Nessa

We always knew Smithy and Nessa would get together - Ruth Jones

We always knew Smithy and Nessa would get together - Ruth Jones Ruth Jones and James Corden knew their Gavin and Stacey characters would end up together from the first episode, the Welsh actress and writer has said. Jones and Corden rose to fame as the co-writers of the BBC comedy in which they also played Vanessa "Nessa" Jenkins and Neil "Smithy" Smith, the best friends of the title characters The hit comedy ran for three series, and three Christmas specials, between 2007 and 2024, with...

'There was always unfinished business between Smithy and Nessa'

We always knew Smithy and Nessa would get together - Ruth Jones

Fairyland review – moving memoir of queer parenting and new kinds of family in 70s San Francisco

Andrew Durham’s tender adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s book finds warmth, humour and heartbreak in an unconventional family unit shaped by love and lossFor anyone familiar with the Bay Area in the 1970s and 80s, this offers a glorious wallow in nostalgia, from the grainy archive footage of San Francisco Gay Freedom parades to the novelty of sushi at a book launch and the new wave hairstyles. But this film is not just about the set dressing and the costumes; at the story’s core is what was then...

Fairyland review – moving memoir of queer parenting and new kinds of family in 70s San Francisco

Gleam v1.17.0 Released

Gleam is a type safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.17.0 has been published. But first: the first videos from the first ever all-Gleam conference have been released!