At last! It’s the full ‘Islands in the Stream’ Comic Relief vid, starring Bryn (Rob Brydon) and Nessa (Ruth Jones), Sir Tom Jones and Robin Gibb. Woo hoo!
Year: 2009
Random Acts
Random Acts of Ali Larter: fun and feisty
Today, Ali Larter is being fun and feisty.
Is it because she’s having a verbal smackdown with Greg Grunberg over whether Heroes has been cancelled or not? That’s probably part of it.
Or is it because she’s just won an award for being fun and feisty? Probably, so why not.
Or is it because she’s finally going to have something to do in every episode from now on in Heroes, since Bryan Fuller’s back? I’d be off having fun if I were her.
Or is it simply because it was Square Root Day this week? Of course. That brings out the fun, feisty side of anyone. Why didn’t I think of that in the first place?
UPDATE: I do love the fact she was having so much fun with her gal pals after the awards ceremony, she got drunk and left her award behind.
Thursday’s so many pilots news
Doctor Who
- More specials casting, including Peter O’Brien
- Second special to air at Christmas
- Lots of David Tennant RT covers printed
Film
- WW2 novel Resistance optioned for British movie
- Catalonia wants movies subtitled not dubbed
- MGM buys Shrek-like Once Upon a Time…
- Amber Heard and Odette Yustman to star in And Soon The Darkness remake
- Steve Carell’s Carousel to produce the very masculine Hi-T
- Six clips from Race to Witch Mountain
- Trailer for Wolverine
- Trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies
Theatre
- Joseph to close early
British TV
- ITV to lay off 600 as profits fall…
- …but commissions new comedy and new drama
- Birds of a Feather to come back?
US TV
- Ex-Heroes join pilots…
- …and more pilot casting…
- …although Anna Friel won’t be in any of them…
- …but Indira Varma will star in one, and Gina Torres will appear in another…
- …and Kristin Chenoweth and Victor Garber will star in another…
- …and there’s one called This Little Piggy planned, too
- Sarah Silverman gets a third season
- Want to see everything that happens in Sarah Connor this season?
- Prison Break getting a Gretchen spin-off?
McNulty’s English accent rears its ugly head
No, not the one he uses during the second season of The Wire. This is from the first season, where Dominic West’s accent accidentally shows through when he tries to get angry.
It happens.
Third-episode verdict: Eastbound and Down
Third-episode verdict time for Eastbound and Down, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s sports-related comedy about a failed major league baseball player who returns to his home town to become a teacher. The only problem? He’s a complete a-hole.
After a not desperately promising start, things looked like they were going to get better with the second episode, a reasonably funny piece with a cameo by Will Ferrell himself as a BMW dealer almost as a-holey as our ‘hero’.
But episode three wasn’t even pilot episode funny, with few jokes and a worrying tendency to suggest that the hero was going to learn some valuable lessons in life. Oh no.
Ultimately, while there are a few yucks to be had both from its political incorrectness and from its laughing at the jock hero who thinks he’s the business – but really, really isn’t – the joke’s just not able to sustain the show: you get acclimatised to Danny McBride’s insensitivity and stupidity and the show stops being funny and you just don’t notice his offensiveness any more. The characters aren’t really sufficient to fill in the gaps left behind, either.
So despite its promising pedigree, I’d say don’t bother.
Carusometer rating: 4
Prediction: It’s HBO, so it’ll last the season, but won’t get renewed.