Month: August 2006
The Doctor Who spin-off that never was
Today’s little nugget from Doctor Who Monthly: Russell T Davies proposed a show called Rose Tyler: Earth Defence as a 90-minute Bank Holiday special. The BBC commissioned it and assigned it a decent budget. But he began to feel it would reduce the quality of Doctor Who, so cancelled it.
How odd. On all counts.
Review: The One Show
In the UK: BBC1, 6.55pm, Mondays-Fridays
Nationwide was great, wasn’t it? Populist 70s entertainment and current affairs, in touch with the person in the street, able to mix the serious with the fun, the highbrow with the lowbrow. So what to make of The One Show, a resurrection of the concept for the 21st Century.
Firelighters? Compost?
Another fine mess I’ve got myself into
I’m reviewing The Man Whose Arms Exploded for Off The Telly. The question is, is it ethical to review a show you spent most of the time watching between your fingers? How about with your eyes closed and your hands over your ears so you couldn’t hear what was being described, too?
Sorry, but the guy performed operations on himself once his arms became infected and pussy…. I’m starting to feel ill again. I’ll rely on my wife’s descriptions for ‘colour detail’ then.
Peep Show team to make a movie
Sorry. Missed this one. It was in my folder of things from Friday, but the folder got moved, yadda yadda, yadda.
Anyway, Mitchell and Webb are going to be making a movie for Universal, according to Variety. Writer Jesse Armstrong is coming along, as are Juliet Stephenson and Peter Capaldi.
Director is Andrew O’Connor, whom you may remember from kids TV during the 80s. He’s also a bit of a magic obsessive, since he’s responsible for Derren Brown’s shows, as well as Magick and Rajan and His Evil Hypnotists. So quelle surprise that the movie’s called Magicians.