Bloody ITV4. Just as I start getting into things like The Strange Report, they dump them! So no The Strange Report on ITV4 tonight, or The Persuaders!, only a repeat of Miami Vice. Still, it’s Golden Triangle Part One, which is the good episode where Castillo cracks open a can of martial arts whoop-ass on some drug dealers.
The Champions is still on Thursdays though.
Bloody ITV4. Just as I start getting into things like The Strange Report, they dump them! So no The Strange Report on ITV4 tonight, or The Persuaders!, only a repeat of Miami Vice. Still, it’s Golden Triangle Part One, which is the good episode where Castillo cracks open a can of martial arts whoop-ass on some drug dealers.
The Champions is still on Thursdays though.
You might have already heard about Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s employee training videos for Microsoft. What you might not know is that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have also done some corporate videos. You can see their effort for Universal Studios over on Google Video. It guest-stars Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Demi Moore and Sylvester Stallone among others (it’s an old video), so is worth watching for the nostalgia value alone.
Okay, it was on a fortnight ago, but I thought I’d bring it up now, anyway. Stargate SG-1 recently celebrated its 200th episode. The plot was pretty much a retread of its 100th episode, but instead of a fake TV show based on the Stargate programme, the show brought back Willie Garson (Stanford from Sex and the City) to mess around with ideas for a fake Stargate movie instead.
Writing it down like that actually makes it sound like it had more plot than it had, since it was really just an excuse for the show’s producers to take the piss out of Stargate, other sci-fi shows and movies. It had all been done before and much better by that 100th episode I mentioned earlier, as well as (of all things) the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode Yes, Virginia, There is a Hercules, in which the cast played very unflattering versions of the show’s own production team (with Bruce Campbell playing an hilarious version of Rob Tapert, his real-life lifelong friend).
So I won’t dwell on it too long, except to mention that Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver himself) made a welcome return appearance as Jack O’Neill, although most of the time as a puppet.
And there was also this rather good parody of Farscape, a series that starred Ben Browder and Claudia Black, who are both now stars of Stargate SG-1. Anything that mocks Farscape (or as we know it in our house, “The Silly Show”) has to be good as far as I’m concerned.
Just as a little background, Vala (Claudia Black) is busy suggesting ideas for films that she claims are based on her life, but are actually things she’s seen on the tele.
There’s a big family planned for new assistant Martha Jones on Doctor Who. Details over at the Beeb.
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