Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Jane Henry)

David Tennant sitting

The latest Sitting Tennant comes from Jane Henry. Although it’s a bit similar to a previous one, I’m sure you won’t mind.

That means the current Sitting Tennant league tables are as follows. For pictures, Rosby’s still in the lead on seven entries. Both Persephone and Rullsenberg have five and a half points each, Toby has five, Poly and Scott both have three and a half points each, Jane has two and a half, Anna has one and a half, while Marie has just one.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table has changed since last time, too. Toby is still on top with 18 captions – can anyone catch him? Will we need a handicap system? – but Marie swoops into second place with a salvo of three captions to take her total to 11. Persephone is now on 10 captions, Jane Henry has eight and a half, Rullsenberg has six and a half thanks to a topical caption, Electric Dragon is still on four entries, Rev has three entries and Poly and Stu_N have 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. And as always, more bonus points for topical captions and Love’s Labour’s Lost or other current 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.

Knight Rider does Torchwood

Joe Queenan identified in his classic book, America: Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon, the modern trend of really bad books (eg anything by Tom Clancy) quoting better books (eg anything by William Shakespeare) in their opening pages as a way to make themselves seem better by association.

I’m sure there’s an equivalent phenomenon in television, so does it say something about Knight Rider‘s quality levels that it’s outright quoting Torchwood (and Heroes) in the opening minutes of its Halloween episode?

Monday’s rebooted car news

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Channel 4 shows on Joost



Just a little note that Joost, those exciting Internet TV people, now have the first two series of Peep Show, as well as a few other Channel 4 shows like Shameless.

The good things about this is:

  1. It’s completely free, unlike iTunes or DVDs
  2. You don’t need to install any software any more, since it runs in any browser than can play Flash video

Basically, all you need is a broadband connection and a web browser. Yey.

PS When did they change the theme tune on Peep Show or is is a licensing problem that stops them from using the proper tune?

A quick plug: Road to the Future? on Current TV

Someone I used to train in jiu jitsu with, but who’s been living in India for the last 14 months, has made a documentary, Road to the Future?. It examines the gap between the rich and the poor in the country in the context of media hype about ‘shining India’. It’s going to be on Current TV on Tuesday 11th November at 11pm, so I thought I’d give it a plug

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Our brand new weekly half hour show, where we showcase a selection of the weeks new short documentaries, whilst including more background on your stories, extra photos/footage, updates on your contributors progress and pretty much anything else you want to provide us with. It’s our chance to put your work in the limelight and tell the world it rocks!

India’s Economic Divide
In the glow of increasing prosperity and industry in India, Pamela Norwicka finds out what the varying implications are for the countries’ vast population.

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