Doctor Who
- All nu-Who to be available on iTunes from today
- Robert Carlyle would love to be the next Doctor
- Bill Bailey petition gets 1,000 signatures
Film
- Philip Noyce to remake Captain Blood
- Shia LaBeouf to play the lead in The Associate
- Zoolander 2 and Meet the Parents 3 in the works
- Johnny Depp to star in In The Hand of Dante adaptation
- Keanu to come back for Speed prequel?
Canadian TV
- Kids in the Hall returning to TV in League of Gentlemen-inspired mini-series
British TV
- Channel 4 to feature four three-minute dramas inspired by evolution
- Russell T Davies and Tony Jordan to oversee two dramas for BBC Wales
- Wallander gets 6.2m viewers
US TV
- Two minutes from the Lost season five premiere
- The first 17 minutes from 24's season seven premiere
- A clip of Courtney Cox on Scrubs…
- …and of Laurence Fishburne on CSI
- Neve Campbell to co-star in The Philanthropist?
- Craig T Nelson to do CSI: NY arc
- There will be no Lost movie
- Khandi Alexander to return to CSI: Miami for an episode
- Samantha Who? writer working on three projects, including a Flintstones musical
- CBS and ABC announce their mid-season schedules - and CBS its summer schedule
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December 3, 2008 | Reply
Love the Head Crusher! (And the guy hooked on "girl drinks". And the guy who picks up hicks at hockey games and dresses in a Dracula cape to seduce them. And "These Are the Daves I Know"...) However, try as I might, I've never quite got the League of Gentlemen. Do you think a Canadian angle might help?
December 3, 2008 | Reply
Coincidentally this week's Bookseller also carries an ad for The Associate - the character of Kyle McAvoy sthe young law graduate from Yale who should have the world at his feet but instead ends up blackmailed reminds John Grisham of another young lawyer, Mitch McDeere who featured in The Firm. No kidding! The story doesn't sound at all similar. Still what the hell, I'm sure I'll enjoy it anyway....
Persephone, I am still recovering from the shock of discovering that you don't get The League of Gentlemen. Maybe it is a bit British, but as I'm married to a Dave, the line, You're my wife now takes on extra significance in my house...
December 4, 2008 | Reply
I think a lot of League is bound up in British culture (as well as horror films) so if you don't like/are well acquainted with either/both, it's not that funny.
Love the Head Crusher sketch where he found out all the heads had already been crushed by someone further down the street from him.
December 4, 2008 | Reply
Maybe... I think humour is a rather idiosyncratic thing, because I can't always put my finger on why I find things funny. (Yes, I know it's got to do with recognition, but over-analyse it and nothing's funny anymore...
I love Monty Python and Beyond the Fringe; never got the Goons.
I love Black Adder, but (and this really is a mystery to me) never got A Bit of Fry and Laurie, except for a couple of sketches, and I'm a big fan of both gentlemen.
I find Little Britain mean-spirited and revolting for the most part, but am loopily charmed by The Mighty Boosh. Go figure. (Or better still, don't.)
December 4, 2008 | Reply
I was joshing Persephone, LOG isn't to a lot of English tastes either (my twin hates it),but it appeals to the dark side for me. It can be seriously unpleasant - the Christmas special a few years ago was the creepiest comedy I've ever seen. I watched it alone and was seeing things by the end. I did love the conceit of the film where they were trying to kill off the characters though.
I liked the first couple of series of Little Britain but its got a bit gross for my tastes now, and while I like Walliams and Lucas, I prefer Mitchell and Webb.
I love the Mighty Boosh, which is bonkers and off the wall enough to make me laugh out loud.