But is it canon?
Month: November 2011
Monday’s “Scarlett directing, Arrested Development returning, Elisabeth Shue joining CSI” news
Film
- Scarlett Johansson to direct adaptation of Truman Capote’s Summer Crossing
- Trailer for Rampart, with Woody Harrelson
- Steven Soderbergh leaves The Man From UNCLE
Books
- Hilary Mantel to write a second Wolf Hall sequel
US TV
- Jason Dohring to guest on Supernatural
- Thursday ratings: Community up, Whitney hits new low
- Friday ratings: Blue Bloods up, Chuck, Grimm and Fringe stay the same
- Two more seasons for Dexter
- Teaser for season 2 of Game of Thrones
- Two join True Blood as recurring actors
- Arrested Development to return in 2013
- Body of Proof gets a full season
- Cougar Town benched…
- …has episode count cut by seven
- Pilot casting
- Elisabeth Shue to be a regular on CSI
Sitting Tennant
Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 42, 2011)
There – that’s better, isn’t it? I wonder if he’s doing something this weekend.
- Hebbie: 330
- Sister Chastity: 310
- Erin C: 150
- Rullsenberg: 55
- Janice: 20
- esgaril: 10
- 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.
News
Friday’s “Wolf hall mini-series” news
Film
- Chuck‘s Yvonne Strahovski to star in I, Frankenstein
- Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker to write David Fincher’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
British TV
- Dougie Henshall to star in BBC4’s Hotel Taliban
- Rob Sheehan, Sheridan Smith and Olivia Colman to star in second series of Accused
- Pan Am starts with 1.8m viewers
- BBC working with HBO on Wolf Hall mini-series
- The Killing‘s second series to have less sweary subtitles
Canadian TV
- Ratings for the week of the November 7
US TV
- Haven‘s Emily Rose to guest on Harry’s Law
- Angel/Dollhouse‘s Amy Acker to guest on Grimm [minor spoilers]
- Greg Kinnear to guest on Modern Family
- Jane Curtin joins Unforgettable as a regular
- FX passes on Outlaw Country, retools Powers
- Nia Vardalos and Peri Gilpin to guest on Grey’s Anatomy
- Wednesday’s ratings
Weekly Wonder Woman
Review: Wonder Woman #3/Justice League #3
It was double Wonder Woman day yesterday at DC, with not just Wonder Woman #3 being released, but Justice League #3 also coming out. And they were two very important issues for our lady of wonders indeed.
If you recall, DC rebooted all its comics – in fact, its entire ‘universe’ – with the Flashpoint series so that what we once knew about its characters and history no longer necessarily holds true. Are their origins the same? Their families? Their personalities? Their ‘superpowers’?
How much this has been a ‘hard’ reboot versus ‘soft’ reboot has been somewhat nebulous. Batman appears to have come through this more or less the same, but with one fewer dead Robins on his conscience. Superman’s parents are dead again. Barbara Gordon can walk again. Supergirl can sort of turn into a sun or something. Power Girl isn’t any more.
But it’s been a little unclear from the two issues of Wonder Woman we’ve had so far how much is different for DC’s premier superheroine. Is she still on a mission from the peace-loving, all-female Amazons to teach the world of men the virtues of peace and love? Is she still made from clay and endowed with the powers of Greek gods? Does she wear trousers or doesn’t she? In short, has she had a soft or a hard reboot?
Now, we have two issues that answer most of those questions quite emphatically. Justice League #3, set five years before Wonder Woman, sees our (young) heroine in her first encounter with the Justice League and with man’s world (including the re-hunkified Steve Trevor). Let’s just say she’s not the peace-loving woman we’ve come to expect. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman #3 sees her origins entirely rewritten.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, the all-new Wonder Woman has a daddy. Let’s talk more after the jump.
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