Month: March 2012

Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 11, 2012)

16 March 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Shilohforever's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Why’s David so angry this week? Oh yes, because no one except Ms Rullsenberg is captioning pictures any more. Poor David.

  1. Sister Chastity: 35
  2. Shilohforever: 25
  3. Hebbie: 15

Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition! Because unless more people start taking part – or at least promising to take part at some point when they’re feeling more inspired – no more captioning competition and we’ll just have the picture competition.

Otherwise, it’s just going to look silly.

Sitting Board of Winners
January
Pictures: Hebbie, Sister Chastity
Captions: Rullsenberg, SK

February
Pictures: Sister Chastity
Captions: Rullsenberg

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.

Each month, I’ll name the best picture provider and best captioneer, and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!

Friday’s “Nathan Fillion is Hermes, trailer for Dark Shadows, E4 acquires Revenge and Idris Elba is Imhotep” news

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Film

Theatre

  • Tim McInnery, Samantha Bond and Georgia Moffet join Omid Djalili in What The Butler Saw
  • David Strathairn to star in The Heiress with Jessica Chastain

UK TV

  • E4 acquires Revenge
  • Idris Elba to play Imhotep in Warren Ellis’ Ascension
  • Sky and STV plan YouView launches [subscription required]

US TV

US TV pilots

  • Upstairs Downstairs‘ Neil Jackson to star in Notorious…
  • …along with Damages Tate Donovan; Lights Out‘s Holt McCallany joins Golden Boy
  • John Corbett to star in Widow Detective
  • Scott Bakula to star in Table for Three (aka Daddy’s Girls), Rick Schroder to star in Fox spy drama, The New Adventures of Old Christine‘s Hamish Linklater joins The Asset, Nurse Jackie‘s Zak Orth joins Revolution
US TV

1950s movies and 1970s Saturday morning shows artistic brain twisters

15 March 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Remember the 1970s US sci-fi TV show quiz pic from a couple of years ago? Well, the man behind that has done a couple of others. For Americans, here’s the Saturday morning action TV shows brain twister:

Saturday Morning Action Adventures

Click on it to make it bigger, if necessary, and you can go to the original site for an even more extreme close up.

Seeing as I think we got perhaps two or three of those shows, tops, during the 70s in the UK (there’s one show there I’d entirely forgotten about for 30+ years until this very moment), I’m not suspecting any UK readers will get these, but Americans, off you go. The answers for those who need them are here and here.

For everyone else, there’s this exciting 1950s sci-fi, horror and fantasy movie extravaganza:

1950s horror movies

Everyone should be able to get most of those, I reckon. Click to make it bigger, the original site is over here but there are no answers! Off you go!

Lost Gems: Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee (1984)

15 March 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

TV sketch shows come and go with disturbing regularity. Often, they’ll disappear without anyone realising they were there at all. But quite often, they’ll be training grounds for later comedy talent. Look at The Kevin Bishop Show, which gave Karen Gillan from Doctor Who her big break.

Now let’s look at Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee, a sort of sequel to A Kick Up The Eighties which essentially launched the careers of two Scottish talents: Robbie Coltrane and John Sessions.

A BBC2 show, LINPMLF emphasised two things in its publicity: the fact it had a female lead (Louise Gold – not a well known name, but the only regular British puppeteer on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, and one of the voices from the first three seasons of Spitting Image) and that it was Scottish. Yet the show itself was a more eclectic affair and largely revolved around Robbie Coltrane and John Sessions.

A success it was not. Today, if it’s remembered at all it’s for Coltrane’s Russian TV sketch, its diverse number of literary spoofs, ranging from Treasure Island through Edgar Lustgarten all the way through to the escapades of Dr Johnson (played by Coltrane) and Boswell (Sessions) – and for one character in particular, again played by Coltrane: Mason Boyne, a Scottish presbyterian orangeman, and his wife Morag (Gold).

But unfortunately, as with a lot of sketch shows, it was both hit and miss and didn’t get the ratings to support a second series. Did that stop Robbie Coltrane or John Sessions? Not a bit of it.