The Economist staff have more time on their hands than I thought. Come on guys: there’s a recession on! All hands to the pumps…
Music
Year: 2009
US TV
Season finale: House (season five)
Wow. Okay, one obviously saccharine moment, but when Hugh Laurie does upset, he really moves you, doesn’t he?
Sitting Tennant
Today’s Sitting Tennants: People Like Us, teasing Graham Norton, and at the BAFTAs
Time once again to admire acclaimed Scottish actor David Tennant and his amazing ability to avoid standing up. We have three pictures today, now that Ms Jaradel has managed to pick herself up and activate her patented “Pictures of David Tennant sitting down finder”. The first is from People Like Us and appears to show some very unsubtle paparazzi, the second shows David Tennant trying to get Graham Norton’s attention, while the third sees our David mesmerised at the BAFTAs by a particularly exciting group of Lithuanian knife throwers, demonstrating their skills on Fern Britton.
Despite Ms Rullsenberg’s attempt to skew the scores by captioning her own picture, no inspiration points to be awarded this time since both of last week’s pictures were captioned an equal number of times by everyone else. So that means the picture leaderboard now stands as follows:
- Rullsenberg: 21.5
- Jaradel: 17.5
- Sister Chastity: 16.5
- Rosby: 2.5
- Persephone: 1
Back in witty caption land, Toby got the 10 points award for best usage of the world’s smallest pigs in a caption; witty points went to Marie for picture 1 and Rev for his slightly macabre caption for picture 2. That gives us a points board that looks suspiciously like this:
- Toby: 121.5
- Marie: 105
- Rullsenberg: 69.5
- Jane Henry: 62.5
- Persephone: 45.5
- Jaradel: 38.5
- Electric Dragon: 25
- Rev/Views 19
- Scott: 3
- Aaron: 2
- almostwitty.com: 1
Ten bonus points will be awarded this week to the person who comes up with the best caption involving Nigerian fraud, beauty queens and/or surfers who rescue kangaroos.
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.
What have you been watching this week (w/e 15 May)?
So what have you been watching on the gogglebox this week? Anything new? Anything good? Anything that sucked big time? Let everyone know so they can iPlayer/Hulu accordingly.
I’ve already covered quite a few of the finales this week already, so I won’t regurgitate them. But
- We caught up with My Name is Earl this week and wished we hadn’t – dull
- I tried the Fringe finale, purely to have a gander at Leonard Nimoy: nice final image and the revelation about Peter was impressive, but it still doesn’t look like I’ve been missing that much since I gave up circa episode seven
- The Daily Show‘s been meandering a little bit
- Prison Break continues to be as daft as a brush but considerably less entertaining
- Scrubs had a great finale (nice to see all those cameos, especially Amy Smart) which is likely to be ruined if ABC brings the show back; we were giggling like idiots at the JD/Elliott “Oh God, they’re us” moments
- CSI: Miami is trying to behave like a proper drama series for some reason, but since it left our galaxy years ago in terms of plausibility, it’s a strange beast to behold right now.
- Is it possible that Mona from The Apprentice is in fact the least comfortable person in the whole world when dealing with LesBiGay issues?
- There is a neverending supply of Grand Designs and Come Dine With Me episodes on More4. Our Sky+ box is almost full of them. How is this possible?
As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please? Ta!
Friday’s Indian Job news
Doctor Who
- Timothy Dalton to appear in final special? [spoilers]
- Interview with Matt Smith in Cannes
Film
- Terry Gilliam giving Don Quixote another go
- Warners acquires movie rights to Primeval
- Jason Statham to star in The Killer Elite
- Monica Bellucci to star in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
- Hindi version of The Italian Job planned
- Gemma Arterton and Gossip Girl‘s Ed Westwick to play Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights
- Mickey Rourke to star in remake of Mona Lisa
Awards
Theatre
- Bridget Jones – The musical
- Anna Friel to star in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
British TV
- ITV to cut another £20m from programme budget
- Virgin1 to refresh brand and programmes
- Una Stubbs joins the cast of Benidorm
US TV
- Lost finale does well in the ratings
- Big changes planned for Samantha Who?
- Richard Schiff‘s Past Life picked up by Fox
- Lost and Heroes still high in the ‘power ratings‘
- Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke sign up for six episodes of Scrubs – if it returns
- Comedy Central’s development slate
- Fox to air more ads again
- Cary Elwes to guest in Psych; Chuck likely to be back for cheaper, 13-episode run [spoilers]
- State of play for the ‘bubble’ shows