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Posted on May 21, 2008 | comments |

The cast of Gavin & Stacey, including Joanna Page, in Rob Brydon's Identity Crisis

Film

Ray Winstone to play Regan in new movie of The Sweeney
Flash Gordon movie rights in negotiation
Jake Gyllenhaal to be Prince of Persia
Highlander to be remade
Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis approached for Hobbit
Christian Bale to make three Terminator movies
Will Smith to remake Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis
Spielberg and Peter Jackson to alternate Tin Tin direction

British TV

Banzai converted to webisodes for MySpace
Gavin & Stacey one of biggest iPlayer shows
Moving Wallpaper gets second series, but without Echo Beach
Friday Night Project moving to Sunday

US TV

Harper's Island to undergo near-total recasting
Casting: Judy Greer for Suburban Shootout, Teri Polo for Finnegan
More casting: Craig Horner and Bridget Regan for Wizard's First Rule
Burn Notice creator signs deal, works on law enforcement action-comedy
USA Network greenlights pilots of White Collar and Royal Pains

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Rob Buckley

Rob Brydon's Identity Crisis was a documentary Brydon filmed in which he examines his feelings towards Wales and Welshness and interviews various Welsh people (Griff Rhys Jones, Max Boyce, the cast of Gavin & Stacey) about Wales, stereotypes, etc. He then has to do a stand-up act based on the results in Cardiff.

It's quite a good little documentary and the highlights are obviously Joanna Page, archive footage of Rob Brydon trying to pronounce Welsh place names on an old game show he hosted and James Corden talking about how the Welsh language "hasn't caught on". It's nice as well, since Brydon starts off almost anti-Welsh and ends up feeling very patriotric and enthused about his heritage.

Wasn't that impressed with Supernova (a rare British-Australian co-prod, too) - I would recommend the movie A Cock and Bull Story though, since Brydon's fantastic in that.

Not sure what the best JP thing to watch is since she's done an awfully large number of costume dramas/period pieces, coupled with a lot of ITV tatt. Don't think she's in The Lost World much, but I haven't watched it all the way through yet. David Copperfield is definitely worth a watch if you like Dickens. Gavin & Stacey is, of course, the one though.

Toby OB

We're just getting 'Supernova' over here, which has been my introduction to Rob Brydon. It's a great diversion for Saturday Mornings (time delayed due to work) while eating breakfast. Fun little fish out of water sitcom and a rare filmed one at that.

Can't really tell what 'Identity Crisis' is from that pic; looks almost like a talk show!

And not much longer for BBC-A to give us G&S over here! I've got 'The Lost World' in my Netflix queue as well for more of Ms. Page.

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