Now this is how to do a title sequence.
Month: September 2010
Random Acts of Ali Larter: Reading out lines of dialogue from old computer games
Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter“
Thursday’s two Loises news
Doctor Who
- Stevie Moffat teases cliffhanger [minor spoilers]
Film
- Scarlett Johansson to get Black Widow Iron Man spin-off?
- New Harry Potter trailer
- Elizabeth Banks joins Man on a Ledge
British TV
- Caroline Aherne working on sitcom for ITV1 [subscription required]
- NAO to access BBC accounts
- James Purefoy and Dervla Kirwan join ITV’s Injustice
US TV
- Entourage‘s Emmanuelle Chriqui to guest on The Borgias
- Fox picks up Kurtman and Orci’s Exit Strategy
- Lois & Clark‘s Teri Hatcher to play Lois Lane’s mum on Smallville
- Gavin & Stacey remake shelved
- GoodFellas: the TV series?
- NBC picks up JJ Abrams’ Terry O’Quinn/Michael Emerson show…
- …and Alcatraz picked up by Fox
- Tuesday ratings not great
- In Treatment season 3 teaser
US TV
Review: Chase 1×1
In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, NBC
In the UK: Living, 2011. But with a different name
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first unqualified “too painful to watch” show of the Fall season. We’ve had stupid in Hawaii Five-0 but it was fun stupid. We’ve had dull in Terriers. We’ve had predictable in Outlaw. We’ve had simply bad and stupid in Nikita, but that at least had some decent action. But now we have mind-numbingly dull crossed with stupid in the form of Chase, in which US Marshall Kelli Giddish (last seen in Past Life) and her motley team-mates hunt down implausible escaped fugitives while simultaneously educating the viewing public about the Marshall service, Texas, rodeos, women, Texan music and her entire backstory. And running. Running lots. Because, you know, it’s called Chase.
It sucks.
US TV
Review: Running Wilde 1×1
In the US: Tuesdays, 9.30/8.30c, Fox
After years of fielding comedies that only fit loosely into that category – laughter while watching them was a somewhat rare occurrence – Fox clearly sat up and paid attention last year when ABC blew everyone out of the water with Modern Family. Now, as well as a Greg Garcia comedy, they’ve rolled out a second single camera show, this time from the team that brought us Fox’s previous good comedy – Arrested Development.
Starring Will Arnett (Arrested Development, 30 Rock) and Keri Russell (Felicity), this sees aimless rich boy Steve Wilde (Arnett) reunited with his childhood love Emmy Kadubic (Russell) who’s been trying to saving some Amazon natives from the terrible oil workers his father has hired. How are they reunited? Her daughter feigns mutism for six months since she wants to have a normal life back in the States.
With guest appearances by David Cross and Peter Serafinowicz, this pilot episode is actually pretty funny, but is it Arrested Development funny? Not quite. All the same, it shows enough sparks of life to make me think Fox is no longer the comedy wasteland of yesteryear.
Here, enjoy a lovely trailer for the first ep, featuring footage from the slightly different pilot, complete with alternative guest cast. It’s pretty much the same though: