Month: February 2009

Monday’s “Thank God you’re back” news

23 February 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Awards

Film

Theatre

French TV

  • TF1 may cut back on French productions in favour of US imports

British TV

US TV

Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting/Reclining Tennants (from Rullsenberg): Midnight and Hamlet (?)

20 February 2009 Rob Buckley 40 Comments

David Tennant in Hamlet

Today’s Sitting/Reclining Tennants come from Ms Rullsenberg again, who seems ever more intent to get the Sitting Tennant title two years in a row. They’re from the Doctor Who episode Midnight and from Hamlet and feature him in a reclining position – I’m sure that there’ll be much debate as to whether their degree of sittingness is entirely valid – and with his mouth open.

That means the scoreboard for the picture competition now stands as follows:

  1. Rullsenberg: 8
  2. Jaradel: 3
  3. Rosby: 2.5

Witty captions-wise, for topicality, Marie chose to get ill again, which is the kind of dedication to Sitting Tennnant that needs to be rewarded; a whole lot of people picked up on the strangely compelling blonde lift back on a certain popular meme I could mention; and a few people picked up on my disappearing Internet connection (it’s already back today, apparently, but I’m not at home to test it). Wittiest caption for picture 1 (although it spreads a bit onto other pictures) was Marie‘s; picture 2’s Ghost-related caption from Ms Rullsenberg entertained me the most; while Persephone was top of the picture 3 captioners.

  1. Marie: 24.5
  2. Toby: 19.5
  3. Jane Henry: 18.5
  4. Persephone: 15.5
  5. Rullsenberg: 13
  6. Rev/Views, Jaradel: 10
  7. Scott, Electric Dragon: 3
  8. Aaron: 2

As always, captions and new submissions for the gallery, please. Remember, you can submit as many (witty) captions as you like for each and every picture, with topical captions (and pictures of David Tennant in current productions) getting extra marks. The wittiest caption for each picture will get double points. And there’s a bonus point for using Gary Numan lyrics appropriately.

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.

US TV

Review: Dollhouse 1×1

19 February 2009 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

Eliza Dushku in Dollhouse

In the US: Friday, 9/8c, Fox

Ooh Joss Whedon. Ooh Eliza Dushku. Ooh Steven DeKnight. Ooh, Amy Acker…

And so on.

Because as you look through the credits of Dollhouse, Fox’s new sci-fi spy show, you can’t help but notice a few Buffy alumni in the list.

What you won’t see is Gerry Anderson’s name in the list, despite the fact this is perilously close to one of his old shows. Joe 90, although basically a bit of wish fulfilment for kids involving puppets, saw one boy become a secret agent thanks to a special gadget that gives him the brain waves of other people – and their skills to match.

Dollhouse, while slightly more malevolent, follows more or less the same plot. Eliza Dushku, plays Echo, a personality-less drone who gets given a new persona each week for various missions. One day a party girl, the next day a hostage negotiator, Echo remembers nothing (apparently) except what secret organisation Dollhouse wants her to, including all the special skills necessary for the job and a personality to match.

Ironically, Dollhouse is pretty personality-less itself; even more ironically, you might be hankering after the acting in Joe 90 by the end, too.

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US TV

Review: Heroes 3×16 – Building 26

19 February 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Heroes 3x17

After a resounding call from as many as one people, here comes the (hopefully) regular weekly Heroes reviews. Still no word from the Beeb about when they’re going to be transmitting the new episodes, so US speed it is, I’m afraid.

Bit of a duff one after the previous week’s stonkers, I’m afraid, but we can talk about that after the jump. Spoilers ahoy.

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Daily News – the problems continue

18 February 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

As you might have gathered, the grand plan to have broadband still hasn’t worked. Sky HD+ I now have – more of my thoughts at some point when I can actually access the Internet from home.

But at the moment, Be is pointing a finger at BT claiming BT cancelled my order, BT is saying they did no such thing or else I wouldn’t have a working phone line, and the result is I’ve had to put in a new order for broadband which won’t be fulfilled until Friday.

So that means no Daily News until Monday (at the earliest) and minimal blogging, assuming I find the time to visit a coffee shop with WiFi at any point. Sigh. It’s never easy, is it?

PS New block of flats I live in is mostly inhabited by Millwall footballers, so a few of my neighbours are WAGs. They seem quite nice.