Doctor Who
- A chance to win a trip behind the scenes, plus the title of the Christmas special
- RTD turned down George Lucas
Film
- Billy Crystal joins The Tooth Fairy
- Bruce Willis to make his directorial debut
- Unbreakable 2?
- Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine to join Scarlet Johansson's Brilliant?
Art
- Edvard Munch's 'The Vampire' to be auctioned
Music
- A Kinks reunion?
- One-off show for the Killers to launch new album
- American Psycho: The musical!
- Sunday openings for all London theatres?
British TV
- Matt Lucas and David Walliams back UK version of Will Ferrell's Funny or Die comedy web site
- Lipstick Jungle premiere gets 198,000 viewers on Living
- Second series of Shaun the Sheep commissioned
- Final episode of The Wire gets just 36,000 viewers
- Amanda Donohoe and Maxwell Caulfield join Emmerdale
- Channel 4 to fire staff, cut budgets
- What's this? An original ITV drama? No it's Britannia High
US TV
- Promo for Little Britain USA
- Heroes' ratings down 25% on last year
- TNT commissions a crime micro-series to air during Law & Order
- Lisa Kudrow to star in web series for Lexus
- Karate kid Ralph Macchio to appear on Ugly Betty
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September 24, 2008 | Reply
Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! Ray, yes yes, yes!! Please do reunite the Kinks. I'll be first in the queue. We went to see Ray Davies last year and he was FANTASTIC. We all danced. It was amazing. He is a rock god. Now I'm gushing. But if I could enter my own competition it would be to say that You Really Got Me is the one song guaranteed to get my husband on the dance floor...I hope this comes off.
September 24, 2008 | Reply
[oh Rob!] Comedy discovery: I hate every single modern US comedy about married couples. . . .
Seriously? Even Mad About You? 'Cause I'm willing to fight you about Mad About You...
(Type Key doesn't remember who I am. But that's okay, I don't remember who I am.)
September 24, 2008 | Reply
"Even Mad About You?"
I did say modern, didn't I? I would class 'modern' as having to have at least have one new episode in this millennium, at the very least…
TypeKey support seems to be broken in the latest release of the blog software, according to forums. I might disable it until there's a fix, so as not to give people false hope.
September 24, 2008 | Reply
And King of Queens, misery, despair and misanthropy? I think not. Just a well observed sitcom with lots of LOL moments, superb cameos from Jerry Stiller (misanthropy, maybe but still hilarious) and, occasionally, so true to (my) life as to be uncomfortably funny!
September 24, 2008 | Reply
Yes, King of Queens. The one with the scummy, lazy husband with zero respect for his wife; and the much better looking but equally unpleasant wife who patronises her husband all the time. That one. I feel physically sick every time it's on television. Not as much as when the pure, undiluted evil of Everybody Loves Raymond is on, but…
September 24, 2008 | Reply
Sorry, didn't realize that series ending less than a decade ago are no longer modern. Maybe the word you wanted was "current". My apologies for defending dinosaurs on your blog...
September 24, 2008 | Reply
You're very welcome to defend dinosaurs on the blog. I just don't remember attacking any of late. Must have left my fur costume from 10,000BC round the back.
September 24, 2008 | Reply
But can we agree, modern or current aside (even dinosaurs), that Mad About You got it right? Very clever, funny believable scripts about two flawed, funny human beings muddling through a marriage. And among the regular cast, I don't remember a stereotype in the bunch.
September 24, 2008 | Reply
It went downhill a little bit towards the end and Paul Reiser almost always got the better lines, but yes, one of the best of the bunch.
September 24, 2008 | Reply
Oh yes, I'll definitely join in the defence of 'Mad about You'. It was one of the things I loved about having cable (briefly) and the Paramount Comedy channel. Opinions on the finale either of you guys?
September 25, 2008 | Reply
Adored the finale. As Rob has pointed out, the final two seasons weren't that strong with the exception of the one-take "The Conversation" episode in Season Six and the very very funny and poignant "Final Fronter" finale, featuring the acerbic Janeane Garofalo as a grown-up Mabel. Fortunately, both episodes are included in a best-of Mad About You compilation which I own, thank goodness. (Unfortunately, the compilation doesn't include my personal favourite "Outbreak" from Season Five, in which Jamie and Paul try to beat the six degrees of Kevin Bacon before everyone finds out they're expecting.)
September 25, 2008 | Reply
"Final episode of The Wire gets just 36,000 viewers"
Criminal. It really is the best show aired on our TVs so far in history.
September 29, 2008 | Reply
Dismal, isn't it?