I’ve written much about Brotherhood already, so I’ll just let you know it’s been renewed for a second season (woo hoo!) and leave it at that.
Month: September 2006
Film
Spot the horror movies in the M&Ms painting
Remember the Virgin 72 bands challenge? Well, M&Ms appeared to like the idea so much, they’ve come up with their own version to launch their dark M&Ms or something. This time you have to spot famous creepy or horror films. The full version is a Flash game and is probably the best way to play, but I’ve put it above so you can have a look for yourself. Click to make it larger.
News
Airwolf season two coming to DVD
Woo hoo! Maybe not three cheers, but one cheer anyway. Airwolf season two is being lined up for a DVD release. Nowhere near as good as the first season, it still had a few classic episodes. One for the Christmas wish list anyway.
News
Murder One back – but as something else
Murder One was one of those great shows that are ahead of their time. Created by Steven Bochco, who also created Hill Street Blues, it followed a single court case for the length of an entire season. Trouble was, back in those pre-Lost, pre-24 days, no one could be arsed to keep up with a plot that lasted for 22-odd episodes; by the second season, the superb lead, Daniel Benzali, had been replaced, and the show chose to focus on cases for only a few episodes at a time.
Now it’s back, apparently. CBS has commissioned a pilot for a new series, as yet untitled, that will follow a single case for an entire season. It will be written by Six Feet Under writer-producer Kate Robin. Where it differs from Murder One, which dealt purely with the defence lawyers and the defendants, is that it will focus on the lead lawyers on both sides of the case, along with half the members of the jury and the judge.
Nevertheless, for those of us who loved the original Murder One, there’s a twinge of sadness as we think of what might have been and how the show might have done in this age of high-quality US TV.
PS It’s available on DVD, but still isn’t at discount prices yet. It will be though, so let’s be patient.
US TV
Review: The Unit 2.1
In the US: Tuesdays, 9pm (ET/PT), CBS
In the UK: Season one starts on Bravo, 3rd October. No word on season two yet.
Characters re-cast: 0
Major characters gotten rid of: 0
Major new characters: 0
Format change percentage: 0%
New hair styles: 2
After the yin of Men in Trees, it seems only appropriate to deal with the yang that is The Unit (even though that means skipping the return of CSI: Miami for now. Never fear, I’ll deal with Horatio Caine’s trip to Rio tomorrow).
Now I was really kind of partial to season one of The Unit, an everyday tale of secret super-soldiers roaming the world, killing people inventively and covertly so we can rest safely at night. With an extra intravenous drip of testosterone provided by exec producer David Mamet, The Unit managed to provide a (relatively) realistic look at all that special forces daring-do without descending into the lunacy that was Chuck Norris’s tour de force, Delta Force, in its attempt to deliver us that adrenaline fix we all crave.
Unfortunately, season two of The Unit is off to an inauspicious start, despite Mamet dishing out more stiff, professional dialogue in his allotted hour than you’d find in a weekend of Dragnet re-runs.