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Metro
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Legendary BBC series hailed as ‘guilty pleasure' streaming for free in UK
A cult TV series has been added to a streaming service in its entirety for the first time ever, giving audiences a rare opportunity to watch it the whole way through. Eldorado, the short-lived BBC One soap from EastEnders creators Tony Holland and Julia Smith, is available to watch on UKTV Play. The iconic soap, which ran for just 156 episodes, followed the lives of British and European expatriates who resided in the fictional town of Los Barcos in Spain. It hit screens first in 1992, with BBC bosses hopeful of replicating the success of Australian imports such as Neighbours or Home and Away. The show didn't exactly pan out as the station hoped, though it did undergo huge changes towards the end of its run, which received positive reviews from audiences and an uptick in ratings. Despite the improvements, however, Eldorado was ultimately cancelled in 1993. Viewers who missed the BBC serial first time around have had few opportunities in the subsequent decades to give it a go, with the soap having been re-run on TV a number of times. UK Gold screened it in the late 90s and early noughties and a selection of episodes were made available on the UK's BritBox a few years ago. Want to be the first to hear shocking EastEnders spoilers? Who's leaving Coronation Street? The latest gossip from Emmerdale? Join 10,000 soaps fans on Metro's WhatsApp Soaps community and get access to spoiler galleries, must-watch videos, and exclusive interviews. Simply click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! Don't forget to turn on notifications so you can see when we've just dropped the latest spoilers! U&Drama re-ran the cult soap in its entirety earlier this year, with episodes added to streaming service UKTV Play for a short time after broadcast. However, the service has now re-added the earlier episodes, meaning that – for the first time ever – fans can essentially stream the whole Los Barcos saga. Though Eldorado was critiqued during its initial run, fan opinion has softened over the years. One viewer wrote on Reddit that they were enjoying the latest round of re-runs, branding the serial a 'guilty pleasure.' Another called the show 'brilliant' and 'comedy gold'. Just two weeks into the re-runs, fans were quick to share their delight at being able to revisit the sunny soap. '#Eldorado continues to deliver absolute camp' said one on X. More Trending Another added: 'Enjoying the repeats of Eldorado. I mean I can't hear it half the time but at least I can blame those Spanish acoustics and not my age.' 'Thoroughly enjoyed the first episodes of #Eldorado being repeated yesterday' said one. When the repeats concluded, fan James wrote on X: 'Los Barcos, I'm gonna miss you,' referring to the overhauled era of the show as 'f***ing fantastic television'. View More » Eldorado is now streaming on UKTV Play. If you've got a soap or TV story, video or pictures get in touch by emailing us soaps@ – we'd love to hear from you. Join the community by leaving a comment below and stay updated on all things soaps on our homepage. MORE: 'I beat the system and proved I didn't need a TV licence' MORE: BBC star Naga Munchetty facing bullying allegations and inappropriate 'sex jibe' claims MORE: More schedule changes confirmed as EastEnders is pulled from BBC One
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Yahoo
Santa Fe police: Man assaulted girlfriend, took car at gas station
A Texas man faces felony charges after, police say, he battered his girlfriend and drove off in her car outside a gas station in Santa Fe. Santa Fe police arrested Christopher Kenney, 44, at a house in Eldorado Thursday night, and he was booked into Santa Fe County jail. Officers were dispatched at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday to a Chevron gas station on St. Francis Drive in response to a report of a robbery — a woman told police Kenney had taken off with her car, with her two dogs and purse inside. The woman told police she had picked up Kenney from Austin, Texas, in recent days, and the two had arrived Wednesday at his parents' home in Eldorado, according to a probable cause statement filed by police. The two were sitting in her car outside the gas station Thursday when they began to argue about Kenney's drinking and she told him to get out of the car, she told officers. The woman said Kenney then grabbed her hair and dragged her across the center console of the car and out of the passenger-side door, police wrote. She said he then jumped into the driver's seat and sped off in her car, "nearly running her over as she moved out of the way to avoid being struck," the statement says. Officers found the woman's vehicle — and Kenney — at his parents' house in Eldorado, police wrote. Kenney told police the two had argued in the car outside the gas station, but that his girlfriend had gotten out of the car and he jumped into the driver's seat and drove off. Police noted, however, the woman had "large areas of redness and scratches deep enough to draw blood" as well as "a large chunk of hair hanging from one of [the woman's] bracelets." The woman told police she did not want to pursue charges against Kenney, but officers determined "an arrest was both reasonable and necessary in order to protect her from further domestic abuse," police wrote in the statement. Kenney faces charges of robbery, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, battery against a household member, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and receiving or transferring stolen motor vehicles, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court. Kenney was scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Friday, but prosecutors requested for the hearing to be delayed to determine whether to request for Kenney to be held in jail pending a trial on the charges.
New York Post
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Reno 411! A summer guide to the Biggest Little City in America
If everything you know about the Biggest Little City (pop: 275K) you learned from a certain 'Cops' parody on Comedy Central, here's a crash course on doing the college town right, post-ski rat season. Triple play 8 Enjoy nights at the round table. Reno-Tahoe Beautifully backdropped by the High Eastern Sierra foothills, Reno's the Row is hardly of the 'skid' variety. It's a troika of massive, hustling-n-bustling fancyish hotel-casinos perfect for us all-poker, no-powder types. Advertisement The Eldorado, the Silver Legacy and Circus Circus span six blocks wholly owned by Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (what Eldorado Resorts rebranded itself as after acquiring old Caesars and all its properties). Each has its own unique charms: Eldorado skews more upscale and sophisticated, Circus Circus has a giant arcade for kids. 8 Pick a hotel-casino, any hotel-casino, along Reno's Row including Eldorado, Circus Circus and Silver Legacy. — they're all corded umbilically attached via skyway. Insight Studio But we ended up at the dining- and night life-focused, 1,720-roomed Silver Legacy, home to a mood-lit Ramsay's Kitchen (warning vegans: best to avoid his delicious, had-parents take on 'lollipops') and the always queued- and gussied-up Aura Ultra Lounge. Advertisement Dromophobic? Not a problem. Enter any one of the three and you can easily visit the other two without ever stepping foot outside via the Row's skyways. Bonus: While the overly smokey, stale-smelling floors of the dizzying beep-booping, ding-a-linging casinos of yore could make non-gamers feel a certain kind of way, these days, the old rolled cigarette smog factor has been considerably reduced thanks to vape converts. Much obliged! Fin city 8 Jaws was a mere guppy compared to the draconic ichthyosaur. Chris Bunting Two hundred and fifty million years ago, Reno's scariest creature wasn't that angsty, 127-foot-tall clown named Topsy struggling to hold up the Circus Circus sign. It was the bowling lane-length prehistoric dino dolphin, er, sea reptile, called the ichthyosaur. Fitting, since back then, what is now the desertic Silver State was completely underwater (some yearn for those days over the summer). Advertisement Reno's groovy Nevada Art Museum has devoted 9,000 square feet — its entire third floor — to these lovingly nicknamed 'sea dragons' in an exhibit running through mid-January of next year called Deep Time. It features the world's largest collection of ichthyosaur fossils including a 33-foot Triassic Period skeleton of one, the most complete in the world, along with a life-size, e-wall-simulated sea dragon to swim-walk with, no trunks needed. 8 The museum turned bone-aquarium is as funky on the outside as it is within. Courtesy of the Nevada Museum of Art. 8 See the world as an Ichthy did in the trippiest of ways (use a safe word). Courtesy of the Nevada Museum of Art. Advertisement Kiddos will especially love (and maybe try to outdo — sorry, parents) the exhibit's room filled entirely with a massive collection of dinosaur toys; another room (possibly for less-sober grown-ups) lets you see the world, as an ichthy would see it, 'underwater.' GA is $15. The mural of the story 8 Reno is mad about murals; you're hard-pressed to find a naked wall throughout town. Handout Game respects game, and nowhere else is that better on display than in Reno's unusually cordial street art scene. Get used to the name Erik Burke, or rather his initials E.B., as you'll be seeing a lot of it on Pineapple Pedicab's art tours of downtown where the world-renowned and Reno-born E.B. has painted giant murals on the sides of several multi-storied buildings, including one of his wife (awww) and also signs them with his age at their time of completion. Best part: Local graffiti taggers respectfully leave them be and (mostly) undefiled, according to my no-fear pedaler guide Taz. You'll also come across other artists' trippy works like a flying bus formerly driven IRL, cut in half then glued back together on a rising stand, plus other sculptures and installations lucky enough to have been spared dismantling after a gig at nearby Burning Man such as the Space Whale (a 40-foot, stained-glass mommy cetacean and her calf). The hour-long tour of Reno's other nickname they hope to one day make stick — Art Town — is $55 per person, with each pedicab sitting up to three. Vroom with a view Advertisement 8 Gear heads will explode inside the wondrous National Automobile Museum. Universal Images Group via Getty Images Listen here, buddy, drop the spray paint and back away from the electric cars — these are non-Elon creations you've stumbled across at Reno's National Automobile Museum. In fact, the very first cars ever marketed were all electric, preceding gas-powered ones by years and years. You'll learn this and mucho mas at the multi-zoned (classic, race cars, celebrity mobiles, etc.) NAM, just a five-minute walk from the Row. Its exhibits come in large part thanks to the late William Fisk Harrah. There was only one thing the late hotel-casino magnate loved more than gamblizing the state, and that was cars (he owned 1,400 of them). He had an army of scouts scour the country for unique and classic ones, some literally uncovered beneath tarps and stashed away in barns in the middle of nowhere. 8 The cars are up for 'adoption' if you have the scratch. warasit – Advertisement Once Harrah kicked the can in 1978, his massive collection changed hands (mostly into those of then-hospitality giant Holiday Inn) but after public demand, private sales, auctions and the like, many found their way to this place, opened in 1989, now home to some 240-plus rare and restored vehicles from the late 19th century up until today. Ford Model T? Check. Elvis's Caddy Eldorado Coupe? Yep. That vehicular Frankenstein Jay Leno stitched together from two wrecks that's half-Jeep, half-Ferrari dubbed the Jerrari? Heck yes. And do you like the cut of that Doc Brown-worthy DeLorean's jib over yonder? 'Adopt' it, or any of the other cars on display (meaning, donate money to help keep it in tip-top condition and land your name on a plaque right next to it). Just no actual fiddling around with said foster. Tix are $15 for adults, $10 for kids.
The Guardian
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Roland Curram obituary
Roland Curram, who has died aged 92, was a versatile and well-groomed supporting actor for more than 40 years. He often sported a manicured moustache and was always dapper and charming. As indeed he was as Freddie Martin, the first out gay character in TV soaps, among a mixed bag of British ex-pats in the ill-fated 1992 BBC soap Eldorado. A fictional town was built on the Daurada coast south of Barcelona, where it remains to this day as a tourist attraction. The show itself – less of a crowd-pleaser – was axed in 1993. Still, Curram covered the waterfront as a light comedian on stage in Noël Coward, Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard, and was not above lending a touch of class to lowbrow British movies such as Every Home Should Have One (1970), starring Marty Feldman, or a rollicking sex comedy, Let's Get Laid (1978), with Robin Askwith, Linda Hayden and Fiona Richmond. His best-known performance, however, came in John Schlesinger's Darling (1965), as a gay photographer and companion to the luminous Julie Christie's good-time girl as she embraced the Swinging Sixties in London, Paris and Rome while toying with hedonistic lifestyle opportunities and the sexual affections of Dirk Bogarde's television director and Laurence Harvey's advertising executive. Much later, Curram appeared further down the cast list as a menswear salesman in Schlesinger's Madame Sousatzka (1988), starring an extraordinary Shirley MacLaine as an extravagant Russian-American piano teacher in London. In the intervening two decades, his stage career took him to the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych as an existential cleric in Jules Feiffer's hilarious black comedy Little Murders (1967) and to the Birmingham Rep in a 1982 revival of Coward's Design for Living, in which he played the morally upright art dealer, Ernest, married to an interior designer, Gilda, involved adulterously in a bohemian menage a trois. When the production transferred to the Greenwich theatre in London, Michael Billington opined that Curram endowed Ernest – usually an ostracised figure of fun – with 'such genuine moral passion and such quivering sense of hurt that you entirely see his point of view'. Curram had himself ventured on both sides of sexual engagement, as he revealed in his 2021 publication, Which Way to Love? He had met Schlesinger in the Carlisle rep in 1952 and had remained a lifelong friend through his similarly fast friendship with the Cornish landscape painter John Miller. In 1964, while playing Coward's heterosexually promiscuous matinee idol Gary Essendine in Present Laughter at the Pitlochry Rep, he met the actor Sheila Gish. They married in the same year and divorced 20 years later, after producing two daughters, Lou and Kay. Gish then began a relationship with the actor Denis Lawson and Roly, as he was widely known, moved in with Paul Linn, a singer and songwriter, in Chiswick. Curram felt liberated into his true self, he said, but remained close to his first family. His civil partnership with Linn was ratified in 2006, later dissolved, and he lived most recently with Clive Castle, an online tarot reader whom he met on holiday. Curram was born in Hove, East Sussex, the only child of Phyllis (nee Ashdown), a milliner and pub landlady, and her husband, Bernard Curram, an insurance agent. He was evacuated to Ayr in Scotland during the second world war, and educated at Ayr academy, then Brighton college. He entered Rada to train as an actor aged 16 – his father had died when he was seven – and played in rep between 1952 and 1958 in theatres in Carlisle, Nottingham, Eastbourne and Worthing. One of his early film roles was in Leslie Norman's Dunkirk (1958) – no less a movie, in its own way, than Christopher Nolan's 2017 version of the same wartime evacuation – and his first London bow was at the Royal Court in 1961 in Tony Richardson's revival of the Jacobean thriller The Changeling, a great play that had not been seen in London for 350 years, alongside Robert Shaw and Mary Ure. He appeared opposite Fenella Fielding's Titania as an imposing Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park Open Air theatre; and in a series of high-class touring spin-offs out of the Theatre Royal, Bath: in Stoppard's Rough Crossing (1987), with Edward de Souza and Susan George; and in Ayckbourn's Time of My Life (1994), with Anna Carteret and Gareth Hunt. His last big tour, in 1995-96, was in an Australian imported production of High Society (presented by Paul Elliott), adapted from the screenplay by Arthur Kopit, with a Cole Porter songbook. He played 'a very naughty Uncle Willie', said the actor and producer Tracey Childs (who was playing Tracy Lord). Curram told the show's choreographer that he could not really dance but could, if pressed, execute an eccentric sort of 30-second slide. This party piece was incorporated into one big company routine and, said Childs, stopped the show every night. One of his first films, Up to His Neck (1954), a comedy starring Ronald Shiner, Hattie Jacques and Brian Rix, was described by one critic as 'embarrassingly bad', while his last, Michael Winner's Parting Shots (1998) was generally deemed 'one of the worst films ever made'. Everything else in between, including possibly Eldorado, kept him cheery, fun-loving and, above all, popular with everyone he worked with. Curram was predeceased by his daughter Lou. His partner, Clive, survives him, as does his second daughter, Kay, and two grandsons, Joe and Frank. Roland Kingsford Bernard Curram, actor, born 6 June 1932; died 1 June 2025
Auto Blog
06-06-2025
- Automotive
- Auto Blog
One-Off Cadillac EldoRODo Show Car Blends Luxury and Lowrider Style
A Tribute to SoCal: Cadillac's Lowrider Showpiece The 1999 Cadillac EldoRODo show car is unlike anything the American carmaker has ever made. The car was never designed as a concept, or a precursor of a future model, but a highly customized one-off show car commissioned by General Motors. The unique and special Caddy is a wonderful blend of luxury and street culture, and there's only one in the world. After General Motors auctioned off the car for $60,000 during GM's bankruptcy proceedings following the 2008 financial crisis, it spent years in storage, and changed hands several times including a brief stint with Tyler Hoover, host of Hoovie's Garage YouTube channel, who bought it for just $12,000 in November 2023. The market is finally realizing what a unicorn the car really is, as it recently sold at auction via Bring a Trailer for $55,000 back in April. So what makes the car so special? Built for Show, Not Production At a time when Cadillac was known for large luxury sedans, coupes, and SUVs, the EldoRODo was commissioned at a rumored $270,000 to show a different side of Cadillac – a tip of the hat to, and a celebration of, unique Californian car culture, specifically Southern California's custom low-rider scene. So it was fitting that all the work was done by Chuck Lombardo of the world-famous California Street Rods in Huntington Beach. Chuck sadly passed away in 2023. It was a statement, not a production car, and Cadillac said at the time that it effectively captures the spirit of the classic hot rod, while blending it with contemporary luxury and performance. From there the 'ROD' in 'EldoRODo', while retaining the traditional Eldorado values. Upon its completion, the car frequented the show circuit and was on display at the Los Angeles and Detroit auto shows and on many a magazine cover. How Cadillac's $270K Custom Lowrider Took Shape The custom low-rider esthetic comes from the chopped roof line, the more steeply raked front and rear screens, and the very low ride height achieved by dropping the front suspension and fitting adjustable rear air suspension. It is further reinforced by extended rear wheel skirts and design cues that emphasize the slammed look, including slim, slit-like headlights and a narrow grille. In fact, the car sits a full four inches lower to the ground than its Eldorado Touring Coupe donor car. Autoblog Newsletter Autoblog brings you car news; expert reviews and exciting pictures and video. Research and compare vehicles, too. Sign up or sign in with Google Facebook Microsoft Apple By signing up I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . You may unsubscribe from email communication at anytime. The striking Ignite Orange paintwork is offset by mirror-finished chrome wheels in a flat platter style with hidden, internal valves. They measure 18 inches – much larger than anything you'd find on a stock Eldorado at the time – and are wrapped in tires with such a low profile, they almost seem painted on the rims. Finishing off the esthetic is the shaved look, with all exterior trim pieces removed, rendering a pebble-smooth outer surface devoid of clutter, and even without any side mirrors. Those were replaced with discreet little side cameras. The handle-less doors are opened by remote poppers. What's Under the Hood: A Real Drivable Eldorado Base Because this is not a concept or mockup, the EldoRODo is a fully functional and driving car, sitting on the bones of an existing mass-production model – the 12th-generation (1992-2002) Eldorado, specifically the Eldorado Touring Coupe. The Neutral Shale (beige to you and me) interior is nearly completely stock, save for carbon-fiber trim in place of the regular ETC's wood. While the air suspension is totally reworked, the platform and powertrain are the same as the production car, which is to say it shares its naturally aspirated 4.6-liter Northstar V8 engine with 300 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque. As was the custom with the Seville and Eldorado models at the time, the powerplant is installed transversely under the hood and drives the front wheels via a four-speed automatic transmission. Performance figures would have closely approximated those of the production ETC as well, which is to say a 0-60 sprint in just over seven seconds. Not that any owner will subject this one-off beauty to such harsh treatment, though, and this is borne out by the fact that the car had only 8,500 miles on the clock at the time it was sold in April. The Catch: You Can't Drive It Legally If you think $55k sounds like a bit of a bargain for a one-off unicorn like this, we remind you that you won't be able to do much with your EldoRODo, were you to own it. As part of its bankruptcy proceedings, GM sold the car off with a junk title in a legal maneuver to avoid any future liability. It will, therefore, be difficult, if not impossible, to get it road-registered, depending on where in the US you live. And those side mirror cameras will probably not be road legal either, anyway. Why Cadillac Won't Build Another Like It It's unlikely that we'll see anything quite like the EldoRODo again. It was an extravagant, cost-no-object custom modification to make a statement, without previewing any new technology or upcoming Cadillac models. It was meant to show that Cadillac still had a connection with the expressive spirit of Southern Californian custom car culture. With the local automotive industry now under pressure from tariffs and the big EV push, such a pet project would be too extravagant to get past committee. It likely means there will never be anything like this chopped, slammed, and shaven Caddy again. We're just happy the nearly pristine car still exists, even if only as a reminder that Cadillac can also let its hair down once in a while. About the Author Cobus F. Potgieter View Profile
