Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 40, 2011)

Erin C's final Sitting Tennant

Hebbie and Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity and Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Okay, my friends. Sit down. I feel that’s appropriate.

Now, I don’t want you to cry or to be sad, but a sad day has come upon us. Today is the day when Erin C’s stash of Sitting Tennants runs out. She’s been AWOL for over a year now, but she left behind so many that only now have they run.

So unless she returns or someone else steps into the breach, this will be the last week with three Tennants sitting. And with that bombshell, I’ll leave you and say ‘Happy Fireworks Night’ for tomorrow. If you do wear a Guy Fawkes mask, try not to be arrested for being a 99%-er.

Fingers crossed though, I might have a review of the first episode of French thriller Braquo for you soon – and don’t forget your chance to win a Blu-ray 3D player starts on Monday!

  1. Hebbie: 310
  2. Sister Chastity: 290
  3. Erin C: 150
  4. Rullsenberg: 55
  5. Janice: 20
  6. esgaril: 10
  7. theriverlady, Toby: 5

Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition!

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 and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, 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.

Friday’s “mad piano” news

Film

  • Garrett Hedlund to star in Akira
  • Trailer for Wanderlust with Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd
  • Trailer for Safe House with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds
  • Andy Serkis signs up for Rise of the Apes sequel
  • Bond 23 to be called Skyfall

Theatre

British TV

US TV

US TV

Review: Grimm 1×1

Grimm on NBC

In the US: Fridays, 9/8c, NBC
In the UK: Not yet acquired

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Fairy tales are really real. They’re part of our world. Now a non-fairy tale character has found out and is having to deal with this strange circumstance.

Yep, it’s Once Upon A Time, over on ABC. But it’s also Grimm on NBC.

Now, stop me if you’ve heard this one before, too. “Into each generation a Slayer is born. One in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the strength and skill to fight the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.”

Yes, that’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Except if you cross out ‘Slayer’ and replace it with ‘Grimm’ and cross out vampires and replace it with ‘fairy tale monsters’, you’ve got Grimm on NBC.

So already, Grimm is not looking too hot on the old originality front. Add in the fact that the cop gets all his arcane knowledge from books given to him by a librarian, that he has help from a reformed creature of the night and that it doesn’t take itself too seriously, and you’d wonder when the first of the copyright suits would arrive – if it weren’t for the fact that Jim Kouf (Angel) and David Greenwalt (Buffy and Angel) are the exec producers.

Yet, despite all these inauspicious omens, Grimm isn’t half bad – and it’s certainly better than Once Upon A Time. Here’s an incredibly spoilery trailer – with the wrong music. The Eurythmics’ ‘Sweet Dreams’ was used in the actual episode.

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