was generally considered mediocre by critics in terms of hosting. The Chicago Sun-Times' Lon Grankhe called O'Brien "nervous, unprepared and generally geeky",[10] and Tom Shales wrote "As for O'Brien, the young man is a living collage of annoying nervous habits. He giggles and titters, jiggles about and fiddles with his cuffs. He has dark, beady little eyes like a rabbit. He's one of the whitest white men ever."[11] (O'Brien wrote for The New York Times a satirical review of the first episode the day it aired titled "O'Brien Flops!", in which he told readers "Frankly, I was not impressed".[12]) The originality and quality of the comedy, however, led by original head writer Robert Smigel, was widely praised. Although O'Brien benefited by comparison from the quick critical and commercial failure of the fellow new late-night The Chevy Chase Show,[5] NBC only offered short-term contracts, 13 weeks at a time[6] and once for six weeks, as widely reported by the press at the time.[5] O'Brien was reportedly almost fired at least once in this period, but NBC had no one to replace him. According to Smigel, "We were basically canceled at Conan, and then they changed their minds in August of '94, gave us a reprieve."[13]
One NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV in Houston, dropped Late Night with Conan O'Brien in September 1994 due to low ratings and was replaced with first-run episodes of The Jenny Jones Show. KPRC reinstated O'Brien's Late Night in the fall of 1996, but scheduled it to air as late as 2:40 a.m. while the station, in addition to The Jenny Jones Show, had aired Extra, Access Hollywood, Ricki Lake, Montel Williams, Inside Edition and a rebroadcast of its 10:00 p.m. newscast between Leno and O'Brien. Houston became the subject of a skit (via classic remote piece) in which O'Brien made impromptu stops at Houston's central bus terminal and the Astrodome to watch an episode of his own show with Houstonians in 1997. KPRC began airing Late Night with Conan O'Brien directly following The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2004.[14][15]
Although Late Night used political humor, it did so far less frequently than competing shows did. During the 1996 and 2000 presidential election seasons, Late Night was found to be the least politically-oriented late night program. It averaged 310 political jokes per election season, in contrast to the Leno-led Tonight Show with 1,275.[24]
Unusual for a late night talk show, Late Night made frequent use of various costumed characters such as The Masturbating Bear, Robot on a Toilet, and Pimpbot 5000. The humor in these sketches often derived from the crude construction of the characters' costumes as well as the absurdist nature of their conceptions. For example, Pimpbot 5000 was a 1950s-style robot who dressed and acted in the manner of an exaggerated blaxploitation pimp, while The Masturbating Bear was a man in a bear costume wearing an oversized diaper who would invariably begin to fondle himself to the tune of Aram Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" when brought on stage. Many of these characters did little more in their appearances than walk across the stage or be wheeled out from behind the curtain, but some had extensive sketches on the show. 041b061a72