Good news in case you missed it (like I did) – all of Absolutely will be coming to DVD some time soon. Go watch some clips at the Absolutely web site to find out why this is good news if you’re too young/whatever to remember this classic early 90s TV show. I particularly recommend the “Radical Television” clip from the pilot episode, which is possibly the funniest half hour of anything ever made.
Month: November 2007
Review: Doctor Who – 3×14 – Time Crash
So what are you all thinking about Time Crash, the sort-of, maybe official fifth and tenth Doctor meet-up on Children in Need? It was a bit short to warrant a full review and it would be a tad odd to do a full review anyway, but I liked it – with a couple of reservations.
On the one hand, it was rather a touching love letter from Steven Moffat (and David Tennant) to the Peter Davison era of Doctor Who. It was also rather lovely to get probably the only Doctors meet-up we’ll ever get from the RTD era of new Who.
On the other, it was a tad Blinkish in its “the future creates the past” plot and it was perhaps a little too super-textual, with all that love implausibly coming out of the Doctor’s mouth directly from Moffat.
All the same, good fun, very likeable and I’ll probably re-watch it a couple of times in the immediate future. Plus it was for charity so let’s not quibble too much.
What did everyone else think though? I know Anna liked it, but everyone else has been silent (post links to your blog below if you haven’t been silent and I’ve lazily/blindly missed your comments elsewhere).
Incidentally, my wife, on the strength of this and implausibly enough Learners (which SHE WATCHED WITHOUT ME), has decided she’s falling in love with David Tennant and would quite like him to move in with us. Him and Peter Jones from Dragons’ Den.
I’ve put my foot down and said no.
In case you missed it, here it is on YouTube.
Monday’s ever-so-brief news
Film
- Casting on Justice League?
- Next Bond villain Mathieu Amalric?
British TV
- ITV’s 2008 comedy line-up
US TV
- Talks to end the strike begin
- SNL staff cut because of strike
- Dirty Sexy Money gets a full season
- Lost‘s Carlton Cuse crosses the picket line
Friday’s dolphin-rescuing news
Film
- Jeff Bridges might be in the Tron sequel
- YouTube footage of Jet Li and Jackie Chan’s The Forbidden Kingdom
- Pinewood to double in size
British TV
- How Not To Live Your Life gets full series – and format pick-up by ABC
- Jonathan Ross sues The Sunday Times over Ricky Gervais joke
- Warren Clarke, Anthony Head and Jenny Agutter to star in comedy drama Desperados for the Beeb
US TV
- Bionic Woman and Battlestar Galactica stop production because of the strike
- Posters for The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- BSG‘s Michael Trucco gets lead in Man of Your Dreams
- 30 Rock and SNL to give live performances this weekend
- Japan wants to arrest Hayden Panettiere for interfering with a dolphin (hunt)
Thursday’s slow news day
Who knew there’d be so little news during a strike?
Film
- Sam Raimi won’t direct Spiderman 4
British TV
- Jerry Springer going to Auschwitz for Who Do You Think You Are?
- Channel 4 to expand its Cutting Edge strand
US TV
- ABC plans male Supernanny spin-off. Yes, it’s Supermanny
- An interview with Michael C Hall about Dexter (audio)
- Sydney Poitier (no, not Sidney Poitier – his daughter) to appear in Knight Rider
- Family Guy feud brewing as Fox plans to complete episodes itself
- New promos for The Wire
- No more Kill Point for Spike
