Unusual PR move this one: Fat Pig stars Ella Smith and (yes, it is she) Joanna Page are appearing on Monday next‘s Ready, Steady, Cook for a cook-off.
Not sure it’s how I’d promote a potentially caustic Neil LaBute comedy about size-discrimination, but I’ll be setting the PVR anyway. I do like that Ainsley’s cous-cous.
Just in case you’d all forgotten, UK Tennant-lovers, Derren Brown is playing Trick or Treat on David Tennant tonight at 10.00pm on Channel 4. Apparently, DT will travel into the past and predict the future.
Derren Brown talks to Simon Mayo about it in passing, BTW, on 14th May’s Daily Mayo (11MB download).
It’s competition time again! Woo hoo!
On offer this time is Nicholas Knight’s Supernatural – The Official Companion Season 2, which as you might suspect, is a "companion" guide to the second season of Supernatural. Here’s the promo blurb:
This official companion is packed with exclusive interviews, photos, behind the scenes secrets, a complete episode guide, plus a color portrait gallery of the stars.
This season 2 official companion features a foreword from producer/director Robert Singer, plus an abundance of exclusive comments and content from series creator and executive producer Eric Kripke. There’s a complete season two episode guide, packed in with exclusive interviews, and dozens of photos, including a 16-page color portrait gallery, and behind-the-scenes secrets, including a Meet the Crew section on the writers, editors and make-up designers.
Fans will also find detailed features on the characters and creatures from the show, including a closer look at Creepy Clowns, and you won’t want to miss our 22 useful hints for aspiring monster hunters!
Indeed.
It’s pretty much what it says on the tin, here. As with any licensed book or magazine (not just Titan’s), you’ll find nary a word of dissent or suggestion that any episode was not in fact the best thing to happen to the human race since Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden – each building on the previous glorious episode until the Rapture of the finale.
All the same, it’s not half bad for what it is. One page bios on supporting actors aren’t going to tell you very much at all, and the useful facts about monsters are one of those filler concepts that have been crammed into genre books since practically the dawn of television. But you get some behind-the-scenes facts that are quite interesting, as behind-the-scenes facts go, and you learn about how the story arcing was done, how it progressed, how budget limitations changed it and so on.
At £9.99, it’s possibly a bit pricey for a softback book that’s predominantly black and white with a few colour photograph pages. And the writing style is possibly a bit young for a show that’s aimed at slightly older teenagers and young adults. But if you’re a big lover of Supernatural and want every possible nugget of info possible about the show, it’ll do what you want.
To win a copy of the book, all you have to do is leave a comment below before the 31st May (that’s two weeks away), explaining why you deserve it more than anyone else – the most deserving plea will get their pristine copy posted to them ASAP. Or you can just try to amuse me: that’ll work, too.
Apologies to overseas readers, but again, the competition’s open only to UK residents, since I can’t be airmailing these things on my budget. I’m not made of money.
You can find out more about the book or buy it from Amazon.co.uk.
Not much new non-reality programming from struggling network The CW for its Fall schedule. In fact, only one new drama: Surviving the Filthy Rich.
It’s a drama adaptation of the Zoey Dean novel How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, which centres on a Yale graduate who has moved to Manhattan, but finds nothing going to plan. When her job at a tabloid magazine turns sour, she accepts a position working for infamous teenage twins who are filthy rich, and unmarketable, as far as their grandmother and upper-echelon colleges are concerned.
Her challenge? Get them into an A-list university. Her reward? Ample pay, plus a significant check that will wipe out her hefty college loans.
Here’s the promo and what I’m seeing is the worst of Gossip Girl (mean rich kids) without any of the benefits (decent adult roles, some good romantic storylines, some charm). But then, I’m not exactly the target audience on this one.
We’ve looked at ABC’s new Fall drama, Life on Mars, and we’ve had a look through CBS‘s as well, so now it’s time to give Fox’s Fall 2008 output a looksie.
On the schedule, we have a new Joss Whedon sci-fi spy show starring Eliza Dushka, Dollhouse; a new animated comedy from Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane, The Cleveland Show; an X-Files for the noughties from Alias/Lost creator JJ Abrams, Fringe; a covert remake of Angela’s Eyes in the form of Lie to Me; not so covert remakes of Australian show Sit Down, Shut Up and British shows Secret Millionaire and Outnumbered; Alfred Molina playing Judge House; and something that makes Hotel Babylon seem like art.
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