The multi-talented David Duchovny (I’ll leave you to decide what those talents are, since opinions vary) is working on not one, but two shows for US network Showtime. The first, in which he’ll star, sounds a bit Red Shoe Diaries-ish and features a sex- and drug-addicted novelist trying to raise his son. The second, which he’s writing, will be a comedy set in a yoga studio.
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.
As mentioned previously, BBC4 is doing a season on British science-fiction called Science Fiction Britannia. Cracking open the Radio Times, etc, I’ve managed to get a bit of the schedule and here are my viewing tips (complete with Video Plus+ numbers and links to DVDs where applicable, in case you can’t get BBC4):
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The Prison Break producers and writers are clearly amusing themselves no end with their choice of place names. Now, “Gila” in New Mexico is only mildly amusing – Gila monsters being not that exciting, but they do have funny names.
Trinidad in Colorado? I can think of more Caribbean-esque places.
But “Dinosaur, Nebraska”? They’re having a laugh, now.
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