What have you been watching this week? (w/e September 18)

Thank God for September. The schedules are starting to fill up again and there’ll be more for everyone to watch from now. Merlin‘s on tomorrow I think, but I’m not sure I’ll be tuning in. You?

Episode three of The Fixer was a bit of a letdown, with nice Kudos cinematography covering up for Spooks-style silliness and character weirdness, but still not bad. The Daily Show‘s back – yey! Mad Men continues from strength to strength. Vampire Diaries doesn’t, and I’m watching the second ep of Supernatural later.

Dragons’ Den online edition has now arrived on BBC2 and is a more sedate affair. Liking them online dragons a lot, especially Julie Meyer who’s quite inspiring in her way. Everything else I watched I think I’ve reviewed now.

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please

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Help for Heroes needs your help

Help for HeroesHelp for Heroes needs your help. In case you don’t know, it’s a charity that works with war veterans who are wounded mentally or physically. It’s trying to build some new Army Recovery Centres, which will provide care for seriously wounded or long term sick soldiers, and it’ll need £1 million, which it hopes to get through selling a DVD.

The DVD is going to be a compilation of all the best scenes from the best war movies ever made, and the charity wants YOU to help decide the scenes that are going to be on it. So nip on over to the web site to find out more about it and nominate your favourite scenes. The DVD will be available from November 23rd, priced £9, so everyone should be able to afford it.

Friday’s “unconvincing Vinnie Jones quote” news

Doctor Who

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  • Christopher Plummer, Brad Dourif, and Madchen Amick join Priest
  • Paul Giamatti and James Purefoy to star in medieval Magnificent Seven, Ironclad
  • Matt Damon and Clint Eastwood team up for Hereafter
  • X-Men: First Class to start filming next year?
  • Trailer for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
  • Scott Glenn joins Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch
  • Noel Clarke starts shooting 4.3.2.1
  • Trailer for Jonathan Rhys Meyers’/John Travolta’s From Paris With Love

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US TV

  • The Tudors to be succeeded by The Borgias?
  • John McNamara to take over as showrunner on In Plain Sight
  • Penn and Teller to star as ‘Penn and Teller’: magician-detectives for ABC
  • Vinnie Jones to guest star on Chuck, star in comic book series (not convinced Vinnie came up with the quote in the article…)
  • Heroes websides and TV show to crossover
Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Interviewing, feeding the world’s poor and enjoying diamonds

Ali Larter at the Tacori launch

This week, Ali Larter’s been up to a lot. As well as getting ready for the fourth season of Heroes and pointing out that Obsession isn’t designed to be taken seriously, she was the special guest at the launch of Tacori’s 18k925 range of diamonds.

For those that want to know, that’s a Tacori 18K925 Barbados blue pendant with a yellow gold and diamond crescent silhouette frame, layered with an 18k925 Rockin Oval-link necklace; her Tacori 18k925 ring was yellow gold and clear rose-cut quartz with diamonds; and her Tacori 18k925 earrings were citrine quartz studs.

UPDATE: You can now bid in an auction to own those jewels, all proceeds going to one of Ali’s favourite charities, the Art of Elysium.

Also on hand was Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks.

Ali Larter and Christine Hendricks

Equally importantly – but more randomly – she’s been off to St Louis to interview Professor Mark Manary of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Which as randomness goes is pretty random. Pourquoi, Ali?

Well, Manary runs the Peanut Butter Project and contributes to the Global Harvest Alliance, both of which try to eradicate malnutrition throughout the developing world. Our Ali, who’s passionate about ending world hunger, was interviewing him for a segment on the AT&T U-Verse subscriber channel.

Blimey. What’s she going to be up to next week?

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Thursday’s bunny spinning news

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