Look who’s taken over from Steve Farrell (temporarily anyway) over on The Office.
Year: 2011
Aaron Sorkin visits 30 Rock and, yes, Studio 60 gets mentioned
Last Thursday, little known writer Aaron Sorkin – you may have heard of him from The West Wing, The Social Network and Studio 60 – cameoed on something called 30 Rock, a somewhat similarly themed show about sketch comedy that debuted on NBC at the same time as Studio 60, resulting in just a tad of rivalry.
In case you missed it or have yet to see it and want to watch it now, here it’s the epic meeting between him and Tina Fey in a somewhat recognisable style.
News
Monday’s “Monty Python’s Flying Omens” news
Awards
- Results of the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Film
- Amy Adams to play Lois Lane in Superman reboot
- Trailer for The Three Musketeers
- Robert de Niro and Forest Whitaker to star in Freelancers
- Mila Kunis joins Oz, the Great and Powerful
- American Gods movie moves forward
Theatre
- Diana Rigg joins Pygmalion
British TV
- Women in Love gets 570,000 viewers + other ratings
- My Family axed
- BBC pension deficit only £1.6bn
- Phillip Glenister joins Undisclosed
- Terry Jones to adapt Good Omens
- The Indian Doctor and Land Girls get more series
US TV
- Tom Hanks to guest star on 30 Rock
- Katee Sackhoff to star in Longmire
- Fringe‘s ratings pick up
- Gale Harold joins The Secret Circle + other pilot casting
- Adrian Pasdar gets a pilot
- Maya Rudolph to star in NBC pilot
- FX developing conspiracy drama series with Oliver Stone
- Rena Sofer and Ben Lawson join Covert Affairs
- William Sadler and others to guest on White Collar
- David Ramsey joins Cooper and Stone
- Shohreh Aghdashloo to guest on House [minor spoilers]
- Andrew Dice Clay to guest on Entourage
US TV
What have you been watching this week (w/e March 25)?
It’s been a little while since the last one, but it’s time for "What have you been watching this week?", your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched this week. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?
My usual recommendations for maximum viewing pleasure are: Archer, Being Human (US), Community, The Daily Show, House, The Killing, Modern Family, Shameless (US), Stargate Universe and 30 Rock. Watch them (and keep an eye on The Stage‘s TV Today Square Eyes feature as well) or you’ll be missing out on the good stuff.
- Chuck – an okay episode this week, but it’s still miles away from entertaining. I keep saying this but I might be giving up on it soon.
- House – rewatched a season one episode the other day, and again, here’s a show that’s forgotten what made it so good in the first place. It needs to recover its edge. It’s still above average TV, but it’s a shadow of its former misanthropic self.
- Shameless (US) – has slowly been becoming must-see TV, despite William H Macey’s slightly implausible performer as Frank. Emmy Rossum is fantastic though.
- White Van Man – BBC3’s sitcom starring Will Mellor. I say ‘sitcom’ but it’s not actually funny. I tuned in this week because our Joanna Page was on it as a Star Trek-obsessed single mum and web designer and while she did raise the comedy level considerably, everything else about it was horrid. The cast – with the exception of the slightly bland Georgia Moffet – are fine. It’s the script, which just isn’t funny. Poor.
UPDATE: Many thanks to Chloe for pointing out that the new series of Engrenages (Spiral) starts on BBC4 next Saturday! Tune in, everyone!
But what have you been watching?
Sitting Tennant
Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 10, 2011)
Well, on Tuesday, I promised you a little surprise and here it is – the return of Friday’s Sitting Tennant! Work’s calmed down enough and there have been enough pictures sent in by the great and the good now that we can sustain Friday Tennants again. So relax and allow your eyeballs to savour all the Tennanty goodness for the rest of the weekend.
- Hebbie: 55
- Sister Chastity: 35
- Rullsenberg: 25
- Toby, Erin C, Janice: 15
- esgaril, theriverlady: 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, 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.