Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant: At the playground (from Rosby)

David Tennant at the playground

A Tennant a week: it’s looking good. This week’s Sitting Tennant (feel free to step up the pace, if you want, guys and gals) is from a playground and was provided by Rosby, who is clearly going to have her own empire one day with this degree of determination. I have no idea if she took it herself or whether DT was there specifically or if he was passing by at the time.

The current Sitting Tennant league tables stand (ho ho) as follows. For pictures, Ms Rosby has extended her lead and is now on six entries, while Persephone is on four. Poly on three and a half, Toby on three and Scott on two. Anna has one and a half and Marie and Rullsenberg are at the back with one each.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table hasn’t changed but Toby has extended his lead as well. He’s now on eight captions, while Marie and Persephone have six, Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon both have three captions and Poly and Stu_N are on one each. Feel free to leave captions below for this entry, too. Will the rebel forces fight back against the new empire?

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.

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Review: Privileged 1×1

Privileged

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.

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