I don’t normally cover “up north” – I’m sure there are better sources of information than I, for starters – but thanks to this brave new web world I’ve entered recently, I’ve just learnt via Twitter about some interesting showings at Derby QUAD as part of their “Future is Now” season.
You can book online right now.
There are some insanely daft TV programmes out there if you look hard enough. Just mental ones. Like the remake of Knight Rider or Torchwood for example. Probably the most mental TV show I’ve come across in recent months/years is a documentary. It airs on Spike in the US and it’s called Deadliest Warrior.
Now, I watched the first episode and thought to myself “There is absolutely no point even reviewing this, because it’s so insanely daft the entire review would consist of ‘HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!'”
But I just saw the title of the latest episode and thought I had to share anyway.
The principle of the show is simple. See if you can avoid laughing as I explain. You take two of history’s greatest warriors or fighting forces. You get historical experts and scientists to analyse their ways of fighting. You test some of their techniques out on dummies and the like. You then feed it all into a gaming engine and enact thousands of battles in the computer. And then you see which of the two would have won in a fight on aggregate.
HA HA HA?
Okay, it’s clearly inspired by Discovery Channel’s Fight Science but all the sensible things have been done already, so that’s what they were left with.
They could still have done something halfway intelligent, though. They could have just made it a war games type programme in which armies faced off against each other, or had martial artists of different styles fight one another.
They didn’t.
Instead, their choices of warriors to pit against each other veers between the insanely silly and the outright tasteless. Here’s a list of the ones they’ve done so far – see if you can keep that smile off your face. The last two are absolute classics:
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
It’s the stupidest TV programme ever. Without a doubt.
It’s not very long and it doesn’t show you that much, but here’s a promo for AMC’s remake of The Prisoner, starring Jim Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellen. It’ll be showing in 2010 in the UK on ITV1 in case you were wondering.
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Where was Sitting Tennant on Friday, I hear you ask? Well, I don’t actually. No one seemed to notice it wasn’t there. In fact, the last Sitting Tennant only got six comments. Oh dear. I’m sensing burn out. I’m sensing ennui. I’m sensing… Summer.
So after some random idea bouncing on Twitter, here’s the new plan: bi-weekly Sitting Tennant. On Monday, a simple selection of Tennants in a sitting position, one from each contributor, to replace Dick Heads, which, let’s face it, even Armitage’s Army couldn’t be bothered with, really.
These Sitting Tennants will purely be for enjoyment, so no captions please, unless you feel inspired, since they won’t contribute to your points.
Then on Friday, the best pic from the current stash will go up by itself. That one will be for captioning purposes as well. I’ll be mulling over the points system, but since the inspiration/bonus points thing didn’t seem to be too inspiring, and the new system should do away with the need to some extent, I might well be phasing out the dead wood. How about simply 10 points for the best caption, with as many attempts as you like?
Let me know what you think.
Until then, have some pictures of David Tennant sitting down. Here’s the picture board:
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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