Month: March 2009

Meme of the week: Bring ’em back alive

9 March 2009 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

It’s the last time meme of the week pops up on a Monday before disappearing to its new Wednesday home, so let’s make it a good ‘un.

Suppose you’re in charge of a TV network – any TV network: what TV programme would you remake? If you’re feeling adventurous, what would be your dream cast? If necessary, the original cast could have been in cryogenic storage since the series was cancelled. Answers in the comments section below or on your own blog if you leave a link.

Remember anything goes: if Knight Rider and Survivors can come back, whatever you want is almost certainly going to be able to make a reappearance.

Me? I’d like some new episodes of Ivor the Engine and Airwolf. You?

Dick Heads

Dick Head (from Jane Henry): Something

9 March 2009 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Well, the threat of cancelling Dick Heads because of lack of interest has at least spurred Jane Henry in action, even if Armitage’s Army seems to be laying up for a long nap after a few weeks’ tab for initial Dick Heads duty. Poor loves: are they really ready for front line duties in the defence of Richard Armitage, I wonder?

I have no idea where the picture’s from – probably from some kind of sponsored "suck your cheeks in" event. Ready, steady – unleash the haikus! And remember, no more pics of Richard Armitage = no more Dick Heads: its future is in your hands.

Got a picture of Richard Armitage’s head, preferably wearing a hat? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Dick Heads” gallery.

Monday’s musical Ghost news

9 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Awards

Film

  • Tracy Morgan and Martin Lawrence among those joining Death at a Funeral
  • Julia Roberts to produce Jesus Henry Christ
  • Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss to star opposite SJP and Hugh Grant in Did Your Hear About The Morgans?
  • Nick Nolte and Jennifer Morrison to star in mixed martial arts film Warrior

Theatre

British TV

US TV

Welsh TV

Review: A Mind to Kill – series one

6 March 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

A Mind To Kill

You wouldn’t know it from the BFI’s celebration of 25 years of Channel 4 and S4C, but S4C does in fact produce television programmes, some of them quite good. Have a look at Caerdydd. Go on. It’s good.

But it would be a mistake to think this is a recent development. A case in point is A Mind to Kill, Wales’ answer to Taggart. Starring Welsh man-god Philip Madoc as widower Detective Inspector Noel Bain, A Mind to Kill was a dark and gritty 1991 TV movie about neo-Nazis set and filmed in South Wales.

Shot in both English and Welsh – as (Noson) yr Heliwr (which, I think means either The Night Hunter or Hunter in the Night. Anyone?) – the film, the charismatic Bain and the series format proved popular enough that a series of sequel films was made, running for five series from 1994 to 2004 – even making the transition to the rest of the UK by airing on Five. Yet almost nobody remembers it.

Praise be, then, the first series is being released on DVD by Network on March 16th.

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