Another Wrestler Added To Street Fighter Movie

I read, sometime last week, that Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns are set to be in a Street Fighter movie that is currently in development.

Well - there is an additional piece of news about the project which made me sit up even more when I read it yesterday.

Former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion - Hirooki Goto - is reportedly going to play E Honda in the film.

Those familiar with the video game series will know that Edmund Honda is a sumo wrestler from Japan. 

Goto obviously doesn't look like a sumo star! 

It's an intriguing casting because it'll mean a New Japan Pro Wrestling wrestler will be sharing the screen with two World Wrestling Entertainment stars. 

Goto is currently injured and has been forced to pull out of this year's G1 Climax, which begins a week from today. I saw some speculation suggesting Goto's absence from the tournament could be related to filming Street Fighter, but that doesn't add up because the project isn't set to go into production until later this year. 

Neighbours Cast And Crew Film Final Scenes (Again)

And that's a wrap.

Again.

The cast and crew of Neighbours have now finished filming the Australian soap opera.

It's a shame they didn't find a different broadcast partner before today. 

I suppose the positive is to be thankful that Amazon kind of saved the programme after it ended in 2022. We were able to get two additional years to enjoy. The return also allowed the series to celebrate its fortieth anniversary earlier this year.

But, now it is set to go again with the final scenes set to play out in early December.

A King Charles Score

On June 18 of last year, I published a post in which I mentioned being given my first £10 note featuring King Charles III on it. I followed that up on July 8 2024  noting how I was in possession of a £5 bearing His Majesty's picture.

It was only just the other day, when I was preparing to cash some money into the bank, I realised I had my first King Charles £20 note. Coincidentally. it was a couple of days ago - so it would have been on the one-year anniversary of the post about the fiver.

Anyway - I have now had a King Charles £20. That can be ticked off the record. The only note that is eluding me is a King Charles £50 and, considering I dislike having fifties, I doubt I will ever cross that off the checklist.

On the reverse of the banknote is J.M.W Turner. He lived between 1775 and 1851 and is a painter who worked with watercolours to create landscape paintings.

Another One Biting The Dust

Another one of my favourite television series' is going.

This time it's ITV's Grantchester.

The period murder series, which is set in the Cambridge area of Grantchester (obviously!) during the 1950s, has been running for over ten years. It's about a local vicar who teams up with a detective (played by Robson Green) and they solve murders that have befallen the village. 

I didn't name who plays the vicar because there have been three different leads over the years. The programme debuted with James Norton playing Sidney Chambers for four years. Sandwiched in the middle is Tom Brittney who was cast as Reverend Will Davenport from seasons four to nine. Then, from season nine to what will be the next year's finale is Rishi Nair, who plays Reverend Alphy Kotteram. 

There are a lot of subplots that develop across each season with the numerous other characters in the series.

It's a bit of a bummer to see it go, to be fair. Especially considering the programme had brought in the new vicar midway through this year's season.

0-2 On Amazon Prime Day

It's Amazon Prime Day(s!) today.

I had been waiting for today because I had a few things to look out for.

First - I was hoping to see a slight reduction in a backyard bin so I can put the cardboard for recycling. Was there a discount? NO!

The other thing I was looking out for was to see if the boxes of cat food I buy for Oreo were going to be in the sale. The plan was to buy a couple of boxes to have on the subs bench ready for when the current box runs out.

Well, seeing as you've likely read the title before reading the content, you'll know by now it was another miss.

Zero for two. What a bummer.

18:51 BST UPDATE
I actually jumped the gun with the cat food. I checked again this evening and the boxes were reduced. They're £1 or so less than usual. I consider that a win.

Revised score: 1-1.

The Prisoner Roadblock And How I Shall Now Cross It

My weeknight viewing of Prisoner Cell Block H episodes hit a roadblock on Friday.

After watching what I thought would be the first of two episodes, I went downstairs to get myself some water. Upon returning, The Likely Lads was on my screen. I initially thought I must have brushed against the remote control or something so I picked it up to return to 5Select.

Well - it was ON 5Select.

The channel had been advertising the option to stream episodes of the Australian series, so I opened the app to see whether it was possible to catch the episode following the one I had watched.

I couldn't.

I had seemingly gone as far as Channel 5 could allow. 

The channel halted its run at episode 505, which is the final instalment of the sixth season. I make that one hundred and eighty-seven episodes short of the goal.

So - Channel 5 (and its offspring channels) can no longer be my go-to for this Prisoner Cell Block H marathon I have been running for months.

I've found a channel on YouTube which seems to have the entire series of Prisoner, so that'll be what I'll use to reach the end. 

I am already six episodes in after catching a few over the weekend. 

It has been a blessing to find this YouTube channel. It will allow me to go at my own pace rather than having to stick to the two episodes per weeknight routine I had been on. 

Reunions And Swansongs

It has been quite a weekend for music.

On Friday, Oasis began a reunion tour with the first stop being here in Cardiff. As well as that, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath had a swansong at Villa Park last night.

I would be a liar if I said I was a huge fan of Oasis or Black Sabbath. However, a lot of their music could be played as the soundtrack of certain parts of my life.

Especially if I were to think back to the mid-90s.

For Black Sabbath - it's 'Paranoid'. I would often hear that song at a bar I worked at. Not the original, though. I would hear it played by live musicians. I loved that song whenever it would play. 

As for Oasis - well, there are far too many songs from that period to choose from. Just the other day, I was asked in a YouGov poll what my favourite Oasis song is. 

It's always a difficult choice, because I suppose it could depend on the mood I'm in, but nine times out of ten I would go for Live Forever. And that's only because it's the song which introduced me to Oasis.

What a weekend for music. Could you imagine what it would have been like for those who went to both shows? I'm sure there must have been some who did them.