Today’s Joanna Page is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, her first ever stage appearance, in which she played a schoolgirl. See if you can spot her – she’s in school uniform.
Today's Joanna Page
Day: 12 September 2008
Things to know about Sky+ before getting too confident
To work, Sky+ (or Sky+ HD) needs to have two feeds to your satellite dish. So if you just only have a wall socket connection to a communal dish in your block of flats, rather than your own dish, it won’t work.
Curses. Foiled again.
US TV
Review: Privileged 1×1
In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, The CW
Payback, as they say, is a bitch. Or a geek girl.
Last year’s “as near as The CW can get to a hit” drama was the rather lovely Gossip Girl, which followed the trials and tribulations of very rich girls (and boys) in an Upper East Side New York private school. With nothing much else doing well in the ratings other than the usual suspects (America’s Next Top Model, Smallville, Supernatural), The CW’s bosses cast their nets wide for something in the same mould.
90210 was the first obvious, easy-to-build clone and had built-in nostalgia value to lift its viewing figures into the (relative) stratosphere. But given the exciting world of literature was the source of Gossip Girl, The CW also turned its attentions towards the book How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls to make sure it wasn’t putting all its money on one horse.
Adapted as Privileged, it’s a somewhat different show than either Gossip Girl or 90210. While those two shows look at the hardship of life as a rich teenager, Privileged is for those who never were in the popular cliques. It’s for geek girls who love their books but wished they could be in those cliques.
Revenge will be theirs – complete with Spiderman quotes.
Friday’s House and house news
Doctor Who
- Doctor Who meets Torchwood for Children in Need
Film
- Jon Favreau‘s plans for Iron Man 2
- Ray WInstone to replace Robert De Niro in Edge of Darkness
- Adam Arkin joins the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man
- Relativity Media picks up rights to I, Claudius
- Steven Soderbergh wants Michael Douglas and Matt Damon for Liberace biopic
- Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Changeling
- Trailer for The International with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts
- Sex and the City sequel in negotiation
British TV
- Disney to adapt Welsh radio sitcom
- T4 most likely to be cut by Channel 4 in budget round
- David Starkey to profile Henry VIII
- Press pack for BBC2 comedy Beautiful People
- Trailer for Charlie Brooker’s “BB meets zombies” drama Dead Set
- Channel 4 commissions full series of School of Comedy
US TV
- Golfer enters witness protection for HBO pilot
- Two more seasons for Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen
- Canadian trailer for third season of Heroes
- More money for Hugh Laurie…
- …and a preview of this season on House and what went wrong last season [spoilers]
- Katee Sackhoff to star in Dick Wolf’s Lost and Found
- Cybill Shepherd to guest on Samantha Who?
- Shannen Doherty leaving 90210