The Hoff was all up for it. He wanted to do panto this Christmas. He was all set to be Captain Hook until the unpatriotic Simon Cowell stole him away from us.
Now we have the news that Patrick Duffy – Bobby from Dallas or the eponymous Man from Atlantis if you prefer – is to appear as Buttons in Cinderella in Woking.
What is this strange allure that panto holds for these all-star, all-American actors?
I don’t get Deal or No Deal. We know this already. It’s opening boxes at random. WTF? That’s a TV show?
But of all the bizarre things about Deal or No Deal, this is the most bizarre: Noel Edmonds has given himself RSI from picking up the phone to the banker.
The finale of House hasn’t aired on Five yet, although you can read my potted, spoiler-free review if you’d like. But bookmark this blog entry for the day it does. If you’re confused after you’ve seen it, writer and House creator David Shore has given an explanation for the events at the New Jersey Star Ledger and discusses some of the plans for the start of the next season. They sound promising.
Incidentally, did you know that pretending to use a cane while filming 22 episodes of a TV show each year can be quite painful? Hugh Laurie’s shoulder is more than a little bit sore now and they fixed Kerry Weaver’s hip on ER because it was hurting Laura Innes so much.
Happy Birthday, The Medium is Not Enough. Yes, a year ago (sort of, subject to blog migration, blog splitting, blog reunions, etc), this blog emerged into the light of the Internet with its first two posts: a preview of the still-popular Prison Break, the not-unpopular Supernatural and the still-unseen Global Frequency; and tedious cruft about The Omega Factor (which I’m still just about to write a review of, amazingly enough).
Since then, we’ve discovered that if you call a blog “The Medium is Not Enough” and write about Most Haunted, all sorts of people get the wrong idea; that if you blog almost every day for a year, you can get regular audiences of anything up to 16 people (and robots); and that the most popular blog posting I ever would write would be about whether Pot Noodle adverts are racist or not (the traffic has been phenomenal, honestly).
I’d like to say a great big thank you to Anna, Holyhoses Rob, Jason, Lisa, Marie, Matt, Rosby, Scott, Stu and everyone else who’s come here to provide literate and entertaining comment – it’s made the blog far more entertaining than it has any right to be, and camouflages the fact that without you all, I’d be that strange man in the corner at the party, talking to himself. Thank you all, and I’ll endeavour to keep you all at least moderately entertained for another year, I hope.
Disney, clearly looking to repeat the ‘success’ it’s had with plans to revamp Winnie the Pooh, has decided to develop a CGI film based around Peter Pan‘s Tinkerbell. Set in ‘Pixie Hollow’, we’ll get to meet all of Tink’s friends and fellow ‘pixies’ (I thought Tinkerbell was a fairy, not a pixie…).
They’ve got Brittany Murphy to do the voice. “To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor,” she says in a statement.
I’ll say no more. Sniff.
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