Chris Morris needs your help

From Warp Films

£25 to fund and appear in the film
Following rumours in the press and online Warp Films can confirm that Chris Morris’ comedy about British jihadis is being made by Warp Films as an independently funded cinema feature. The script has been written by Chris in collaboration with Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain and is now ready to shoot. Production will begin as soon as we are fully funded. To that end we are running a number of investment schemes including donations which give you the chance to be in the film.

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Preview: The IT Crowd – series three

The IT Crowd

On Friday, I popped along to Pinewood Studios to watch an episode of the third series of The IT Crowd being filmed. I say ‘popped along’, even though that means a train journey to Slough and then a 10 minute taxi ride.

Join me after the jump for a few musings on the experience, some hints on what’s coming up in the series, and the revelation of which Doctor Who/No Heroics actor was the warm-up guy.

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Toby): Casanova

David Tennant and Matt Lucas in Casanova

David Tennant and Matt Lucas in Casanova

Ooh, here’s excitement. Not only two pictures from Casanova for the Sitting Tennant gallery, but a new rival for Rosby. Toby is now just one point behind Ms Rosby. Watch out Ros! If we had a Sitting Lucas (or even a Lapdancing Lucas) gallery, I’m sure Tobe would get bonus points, too. But we don’t, thankfully.

The current Sitting Tennant league tables are as follows. For pictures, Rosby’s still on six entries, Toby has five, and Persephone’s on four. Poly and Scott both have three and a half points each, Anna and Jane have one and a half, while Marie and Rullsenberg are trailing with just one each.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table has changed a bit, too. Toby is on a clearly implausible 13 captions, while Marie and Persephone are both on eight, Rullsenberg has five captions, Electric Dragon four, new entry Jane is on two while Poly, Stu_N and Rev are on one each. Feel free to leave captions below for this entry, too, and keep those eyes peeled for any new pictures of David Tennant sitting down that you can find. Bonus points for Love’s Labour’s Lost pictures if you can find them.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.

Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure

The Ultimate Adventure Every so often, something dumb happens. In the world of Doctor Who, this usually equates to a stage play. Always a bad idea, since they’re usually sub-panto pieces of rubbish.

Now along comes another bad idea to the world of Doctor Who. Big Finish are going to adapt these stage plays and turn them into audio plays, trying to be as faithful as possible to the original productions, no matter how arse they were. They’re even hiring as much of the original cast as possible, no matter how appalling they were, too.

First up is The Ultimate Adventure, a stage play from the 80s that featured first Jon Pertwee then Colin Baker (and occasionally understudy David Banks) as the Doctor. Written by Terrence Dicks, it also features the Daleks, the Cybermen, mercenaries and – oh my God – songs.

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