Month: April 2012

Thursday’s “More Lilyhammer, less Ceefax and Channel 4’s spring/summer season” news

19 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Trailers

  • Trailer for Your Sister’s Sister, with Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt
  • Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, with Channing Tatum

International TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L Jackson try to flog some iPhones

18 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

New Girl‘s Zooey Deschanel and The Avengers‘ Samuel L Jackson both have an iPhone 4s and no friends it seems. And they’d like you to be the same as them.

I wonder if they’ll redub them for overseas, seeing as Siri’s voice is different for different markets. Over here, Siri is a guy, for one thing.

The question is, do they make you want to buy an iPhone 4s? I already have one and I will admit that the ads do at least make me want to try Siri more than I have already – I look on the ads as the instruction manuals I never got for Siri (“Wow. I never knew it could do that and I’ve had it for six months and I write about them for a living…”).

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US TV

Nepotism on Girls

18 April 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Yesterday, I demonstrated how unhip I am in my review of Girls.

At the moment, though, I can only marvel at the talent of Lena Durham, wonder how she managed to surround herself with so many non-descript other actresses who make no impression beyond their accent (in the British character’s case)

And yet, as this pastiche of HBO’s advertising poster for Girls shows, they are all well-known, but only in certain circles…

A pastiche of HBO's Girls' poster

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