Doesn’t it make you proud to be British (or English, or something)? Bonus points if you can name all the historical periods correctly.
Month: September 2008
Thursday’s bloodier news
Doctor Who
- So what’s David Morrissey doing exactly? (spoiler alert)
Film
- 20th Century Fox picks up Nicole Kidman’s The Eighth Wonder
Books
- Candace Bushnell to write two ‘Carrie Bradshaw: the teenage years’ novels
British TV
- Red Dwarf cast reunite for new episodes, John Cleese and Johnny Vaughan get new series – all on Dave
- Mutual Friends‘ ratings down to 3.3m
- Channel 4 could face £100m annual deficit
US TV
- True Blood picked up for second season…
- …after its and Mad Men‘s ratings pick up
- Jada Pinkett Smith to star in and exec TNT’s Time Heals
- The Daily Show‘s Jason Jones to guest on How I Met Your Mother
- USA greenlights Iraq war comedy pilot Operating Instructions
- Six clips from the first new episode of Heroes
- Fringe ratings pick up after House
- Matt Lucas to guest star on Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Wednesday’s further hitchhiking news
Film
- Michael Douglas to star in Solitary Man
- Photos of Colin Firth, Ben Barnes and Emilia Fox in The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Ben Affleck to write, direct and star in adaptation of The Prince of Thieves
- Andie MacDowell, Cary Elwes and Brian Cox to star in As Good As Dead
Book
- Artemis Fowl author to write sixth Hitchhiker’s Guide
Theatre
- Jason Donovan to star in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Burn Notice‘s Jeffrey Donovan to star in Don’t Dress for Dinner
British TV
- BBC Worldwide buys 25% stake in Baby Cow
- Peter Jackson quits ITV
- The Peter Serafinowicz Show gets a Christmas special
US TV
- Fox to do contemporary Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
- TNT renews Raising the Bar and Saving Grace
- Sarah Connor audiences drop to new low
- Lori Petty to guest on House
- The CW gets its best ever Monday
UK TV
Review: Massive 1×1-1×2
In the UK: Sundays, 9pm, BBC3
Everyone working class in sitcoms has a dream. If you’re Del Boy and Rodney, it’s that this time next year, you’ll be millionaires. If you’re Steptoe Jr, it’s that you’ll escape the junk yard and your dad; if you’re Steptoe Sr, it’s that your son will never escape the junk yard. If you’re in the Royle family, it’s that your view of the tele won’t get blocked. And so on.
Massive is another sitcom in which its heroes have dreams, but here, the dream is a very Mancunian one: Danny and Shay want their own record label. When Danny’s nan dies, leaving them £10,000, it looks like they might be able to achieve it. But the course of true business never did run smooth.
Tuesday’s Rusty biography news
Doctor Who
- David Tennant stopped ‘Potterisation‘ of Who
- Excerpts from Rusty’s book
- Russell Tovey to replace DT?
Film
- Extended clip from The Day The Earth Stood Still
Art
- Damien Hirst auction brings in £70.5m
British TV
- Douglas Henshall, Paul McGann and Phil Davis to star in Collision by Anthony Horowitz for ITV1
- Michael Grade reckons Google is a parasite
- Touch of Frost to end finally
- Strictly gets 6m
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles gets 5.7m
- Wire in the Blood gets 5.6m
- Ocean Finance launches a loans and mortgages channel
US TV
- Children of the Corn remake to include David Anders and Daniel Newman
- Daivd Simon and Tom Fontana to make mini-series about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth
- Rumer Willis to appear on CSI:NY
- Steve Martin to gues on 30 Rock