Ronnie Corbett arrives in The Sarah Jane Adventures for Comic Relief.
Year: 2009
Thursday’s Glee-full news
Doctor Who
- Behind the scenes photos from the Easter special
- John Barrowman to guest on My Family
Commercials
- Burger King to shoot ads on Star Trek sets
Film
- Scarlet Johansson back on Iron Man 2?
- Charisma Carpenter and Stone Cold Steve Austin join Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables
Theatre
- Roger Allam and Philip Quast to star in La Cage Aux Folles
British TV
- The Comic Relief celebrity Apprentice line-up
- Rob Brydon to take over as host of Would I Lie To You?
- Horne and Corden gets highest-rating comedy debut for BBC3
- Virgin Media working on HD
- Product placement still banned
- Sophie Okonedo to play Winne Mandela in BBC4 drama
- Disabled actors to star in Channel 4’s Cast Offs
US TV
- Coupling‘s Richard Coyle, Bruce Greenwood and Billy Zane among those joining pilots…
- …including Friday Night Lights‘ Minka Kelly and Moonlight‘s Jason Dohring…
- …and Jericho‘s Skeet Ulrich
- Casting on True Blood, 24 and Army Wives
- How I Met Your Mother likely to be renewed
- Promo for Fox’s Glee
- Shannen Doherty returning to 90210
Heroes – Cold Snap clip
Can’t wait two weeks for Bryan Fuller’s first episode of Heroes since Volume 1? Then enjoy this brief clip of shopping, Heroes-style, to tide you over.
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US TV
Review: Breaking Bad 2×1
In the US: Sundays, 10pm/9c, AMC
In the UK: Probably FX again
Breaking Bad is one of those TV shows that no matter how hard you try to describe it properly, no amount of description really gives it justice.
Essentially, the plot is this: a brilliant high school chemistry teacher (Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, the dad in Malcolm in the Middle, here almost unrecognisable) discovers he has cancer and that even if he survives the disease, the medical bills will mortgage his family’s future. So, despite the fact his brother is a DEA agent, he decides to get into the lucrative crystal meth business, making the purest, best crystal meth on the market using his advanced geek skills to safeguard his family’s future.
See? Doesn’t sound promising, does it..
Yet the show, now starting its second season, is one of those quality shows that’s allowing AMC to make a mark in drama after years of re-runs and cowboy movies. It looks at issues like the state of healthcare in the US, High Schools and indeed the drugs trade, giving the probably quite comfortable viewer a glimpse of the scary side of the drugs business, without the insulation from reality, make-believe and training the characters get in other shows – what would you do if you were trying to sell drugs, how long would it be before you got killed or had to kill, and what effect would it have on you, your loved ones and your relationships?
Now season two’s here after the first season was curtailed by the writers’ strike, and things are even darker than before, if that’s even possible.
UK TV
Review: Doctor Who: Key 2 Time – Destroyer of Delights
On, then, to adventure two in the three-part (or is it four-part if we include that Companion Chronicle?) Key 2 Time series, an only slightly painful affair in which the Fifth Doctor has to travel around the universe looking for the segments of the Key to Time. Again.
Part two carries on directly from part one with the arrival of the Black Guardian, played by David "son of Patrick" Troughton. But all is not as it seems and pretty soon we’re (literally) in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves territory for a historical with more than a few sci-fi overtones – and that nasty vampire from Being Human.
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