Lost is coming back to Sky One soon. As well as a standard trailer, Sky has also been showing these ‘ad bumpers’ – short ads that appear at the beginning and end of ad breaks. They’re done up in the style of in-flight safety cards. Pay close attention to the passengers since they’ll look familiar.
In the UK: Mondays, Sky One, 9pm. Repeated on Sky One and Sky Two
Ross Kemp seems to have become the patron acting saint of the British army, somehow. He played an ex-para in EastEnders. He crossed over to ITV to play a sergeant in the SAS in Ultimate Force (the first series of which is a lot better than the later series, I’ve recently discovered thanks to repeats on ITV4). Now here he is shooting a documentary series for Sky One about 1 Royal Anglian’s deployment in Afghanistan.
Yet he’s never been in the army and it’s been a little hard to take him seriously as a hard man since he appeared in Extras, sending himself up as an action man wannabe.
It’s useful to make comparisons with a recent ITV series, Commando: On the Front Line, since although that was made by a professional documentary maker who went through the entire Marine training programme and won a coveted green beret, Ross Kemp in Afghanistan is actually more interesting.
It’s episode three in the exciting world of Primeval. Since we’re at the halfway point, more or less, that means (fanfare and trumpet) it’s time for a plot filler episode. Woo hoo.
This week we’re faced with a terrible hydra. Not an actual one. Don’t be silly. They’re made up (apart from those tiny ones, of course), unlike dinosaurs which were merely God’s mistakes.
No, I’m talking about a metaphorical hydra with more than a few plot heads and whose bites are terrible.
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From today’s Guardian, in a piece on The Wire by Charlie Brooker:
A few weeks ago, I went to New York for the premiere and got to interview several members of the cast… Incidentally, both Bubbles and Omar recognised me, having seen the Screen Wipe segment on YouTube. And yes, I’m bragging about that. As Wire devotees will understand, it was possibly the most thrilling moment of my life.
That would be me who uploaded it. Do I get a reward? Anyway, in case you missed it, here’s Charlie on why you should watch it. The good news from the piece, UK viewers, is season five is coming to FX in July. Remember to watch it/get Sky by then.
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