I have no idea. It just looked good.
Meh. What can you do?
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“
Random Acts
Year: 2010
Thursday’s “The Best Little Akira, Laverne and Shirley in a Big Whorehouse Valley in Hawaii” remake news
Doctor Who
- Interview with guest actor Neve McIntosh reveals returning monster [spoilers]
Film
- Dune gets a writer
- Susan Sarandon to star in film version of The Big Valley?
- Trailer for Katherine Heigl/Ashton Kutcher’s Killers
- Hughes brothers to direct Akira?
- Penelope Cruz to star in Pirates of the Carribbean 4?
- Trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender
- Universal to remake The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- An interview with Chris Morris about Four Lions
- Jennifer Garner and Jessica Biel to star in remake of Laverne and Shirley?
British TV
- 350,000 Sky subscribers to switch to Freeview HD?
- Channel 4 and E4 to stop showing Friends next year
- Bravo acquires White Collar
US TV
- Numb3rs‘ David Krumholtz joins IRS + other casting
- Moonlight‘s Alex O’Loughlin to play Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O remake
- Molly Shannon to appear on Glee
- Rena Sofer joins Bones
- New showrunners for FlashForward
- Friday Night Lights to end after its fifth season
Question of the week: what’s acceptable TV viewing?
In honour of boundary-breaking Spartacus, this week’s question asks you, the gentle reader:
What’s acceptable TV viewing?
Is graphic violence okay? Full-frontal nudity of either gender? Sex? What kinds of sex? Swearing? Any particular words verboten? Should there be different rules for different times or different channels? Does sex, violence and bad language devalue the human soul? Is it demeaning to women – or men? Or should anything go since that’s what life’s like?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
US TV
Third-episode verdict: Spartacus – Blood and Sand
It’s hard to know what the makers of Spartacus: Blood and Sand think they’re doing. It could be the show is intended as a way:
- to exploit the liberal regulatory regime on US cable television to push the boundaries of acceptable taste
- to show us what a graphic novel, complete with rubbish dialogue and plotting, would be like if it were turned into a TV series
- to replace traditional dialogue with nothing but swearing
- to give Lucy Lawless some work
- to give lots of bad New Zealand and Australian actors work
- to educate and inform viewers who missed HBO’s Rome about what life was like in Roman times
- to homage I, Claudius.
No matter, three episodes in, it’s time to decide whether to keep watching or not.
Not watching The Wire can cause trouble
You need to watch The Wire or this could happen to you. Do you want that? Do you? Do you?