Posted on March 12, 2010 | |
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Posted on March 11, 2010 | |
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- Gary Oldman, Malin Akerman, Harvey Keitel and Milo Ventimiglia to star in Criminal Empires for Dummys (sic)
- Guy Ritchie working on King Arthur film
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- 24's Elisha Cuthbert joins Happy Endings
- Pilot casting, including The Wire's Sonja Sohn on Body of Evidence
- Amy Acker to guest on Human Target
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Posted on March 10, 2010 | |
Happy seventh wedding anniversary to me!
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Posted on March 9, 2010 | |
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- An interview with Matt Smith
- Bus with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan to tour the UK
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Posted on March 5, 2010 | |
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- MTV acquires The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Sweet Valley High [subscription required]
- Being Human creatives want to launch production company, have new idea for a show [subscription required]
- BBC4 to go back to its high-brow roots [subscription required]
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Posted on February 24, 2010 | |
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- A Blues Brothers TV series?
- ABC picks up Southern Discomfort
- Pilots for Kurtwood Smith, Swoosie Kurtz, 24's Carlos Bernard and Past Life's Kelli Giddish
- Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol to debut on The Secret Life of The American Teenager
- Heroes/Alias/24's David Anders joins Vampire Diaries [spoilers]
- Trailer for the next lot of Chuck episodes
- Len Wiseman to direct Hawaii Five-O pilot?
- Women deserting Lifetime
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Posted on February 22, 2010 | |
Another new idea - people tend to watch TV over the weekend so let's talk about what everyone's been watching on a Monday instead of a Friday. And since 24 and Lost are only a week out, moving to a Monday means you can talk about both shows, whether you're in the US or the UK.
The Winter Olympics and lack of Heroes meant there wasn't much new US TV week this week, but anyway:
- Archer: Some more great moments as per usual.
- Being Erica: Watched the end of season two at last. Overall, while they experimented a lot more this season, Erica's character arc felt less satisfying and the whole thing almost reset Erica's situation back to the start of episode 1 (that's time travel for you). Ethan's emasculation this season didn't endear the show to us either, since at least he was a decent love interest for her last year.
- Being Human: Don't really remember last week's very much (that's how good my memory is), but this week's was scary in a different kind of way from usual (Mitchell). Not quite sure why Annie has flipped from wanting "door tuition" (you know what I mean) a few episodes ago to her current frame of mind, but Mitchell's arc has been great. Some odd directorial decisions mind.
- Burn Notice: Not bad. The Chris Vance stuff is so much tag-on at the moment though.
- The Deep End: Up to episode four, which was half dreadful, half fun. The romance between Australian guy and blonde girl is a little bit Sweet Valley High, but it's charming in its way; everything else, particularly the legal side, is like having a nail hammered into your head by someone thinking they're being zany.
- Leverage: A good ending to the season, overall, but the lack of Gina Bellman for much of the season has been a problem for character arcs, and most of the characters have been treading water. Basically, not as good as season one.
- Life Unexpected: A reasonable ep, but nothing spectacular, other than "Lux learns a lesson about responsibility".
- Lost: Were those answers we just got? Or fake answers? Either way, a great Locke-focused episode. Nice that disability isn't regarded as an unhappy ending for him in the flash-sideways. And best name for alternative Locke I've heard so far: "The Locke-ness monster".
- 24: Someone kill Dana now. But at least half an episode of decent moments, with Jack doing a cross between Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon and the guy in Metal Gear Solid. Still needs more excitement though.
But what did you watch? See if you can cast your memories back to last week, anyway.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention the following two new HBO shows that started up and which I can't be arsed to give full reviews to:
- The Ricky Gervais Show: Heard The Guardian's Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant/Karl Pilkington podcasts? Thought they'd be better if they were all animated, with Ricky Gervais looking like Fred Flintsone? Then a) you're a nutter b) you'd be wrong.
- How To Make It In America: Supposed to be a comedy about working class New Yorkers trying to hit the big time through whatever pie-in-the-sky business scheme they have (selling fake leather jackets, borrowing money off a violent cousin, selling black-and-white photos). Actually about as funny as reading stats about recessionary economics. Does have a few funny moments and okay as a drama, I guess, but not involving at all. Still, if you ever wondered what happened to Shassyn Sossamon (sp?) from A Knight's Tale, now you know.
As always, no spoilers unless you're going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please. If you've reviewed something on your blog, you can put a link to it here rather than repeat yourself (although too many links and you might get blocked by the spam filter)
Posted on February 19, 2010 | |
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- Another series of Taggart commissioned
- Rufus Sewell to star as Aurelio Zen for BBC
- BBC Worldwide looking to create drama franchises like 24 and Heroes [subscription required]
- Alibi acquires Castle [subscription required]
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Posted on February 18, 2010 | |
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- Joanna Lumley, David Hyde Pierece and Mark Rylance to star in La Bête
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Posted on February 15, 2010 | |
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- Results of the whatsonstage.com awards
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