Year: 2009

Tuesday’s “You’re both hired!” news

9 June 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Awards

Film

East European TV

  • In Treatment to be remade in Romanian, Hungarian, Czech and Polish

British TV

Canadian/German TV

  • Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland to star in Pillars of the Earth

US TV

Sitting Tennant

Monday’s Sitting Tennant: QI and some other stuff

8 June 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Jaradel's Sitting Tennant

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Every photo displayed on Monday (one per person who sends one in) gets a point, with a bonus point if it’s from the latest DT production; the best pic in the stash each week will appear on Friday and get three points. You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Friday’s Sitting Tennant photo.

It’s Monday, so under the new Sitting Tennant regime, that means it must be the "sit and gawk" pictures-only selection of the Sitting Tennant gallery. We have pictures today from Ms Rullsenberg, Sister Chastity and Ms Jaradel from a variety of sources, but Sister Chastity gets a bonus point for getting a picture of DT from a recent recording of QI featuring our David.

That gives us the following leaderboard:

  1. Rullsenberg: 27.5
  2. Sister Chastity: 22.5
  3. Jaradel: 20.5
  4. Rosby: 2.5
  5. Persephone: 1

Keep sending those lovely piccies!

Monday’s split Time Lord news

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Doctor Who

Film

Theatre

US TV

US TV

Review: Royal Pains 1×1

5 June 2009 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

Royal Pains

In the US: Thursdays, 10/9c, USA Network

As recession has struck, so US TV’s attitude to the rich has changed. Where once there was admiration and envy – Sex and the City – so admiration has faded and been replaced by amusement – Gossip Girl and Dirty Sexy Money – before eventually reaching disdain – Privileged and now Royal Pains.

The envy’s still there though.

While still wishing it had their money, Royal Pains is nevertheless quite a fun show that despite its essential dislike of the rich has heart to make up for this unworthy emotion.

Set in the Hamptons, New York state’s retreat for the ultra-wealthy, it sees disgraced ER doctor Mark Feuerstein accidentally wander into a new job as a ‘concierge doctor’ – a live-in, on-call doctor who looks after the rich and famous when they have those little problems the rich and famous suffer from: drug overdoses, car crashes – and deflated breast implants.

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