And it comes from the house of Simon Cowell, too.
Year: 2006
Les Dennis to appear on The Bill
Headline says it all. I can’t help hearing Ricky Gervais’ words echoing in my ears: “When was the last time you told a joke, Les?”
US TV
Bring back Bring Back… The A-Team
I failed completely to watch Bring Back… The A-Team last night, despite wanting to see what the cast were up to these days (apart from slagging off the new series of Battlestar Galactica, that is). I think that’s because my extreme loathing of Justin Lee Collins was too much for me; my subconscious blanked the programme from my mind and I simply forgot all about it.
Instead, you’ll have to read Sam Wollaston’s review in The Guardian to find out what it was like. Sorry.
It doesn’t sound like it was that good: they couldn’t get Mr T into the same room as Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz, for one thing, and they failed to even look for the other members of the team – that bloke who played Frankie in the final season, the guy who played Face in the pilot episode and either of the women from the first two seasons. Set their sights a bit low, there. Tsk, tsk.
Art
The Rijksmuseum learns about widgets
If you’re a proud Mac user or you’ve download Yahoo!’s widget engine, take a trip to the Rijksmuseum’s web site: they’ve just launched a widget that shows you a different painting from the museum’s collection every day at the click of a button. Click another button and you get a little explanation of the painting and its history. Nice, huh?
Studio 60 trailer
Want to see a great big trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s new project? It’s got Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford and other exciting people in it… Go on. You know you want to.
Okay. Here you go (thanks TV Squad!)