Year: 2007

Wednesday’s news

28 March 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

  • A long interview with David Tennant in Living Scotsman
  • Tennant is also going to star in an HBO/BBC production called Einstein and Eddington. Not as Einstein though.

Books

Film

  • Ray Winstone’s joined the cast of Indiana Jones 4
  • Mike Myers is to star as an Indian guru. No potential for offence there then.
  • No one wants a Columbo movie
  • Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear have signed up for Ghost Town
  • A green light for The X-Files 2 may be only a week away
  • A trailer for 28 Weeks Later is up

British TV

  • Moira Stewart’s been dropped as a newsreader [subscription required]

US TV

  • South Park does 24
  • Heather Locklear has a pilot
  • Will Jon Stewart’s baseball pilot get picked up, now it’s on YouTube?
  • Jason Behr replaces Stephen Moyer in the Company Man pilot
  • Kevin Sorbo is to be a preacher for Hallmark
  • Rob Lowe is going to be a series regular next year in Brothers and Sisters
News

Tuesday’s news

27 March 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Radio Times covers

Doctor Who

Books/Comics

  • Neil Gaiman’s doing a book-signing at Forbidden Planet on Friday

Film

  • The original Transformers movie gets a re-release in London
  • Michael Biehn might have a part in James Cameron’s Avatar. QFS.

British TV

  • Philip Glenister from Life on Mars slags off British TV [free registration required]

US TV

  • Lots of BSG interviews. Looks like Caprica’s off, though
  • Piper Perabo is going to be House‘s love interest. Maybe.
  • More pilot casting, with The Thick of It getting a lead at last
  • The usual spoilers from Kristen this week, including a forthcoming Lost fatality, Prison Break fatalities, and a Heroes fatality
News

Tuesday’s news

27 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Radio Times covers

Doctor Who

Books/Comics

  • Neil Gaiman’s doing a book-signing at Forbidden Planet on Friday

Film

  • The original Transformers movie gets a re-release in London
  • Michael Biehn might have a part in James Cameron’s Avatar. QFS.

British TV

  • Philip Glenister from Life on Mars slags off British TV [free registration required]

US TV

  • Lots of BSG interviews. Looks like Caprica’s off, though
  • Piper Perabo is going to be House‘s love interest. Maybe.
  • More pilot casting, with The Thick of It getting a lead at last
  • The usual spoilers from Kristen this week, including a forthcoming Lost fatality, Prison Break fatalities, and a Heroes fatality

Are Americans nicer than Brits?

26 March 2007 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

There is a stereotype held by many Americans (this itself might be a stereotype) that British people are intelligent, polite, friendly people. This, of course, is not true. We are as stupid, rude and unpleasant as any other group of people in the world.

Why Americans might think this, I don’t know. We might venture a guess that it’s because they don’t encounter us much, there being only 10 passport holders among them. But that would be stupid and incorrect, too: we’ve swamped their TV screens and films with our actors, and New York, Las Vegas and other major US cities are now crammed to bursting point with tourists, flush with dollars thanks to the high exchange rate that are busy ruining the locals’ spending power.

But I’m coming to the opposite conclusion. I think that the average American might well be nicer than the average Brit. At least, the ones on reality TV seem to be.

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“Eek. I’m late” news

26 March 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Bloody alarm clocks

Doctor Who

  • Interview with sweet FA
  • The Mirror says David Tennant has confirmed he’ll star in all of the fourth series
  • Lots of (alleged) spoilers about Captain Jack’s appearance this season

Film

Media Journalism

  • Charlie Brooker discovers what the rest of us journalists have to go through every single time we deal with a PR firm

US TV

  • Homeland Security is testing drones named after Chloe from 24
  • Watch Shatnerisation as it happens: Billy boy is to appear alongside himself in Boston Legal using footage from 1957
  • Goodie. Another Stargate series is on the way. It’ll deal with the ninth chevron. Wow.
  • Pilot casting