Porterhouse Blue competition winners

Porterhouse Blue

It’s time. The deadline has passed so now I must decide who gets the Porterhouse Blue DVD. 

For once, one of the blog’s competitions has elicited multiple entries from readers, so rather than just give the DVD to the person who actually wants the prize, like Solomon I must decide which of the entrants gets the DVD – or whether I should cut it in half and send them both a perfect semi-circle of Sharpe wit.

In the blue corner is Jane Henry; in the blue with blue stripes corner is Marie. Both make excellent cases, although Jane slightly undermined hers by saying she already owns Porterhouse Blue on VHS. 

So the winner is…

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Thursday’s “No Jenna Elfman? Bah!” news

Film

British TV

  • 20th Century Fox and ITV create joint development fund to create original series and remake older shows: first up, British Versions of Dharma & Greg and Southern Comfort
  • Suranne Jones to star in ITV’s ex-con drama Unforgiven

US TV

US TV

Review: The Middleman 1×1

The Middleman

In the US: Mondays, 8/7c, ABC Family

Danger, Will Robinson! The engines canna take it, Captain. There are simply too many pop culture references, Mrs Peel, and unless you fetch Skippy right now, Commissioner Gordon is going to be in serious trouble.

Welcome to The Middleman, a show that pelts you with a 1,001 ironic references per second without ever really knowing why or what it’s even satirising. It’s still funny, though.

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Wednesday’s pretend news

Doctor Who

Film

Theatre/Theater

British TV

  • Japanese silent comedians Gamarjobat get BBC3 pilot

US TV