Okay, it was written by kids and is only three minutes long, but it does star Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, features the Weeping Angels and aired on TV yesterday(okay, CBBC).
Does that make it canon? Hee, hee…
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Month: May 2012
HBO’s The Newsroom: a new preview clip, this time featuring Jane Fonda
It’s not the first promo, but this one for Aaron Sorkin’s latest show about TV does have the benefit of Jane Fonda being in it. The series will air on HBO in the US June 24th and in the UK on Sky Atlantic in October.
Friday’s “True Crime, NBC not bottom any more, and The Exorcist mini-series”news
Film
- Jon Favreau returning for Iron Man 3
- Mads Mikkelsen for Thor 2?
- Modern Family‘s Eric Stonestreet joins Identity Theft
Trailers
UK TV
- ITV1 commissions True Crime from the makers of The Bill
- Seann Walsh, The InBetweeners’ Blake Harrison, Caroline Quentin and James Fleet to star in Comedy Central pilot Big Bad World
- Wednesday ratings: 6.2m viewers watch The Apprentice
US TV
- New promo for the final season of The Closer
- Fox, CBS, NBC and Dish sue each other over ad-skipper
- Touch to have web series starring Sarah Roemer and 90210‘s Ryan Eggold
- 2011-12 ratings: The Voice saves NBC from last place for first time in eight years
New US shows
- TV Land orders pilots of I’m Not Dead Yet, based on Israel’s Zanzurim, and Brothers-in-Law
- Jeananne Goossen off The Following
- Pablo Schreiber off Made in Jersey
- JoAnna Garcia joins Animal Practice
- The Exorcist being developed as a mini-series
Classic TV
Nostalgia corner: Sapphire and Steel (1979-82)
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.
Ironically, it was only a matter of time until I got round to Sapphire and Steel. Now I have the time, so let’s delve into one of the coolest, scariest TV shows there’s ever been on UK TV.
I say ironically, because Sapphire and Steel is a show about time – specifically, Time going wrong, usually as the result of things that live in the ‘corridor of Time’ but sometimes of its own volition. In the world of Sapphire and Steel – which is also our modern world or at least the modern world of the 1970s and 80s – Time is everywhere and it is the enemy. It wants to break in. It wants to trap you. It wants to steal your parents. It wants to eat your soul. And then it wants to do the same to everything and everyone you know.
And to stop the world as we know it being destroyed when this happens, mysterious entities, apparently named after the elements*, perhaps even the incarnations of the elements themselves, intercede using all kinds of weird, unexplainable powers.
However, if you think they’re here to help us, you’re sorely mistaken, because Sapphire and Steel, played by Joanna Lumley and David McCallum, are not like you and me. Even when they pretend to be on our side, to empathise with the predicaments of the mortal and human, they’re not. And they’re ever-so-willing to sacrifice every single one of us if necessary if they have to stop time. They have their own morality, their own rules and they don’t care about us. But they’re the only thing stopping history making us history, so do what they say.
Allow Sapphire to explain to the nature of Time to these annoying children and then follow me after the ever so scary title sequence to explain a little more about this most engrossing of shows:
Alternatively, there’s this rather lovely documentary about the show.
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What the Community cast have been told to tell people about why Dan Harmon was fired
PR is a big part of the television world and it’s always amusing when you get to see the nuts and bolts of it. NBC recently fired Community‘s showrunner, Dan Harmon. As is usual in such matters, they issued a memo about it, with one in particular addressed to the cast so they know what to say in public about the matter.
Entertainingly, the memo has leaked and everyone can see the kind of “robot speak” certain corporate PR people expect human beings to use. Don’t they ever read this kind of thing out loud to themselves? Maybe they do and that’s how they talk. A lot of them do, you know…
Remember: quirky actors are being asked to say these things to placate an intelligent audience.
Why did Dan get let go from the show?
We’re not made aware of why staffing changes take place but I will always be grateful to Dan for his great work on the show and wish him only the best. We’re also excited that we’ll be back on NBC’s schedule in the fall and are looking forward to working on those episodes.Were you aware that Dan was going to be let go?
No, that’s not something we’re consulted on. I’m sad to see him go but I am looking forward to starting our next 13 episodes of “Community.”Did the studio or network consult with you about these changes?
No they didn’t but we’re looking forward to working with David Guarascio & Moses Port on a new season of Community.What are their plans for the new season?
It’s a little early to say at this point but we’re looking forward the stories our characters will find themselves in come Sept.