Sorry, faithful readers, for the lack of decent-quality, non-news blogging recently. I have, to put it bluntly, been “working like a bastard” and have also been completely revamping another web site elsewhere, among other things, which has sucked up most of my free time – not just for blogging, but for watching stuff as well.
Fingers crossed, this week’s two and a half hours of commuting a day will give me the time to listen to the last three Big Finish Doctor Who plays and review them for you, at least. Not sure about Learners though: the first ten minutes didn’t seem that great.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to up the frequency – and quality – again in a fortnight.
Thanks for your patience!
Year: 2007
Monday’s rumour-heavy, news-light news
Doctor Who
- Alice Cooper being sought for an appearance?
- Kylie’s for life, not just for Christmas?
- Captain Jack back for series four
- John Simm to take over from David Tennant in 2010? BBC says no
Film
- Paul Verhoeven to direct the Thomas Crowne sequel
- Kirk’s dad cast, plus Jennifer Morrison not Janice Rand but Carol Marcus?
- Frank Darabont ready to go with Fahrenheit 451
- Mickey Rourke replaced Nicholas Cage on The Wrestler
Theatre
- Millennium Centre saved by Welsh government
British TV
- Beeb to remake Bewitched?
US TV
- French Stewart joins ABC Family’s Happy Campers pilot
- Henry Thomas to star in A&E’s witness protection pilot Under
- Scrubs finale postponed
- Internet’s Quarterlife to be acquired by NBC?
Friday’s Trekkie-tastic news
Film
- Winona Ryder to play Spock’s mum on Star Trek XI. Jennifer Morrison to play Janice Rand?
- First trailer for Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie
- Mark Wahlberg to play Max Payne
British TV
- ITV commissions Mr Eleven, after research suggests that “a number of British women settle down with their 11th partner”
- Lily Allen to front BBC3 social networking show
- BBC challenges us to find the science in new series of Horizon
- Tom Hardy writing a sitcom
- Five dropping comedy?
US TV
- Dexter gets a third season [spoilers]
- Bionic Woman‘s audience has fallen 50% but Miguel Ferrer reckons the show’s just finding its voice
- The behind-the-scenes story behind BSG‘s third season webisodes
- Paul Feig to direct Kath & Kim pilot
- Bernie Mac getting a Fox sitcom?
Review: Sapphire and Steel – The Mystery of the Missing Hour
There’s something about the Big Finish Sapphire and Steel plays. They make you acutely aware of time.
Tick tock. Tick tock. Your life is ebbing away. Tick tock. That’s two hours you could have been using for something else. Instead, you’re now two hours closer to being dead.
Certainly, for the first half of The Mystery of the Missing Hour, that’s how I was feeling (hence the somewhat tardy nature of this review – I wasn’t exactly desperate to get through this one). I even reached the point where I was considering pretending to have listened to the whole thing and reviewing it all the same.
It really was that bad. I’d even consider using a word beginning with s.
But I’m glad I’m conscientious enough to have stuck through it. Because disk two is a cracker.
Big Finish (and the writer Joseph Lidster) have essentially taken a huge gamble: that because you’ve ponied up the cash for the play, you’re going to listen to something that is deliberately complete crap and stick through to the end.
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US TV
The Carusobot has an iPhone
Isn’t that a bit too left wing for it, owning a phone made by those hippies at Apple? I can’t believe it would have bought it on the strength of its video playback alone.
Blimey, next week it’ll be eating granola and believing global warming is real.