Month: May 2012

Thursday’s “Christopher Guest TV show?, Gary Oldman joins Robocop and Andrea Roth leaves Revolution” news

24 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Films

Trailers

  • Trailer for The Watch with Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

A bit of A Bit of Fry and Laurie

A bit of A Bit of Fry and Laurie – The Final Three

23 May 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie

As you may have guessed from the launch of ‘The Wednesday Play’ earlier today, ‘A bit of A Bit of Fry and Laurie’ is coming to an end today – if you like something here, remember to leave a comment or ‘like’ it or it might go away (particularly if I’m running out of YouTube vids). I asked if anyone had any requests for the final video, and Aaron responded – although he couldn’t decide which of three he’d like.

So here we go:

The Bishop and the Warlord… the sequel, which sees Hugh Laurie deploying his pre-House ‘American’ accent

Shoe brothel

And Gelliant Gutfright presents…

Of course, if you all still really love ‘A bit of A Bit of Fry and Laurie’, I’ll move it to Tuesday. Or Friday. Let me know.

The Weekly Play

The Wednesday Play: Alice in Wonderland (1966)

23 May 2012 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Alice in Wonderland

Once upon a time, the TV schedules in UK were full of plays. There were strands including The Wednesday Play, Play For Today, Theatre 625, Armchair Theatre, Espionage, Out of the Unknown, Tales of the Unexpected, Play of the Week, Twentieth Century Theatre, The Sunday Night Play and I’ve barely scratched the surface.

Now, we have Playhouse Presents on Sky Arts and that’s about it.

So today, in an effort to boost the ‘play count’, I’m starting a new strand on TMINE, appropriately entitled ‘The Wednesday Play’, that’s going to feature a different classic play each week. Now, I could start with almost anything, but since we have a taste for the unusual round here, let’s start with Jonathan Miller’s 1966 adaptation for The Wednesday Play of Alice in Wonderland, starring John Gielgud, Peter Sellers, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gough, Leo McKern, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Malcolm Muggeridge and Eric Idle.

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The making of SyFy’s Defiance

23 May 2012 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

SyFy has a new show coming called Defiance set 35 years in the future after aliens have arrived on Earth. Weirdly, as well as being a TV show, it’s also an online multi-player game that will interact with the show’s storyline. Here’s a great big movie about the making of both. Yes, sadly, it has Jaime Murray in it:

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