Month: May 2010

Thursday’s intermittent regulars news

20 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • Lunch Monkeys starts work on second series
  • Lindsay Duncan, Imogen Poots, Toby Jones and Douglas Booth join Matt Smith in Christopher And His Kind
  • David Baddiel to star in online football sitcom for Dave [subscription required]
  • Watch to rebrand [subscription required]
  • Rusty and others ask Beeb to cut US imports to make more UK kids shows [subscription required]

US TV

Question of the week: which TV show has had the best finale?

19 May 2010 Rob Buckley 18 Comments

So, it’s finale time in the US. Various shows have already aired their finales (Smallville, Supernatural, Gossip Girl) while others are still to come (Chuck). However, some of these finales are going to be series finales, rather than season finales (Lost, 24). There’s not going to be any of these shows, so the writers are going to have to find a way to complete their stories.

Trouble is, a lot of shows when placed in such situations come up with endings that almost no one liked (Life on Mars US, The Sopranos, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise), maybe kind of liked (Battlestar Galactica) or that didn’t really finish off the stories at all (Rome, Quantum Leap). There are very few that almost everyone liked and more or less finished the narrative (Sex and the City – until the movies, of course; Star Trek: The Next Generation).

So this week’s question is

Which TV show has had the best ever final episode?

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

US TV

ABC Fall 2010 shows with clips

19 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

ABC's Fall Schedule

It’s time to look at ABC’s new shows for Fall 2010, including vids from Mr Sunshine (Matt Perry), Detroit 187 (Michael Imperioli), My Generation, The Whole Truth, Off the Map Body of Proof (Dana Delaney), Better Together and Happy Endings (Elisha Cuthbert). So, no clip of No Ordinary Family (Julie Benz, Michael Chiklis), but if you’re in the US, you can watch clips from all the new shows here.

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Wednesday’s news after all

19 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • Funny or Die UK to close [registration required]
  • David Jason going cockney again for tele movie
  • ITV considering remakes of Sapphire and Steel, Charlie’s Angels
  • Rab C Nesbitt gets a 10th series  

US TV

No news tomorrow

18 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

My ADSL router has just given up on life, so unfortunately, there’ll be no news update tomorrow and possibly Thursday. There should be other blog content though later in the day and plenty of continuing news updates on Twitter.

PS Gods bless the iPhone, I say.

UPDATE: Maybe there will be. Router has just resurrected itself after clinical death for 50 minutes. Must be all the Touching Evil love going around/invoking of the gods wot done it.