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I managed to get 135 caps of this film as Rachael is in a lot of the scenes. I hope everyone enjoys looking at them!

Not long now until The Young Victoria is released. The date I have marked down for the UK release is 3rd September, though I'm not sure if that's been confirmed yet. I'll keep you all posted if I find out more.

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This was a tricky one as I was capping from a file rather than from a DVD, and I had real trouble finding a program that would play the file properly and allow me to screencap it. Thank you VLC Player.

I hope everyone enjoys looking at the screencaps.

• Review of Uncle Vanya (27 Jan 2007)
• Review of Hotel Babylon (7 Aug 2007)
• Review of Hotel Babylon (8 Aug 2007)
• Feature about actors coming together to save Wilton's Music Hall (6 Dec 2007)
• Short feature about The Charity Awards 2007 (8 Jul 2007)

Thank you to everyone for their comments on the recent re-design. The site definitely feels a lot fresher and easy to use, both for visitors to use, and for myself and Claire to update. (Thank you to Claire for keeping the calendar updated with TV and radio appearances.)

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for things you'd like to see on the site!

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Sorry it's taken me a while to get these uploaded. I'm working through a backlog of stuff… one day I'll be completely up-to-date!

Let me know what you think of the screencaps.

"Love Actually star Martin Freeman is to play a scruffy DIY store worker trapped in the body of a glamorous female fashion journalist in a new comedy drama for ITV1. In Boy Meets Girl, Freeman plays Danny Reed, a scruffy DIY worker who wakes up after being struck by lightning to find himself in the body of Veronica Burton, played by Tipping The Velvet's Rachael Stirling. Beyond his initial struggles with lingerie and the advances of Veronica's boyfriend Jay, Danny is eventually faced with the choice of going back to his old life or finding his feet in the fashion world."

What does that tell you? It sounds to me as though it's Martin Freeman's character who has the struggles, but it's a body-swap drama. It can't actually be Martin Freeman — it's got to be Rachael, surely. I don't get it otherwise.

So why is this so heavily publicised as starring Freeman? Is it purely because he's a "proper celebrity" and is therefore is used in all of the publicity to draw viewers in, despite the fact that the main actor is Rachael? Or does he feature more heavily than that — perhaps with voiceovers? — and if so, surely the story is about Rachael's character, Veronica, rather than Martin's character, Danny. Or maybe it's equally balanced, and we'll see both sides of the story. I find it unusual, though, that the papers keep referring to Martin Freeman dealing with the fashion world / glamour / boyfriend, etc. rather than Rachael…

It's all a bit confusing, really. What are your thoughts?

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There are some lovely shots of Rachael in what was quite a highly-acclaimed play she did back in early 2007. I'm sorry it's taken me such a long while to add the photos! In addition to the performance shots, I have also added some images from the after party, attended by Dame Diana Rigg among others. Take a look at these in the Uncle Vanya section of the gallery.

In the first of many updates, I have added 7 reviews of Rachael's latest film release, Dangerous Parking, to the website. You can view them in the Press section under Reviews — all of them are dated April/May 2008.

The film appears to have had a mixed response from the critics, though I've not had the chance to see it for myself yet, due to its limited UK release. Has anyone else managed to get to the cinema and see Dangerous Parking yet? What did you think of it?

In any case, we won't have long to wait as the DVD is scheduled for UK release on 29 September 2008.

I never thought I'd see the day, but it appears that the brand new version of Rachael Stirling Online is finally ready to be launched! I can't quite believe I've finished the re-design and everything seems to be working okay, though of course it remains to be seen whether it will stand up to the visitors' tests without falling flat on its face. After all, I'm the only one who has been looking at it for the past goodness knows how many months!

The comments form is working again so I'd appreciate any and all feedback on the re-vamped website. As you'll be able to tell if you take a good look around, it's not just a re-design — it's a complete re-working of everything, including (and particularly) the gallery, which was in desperate need of a makeover.

Almost everything is now powered by WordPress with the help of numerous plugins. You can read plenty more about the inner workings of the site (if you're interested) in the site section.

There are lots of fancy new features, both for myself (from an administrative point of view) and for visitors. Please take the time to explore the website and please, please, please do not hesitate to let me know if you come across any errors, e.g. broken links or images, wonky borders, or anything else that looks a bit out of place. I haven't had the chance to go through every single page so I need for people to notify me of any issues, so I can fix them.

I will say now that the site has not yet undergone a full content update, so there are still a lot of images and articles to be added. I need something to update with, don't I? So this update really is mainly about the re-design, and there'll be content updates coming soon, once I get past the initial post-launch troubleshooting! Arg!

However, one of the biiiiiiiiig content updates I did manage was a full re-vamp of the Tipping the Velvet screencaps gallery. It was a bit of a poor show that we only had 60 screencaps from Tipping, while I'd somehow managed to get over 80 from Riot at the Rite, which was a comparatively small project. So I spent a good few days re-screencapping the entirety of Tipping and we have a very substantial gallery now.

I hope there won't be too many troubles to shoot, and that you all like the new-look website.

I was planning to launch the new version of the website today, as I thought it would be appropriate (it is her birthday, after all!) but unfortunately I have run into a few problems along the way and am not quite finished yet. It shouldn’t be much longer than another few days, but I would be very hard pressed to finish the site by tonight. It may happen, if I turn into Wonder Woman or something, but it’s unlikely.

It honestly is almost ready, though. Just need to get the gallery and message board finished. I’d like for it to be fine-tuned and ready to go, rather than doing it as a rush job. I’m now aiming for early next week.