As mentioned yesterday, Showtime is remaking the Beeb’s Manchild, in which 50-something men acted like 20-somethings; the slight change is that it’s going to be about 40-somethings. John Corbett, of Northern Exposure and Sex and the City, was the only name attached to it at the time, but now we have a few new cast members.
Kevin Smith, director of Clerks and Silent Bob himself, is to play Paul, an angry divorced guy. And because all US shows now need at least one British cast member, James Purefoy is to take on the Nigel Havers role of the original show. It should be interesting, at the very least.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
As mentioned yesterday, Showtime is remaking the Beeb’s Manchild, in which 50-something men acted like 20-somethings; the slight change is that it’s going to be about 40-somethings. John Corbett, of Northern Exposure and Sex and the City, was the only name attached to it at the time, but now we have a few new cast members.
