Aisha Tyler (Friends, 24, Archer) has recently been abused for her recent appearance at the E3 gaming show. Now, she hits back in a very interesting way.
[via @craiggrannell]
Technology
Month: June 2012
UK TV
Jon Hamm, Damian Lewis, Kiefer Sutherland, Kelsey Grammer, Bryan Cranston and Peter Krause talk acting stuff
Well, we’ve already had the marvel that was the actresses roundtable, and now The Hollywood Reporter has got all the nominees for the Best Actor Emmy together in one room to talk about acting and stuff. So after the jump, enjoy Jon Hamm, Damian Lewis, Kiefer Sutherland, Kelsey Grammer, Bryan Cranston and Peter Krause talking together for a whole hour.
Thursday’s “Weeds cancelled, Jeanne Trippelhorn joins Criminal Minds and Brent Spiner to recur on Warehouse 13” news
Film
- Dermot Mulroney to play Mike Markkula in Steve Jobs biopic
Trailers
- Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike [NSFW]
- International trailer for Django Unchained
UK TV
US TV
- Brent Spiner to recur on Warehouse 13
- Big Love‘s Jeanne Trippelhorn joins Criminal Minds
- Weeds cancelled
- Jacinda Barrett to guest on Suits
- Billy Baldwin and Richard Riehle to guest on Men At Work
- Tuesday ratings
New US TV shows
- NBC greenlights Jerry Bruckheimer’s The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
The Weekly Play
The Wednesday Play: 1984 (1954)
Time to induct a new member into the pantheon of blog gods: Nigel Kneale, the god of writing innovation and scary predictions.
Kneale was one of the first TV playwrights and drama writers, famously emptying the streets of Britain with The Quatermass Experiment, a six-part 1953 science-fiction serial that revolutionised television and brought intelligent science-fiction to the masses.
Kneale principally remains famous for the character of Professor Bernard Quatermass, who went on to appear in three further TV series on both the BBC and ITV as well as three Hammer Horror movies, a radio play and 2005 BBC4 remake.
But Kneale was one of television great trailblazers. As well as predicting reality TV in the play, The Year of the Sex Olympics, he also created the idea of the scientific supernatural play for TV with The Stone Tape, in which scientists investigate the supernatural and discover that houses and stone can act as a recording material for events, thus creating ghosts when they ‘play back’ the event – something still described in psychic investigations as the ‘stone tape’ phenomenon.
For this, his many other works and his influence on television and film, Nigel Kneale has been made a blog god. Here’s a lovely documentary to explain in greater detail why he’s so brilliant.
But back in 1954, Kneale managed to empty the streets of Britain a second time, as well as cause questions to be asked in Parliament about the BBC’s moral standards. How? With an adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 starring Peter Cushing and future Quatermass André Morrell that was voted one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century. It’s our Wednesday Play and you can watch it after the jump.
Film
The UK does understand the word ‘gringos’
Well, it’s up in Tube stations, so clearly the marketing people behind Casa de mi Padre think the people of the UK understand the word ‘gringos’ – the renaming of Get The Gringo remains a mystery.
