Operation Fascination: Diana Rigg
2020 is the 55th anniversary of Diana Rigg's first appearance as Emma Peel in the British TV show The Avengers. As a teen in the 1980s I watched The Avengers on Channel 4 and was hooked on both The Avengers and Diana Rigg. 20 years ago I wrote an article for the now defunct Classic Television about Diana Rigg and this culutral phenomena. It is therefore with a sad heart that I am updating this blog in light of Rigg's death aged 82. In recent years she had become associated w