It’s the Daily Star so this particular little rumour probably has about as much truth to it as something you’d find written on the wall in a pub toilet, but Saturday’s edition (no web link, sorry) claimed:
Doctor Who’s new sidekick Freema Agyeman will strip to sex up doc.
Not sure what “sex up doc” means in this context.
There’s something reassuring about the idea that not many people read your stuff. You have greater freedom of expression, you don’t necessarily have to agonise about every single word (only every other one). It’s quite nice really.
So I’m a little bit worried to discover that my review of last year’s series of Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe is not only listed on his Wikipedia entry, it’s also linked to from the BBC4 Screen Wipe page. Should I have been quite so harsh? Should I have accentuated even more positives?
It’s all most upsetting.
Remember Stargate? I think you do. It starred Kurt Russell and James Spader, way back in 1994, and spawned a slightly successful TV series. And another slightly successful TV series. And a bad cartoon series. That first series has now been running for 10 years.
So it is with much amusement that I read that Dean Devlin, Kurt Russell and James Spader are all interested in making a second and possibly third movie following on from the original movie. Most entertainingly, it’ll be set 12 years after the original and yet somehow, according to Devlin, “We would just continue the mythology of the movie and finish that out. I think the series could still live at the end of the third sequel. So we’re going to try to not tread on their stories.”
Right. Can’t really see how that one’s going to work.
All the same, I’ll probably watch it when it comes out. Sounds like it might be a laugh…
In the US: ABC, but held as a mid-season replacement
In the UK: Not yet picked up
A while ago, I came up with a rubbish game called Through the D Hole. The aim of the game was to work out exactly who the target audience of a TV programme is using as few clues as possible – just the title if you can manage it.
The reason it’s (mostly) rubbish is because of shows like Traveler. You’ll never get what Traveler is about, just from its title.
Sci-fi show about a travelling alien? No.
Adventure/travel show? No.
You see, Traveler is the name of a man. Worse than that for our game, that’s not his real name: he’s made it up to fool a couple of his grad school friends before he frames them for a particularly heinous crime. Part 24, part Prison Break, but mostly Nowhere Man, Traveler is actually one of the better shows coming our way (hopefully).
Slate has an interesting defence of M Night Shyamalan today that’s actually worth reading. Not only does it cut the guy a little slack (yes, his last couple of films have sucked rather a lot, but then Hitchcock had his bad streaks, too), it includes some snippets from The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale, which sounds absolutely hilarious.
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