Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Thankful

Ali Larter at the Macys Thanksgiving Parade

Today, Ali Larter is thankful. Thankful that she’s being interviewed by Al Roker? Probably not. Thankful that she received from American Women in Radio and Television the 2008 Gracie award for outstanding supporting actress in a drama? Naturally. Thankful that Barack Obama has replaced George W Bush as president of the United States? She certainly wouldn’t be in a minority.

Personally, I think she’s thankful because it’s Thanksgiving and she’s watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. What do you think?

Catch up on Fringe

Well, lots of people are saying I was wrong to give up on Fringe so quickly (ie the seventh episode!) and that I should have stuck around for longer. Fortunately, in preparation for the rest of the season, Fox has put together this tongue in cheek “catch up on Fringe in five minutes” video, so I won’t have to watch the back episodes. I’m not exactly persuaded but it’s good to see that nice Jared Harris from The Other Boleyn Girl and To The Ends of the Earth is getting work.

Incidentally, if you’re an Anna Torv fan of a certain disposition, you might enjoy this collection of clips from her appearance on Mistresses that Joe’s put together for you.

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Tuesday’s crab dad news

Film

British TV

Canadian TV

US TV

  • Fox greenlights most of its pilots
  • A clip of the first few minutes of the next episode of Burn Notice
  • Danny Glover to play Crab Man’s dad in My Name is Earl [spoilers]
  • Smallville bosses to remake Melrose Place?
BFI events

Preview: Being Human

In the UK: Sundays, 9pm, BBC3. Starts January 25th
In the US: BBC America (it’s a co-prod). No airdate yet

Firstly, this ain’t the usual kind of preview since it also includes a rundown of a Q&A with the show’s producers and one of its stars, Russell Tovey.

Secondly, I’d like to announce that I’m a cretin (although you’d probably realised that for yourselves). There I was last Friday, feeling all pleased with myself that for once, I’d not had to run for trains, sprint across Hungerford Bridge, etc, to get to a screening on time, because I’d given myself plenty of time to get there. So what should happen when I got there? Why, I discovered I’d got the start time wrong and the screening had begun half an hour earlier. Oops.

So that minor act of spasness aside, let’s get on with a preview not just of the first episode (or at least the second half of the first episode) of Being Human, BBC3’s forthcoming drama about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost, but of the rest of the series, too, as well as that wee chat with the producers.

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