Year: 2009

Monday’s touring Rain Man news

29 June 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Film

Theatre

British TV

  • Last of the Summer Wine back for six episodes
  • Ofcom report says Sky needs to offer its movie and sports channels to other providers
  • Mighty Boosh to split?

US TV

Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (from Jaradel): LA Without A Map

26 June 2009 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Jaradel's Sitting Tennant

Look what happens with a little competition: you get semi-naked pictures of David Tennant, that’s what. You have Ms Jaradel to thank this week. Off you go (no I don’t know what he has in his left hand).

  1. Rullsenberg: 32.5
  2. Sister Chastity: 27.5
  3. Jaradel: 24.5
  4. Rosby: 2.5
  5. Persephone: 1

Meanwhile, over in witty captions, the judge’s verdict is in and the ten points for wittiest caption goes to Marie, who surprisingly enough was joint wittiest with Marie. No, she doesn’t get 20 points.

That gives us the following leaderboard:

  1. Toby: 131.5
  2. Marie: 122.5
  3. Rullsenberg: 92
  4. Jane Henry: 70.5
  5. Persephone: 45.5
  6. Jaradel: 38.5
  7. Electric Dragon: 31
  8. Rev/Views: 25
  9. Scott 2: 14
  10. Joe: 10
  11. Scott: 3
  12. Aaron: 2
  13. almostwitty.com: 1
  14. Stu_N: 1

Remember, you can submit as many captions as you like for today’s picture, with the wittiest getting 10 points next Friday.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery.

Every photo displayed on Monday (one per person who sends one in) gets a point, with a bonus point if it’s from the latest DT production; the best pic in the stash each week will appear on Friday and get three points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Friday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points.

What have you been watching this week? (w/e 26 June)

26 June 2009 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Gosh. So many new programmes on, all of a sudden. Have you been watching them?

Tried to give ABC Family’s Make It Or Break It a whirl, drawn in by the fact that Frasier‘s Peri Gilpin (Roz) was in it, but once I realised it was mostly about athletic teenage girls in leotards, I figured I shouldn’t watch it any more, not being either a teenage girl or a teenage boy.

Also over in the States, Burn Notice had a good episode that managed to play with the formula cleverly, while Samantha Who? returned for its last few episodes.

In the UK, l tried Psychoville, but it seemed a bit predictable and didn’t add much new (that Dawn French character, for example, just felt like a certain job centre woman off League of Gentlemen/Marjorie Dawes off Little Britain). Mitchell and Webb was very good this week, and even Sir Chicken Digby Caesar (or whatever his name is) had a dose of pathos added to him to make his return welcome. But not a huge amount else on, as far as I could see.

I also managed to polish off via my new iPhone (review next week, probably) the whole of Children of the Stones and the last bits of Moonbase 3 (probably both coming to a Lost Gem near you soon).

But now, I’m off to watch the still-enjoyable Royal Pains and last night’s episode of Burn Notice as well. Ain’t lunchtimes great? See you later for Sitting Tennant…

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