Olde News
2005
Actual Mike & Eric News
07/24/2005
Himalaya is now available on DVD in Region 1 (US and Canada). If you've got the DVD set please let us know what you think! Look for Do Not Adjust Your Set and
At Last the 1948 Show in a few days!
06/26/2005
Michael was interviewed in Newsweek magazine about Himalaya. You can read it here. (thanks to Cheri for finding this!)
06/08/2005
The first episode of Himalaya - "North by Northwest" - will air on The Travel Channel in the US on June 20th at 9 PM Eastern. It appears to be followed by the next episode, "A Passage to India," at 10 PM. (Source of info: Travel Channel)
06/06/2005
Spamalot has won the Tony Award for the Best Musical of 2005!! Many congrats to Eric, Mike Nichols, and everyone else involved in the show! In Michael news, Michael will be
in New York City for a book signing TODAY (June 6th) at 1 PM at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Rockefeller Center, as well as at Bryant Park at 5:45 PM. If you can make it, please
share your thoughts at the message board!
05/31/2005
Exciting DVD news! Ripping Yarns will be coming to DVD in the US and Canada in August! The release will include all nine episodes, along with extras that are already
featured on the UK DVD set (Michael in Comic Roots, commentary track for all episodes, deleted scene, photo gallery, etc.). Go here for more info! Secondly, it has been
confirmed that Do Not Adjust Your Set (as well as At Last the 1948 Show) will be coming to DVD for Region 1 in July. Go
here for more info. No word yet on the "exciting DVD news" that we were tantalized with almost a year ago, but
we're keeping our eyes and ears open!
05/16/2005
It's been confirmed that Do Not Adjust Your Set will be coming to DVD in Region 1 in July!! For more information go here and
here. Not much information yet, but it's a start! In other news, Michael has been making appearances in different parts of England the past couple of weeks or so, and will
continue to do so for the next month at least. For more information, see the message board.
05/05/2005
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHAEL!! 62 years young today... Michael, if you're reading this, have a very happy birthday and best wishes for the future! Like fine wine, you just
get better with age!! *ahem* Finished sucking up now...
05/03/2005
Contrary to what some newspapers may have reported, Michael is certainly not giving up on his travels! He himself has announced that he will be taking a short break, but
has no plans to quit traveling. Props to Mike!
03/18/2005
Last night was Spamalot's opening night on Broadway. All the Pythons (except Graham obviously, who
was there in spirit...probably) attended. Read about it here. You can find
a picture slideshow here (click on the link for the picture slideshow on the right
side of the page).
03/08/2005
All of the Pythons will be present for the opening night of Spamalot on Broadway, Thursday March 17th. Alas, tickets do not appear to be available for this night. :( Hopefully there
will be some news articles to follow shortly. In Eric news, The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch is now available for purchase on DVD! Check it out!
01/24/2005
Word on the street...er, net, is that Michael is pondering a musical adaptation of Life of Brian. Furthermore, he is purported to be
attending the premiere of Spamalot on Broadway in March. No word yet on a US book tour, but it is possible. Also, a friend from England says that
Michael's eyes are fine, so no worries there! In Eric news, Eric is doing voiceovers for Aquafina bottled water commercials here in the US. If you hear
a familiar voice hawking Aquafina and instructing you to "drink more water!", it just might be Eric! (nudge nudge, wink wink!)
Site News
10/14/2005
Chapter 29 of the famed "Walking On Thin Ice" fic by Chezzles has been added to the Mike Fanfic section.
10/07/2005
Six new chapters are now up for Sarah G's lovely "While I Was Shopping" fic! Check it out in the Mike Fanfic section! Some broken links in the Fanfic sections have also been corrected. More updates coming soon!
09/10/2005
A link to our new sister site, Say No More! The Monty Python Adult Fan Fic Site! was added to the Links and Fanfic sections.
09/07/2005
More fanfic updates: Chapter 4 of "Harper's Lane" and Chapter 2 of "The Pythons and their Copyrights" have been added.
08/22/2005
Chapter 3 of "Harper's Lane" has been added in the Mike Fanfic section.
08/20/2005
More updates in fanfiction! A lovely new Michael fic called "Harper's Lane" has just been added. Check it out!
07/31/2005
The first part of a new fanfic called "The Pythons and their Copyrights," has been added to the Mike and Eric Fanfic section, with part 2 coming soon.
07/24/2005
A new essay has been added to the Essays section, an examination of the uncanny similarities between Monty Python and Harry Potter. Check it out!
06/26/2005
Finally some updates in Eric pics: Flying Circus pics from episodes 1, 32, 33, and 42 have just been added, with more coming soon. Also added a new wallpaper to the "Fun Stuff" page of the
Mike and Eric pics section.
06/08/2005
A new chapter to Chezzle's Mike fanfic "Walking On Thin Ice" has just been added.
05/08/2005
Sorry, just a bit of maintenance news: the link for the Michael Palin (Un)official Appreciation Page site was updated. More updates soon.
05/03/2005
Three more chapters of Sarah G's "While I Was Shopping" fic have been added, and a new Mike and Eric fic, "Studing Abroad," by KayKay, has just been added.
04/24/2005
The link to the "Comic Roots" Mike pics page has been fixed, and pictures of Mike from Parkinson in 2002 have also been added. More pics coming soon.
04/17/2005
Three new chapters have been added to Sarah G's wonderful "While I Was Shopping" fic (Mike Fanfic section), and a new fic, "Poor Paranoid Palin: Part Two", has
just been added to the Mike Fanfic section. Check them out.
03/08/2005
A new fic, "Poor Paranoid Palin", has just been added to the Mike Fanfic page. Apologies again for lack of updates! I have a lot of pics to add, and they will be coming soon.
01/26/2005
Chapters 11-15 of the Mike fic "While I Was Shopping" have been added. Pics from Michael's "Comic Roots" documentary have been added to the "Just Mike" pics section, and screenshots of Mike and Eric from Holy Grail have been added to the "Holy Grail" section of Mike & Eric Pics. More pics soon.
01/24/2005
Lots of updates: first, pictures from Michael's "Testing of Eric Olthwaite" and "Whinfrey's Last Case" have been added. A Holy Grail page has been added to the Mike & Eric Pics section, and while there
are no pictures there yet, there will be very shortly.
01/06/2005
Happy New Year, everyone! The "Jealous Gilly" essay page has been fixed, so the pictures and everything
should be visible. Sorry again for lack of updates, but the holidays had me very busy. More pictures coming soon, I promise.