Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Maternity cover by Bradley Cooper and Monica Potter

Ali’s still pregnant, so no randomness from her this week. Instead, Bradley Cooper is providing her maternity cover by walking around with a spider monkey on his shoulder.

Bradley Cooper

And Monica Potter is talking to a skeleton.

Monica Potter

Have you seen Ali Larter or one of Ali’s sub-contractors acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter

Question of the week: are there shows you feel you’re missing out on?

In this day and age, it’s very easy to catch up on shows that you’ve missed – at least you’d think so, given iTunes, the iPlayer, Hulu, DVDs, re-runs, et al. Yet often as not, when faced with the prospect of six hours or 13 hours or even 24 hours to catch up with a season’s worth of TV episodes – let alone two or more seasons – that task becomes impossible.

Now, despite the best intentions of the Carusometer, sometimes shows get passed me. I hear Sons of Anarchy is very good, even though I never got further than the first episode. Jimmy McGovern’s Accused is getting lots of press coverage – even though I didn’t notice it was on – Terriers apparently got good several episodes in and Hawaii Five-0 seems to have a certain buzz, despite it being daft as hell. I’m beginning to regret not watching them and being out of the conversational loop.

So this week’s question is:

Are there any shows you haven’t been watching that you wish you had, but still can’t find the time to watch anyway? Why do you want to watch them – and why can’t you?

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

Wednesday’s “Buffy Advent” news

The Daily News will return on Wednesday 8th December 2010

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • US firm acquires Foyle’s War rights [subscription required]
  • Press pack for Just William

US TV

Sitting Tennant

Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant (week 44, 2010)

So quick question everyone – it’s almost December, so the race for the final prize in this year’s Sitting Tennant ("There can be only two") is reaching a crescendo. Now, Ms Rullsenberg, Sister Chastity and Erin C all still have big stashes of pics unposted in either Tuesday’s or Friday’s Sitting Tennant galleries.

How should we deal with these pictures?

  1. Carry on the same as we have been – one on Tuesday, one from each on Friday, and let the rest roll over to next year?
  2. One a day or something similar – kind of like an advent calendar – but with one captionable picture per week as before?
  3. Carry on the same as before, but just post any remaining on the final day of the competition and tally up then?
  4. Some other cunning plan y’all would like to suggest?

Either way, this week’s captionable picture was provided by both Ms Rullsenberg and Sister Chastity. Well done to them and thanks as always to everyone who’s sent in pictures (without whom there would be no Sitting Tennant). 

  1. Erin C: 340
  2. Sister Chastity: 310
  3. Rullsenberg: 300
  4. Toby: 185
  5. Rachel: 90
  6. Sabine: 65
  7. Karen: 35
  8. dreamer-easy: 30
  9. Dawn: 10
  10. kellyann06: 5

In the mighty world of captions, it was Ms Rullsenberg who triumphed as well, earning her the 10 points, but judging by the number of comments, cannibalism really inspires everyone. I’ll bear that in mind. Good luck this week, everyone!

  1. Marie: 255
  2. Rullsenberg: 245
  3. Toby: 210
  4. Electric Dragon: 175
  5. Dani: 110
  6. SK: 90
  7. Jane Henry: 75
  8. ecg: 50
  9. Rachel: 45
  10. whogal: 30
  11. Sabine, Joe B, Virpi: 25
  12. kellyann06, Sister Chastity, Alex, Paul Ebbs: 10
  13. George: 5

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. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

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

Tuesday’s “Blues Brothers united” news

Film

British TV

US TV