Month: March 2012

Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 12, 2012)

23 March 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Shilohforever's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Which of these is your weekend most going to be like?

  1. Sister Chastity, Shilohforever: 40
  2. Hebbie: 20

Sitting Board of Winners 2012
January
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

February
Sister Chastity

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.

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

Friday’s “Hugh Dancy is Hannibal’s Will Graham, Bent broken and a second season for Smash” news

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Film

  • Michael Wincott, Toni Collette, Danny Huston and Michael Stuhlbarg join Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho
  • NSFW teaser for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson
  • Usher to play Sugar Ray Leonard
  • Trailer for The Host
  • The Wire‘s Michael K Williams to play Ol’ Dirty Bastard

Theatre

Canadian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

Weird old title sequences: Court Martial (1965)

22 March 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

It’s funny, isn’t it, the difference a year or two can make in terms of style. Consider, for example, the title sequence of a previous Lost Gem, Mission: Impossible, starring Peter Graves, which first aired in 1966.

Slick, glossy, exciting – and in color! Now let’s go back just one year to 1965 to have a look at Court Martial, also starring Peter Graves and Bradford Dillman. Set during World War 2 and detailing the investigations of a Judge Advocate General’s office (yes, those guys who were in JAG), it originally started life as a two-part 1963 episode of NBC’s Kraft Suspense Theatre that also starred Graves and Dillman. Made by ITC, it ran for one season of 26 episodes, airing first in the UK on ITV and then in the US on ABC and even won a BAFTA for best dramatic series.

And here’s the title sequence.

Interesting, huh. All stock footage, black and white, sharp cuts, etc. But it’s very much of a type – consider the title sequence of the similarly themed and quite good John Thaw show Red Cap, which looked at investigations by the UK military police and aired from 1964-66.

Do you see how similar they are? Fashion, huh? Yes, it even applies to TV title sequences.