It was a busman's holiday for people who really like to drive buses.
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It's back to home turf for a busman's holiday and a big ruck with Italian champ Yuri Gentile on June 25th.
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After their summer busman's holiday on the Kent coast, they have big plans for where their nomadic restaurant could journey to next.
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"There is always something to do in Sharjah," said Mr. Rabaté, out for a Saturday busman's holiday with his wife and two small daughters.
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PARUL SEHGAL [ Read Janet Maslin on 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer ] I feel like this question is cornering us into taking a busman's holiday, and what I really want to know is what my colleagues are planning to watch over the summer.
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The aging trainers, Buriram and Tua, necks bejeweled with umpteen Buddha amulets, eyes closed, hands in prayer position, hoping for their numbers to come up in the lottery results that are being read out loud on the radio; an American kickboxer on a busman's holiday, looking for the promoter and the 2000 Baht ($56) that he's been owed since last month for a grueling bout up country; Lek, our senior trainer, arms folded, shorts inside out, berating a farang kickboxer for being too staccato on the pads.
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A "busman's holiday" is a holiday spent by a bus driver travelling on a bus: it is no break from his usual routine. By analogy, anyone who spends his holiday doing his normal job is taking a "busman's holiday".
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The phrase "busman's holiday" is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as a period of holiday or leisure time spent doing something similar to one's normal occupation, first shown to be used in 1893.
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Ty Segall, Beach Fossils, The War on Drugs, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, Sleeping Bag (2011). Fang Island, the Paeople's Temple, Busman's Holiday, Saintseneca, Triptides (2012). Mikal Cronin, Maps & Atlases, Apache Droupout, Charlie Patton's War (2013). Mac Demarco, Royal Bangs, Tunde Olarian, Sleeping Bag, Drekka (2014).
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Busman's Holiday is a British television game show produced by Granada for the ITV network from 26 February 1985 to 28 June 1993. Its hosts over the years were Julian Pettifer (1985-8), Sarah Kennedy (1989–91) and Elton Welsby (1993). Charles Foster was the announcer.
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Busman's Holiday is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Wally Patch, Gus McNaughton and Muriel George. A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals. It was made at Nettlefold Studios as a quota quickie for distribution by RKO Pictures.Chibnall p.
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Matt Boesenberg is an actor born in Sydney, Australia. He has many credits in film, television and theatre. Matt is best known for Busman's Holiday (2020) and two seasons of the Underbelly television series (Underbelly: Razor and Underbelly: Squizzy). Matt is a skilled sportsman and has played representative cricket in Australia and England.
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The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012. After doing the comedy Go to Blazes (1962) he did a second film with Richard, Summer Holiday (1963), the first feature directed by Peter Yates and another hit.The perpetual busman's holiday: Sir Cliff Richard and British pop musicals Donnelly, K J. Journal of Popular Film & Television; Washington Vol. 25, Iss.
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That's a busman's holiday. Heaven for me is > to lie in bed stark naked with no costume -- living in my own face and not > someone else's -- and luxuriate in my own skin." By the end of his career, Leighton had reportedly professionally portrayed 3,372 historic notables. In its obituary of Leighton, The New York Times called him the "Actor Who Played Everyone.
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The Stage and Television Today: p. 19. Sullivan stayed at Granada for several more years, directing episodes of series such as Busman's Holiday, Stop That Laughing at the Back, Coronation Street and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, as well as adapting A Handful of Dust for television (1988) and directing Thatcher: The Final Days (1991).Staff (16 June 2008). "In the right direction".
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Mega City was the games news section where all the Mega Drive news was announced. Also included in this section were features like the Editorial column, 'Q's In The News', 'Bull Durham's World Of PR' and 'Busman's Holiday'. Q's In The News was a list of questions that was printed in the News section. The Mega Drive related questions ranged from easy to hard.
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The film was shot at Walton Studio. It was a vehicle for Terry Dene who had three top twenty hits in Britain. The film was one of several British pop movies set around coffee bars, others including The Tommy Steele Story, Serious Charge, Beat Girl and Expresso Bongo.The perpetual busman's holiday: Sir Cliff Richard and British pop musicals Donnelly, K J. Journal of Popular Film & Television; Washington Vol.
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Match Five: Rob Huxley v. Paul Sinha: In one of the most amazing comebacks in the show's history, Rob, whose only previous experience in TV game shows was an appearance on Busman's Holiday in the 1990s, beat the more experienced Paul, despite the fact that Paul had all 5 Eggheads available to him. Paul's downfall came in 2 questions which none of the 4 Eggheads he asked advice for knew the answer, giving Rob an unlikely 2–1 win.
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The length of his trip is unknown; Martyn later said "I may have been there for seven weeks; it may have been seven months. I stayed rather longer than my visa extended." The trip has been seen as a busman's holiday, as Martyn socialised with reggae musicians Burning Spear, Max Romeo and Lee "Scratch" Perry, the latter of whom co-wrote the One World song "Big Muff". Blackwell introduced Martyn to Perry at the latter's Black Ark Studios due to their similar recording techniques involving echo.
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There were also five screen grabs from games, which were altered and skewered, from which you had to answer, or guess, what game the shot was from. Mainly because of Bull Durham's first name, Mega used this character to bust PR bluffs and blunders in the Mega Drive marketing world, with hilarious consequences. Busman's Holiday featured a Q&A; style interview with people working in the video game industry like musician Rob Hubbard, EA Marketing Manager Simon Jeffrey, Games' Tester Danny Curley, GamesMaster host Dominik Diamond and a familiar games journalist called Andy Dyer.
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Simon Leng describes Harrison's various musical activities outside the Beatles during 1968–70 as a "three-year busman's holiday",Leng, p. 77. which came to an end once McCartney announced his departure from the band on 10 April 1970.O'Dell, p. 155.Hertsgaard, p. 277. Before beginning work on All Things Must Pass with co-producer Phil Spector,Badman, p. 7. Harrison attended a session for Dylan's New Morning album in New York City, on 1 May.Heylin, pp. 318–19. With backing from Charlie Daniels and Russ Kunkel,Sounes, p. 258.
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Welsby was the final presenter of British gameshow Busman's Holiday following on from Julian Pettifer and Sarah Kennedy.Plunkett, John (2002) "University Challenge turns pro", The Guardian (London), 21 November 2002, retrieved 1 January 2011 He also presented the quiz show Go For Goal in 1993. He is regularly involved in corporate and charity work, and is known for his close association with the Zoe's Place children's hospice. In 2011, Welsby made a brief appearance on Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas, a Christmas programme presented by Canadian singer Michael Bublé.
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Sanderson was a guest on television shows including A Question of Sport (in 1979), Punchlines (1984), The Krypton Factor Olympic Celebrity Special (1984), Sporting Triangles (1987 and 1988), Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (1989), Busman's Holiday Celebrity Special (1991), Catchphrase Celebrity Special (1991), Celebrity Wife Swap (2009) and Bullseye (1984). When Sky News was launched in 1989, she worked as a sports reporter for the channel. She also appeared alongside Cilla Black as a co-host on ITV's Surprise Surprise. In 2005, she took part in the one-off special, Strictly African Dancing, as part of the Africa Lives season on the BBC.
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Although the other presenters went on to other different types of show, Jeremy Beadle went on to present several more practical-joke type shows, including Beadle's About and became strongly identified with the genre in the UK. Sarah Kennedy had started her career as a newsreader for BBC Radio 1. In the late 1980s she took over from Julian Pettifer as host of the ITV game show Busman's Holiday. She later presented early morning show The Dawn Patrol on BBC Radio 2 from 1993 until 2010. Henry Kelly went on to present the BBC TV pan-European quiz Going for Gold.
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Kennedy's first on-screen job was reading the news on Southern Television's Day by Day. She came to prominence in TV as one of the hosts of the ITV light entertainment show Game for a Laugh from 1981 to 1984. She was also one of the team involved with the short-lived BBC current affairs programme 60 Minutes, which ran from 1983 to 1984, and was the main presenter of the ITV game show Busman's Holiday for several series in the 1980s. She also co-hosted The Animals Roadshow and Animal Country with zoologist Desmond Morris in the late 1980s and 1991 respectively. Kennedy returned to Radio 2, to present the weekday early morning show, called The Dawn Patrol, which ran between 4 January 1993 and 13 August 2010. It was originally broadcast from 5am to 7am, during 1993, but moved the following year to the time-slot of 6am to 7:30am, where it remained until 8 January 2010.
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