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Random Acts
Year: 2010
Thursday’s Greig, Greig news
Film
British TV
- Rosamund Pike, Rachael Stirling, Rory Kinnear and Joseph Mawle to star in BBC4’s The Sisters
- Thomas Haden Church, Claire Forlani leave Episodes while Tamsin Greig joins
US TV
- Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes and Tom Wilkinson join The Kennedys
- Glee now top-rated new scripted series
- Steve Carell to leave The Office after next year?
- Allison Janney to guest on Lost
Audio and radio play reviews
Review: Doctor Who – 132 – The Architects of History
Time to wrap up the Klein trilogy.
When last we left blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah Seventh Doctor blah blah Nazi scientist for companion blah blah.
Anyway, things went a bit pear-shaped – who saw that coming? – and now the Doctor has to fix it. Now, given Big Finish trilogies can vary between awful (the Charley Pollard/Sixth Doctor concluding trilogy, the Key2Time) and gradually improving (the Stockbridge trilogy), it was a bit of a gamble as to whether the final part of this "seven years in the making" story was going to end well.
So let’s take some bets.
Hands up everyone who thinks this is going to be a classic.
And hands up everyone who thinks it’s going to be a steaming lump of you know what.
If I just add that this also features Lenora Crichlow as a companion for the Doctor, who’s going to change their minds?
Final fact: it also includes a race of intergalactic sharks who wander around in water-filled armour.
Last chance. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…
Well, it just so happens that it’s…
Continue reading “Review: Doctor Who – 132 – The Architects of History”
Audio and radio play reviews
Review: Doctor Who – 132 – The Architects of History
Time to wrap up the Klein trilogy.
When last we left blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah Seventh Doctor blah blah Nazi scientist for companion blah blah.
Anyway, things went a bit pear-shaped – who saw that coming? – and now the Doctor has to fix it. Now, given Big Finish trilogies can vary between awful (the Charley Pollard/Sixth Doctor concluding trilogy, the Key2Time) and gradually improving (the Stockbridge trilogy), it was a bit of a gamble as to whether the final part of this "seven years in the making" story was going to end well.
So let’s take some bets.
Hands up everyone who thinks this is going to be a classic.
And hands up everyone who thinks it’s going to be a steaming lump of you know what.
If I just add that this also features Lenora Crichlow as a companion for the Doctor, who’s going to change their minds?
Final fact: it also includes a race of intergalactic sharks who wander around in water-filled armour.
Last chance. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…
Well, it just so happens that it’s…
Continue reading “Review: Doctor Who – 132 – The Architects of History”
Question of the week: are there too many Brits on US TV?
Time was the only Brits you saw on US TV were there to play foreigners and villains. Soap operas were full of them to add a little bit of the exotic.
Now though, they’re all over the place. Just about every US TV show has at least one Brit in it, either with their natural accent or with a US accent; any US show set in the past and/or a foreign country requires even non-British actors to put on British accents, but predominantly hires Brits.
Why is this? Well, James Purefoy, who I saw at the BFI this Sunday, says it’s because British actors are lower maintenance and cheaper. "We’re called ‘white Mexicans’ in LA."
So today’s question(s) is this:
Is having so many British actors in US shows a good thing? Are we stealing American jobs? Or does our lack of ‘airs and graces’ and smaller pay cheques mean that shows that wouldn’t get made can go ahead and look better than they would otherwise? Or is that irrelevant and you just like seeing Brits in US shows?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.