Month: July 2008

Thursday’s British-German crossover news

17 July 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Journey’s End most watched TV programme of the week
  • Catherine Tate injures ankle, cancelling first night of Under the Blue Sky

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Review: The Quar’an

16 July 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

In the UK: Monday 14th July, Channel 4, 8pm

Well, blimey. Would you look at that. A proper documentary. A proper, old-school documentary, two hours long, on Channel 4 at primetime. WTF?

As you might guess from the title, The Qur’an was all about the Qur’an (aka the Koran). In it, award-winning documentary maker Antony Thomas went around the world asking Muslims about the Qur’an, what it says and what they believe.

Not only did he gain access to everyone from the Grand Ayatollah of Iran and the Grand Iman of Egypt to lowly peasants in Afghanistan, he did this without special effects, celebrities, computer graphics or once stepping on to camera to talk about his feelings on the subject or the difficulties he faced making the documentary.

It was old-school and it was brilliant.

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant: The Runaway Bride (from Persephone)

16 July 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

David Tennant and Catherine Tate sitting down in The Runaway Bride

Today’s Sitting Tennant comes from Persephone and is from the Doctor Who episode The Runaway Bride. I had cruelly overlooked it, so better late than never. It’s not the exact same picture, since the original was too small for my wide blog, so I retook it. But that still counts

That still leaves Rosby in the lead still with five entries, but now Persephone is close behind with four entries while Poly, Scott and Toby have two entries each.

Meanwhile, Electric Dragon provided us with another funny caption for the last entry so his witty and amusing (WAA) captions tally stands at two. Marie is still ahead of the pack with five WAA captions, while Persephone and Toby are in second place with four each, Ms Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon are on two, and Poly has one.

Nice.

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 in due course.

US TV

Review: Generation Kill 1×1

16 July 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

In the US: Sundays, 9pm, HBO

Is there much point reviewing the first episode of a mini-series? No. With Generation Kill, there’s even less point, since it’s the creation of David Simon and Ed Burns, who also created The Wire – and we all know that reviewing that is like reviewing a chapter of a book.

All the same, I think it’s worth giving a taster, just so you know whether to start watching the remaining six hours of the series.

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