Month: May 2010

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: busy, busy, busy

13 May 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Ali Larter in denim

Busy, busy, busy, our Ali. Not only has she been to another book launch (Derek Blasberg’s Classy – Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady) wearing denim – ooh, radical – not only has she been off helping the Relational Center, she’s just been nominated at the MTV Awards for best fight scene and declared 91st sexiest woman in the world by FHM.

And she’s off to the Monte Carlo Television Festival on behalf of Heroes. I’d be knackered if I were her.

Monte Carlo

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Thursday’s robot boxing news

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Film

Theatre

  • Richard Fleeshman to replace Duncan James on Legally Blonde
  • Clarke Peters to star in Five Guys Named Moe revival
  • Almeida to adapt Mamet’s House of Games, Stephen Dillane to star in The Master Builder

British TV

US TV

Question of the week: how do you like your TV news?

12 May 2010 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Here, in the UK, there is the ostensible legal requirement for broadcast TV news to be impartial. What that actually means and whether it merely favours a centre-left view of the world that doesn’t allow for extremes or which inadvertently backs big business and government (cf any book by John Pilger) is certainly debatable.

But in the US, there’s no such requirement for cable news at least. Hence, Fox News on the right and MSNBC on the relative left. For some that’s horrific – news should impartial. For others it’s the acknowledgement that all news is inherently biased and is filtered by most news editors preconceptions.

So question of the week this week, after Adam Boulton went mental at Alistair Campbell on Sky News, is:

How do you like your TV news: attempting to be impartial or obviously partial?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – 133 – City of Spires

12 May 2010 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

City of SpiresJames Robert McCrimmon (aka Jamie) was a second Doctor companion with a certain form for mucking up the timelines. A Highlander fighting during the Battle of Culloden, originally, he left the second Doctor, his memories wiped by the Time Lords, at the end of The War Games, the sixth season story that also saw the end of the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who. But, thanks to a sixth Doctor story, The Two Doctors, which gave us a post-season six pairing of the second Doctor and Jamie, it’s apparent that all is not what it seemed.

Back in the Companion Chronicle, The Glorious Revolution, there were hints that certain other timeline messing has been going on around our Jamie. This appeared to be resolved, but now we have City of Spires, in which Scottish history is all messed up. The Doctor arrives in Scotland decades after Culloden. The Highland clearances and Rob Roy are 40 years late. Edinburgh and Glasgow have been destroyed in favour of a ‘City of Spires’. And the old Jamie has no recollection of meeting the second Doctor at all…

Cue another one of Big Finish’s trilogies. Oh, did I mention David Tennant’s girlfriend is in this?

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