It’s now been withdrawn in Australia after complaints from around the world (mainly the US), but is this KFC ad racist?
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Year: 2010
The writers for series five of Doctor Who
According to DWM (apparently. You think I’d buy it?), the writers on the fifth series of Doctor Who are:
- Steven Moffat (six episodes); past work – Coupling, Press Gang, Jekyll et al; The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
- Mark Gatiss (one episode); past work – The League of Gentlemen et al; The Unquiet Dead, The Idiot’s Lantern, The Lazarus Experiment
- Gareth Roberts (one episode); past work – The Sarah Jane Adventures; The Shakespeare Code, The Unicorn and the Wasp
- Richard Curtis (one episode); past work – Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley, Four Weddings and a Funeral et al
- Toby Whithouse (one episode); past work – Being Human et al; School Reunion
- Chris Chibnall (two episodes); past work – Torchwood, Law and Order; 42
- Simon Nye (one episode); past work – Men Behaving Badly et al
What are we all thinking? Interesting choice of Chris Chibnall, certainly, but the rest look potentially good, IMO, especially since Nye, Gatiss and Curtis are primarily comedy writers.
Thursday’s covert mini news
Doctor Who
- Anti-ginger protests
- That mini-skirt? Karen Gillan’s idea…
British TV
- Misleading Sky+ ad banned
- Channel 4 boosts its drama-commissioning team [registration required]
- ITV chairman promises radical changes
- BBC Trust to investigate science coverage [registration required]
- E4 reaches more young people than Five [registration required]
- TV manufacturers back Sky 3D
US TV
- Lost producers admit to sh*t episodes
- ABC orders more episodes of Cougar Town
- USA greenlights 11 episodes of Covert Affairs
- An interview with Alan Ball, who’s signed for another two seasons of True Blood
- A clip from Sunday’s Chuck premiere
Question of the week: what will you be watching this year?
Quite a simple question of the week to start things off this year:
What will you be watching in 2010?
Are you looking forward to a new show (Human Target) or the return of an old show (Doctor Who)? Will you be giving up any programmes (FlashForward) or returning to watch an old favourite after a lull (Lost)? Will you forgo TV in favour of the Internet, DVDs or the cinema? Or do you, ambitiously, have a TV New Year’s Resolution?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
US TV
Review: Heroes 4×12-4×13 – Upon This Rock/Let it Bleed
In the US: Monday 4th January, 8pm, NBC
In the UK: Some time in April on BBC2 by my reckoning
So it’s back after the Christmas break. It’s got a special two-hour premiere to launch itself back into everyone’s hearts, before returning to its 9pm time slot next week. House isn’t on (although the Fiesta Super Bowl is for the second half).
Surely the producers and writers are going to give us two hours of kick-arse goodness designed to make us all want to watch the rest of the season. There’ll be effects, great use of characters, coolness aplenty. It’ll zip past in no time and the ratings will go through the roof.
No. Wait. It’s another dull two-parter where not much really happens. Sigh.
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