It's all go on The Mummy 3: 26-year-old Luke Ford will play Brendan Fraser's son, Michelle Yeoh will play the wizard and they're recasting Rachel Weisz
US TV
Possible format changes are planned for 24 next season as a response to bad ratings this season
UK viewers: if you haven't been watching Heroes on SciFi or hadn't been planning on watching it when it arrived on BBC2, reconsider now. Cos I promise you you'll be giggling like 12-years-old thanks to the sheer unadulterated coolness of the show by the end of the series (or at least by last night's episode, which was episode 20, BTW).
Also, I know CSI: Miami is a load of old rubbish, but I draw the line at this kind of inane cobblers coming out the mouth of a forensic scientist: “when gasoline burns, it produces carbon dioxide and there was no trace of carbon dioxide on your clothes”; and “that fire wasn't going to start until you introduced oxygen into the mix.”
Seriously, there's fudging science for entertainment purposes and then there's the level of giving David Caruso one of Professor Zarkov's rays to zap criminals with. CSI: Miami has now gone too far.
Michael Mann's going to direct a film noir starring Leonardo DiCaprio
(Media) journalism
The Daily Mail wants to change its brand association from 'Middle England' to 'Modern Mid Britain'. Good luck on that one, you frothing at the mouth loons [free registration required]
John Pilger is giving a talk about Freedom Next Time on 31st May. Includes a screening of Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
Theatre
The cast of The Importance of Being Earnest are going walkabout tomorrow, starting in Trafalgar Square at 4.30pm
British TV
Sky has 340,000 new subscribers and 25% of its subscribers use Sky+ [free registration required]
A new Abigail's Party is being planned by the Beeb [subscription required]
US TV
Ruin the ending of this season of CSI for yourself (at least I didn't put it in the headline, unlike a certain site and newspaper. Grrr...) [spoilers!]
Masters of Science Fictionfinally emerges into the schedules
Because television really is weird, how about a pirate reality TV show. No, really. Sixteen people are going to compete on CBS to become the Pirate Master
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This is for those of you already watching Heroes: I need help. My wife hasn't seen any episodes of Heroes, despite the exhortations of me and my brother-in-law, who also loves it.
They're sitting there, waiting to be watched, but currently unloved.
Now, if I show her the first episode, she's going to be bored, because it's not great, at least not relative to the other episodes. And then she'll never watch any of the other episodes ever.
But I can't show her a really top-quality episode to hook her because that'll ruin all the surprises and won't make much sense.
It'll be going up on the Macworld site soon or appearing in the print mag later, but here's my look at the Miglia TVMax+. Ssh, don't tell anyone. But feel free to ask questions, in case you need clarifications: they're quite technical at Macworld.
As the wise sage Yazz once said, the only way is up. So it was with the latest episode of Doctor Who, The Lazarus Experiment. After the dismal piece of genetic mutation that was Evolution of the Daleks, we have a hybrid we can all be pretty proud of, a nearly 100% successful amalgam of old Who, new Who, The Quatermass Experiment and – ooh – MacGyver.
Remember Windows 95? Actually, some of you here are probably too young to. Blimey, that's depressing...
Stay on target, Rob. Anyway, “revolution” that it was (it was mostly 32-bit and everything. Ooh), it was still a bit tricky to use.
Fortunately, that nice Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston made a lovely little training video, some time between seasons one and two of Friends, to help everyone adjust. Part one's below; their credibility is somewhere else, probably trapped under Ricky Gervais's.
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