"Barry Leslie Norman", Order of the British Empire/CBE is a British film critic, writer and media personality. He presented BBC Television's The Film programme (TV show)/Film 72 (and successive years) until 1998.

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If he'd gotten a good bite I'd have been on my way to the hospital.

Most movie spin-offs from TV series are doomed to failure because each episode of a series is simply an anecdote, whereas a movie should at least be a short novel - and you can't make a novel out of an anecdote.

When I pulled it out he spun around and bit me and I let go of him real fast.