Therapy is a process. Therapy takes work. Apparently, it also involves time travel. But is it ever truly over?
With Being Erica – aka Quantum Leap for girls – let’s hope not.
Canadian TV
Month: April 2009
Dick Heads
Dick Heads (from Jane Henry and DMW)
Two lovely pictures of Richard Armitage for your poetry-inducing enjoyment. You can see his helmet in the second one.
Captions, haiku or anything else Richard Armitage’s head inspires in you and can be set down in writing, please.
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.
A few things learned from TV last week: 24, The Mentalist, Chuck, Supernatural and House
24
Although I was generally in favour of TV companies being allowed to place products in TV shows – they really need the cash these day – I almost made a 180º turn on that after watching last Monday’s 24. Product placement is one thing, but when you have nearly two minutes of a show turned into a training video for Cisco’s WebEx digital signature system, I think we’ve gone too far.
Chuck
Yvonne Strahovski looks like a tiny little girl playing dress-up when she’s next to Tricia Helfer.
House
Even if a show is formulaic, if it knows it formula well enough then it can be very clever in how it plays with that formula.
The Mentalist
Even if a show is technically a ‘procedural’, it doesn’t actually have to follow any known police procedures. Ever.
Supernatural
Even if an episode’s concept isn’t totally original (Stranger Than Fiction, etc), you can still make a damn fine and clever episode from it, even when you’re in your fourth season.
Monday’s “passing of the glove” news
Doctor Who
- Rusty and DT discuss making their last ever Who and more [spoilers]
- Big Finish discuss making the lost season 23 episodes
- Guess who‘s been spotted on set [great big spoilery spoiler]
- Rusty asked to revive Lost in Space
Film
- Aaron Eckhart to star in Rabbit Hole?
- Jackie Earle Haley is the new Freddy Krueger
Theatre
- Russ Abbot steps in to replace Rowan Atkinson in Oliver!
British TV
- Vic and Bob back for new series of Shooting Stars
- InBetweeners watched by 1.2m
- Top Gear Italian Job stunt cancelled because of costs
- Sky One acquires Stargate Universe
US TV
- Cyndi Lauper to join Bones
- New Stargate Universe trailer
- NBC planning updated version of Wizard of Oz
- Laura Leighton returns to Melrose Place
- Dollhouse likely to get a second season
US TV
Preview: Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Hmm. Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. There’s a title to conjure with.
It’s a comedy produced by BBC2 in the UK and Comedy Central in the US and stars Sean Maguire of The Class and Meet the Spartans and Matt Lucas of Little Britain fame, as well as a predominantly British cast (putting on US accents in some cases). Parodying fantasy novels and TV shows, there’s a touch of Monty Python and the Holy Grail about it and it’s premiering on both channels this month:
The series, set in an ancient fantasy realm, follows reluctant hero Kröd Mändoon, a “thin-skinned and underconfident freedom fighter” in his struggle against the evil ruler, Chancellor Dongalor.
I’ve turfed up some previews and interviews for you, so you can see what you think of it. Looks a bit silly and some of the jokes fell flat, but it did make me laugh, so could be promising. More info at the Comedy Central web site.
Cast
- Sean Maguire as Kröd Mändoon: “The reluctant leader of a rag tag band of inept freedom fighters toiling away in obscurity”
- Matt Lucas as Chancellor Dongalor: “The lovably sociopathic Chancellor of the lowly province of Hessemeel”
- India de Beaufort as Aneka: A “beautiful pagan warrioress whose weapon of choice is sex”
- Steve Speirs as Loquasto: An oafish servant, “who belongs to a race of pig-like creatures known as Grobble”
- Kevin Hart as Zezelryck: A young warlock, “whose greatest magical gift is spinning a line”
- Marques Ray as Bruce: “The jailhouse lover of Kröd’s late mentor, General Arcadius”
- John Rhys-Davies as Grimshank: The leader of the resistance
- James Murray as Longshaft
- Alex MacQueen as Barnabus