Month: January 2007

News

The end of days news

5 January 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

David Tennant in drag

Well, Friday’s news anyway.

Doctor Who

Film

  • There are two batches of pictures from The Golden Compass on Ain’t It Cool News. That’s His Dark Materials in disguise, BTW.
  • George Clooney and Robert de Niro are set to appear in a remake of French film 36 Quai des Orfèvres, which starred Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. Because all French films star Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu.

British TV

US TV

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4 January 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

I asked my sister about The Towers of London (cf Celebrity Big Brother). She’s in the biz, you know. Here’s her reply:

Absolutely. They’re a ridiculous bunch of Motley Crue wannabes. They have their own reality show on Bravo and are managed by the same scally who managed the Happy Mondays. They’re always in the press for having punch ups rather than because they have decent records.

They are in short, chaos.

So there you go. Donny Tourette is not a plant, as others suspected.

US TV

Review: Dirt 1×01

4 January 2007 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Dirt

In the US: Tuesdays, 10pm ET/PT, FX

In the UK: Not yet acquired.

Courtney Cox has been lurking in a cocoon somewhere since Friends ended. She’s probably been doing something: a movie, some producing, maybe opening a restaurant. But this is her first TV series since everyone’s favourite perpetually re-run sitcom stopped making new episodes.

Dirt, which she exec-produces with her hubby David Arquette, could be construed as a slightly bitter show in which Cox gets her own back on those evil gossip mongers, the tabloids. In it, Cox plays the editor of two tabloids, one nasty, one nice. Together with her team of muck gatherers and a schizophrenic paparazzi, she dishes the dirt on the stars – to bad effect.

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Events

Thursday’s news

4 January 2007 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Gordon Ramsay in Spain

Doctor Who

Books

Theatre

British TV

US TV

Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – Blood of the Daleks (part one)

3 January 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Blood of the DaleksBastard was up to his little tricks again at the weekend. I asked him very nicely to record Blood of the Daleks on BBC7 on Sunday night, since I had better things to do like… oh, I don’t know, celebrate the New Year. But after first attempting not to record it at all, the cunning little thing then decided to cut the first episode off after half an hour. Git. Fortunately, I’m made of sterner stuff and went to the BBC7 Listen Again site to listen to it over the web.

Blood of the Daleks is the first in a series of Doctor Who audio plays starring Paul McGann. They’re designed, if certain parties are to be believed, to show how Paul McGann’s Doctor (number eight) ended up turning into Christopher Eccleston’s some time before, during or after the great big Time War with the Daleks. Since it’s BBC7 doing the commissioning, the budget’s a bit higher so we have a new companion for the eighth Doctor, an all-star cast and some decent music.

And judging by the first episode, it’s all going to be pretty good.

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