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News
Greetings, weary traveler. This page is broken up into two parts:
Actual Mike & Eric News, and Site News. Each of these parts will be
updated in as timely a manner as possible, but if
you run across some news on our wonderful chaps which you don't
see here, please send an email
my way or post it at the Facebook group
and I'll post it up here as
soon as I can.
06/27/2019
Big news! Monty Python is about to celebrate their 50th Birthday! Lots
of good stuff forthcoming, including a special DVD release of all
Flying circus episodes. Go here for
more information. Also, Michael was recently knighted by Prince William
for all his contributions to travel and geography! Go here
to read more. Congrats, Sir Michael. Well,deserved!!
01/23/2019
Michael is embarking on a UK tour to promote the paperback release of
Erebus: The Story of a Ship. Not only will his show feature the book,
but also his work on Python, Ripping Yarns, and his travels. Go here
for more information.
12/29/2018
Mike was just (as in very) recently knighted in the New Year
Honours! His services
during his career of travel shows were highlighted, but we all know he
has done so much more over the past
50+ years. Read about it here.
Congrats, Sir Michael! Well-deserved!
Ni!!
07/01/2018
Michael's forthcoming new book, Erebus: The Story of a Ship, is getting
an official launch on September 20th! That launch will include a public
event at the Royal Geographical Society in London followed by a tour!
Go here for more
info and a personal message from Mike. :)
04/29/2018
Eric recently announced that he will have an autobiography entitled
"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" coming in October! Go
here
to see (and hear!) Eric's announcement.
08/13/2017
The official trailer for Mike's film "The Death of Stalin" has just
been released. See it here!
05/05/2017
Michael is now on Instagram! Follow him (or just bookmark it if you're
not on Instagram) here!
And speaking of which, today is his birthday. Have a great one, Mike,
and many many more!
06/09/2016
Quite a lot of recent Mike news: First, he's slated to appear in two
new movies: Terry Gilliam's "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" and "The
Death of Stalin."
Go here
and here
for more info. Also, did you know
that if you buy a book or DVD from the Official Michael Palin website,
you can get it personally signed by Mike? Click here for details.
11/20/2015
Michael has been making some book shop appearances lately. Were you
lucky enough to meet him, or see him at his recent lecture tour? If so,
please drop
us a line! Likewise if you've caught Eric and John during their live
show tour!
08/25/2015
Curious about the Holy Grail 40th anniversary rerelease on DVD/blu-ray?
Go here for
details (as
a bonus, you get a cute Michael demonstrating and playing around with
the DVD set)!
08/04/2015
Monty Python & the Holy Grail is getting another theatre
re-release! In time for its 40th anniversary, theatres across the UK
will be screening it in October,
with international/US dates also coming in the Fall (and there is also
talk of a DVD/blu-ray release)! Go here
and here
for more info.
06/15/2015
Eric is teaming up with John Cleese for a new, sit-down live show
touring the US in October! Tickets will go on sale starting this
Friday, June 19th. Check out this
site for more info!
06/02/2015
Michael now has his own official
website! No, it's not replacing Palin's Travels, but it's
a more personal site with information on his tours, Python, other
newsworthy bits, and an image gallery. A shop also appears to be
forthcoming. Check it out!
04/28/2015
Saw the Pythons this past weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival? Please
let me know how it went, either in an email or at the Facebook group!
Didn't see them? Here are a couple
articles
to give you a taste. Also, check out YouTube for snippets of the fun,
plus their appearance last Thursday evening on the Tonight Show.
03/11/2015
More big news! To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Monty Python &
the Holy Grail, there will be a screening next month at the Tribeca
Film
Festival in New York. All Pythons are slated to attend the screening
and
a Q & A session! Go here
for info!
02/16/2015
Michael has just started a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand!
Go here
for more info. And see a cute little video he's done about it here.
01/26/2015
Big news! Michael has finally taken the plunge into social
media and now has his own official Facebook page! Check it out here (you can
also access it from the Links section of this site).
12/06/2014
So, how is everyone liking Remember Me so far? Let me know with an
email or a post at the Facebook group! Michael made an appearance
yesterday on The Late Late Show (on RTÉ One). He was asked about
future Python reunions. Catch a clip from it here.
11/21/2014
Michael's series, Remember Me, starts this Sunday on BBC One! If you
watch, please let me know what you think. You can watch a preview of
episode 1 here.
09/12/2014
Michael has given a talk about his newest volume of his diaries,
"Travelling to Work." If you managed to see him, please let me know how
it went! I'd be happy to post a report on the site. There is a review
about it here.
He also participated in a chat at Mumsnet, transcript of
which can be found here.
08/19/2014
So, the Pythons' stage show last month was a big success! There is talk
of a DVD release this Fall or thereabouts. Stay tuned for more info. If
you have any
anecdotes or pictures you'd like to share, please email me and
I'll post it. :)
06/23/2014
Introducing Monty
Python's Spam Club! Just in time for the Monty Python live stage
show! You can spam the Pythons, check out the fan wall, find out
where you'll be able to see the show broadcast in cinemas, and more!
Well... maybe not too much more, but check it out anyway.
05/05/2014
Happy Birthday to Michael, who turned 71 today! Still as fine as ever,
and as Eric tweeted the
other day, "71 is the new 70." Happy Birthday, Mike, and many
more to come!
04/14/2014
Not exclusively about Mike or Eric, but check out this nice little Monty
Python tribute video!
04/04/2014
Michael is going to be doing a new stage show! It will be a two-part
show entitled "Travelling to Work." In it he will cover his 25 years of
worldwide travel, plus his years in showbiz. Go here for more information and here for tickets!
02/18/2014
Word is that Michael's "Around the World in 80 Days" documentary is
going to be aired on the Travel Channel soon, in anticipation of the
program's 25th anniversary. That's about all the news we have, but we
will update you as further details are available. Go here
for the announcement.
11/21/2013
Big news!! The Pythons are reuniting for a new stage show set for
summer 2014! Read about it here.
05/04/2021
The Mike & Eric Fic secton has been updated with a link to a new
fanfic. Check it out! More updates coming soon (hopefully!).
02/05/2021
I've done a little housekeeping (housecleaning?) for the site,
including replacing my email contact info with a submission form so as
to cut down on SPAM spam spam spam spam...etc.. If you have any
contributions like art or fanfiction, just let me know in the form
about it and when I respond I'll give you an address to which you can
send it.
01/27/2020
I know it's been over 6 months since I updated this site - apologies! I
aim to get more of the Eric sections up and running. It's all a matter
of revamping the pages so they're all in the same format. But it will
be done soon!
10/15/2018
I've just updated the Mike Sightings section with a link to a fan's
story of meeting Mr. Palin during his Erebus book tour in the USA. If
you've got any
stories you'd like to share about meeting Mike, please let me know and
I'll gladly add a link. :)
07/05/2018
The final two chapters of Version B of the Mike fanfic An Old Friend
have been added. I can't believe I started this epic of sorts
back in early September of 2001. I've worked on it and added to it on
and off
over the past almost 17 years. It's been lovely weaving the tale of
Michael and Lisa. Thanks to everyone who's read it and given me
feedback. I'm glad you liked reading it as much as I did writing it!
07/01/2018
Another new chapter of Version B of the Mike fanfic An Old Friend has
been added, with the next (and final?) chapter to be added soon.
06/19/2018
Another new chapter of Version B of the Mike fanfic An Old Friend is
now up. About one more chapter left, which I hope to post soon.
06/13/2018
A new chapter to Version B of the Mike fanfic An Old Friend has just
been added. More to come soon.
05/30/2018
Another new chapter has been added to Version B of the Mike Fanfic An
Old Friend. More to come soon!
05/21/2018
A new chapter to Version B of the Mike fanfic An Old Friend has been
added, with more to come soon. Also a new story "La Femme Accident" was
added to the Mike Fanfic section. Please check it out!
04/29/2018
I've corrected most of the links under the story "An Old Friend" in the
Mike Fanfiction section, and I've also added a new chapter.
Some time ago I had plans to continue on to Version B of this story and
finally got the inspiration (and chance!) to do so. If you're
still following this story, please check out Chapter 16 of Version B,
with more to come soon.
02/27/2018
A new story "Amelia" has been added to the Mike Fanfiction section.
Please give it a read! I'm sorry this site has been rather dead lately.
I've just
not had as much time as I would have liked to update it. I should be
able to update more frequently, though, so stay tuned.
08/28/2017
A new story "Penelope" has been added to the Mike Fanfic section.
Please check it out!
08/13/2017
The story "Walking on Thin Ice" in the Mike Fanfic section, is now
completely up. I hope to have more updates soon.
05/05/2017
I've uploaded and fixed the links to the "Vampire Python" fanfic in the
Mike and Eric fics section. Again I'm sorry for neglecting this
site for so long. I hope to have more updates soon!
08/07/2016
A new fanfic has been added to the Mike Fanfic section. Check it out if
you like smut. ;) More updates coming soon.
08/01/2016
The "Screen shots from the actual film" and "BBC Film Night" pages have
been added to the Holy Grail section of the Mike Pics. I plan
to get more of this section finished within the next week or so.
07/07/2016
The Mike Pics for "And Now For Something Completely Different" are now
up. More updates forthcoming.
07/06/2016
The Mike Bios page has been completely redone, and both the "real" and
"silly" biographies have been added. I hope to get the Mike Sightings
page
uploaded soon as well. Watch this space! (Edit: Correction - the Mike
Sightings page was previously uploaded...sorry about that!)
07/01/2016
The Essays section has finally been added, and along with it all of the
essays! Give them a read, and if you have any you would like to
contribute, please do! More updates coming soon.
06/09/2016
After more than six months of no updates (sorry, sorry!!), I've done
some housekeeping and removed dead links from various pages
of the website. I've also added a link to a couple of new fanfics in
the Mike & Eric Fanfic section. I have many more plans for updating
the
site, which should be forthcoming.
11/20/2015
A link to a new story in the Mike Fanfic section has been added. It's
called "Around the World and Back Again." Check it out. Once again I'm
sorry about being so slow in updating the site. I hope to change that
soon.
08/25/2015
I've added a link to a new story in the Mike Fanfic section called
"Caught in the Rain." Check it out! I also added
a link to a new fan account of meeting Michael several days ago, in the
Mike Sightings section. I hope to make some more updates over the next
few weeks
06/02/2015
Added a page for the fanfic "Nowadays Every Night" in the Mike &
Eric Fanfic section. I've also redone some of the pages in the Mike
Fanfiction section.
05/26/2015
Added the page for the fanfic "Just the Three of Us" in the Mike &
Eric Fanfic section. I'll be working on more of the fics and they
should be up shortly.
04/28/2015
Just noticed that I'd failed to add the last chapter of "A New York
Story"
in the Mike & Eric Fics section. It's up now, plus I've done some
general
housekeeping. More updates soon.
03/01/2015
I've just added the "AM America" page under the Guest Appearances
section of Mike Pics. Updates may come a bit slower as I've just
started a new job, but I promise they will be forthcoming.
01/06/2015
I've redone/added a few more pages, specifically the silly "Founders'
Statement" page, the Thank-Yous, and I've finally put up the Fanlisting
page. Not that anyone uses fanlistings anymore, but
what could it hurt? I just have the main page of that one up so far,
but I plan to put all the others back up over the next few days.
01/01/2015
Happy New Year! I updated the Links page with the new home of the
official Python site. They are promising some interesting stuff from
their archives in the coming months, so keep an eye out.
12/18/2014
I'm slowly but surely working on the fanfic sections. I just added the
page for the story "St. Valentine's Day" over in the Mike & Eric
Fanfic section, so that link should work now. I
also started redoing the index page and chapter pages for "An Old
Friend"
(in the Mike Fanfic section). I have the first 3 or so chapters up, and
will be adding more soon.
12/15/2014
Just added another photo gallery in the Guest Appearances section of
the Mike Pics. This time it's for his appearance on Look North in 1973
during the Pythons' First Farewell Tour. Check it out. I also updated
the Links page, adding a new Eric link and getting rid of some of the
dead links as well.
11/10/2014
Just added a photo gallery for Michael's visit (along with Terry J,
Terry G, and Graham) to Dallas PBS station KERA in 1975. You'll find it
in the Guest Appearances section of
the Mike Pics. Again I'm sorry for taking so long. Things are settling
down a bit so I should finally have more time to devote to updates.
10/11/2014
Again, apologies for updates being so sporadic lately. It's a
combination of real-life drama and computer
issues (I've been dealing with a monitor that likes to throw
temper tantrums...*sigh*). Anyway, I've finally got the Mike
Sightings section up. It's got a couple of stories of fans meeting
Michael. If you have any stories (with or without pictures) that
you'd like to share, please email me and I'll be happy to add them.
08/19/2014
It's been two months since the last update, I'm so sorry, but real-life
drama reared its ugly head once again. Plus I got a new computer and
had to transfer my files/programs over to it from the old one. I have
added a new, wonderful fanfic to the Mike Fics section, though. It's
called "And Now For Something Completely the Same." Please check it
out! Now that I have the new computer set up I should be able to update
more frequently now.
06/18/2014
Progress! Slowly, but surely! I've added the "Monty Python Conquers
America" gallery to the Guest Appearances section of the Mike Pics. I
hope to get more of the sections completed soon.
06/15/2014
I've added some more of the pages
to the Mike Pics section. Most of the galleries still aren't up yet -
these pages are basically placeholders for now. But I promise they will
be up very soon. Unfortunately updates have been coming along slower
than I'd planned due to some real-life drama. I should hopefully have
more time to get these sections up soon, though.
04/16/2014
I've done some updates to the Mike Fanfic section - some of the links
still don't work but that
will change soon.
04/10/2014
As below, added a couple more pages to the Mike Pics section ... again
the gallery links don't work but I am working on them.
04/07/2014
I added a couple more pages to the Mike Pics section ... none of the
gallery links work yet, but I will be working on those soon.
04/03/2014
Added a link to a new fanfic in the Eric Fanfic section. Please bear
with me as updates may come a bit slower for a little while... my
desktop computer decided to throw a tantrum, so things are a bit up in
the air at the moment. I have the necessary programs on my mini
notebook, but I don't have a CD/DVD drive, so I probably won't get to
do much with the pics
sections until I get my desktop working again. I'll try though!
03/30/2014
Well, here is the new News page with the new layout. Hopefully it makes
things look more consistent now. Still in the process of uploading all
of the fanfics to the various sections, but hopefully that will be done
soon.
03/29/2014
Sorry if the site looked like, well...crap yesterday. While editing the
CSS got messed up. I think it's alright now. Anyway, I am still
changing the layout for each of the sections. The fanfic sections
(Mike, Eric, and Mike & Eric) are all done now. I've got most
of the fics uploaded there as well, so if you run into any broken
links, don't fret because they will all be up soon. I'm also trying to
decide if I should keep each of the fics in this new layout as well.
What do you think? Drop me a line and let me know!
03/27/2014
I decided I liked the idea of having the same layout on each page of
this site, so I will be changing each of the sections little by little.
I've already started with the Mike Fanfic section, and will be doing
the same to the others soon.
03/10/2014
More updating to the site! I finally added the Mike and Eric Fanfics
section. Still have to upload all the fics back to it, but I will be
working on that soon. I've also added a link to the Python Slash
community on LiveJournal (on the Links page and on the various fanfic
pages). Check it out if you dig slash. :) I also got the Thank-Yous and
Essays pages uploaded. Still have quite a ways to go until all the
pages are up, but I am working on it! If you have any questions or
comments, please email me or post on the message board.
02/17/2014
Finally have done some more updating! I've updated the Mike Fanfic
section - still a few more
that I need to add, but I'm getting there. I've also added the Eric
Fanfic section and added some fics to that page. Again, not complete
but I'm working on it. If you see any links with 'topcities' in the
URLs, PLEASE do not click on them. As I've mentioned, my old webserver
was hacked and some bastard put malicious code
on it.
11/21/2013
Well, it's now official: The Palin & Idle 24-Hour Network at its
old home (palinidle dot topcities dot com) has joined the choir
invisible. I'm assuming either the web hosting company or the server
has bit the dust because the site is totally inaccessible now. So glad
that I backed up all my pages and moved the site over here. I still
don't have them all up yet, but we will get there.
10/04/2013
Well, I guess you can see that our site has a new home. Sadly the web
host where I used to have it got hacked and they apparently didn't give
a shit about rectifying the situation. The site ended up having
malicious code placed on it. After failing to reach the people who work
for it, I decided to move it to another host. Hopefully it will fare
much better here than it has over there. I'm still in the process of
uploading all my saved pages and images, but I promise it will all be
done.
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