Not wishing to sound too much like the late great Christopher Hitchens, this month's issues of Wonder Woman and Justice League are all about eros and thanatos - aka (sort of) love and death. Well, Eros is certainly there in Wonder Woman, as is his mother Aphrodite; Thanatos isn't, but in his place are Hades and his wife (or should that be wife-to-be) Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, over in Justice League, Steve Trevor has taken to drink over the love of a good woman (Wonder Woman, again) and there's the threat of death, too.
Add to those two themes truth, because people want to know it rather urgently, and eros again in the form of bondage, because a certain golden lasso is going to be important in both titles. And because it's Wonder Woman.
After the jump then, a brief rundown on each of the issues, plus a discussion of the general devaluation of women that will feature a guest appearance of the new nu52 parallel universe title Earth 2.
Looks like it's a working weekend for David. Hopefully, you'll get some time off, though.
Hebbie, Shilohforever, Sister Chastity: 25
Toby: 15
Sitting Board of Winners 2012 January
Hebbie, Sister Chastity
February
Sister Chastity
March
Sister Chastity
April
Sister Chastity, Shilohforever
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it's judged suitable and doesn't obviously infringe copyright, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don't forget to include your name in the filename so I don't get mixed up about who sent it to me.
The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.
Each month, I'll name the best picture provider and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!
Time for the last of the upfronts. Okay, USA did its first upfronts yesterday, but didn't really announce anything new, so let's end with the traditional way to end the upfronts: following on from the main broadcast networks NBC, Fox, ABC and CBS, today we're going to be looking at the 'young female adult'-skewed The CW and what it has lined up for us for the 2012 to 2013 season.
The CW didn't have much success last year with its new scripted shows: only Hart of Dixie survived, while Ringer and The Secret Circle both got cancelled. Meanwhile, some of its older shows are now limping alone, with Gossip Girl nearing the end, Supernatural's end date being eyed and Nikita looking as poor as it always did. The experiment of The LA Complex fell apart, leaving just 90210 to keep the network's scripted dreams alive.
But CW president Mark Pedowitz promised more original programming when he joined the network, so this year, The CW is trying to give itself a shot in the arm with… more of the same. Yes, time to cash in on some past glories as well as emulate some other networks. Lined up for 2012-13 are:
Beauty and The Beast: based on the 1980s CBS show with Linda Hamilton, but starring The CW's Smallville's Kristen Kreuk as the beauty in question
Arrow: Bourne-esque adaptation of DC's superhero the Green Arrow, but not starring Justin Hartley who was the Green Arrow in Smallville. But that's because of…
Emily Owen MD: …in which a new doctor discovers that hospital is no different from high school. Co-stars… Justin Hartley
Carrie Diaries: HBO's Sex and the City's Carrie, when she was a teenager. Notably features Freema Agyeman from Doctor Who, though.
Cult: starring one of the guys from The CW's Vampire Diaries and one of the girls from The CW's Melrose Place, and sees the fans of a TV show recreating the on-screen crimes.
After the jump, the run-down, trailers for the Fall shows (Carrie Diaries and Cult are mid-season - sorry) and a schedule.
There's nothing like grainy TV and film footage and an authoritative-sounding narrator to really scare the crap out of people, particularly kids, with the mysterious and unexplained. This truism was very much proved with Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World, a 13-part TV series narrated by newsreader Gordon Honeycombe that looked at every bit of weirdness the world seemed to offer in those days: the Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti, Bigfoot, giant figures in the landscape, UFOs, the Tunguska explosion, giant squids, stone circles and more.
Bookended by science-fiction writer Arthur C Clarke, opining from Sri Lanka on how likely any of these things were, each episode went around the world to interview witnesses, take pictures and generally scare the crap out of you with the help of scary music and Honeycombe's commentary. Not all of it was of the scary variety, however, with episodes looking at the 'Antikythera mechanism' (last seen in BBC4's The 2,000 Year Old Computer a couple of weeks ago) and vitrified hill forts in Scotland, for example. Yet somehow, through the sheer power of suggestion, the creepy crystal skull logo, the equally scary theme tune and Gordon Honeycombe, it all still seemed terrifying, even when Clarke popped up at the end to invariably say he didn't believe a word of it.
You can watch all of it on YouTube, so take your pick of how you want to frighten yourself with this playlist:
The show hit something of a vein in the public consciousness, with huge numbers of people watching it. It even got satirised by The Goodies in their LWT show.
So popular was Mysterious World that it launched a 13-part sequel show Arthur C Clarke's World of Strange Powers, which followed in Mysterious World's footsteps by examining psychics, stigmata, clairvoyants and others, putting forward the best cases possible for their existence without any real scepticism whatsoever. It's actually this series that most people remember, thanks to its focus on things that could really terrify, such as ghosts and poltergeists. However, whether it was because Anna Ford was now doing the narration or I was five years older, it all seemed less scary somehow.
Again, it's all over YouTube, so choose which one you want to scare yourself stupid with from this playlist .
Nearly 10 years later, ITV returned to Clarke for yet more un-mined mysteries of the world, with Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious Universe, this time narrated by Carol Vorderman. Following the same template as the earlier shows, this looked at everything from the mysteries of the pyramids and zombies through to appearances of the Virgin Mary and crop circles. Whether it was just because the footage was less grainy now, Carol Vorderman is no Gordon Honeycombe or I was 10 years older, it wasn't scary at all, although you can decide for yourself with this playlist.
The shows didn't have a huge cultural legacy, although the Divine Comedy did release a song called 'Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World'.
We all know abut remakes, right? You take an old movie or TV show and then make it again, updating it for today's audiences. Think of Battlestar Galactica, Batman, Psycho et al.
So how about premakes? The idea here is to take a modern movie or TV show and then create from it an imagined original version made decades ago to show you how effects, etc, have changed over the years. Here's what I mean.
Following on from NBC, Fox and ABC, today we get to have a look at the shiny new shows that CBS has lined up for us for the 2012 to 2013 season.
CBS is, of course, the 10-tonne gorilla that dominates the US TV ratings. So powerful is it that it can cancel CSI: Miami because "it doesn't fit" and comedies like Rob, which gets 12m viewers, because it thinks it "can do better" with the same time slot - if NBC had a show that got 12m viewers, it would be its top-rated scripted show and pride of place in its line-up and left to do whatever it likes.
With so many top-rated shows on its hands, CBS can pick and choose and doesn't need to add too many new ones. So after the break, we'll have a look (with trailers, for once) at the few new shows CBS has to offer, as well as its schedule for the Fall:
Elementary - a modern day version of Sherlock Holmes starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, as well as Prime Suspect's Aidan Quinn. Hmmm…
Vegas - a rodeo cowboy becomes a Las Vegas sheriff in the 1960s. Stars Dennis Quaid, No Ordinary Family's Michael Chiklis, Life on Mars/Terra Nova's Jason O'Mara and The Matrix's Carrie-Anne Moss
Made In Jersey - a working class woman (Janet Montgomery) compete with colleagues at a Manhattan law firm. Stars Kyle MacLachlan, Stephanie March and Erin Cummings among others.
Partners - two friends, one straight (David Krumholtz from Numb3rs/The Playboy Club), one gay (Michael Urie). Straight guy proposes to his girlfriend (Sophie Bush) and problems ensue. Brandon Routh (Superman Returns/Chuck) also stars.
There's also cop show Golden Boy and comedy Friend Me lined up as mid-season replacements, but there aren't any trailers for those yet. Sorry.
Oops. Forgot to do Sitting Tennant yesterday. That's what comes with not checking your To Do list. Still, hopefully this picture from Hebbie will make up for my failings.
Hebbie, Shilohforever, Sister Chastity: 20
Toby: 10
Sitting Board of Winners 2012 January
Hebbie, Sister Chastity
February
Sister Chastity
March
Sister Chastity
April
Sister Chastity, Shilohforever
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it's judged suitable and doesn't obviously infringe copyright, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don't forget to include your name in the filename so I don't get mixed up about who sent it to me.
The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.
Each month, I'll name the best picture provider and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!
Following on from NBC and Fox, today we get to have a look at the shiny new shows that ABC has lined up for us for the 2012 to 2013 season.
Like NBC, there have been a fair few cancellations at ABC this year, so we've got a few new dramas and comedies to look at. Unlike NBC, we have a lot of remakes of foreign shows to look forward to, unless we happen to have seen those foreign shows in question already.
So after the jump, we have rundowns, trailers and the 2012-13 schedules for:
Last Resort from Shawn Ryan and starring Andre Braugher and Dichen Lachman
666 Park Ave. with (ooh) Robert Buckley and Terry O'Quinn
A remake of BBC1's Mistresses with Charmed's Alyssa Milano
A remake of BBC3's White Van Man retitled The Family Tools with Kyle Bornheimer. JK Simmons and Leah Remini from King of Queens
How to Live With Your Parents For The Rest of Your Life with Scrubs' Sarah Chalke, Brad Garrett, Orlando Jones and Elizabeth Perkins
Malibu Country with Lily Tomlin, Rbea and Jai Rodriguez (yes, him from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
Nashville with Connie Britton, Powers Boothe, The Wire's Robert Wisdom and Heroes' Hayden Panettiere
The Neighbors with Jami Gerz
A remake of Dutch TV's Penoza, Red Widow, starring Radha Mitchell and
It's "What did you watch last week?", my chance to tell you what I watched last week that I haven't already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I've missed them.
The usual recommendations from the first-run shows are: The Almighty Johnsons, The Apprentice, Awake, The Bridge, Community, Cougar Town, The Daily Show,House, Mad Men, Modern Family, Prisoners of War and 30 Rock. Hunt them down.
Being promoted to the recommendations list this week are Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23 – which while not the best show ever made, is sufficiently, consistently amusing, evil and full of James Van Der Beek that I'm ready to add to the list – and Prisoners of War, which I've just reviewed,
It was a weekend of catch-ups and random viewings last week, so I actually managed to watch a few movies and try a few random new shows.
Common Law:USA Network's trailer for this buddy-buddy cop show made it look awful. Guess what? It was awful. I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes of this derivative, unfunny cobblers before I had to switch off. Not even Sonya Walger could save it.
Playhouse Presents: Sky Arts' series of one-off plays, this one starring Olivia Williams, Martin Shaw, Lucy Punch and Rhashan Stone from Strike Back: Project Dawn (he also wrote it). A nice idea – woman who stands up to rioters beats a Boris Johnson-alike to become Mayor of London – but there was apparently nothing new to say here, judging by the inconclusive script, Williams' Northern accent was rubbish, Shaw and Punch hammed it up, and Stone gave himself all the best lines. But you've got to love that Sky Arts (or someone) is doing plays.
Still playing catch-up with Sunday's viewing though, with Veep and Mad Men still to watch.
It's also finally time to dump Touch, which looks like it might be going somewhere but is being so boring about it, has the terrible Mohinder-esque voiceovers at the beginning and end, and is just so incredibly insulting about how it thinks special needs children are treated that blood boils whenever it broaches the subject. They've also introduced Kabbalah to the equation, which means they need beating.
Now here's a few thoughts on the regulars:
Missing - thankfully, they've written out the rubbish Italian guy in favour of a better English character (although, naturally, they had to make her a Lady). Sean Bean also got to do a decent fight scene. Otherwise, it's just plodding along really, with supposedly shock moments arriving with inevitability rather than, erm, shock.
Cougar Town - so they didn't bite the bullet on Lori/Travis, but a decent episode nevertheless and funny, too.
Awake - A shame it's been cancelled because that was an absolutely fabulous episode and Jason Isaacs should be nominated for an Emmy at least for his performance. Loving the suggestion now that he is genuinely off his rocker.
Community - Is there a word for a meta episode that's meta about its metaness? Still not exactly funny, but had some superb twists and turns of plot.
The Bridge - now this is how to be a surprising show. Can't wait for the last two episodes!
House – was that Peter Robocop Weller as the surgeon? Notable only as a way to move Chase's storyline along, really.
And in movies:
Avatar: Yes, I know I slightly missed the boat on that one, but I thought I'd give it a try. Probably looks incredible on the big screen and might even be good in 3D, but that's really its only saving grace. The plot is such a mish-mash of Dances With Wolves,The Word For World is Forest and Dragonriders of Pern that any originality got lost somewhere on the way to Pandora; the characters are either almost non-existent or cliches, despite all of Cameron's attempts to inject them with personalities; the acting's terrible, particularly Sam "Could I be any more Australian?" Worthington's; and the whole thing goes on forever, never-ending, never stopping, never willing to give the audience release from its terrible tedium.
Firefox: The Clint Eastwood movie, not the browser. A really dull first half that does at least show how terrible life in the Soviet Union was, but a really cracking second-half ruined only by not having the technology to do proper aircraft effects in those days, it still is flawed, partly because of Eastwood's direction choices: if you're going to have thought-controlled weaponry, make it look very fast, not like you have to press two buttons and then say everything in very slow Russian to make it work. But the strange thing is that in retrospect, it just looks like a bigger budget first pilot that got recast and turned into Airwolf. Basically the same plots. The music sounds the same in places. I'm surprised there weren't lawsuits. I mean look at the names, for heaven's sake! It's even got blueprints in the trailer!
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths: The Justice League travel to an alternate universe where Lex Luthor is the only superhero left alive to fight the terrible tyranny of Ultraman, Superwoman and Owlman, as well as cohorts like Johnny Quick. It's something of a curiosity since it doesn't involve the usual voiceover artists, instead favouring mostly famous actors like William Baldwin, James Woods and Chris Noth (Vanessa Martin does Wonder Woman's voice for a change – she also does Black Widow's voice in the Marvel Avengers series). It also tries to do a bit of aetiology (such as "This is how Wonder Woman got her invisible plane"), since it was also intended to link the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited TV series. Although the obvious thing would be for DC to show how the parallel Earth's superheroes illustrate something about the normal Earth's, only Owlman really works as both a parallel and a character in his own right; Ultraman is really a thug and Superwoman isn't even Wonder Woman's mirror, there being another Wonder Woman-esque character for her to beat. So not one of the best efforts, although there are some surprisingly well drawn fight sequences, with Wonder Woman getting a very nifty martial arts fight at one point, and we don't have to endure much Green Lantern for a change, thankfully.
"What did you watch this week?" is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid - and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I've watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you've seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?
"What did you watch this week?" is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid - and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I've watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you've seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?
In the UK: Thursdays, 9.30pm, Sky Arts 1 In Israel: Aired 2009
Homeland has been a big hit for both Showtime in the US and Channel 4 in the UK, going great guns in the ratings. In it, POW Damian Lewis returns to the US after eight years in captivity in Iraq. CIA analyst Claire Danes, however, suspects he's been converted by terrorists and has been released to do something horrific on US soil. Is he or isn't he? Well, the last episode of the first season has already aired, but I won't spoil it for you – go watch it, if you haven't already, since it was the best new drama of the Fall 2011-12 season.
However, as I mentioned at the time, Homeland is not a wholly original show, having been adapted by some of 24's creators from an Israeli show, Prisoners of War aka Hatufim. Now Sky Arts 1, which is not only fast becoming a rival to BBC4 as my favourite UK channel but also a haven for quality Israeli TV (just as BBC4 now gets all the good Scandinavian shows), has decided to broadcast the original show on Thursdays in a 10 week run.
Intriguingly, Prisoners of War is both quite a different show to Homeland as well as very similar. After the trailer (which is all in Hebrew, unfortunately, but you can view an English-language promo here) and the jump, I'll give you a rundown on the differences and look at it as a show in its own right.
Yesterday, we had (multiple) looks at the new shows that NBC is planning for 2012-3. Today, we're going to take a gander at the shows Fox has in the pipeline.
Seeing as Fox is a considerably more successful network than NBC - it does at least have a few successful shows, even if House is on the way out - it's commissioned fewer new shows than NBC to fill its empty slots, so we're only going to be looking at The Mob Doctor with My Boys' Jordana Spiro, Ben & Kate, The Mindy Project with The Office's Mindy Kaling, Kevin Williamson's The Following with Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy and Natalie Zea, and The Goodwin Games with Becki Newton and Scrubs/The Unit's Scott Foley.
Yes, for some reason - mercury poisoning, temporary insanity - Fox hasn't picked up The Asset with Ali Larter. Nutters.
My general conclusion: the shows may look as bad as NBC's, but Fox knows how to make better trailers.
My specific conclusion: The Following looks passable thanks almost purely to James Purefoy and The Goodwin Games actually seems okay. The rest need euthanising.
Hot on the heels of Friday's "all the kicking from the movie Kickboxer", now we have all the gear-changes from all the Fast and Furious movies. Some people really have a lot of time on their hands, don't they?
In case you don't know, they're making a movie about the making of the movie Psycho, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho. It's got quite an impressive cast list, too:
Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh
James D'Arcy as Anthony Perkins
Jessica Biel as Vera Miles
Helen Mirren as Alma Reville, Alfred Hitchcock's wife
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock
Toni Collette as Hitchcock's trusted assistant, Peggy Robertson
Danny Huston as screenwriter Whitfield Cook (a friend of Reville)
Michael Stuhlbarg as agent and studio boss Lew Wasserman
Michael Wincott as Ed Gein
Ralph Macchio as screenwriter Joseph Stefano
Richard Portnow as Paramount Studios boss Barney Balaban
Wallace Langham as graphic designer Saul Bass
Kurtwood Smith as Geoffrey Shurlock.
Now photos are emerging of what people look like in character. Here's Hopkins as Hitchcock:
Not bad, huh?
Scarlett Johnasson (with optional umbrella for the shower scene?) as Janet Leigh
Jessica Biel as Vera Miles (obviously not in costume, though).
Hair looks a bit dodgy if you ask me. What do you think, though?
At this rate, there won't be much movie to watch at the cinema. But here's four minutes of The Amazing Spider-Man for you to enjoy without anybody eating popcorn noisily nearby.
Here's the first, full episode of Tron: Uprising for you all to enjoy. And by 'you all', I mean Americans since Disney doesn't want anyone else to watch it yet.
Unusual and violent activity is observed on the surface of the sun during an eclipse. A dormant volcano erupts in Turkey. A musician (Peter Firth) is haunted by a strange melody. These are the starting points of what turns out to be a surrealist journey into Arabic mythology.
After meeting an astronomer (Suzan Crowley) who observed the strange activity on the sun, Firth visits his mother on her deathbed. She tells him of the Master Musician, a mysterious being living in Turkey, where his father, also a musician, died a long time ago.
Firth takes off for Turkey, to face the demons of his father's past and find this mythical Master Musician. His trip takes us deep into the heart of arabic mythology, into a world inhabited by Djinns and Shaytans, respectively born of Air and Fire. He will learn many things about his father's life that will bring him to the brink of insanity.
As if all today's clips and programme summaries weren't enough, here are a whole bunch of proper trailers for all NBC's new shows, as well as their Facebook and Google+ pages (good luck with that one, guys) and their Twitter accounts and hashtags. Any look good to you?
Following from last year's Cougar Town/Communitylovefest, we have our first shout-out of the year from Cougar Town. Not as involved as previous efforts, but fun all the same.
Secret swearing has a long and honourable TV and movie tradition. Usually intended to outwit the censors, it can vary in execution but ultimately has the same aim. Star Trek: The Next Generation allowed Jean-Luc Picard to say merde, because it was assumed that no US viewers would understand it meant sh*t in French. Star Trek itself managed to sneak Uhura denying that she was a 'fair maiden' past the censor, while Battlestar Galactica pioneered new forms of swearing altogether with copious use of the word 'frack' as a replacement for the f-word.
The Avengers/Avengers Assemble recently took a leaf out of Worzel Gummidge's book – a show in which Jon Pertwee used to delight himself by using as many Elizabethan swearwords, including the likes of 'swive' as he possibly could – by having Loki describe Black Widow as a 'mewling q**m' – that would be a word that rhymes with 'whim' and is a Chaucerian synonym for the c-word. Now, if you look at the BBFC's web site [spoilers], it gives an explanation in its extended classification information as to why it gave the film a 12A certificate:
The film also contains some mild bad language, such as uses of 'hell', 'damn', 'ass', 'son of a bitch', 'pissed off' and 'bastards'
No mention of the use of the q-word. Whether that's because no one at the BBFC knows what it means or because they figured that no one in the audience is likely to know or care, I can't say. But it does lead to this week's question:
Should the BBFC take into account swearing that only a portion of the audience will understand when it classifies movies? Should TV shows and movies forego fake swearing that has the same intent as swearing? Or is this all linguistic silliness?
Notorious racist Mel Gibson has a new film out, both here and in the US. Here, it's called How I Spent My Summer Vacation and its tag line is 'Plan your getaway':
But over in the US, it's called the much-catchier Get The Gringo but has the duller tagline 'The odds are against him. So is everyone else':
The question is why? Did they think the UK public was going to be less open to movies featuring Mel Gibson with racial epithets in their titles? Why is it 'vacation' rather than 'holiday', except to avoid possible Cliff Richard connotations?
We've already had a look at some of the cast photos, but now we have a full rundown of what NBC is ordering up for its Fall schedule. Unlike last year, where there seemed to be a few shows that I'd like to watch - NBC now having cancelled them all - NBC appears to have chosen to fill the airwaves this year and next year almost exclusively with pure awfulness, probably figuring based on this year's ratings that if it produces anything decent, no one will watch it, so why bother with half-decent, which takes some effort, when you can have river effluent instead.
After the jump, we'll take a look - yes, there are clips - at NBC's new shows, to see if there's anything at all that looks good out of Revolution, Go On, The New Normal, Animal Practice, Guys With Kids, Chicago Fire and Do No Harm.
ABC orders Nashville, Zero Hour, Red Widow, Last Resort, 666 Park Avenue, The Neighbors, Family Tools and How To Live With Your Parents For The Rest of Your Life…
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