- Are the bore weevils (as in “No! Not the bore weevils!” from Flash Gordon) preferable to listening to Scott Mills in the morning?
- Also, when did he “in” himself? He outed himself years ago, but now he appears to be trying to be straight again. What’s up there?
- How badly do you have to screw up a property development that you don’t want to be interviewed by Sarah Beeny any more? Last night’s episode had a property that started development two years ago and still isn’t done. The Beeny was pregnant when they started! But it’s still not done, and the developers wouldn’t turn up to explain why. That’s bad.
- On The Apprentice, what’s with all the John Carpenter music? I spotted the theme to The Thing last night, and I’m pretty sure They Live was in there, too.
- Also, on the subject of The Apprentice, do you think it’s so successful because the guy doing it normally narrates documentaries, etc, so it seems like something other than a reality TV show?
Month: April 2007
Thursday’s news
Doctor Who
- GM food an influence on the Daleks?
Film
- Kate Beckinsale as Barbarella?
- Galactus is going to be a storm cloud?
- Indy 4‘s real name is Indiana Jones and the City of Gods
British TV/Theatre
- The BBC’s iPlayer will be Mac-friendly [free registration required]
- E4’s commissioned its first original sitcom. It’s about teenagers. Surprised?
- Dad’s Army hits the stage again. [free registration required]
US TV
- House is becoming more and more like Hugh Laurie [spoilers]
- The ‘doomed list’ is published. About to die are Raines, Standoff, Studio 60, Close to Home, The Black Donnellys and… Veronica Mars
Wednesday 18th’s news
Doctor Who
- Cardiff-Wales Mardi Gras to honour Welsh heroes. Apparently, that includes John Barrowman.
Film/Books
- Children of Hurin to become a movie?
- Eric Bana is to play the time traveller in The Time Traveler’s Wife
Commercials
- ‘Smith’ (Jason Lewis) from Sex and the City is to entice women to chocolate for the new Aero ads
Radio
- Analogue radio faces the axe
British TV
- The last episode of Extras will air on BBC1 (subscription required)
- Syed from the last series of The Apprentice puts his reputation as a businessman on the line to get The Vortex Body Dryer off the ground. That sentence was brought to you from some other, far less plausible plane of existence.
- Bob Geldof wants to record every society on Earth with the BBC
- Two more years for Ant and Dec at ITV
US TV
- ABC’s bought the rights to a documentary on the Queen [free registration required]. Admit it: that whole independence thing’s beginning to feel like a mistake, isn’t it?
- Tonight’s episode of Bones has been pulled on taste grounds
- Dick Wolf plans another cops show. Seriously, dude, have you considered another genre like ever?
- AMC is developing some historical mini-series
- Pilot casting
- King of Queens‘ Leah Remini gets her own online show about motherhood
- Drive came third in Monday night’s ratings
- MGM plans lots of straight-to-DVD movies, including Stargate and one based on Dead Like Me
UK TV
Review: Doctor Who – 3×3 – Gridlock
Hey hey hey! That’s a bit more like it.
Sorry, that came out a bit more Krusty the Clown than I’d have liked.
But, Gridlock is definitely the first of this series’ episodes that I’ve really liked. Sure, if I were Ozymandias, king of lorries, I would be able to summon a vehicle that would be able to take me through all the plot loopholes, but it was still fun, emotional when it needed to be, and chockablock with continuity fun.
UK TV
Review: Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul
In the UK: Fridays, BBC1, 9.30. Repeated numerous times in the week
In the US: Nothing yet, but the new-look, redesigned BBC America might go for it
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse have been at the forefront of first alternative and then mainstream British comedy for decades now. Well, Harry Enfield was, with Paul Whitehouse writing for him. Then Paul Whitehouse got fed up, went into business for himself, and got all famous with The Fast Show. Now they’re of roughly similar fame so they get equal billing for their new BBC1 show, Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul.
It’s a hell of a lot like their previous efforts, Harry Enfield and Chums et al, but despite the years apart and the occasional duff show between them, they’ve still got what it takes. More or less.