Month: October 2012

US TV

Your first look at Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries, including Doctor Who’s Freema Agyeman

29 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Young Carrie Bradshaw from The Carrie Diaries

Well, brace yourselves, because in January, The CW plans to unleash on the world The Carrie Diaries, a prequel to Sex and the City set in 1984 and based on Candace Bushnell’s own books. Now, I was expecting a certain level of dreadful to this, simply because at the very least it was going to look bad compared to the original, particularly since The CW isn’t exactly going to offer the same latitudes as HBO.

But OMG, this looks worse than I could possibly have imagined. It doesn’t help that Doctor Who‘s own Freema Agyeman appears to have completely lost the ability to act. If she had it once, it’s gone now. Oh dear.

Monday’s “BBC3’s zombie casting, Torchwood limbo and Mira Sorvino is a trooper” news

29 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

  • Torchwood not cancelled, just in limbo

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, with Maggie Smith et al

Canadian TV

  • Ratings for the week of October 15-21

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

It’s Hammer Time!: Quatermass II (1957)

26 October 2012 Natalia Romanova 1 Comment

Well, Hammer have taken me a little bit by surprise this week by uploading some more movies, so in a change of plans, here’s the wonderful Quatermass II for you to enjoy. The sequel to The Quatermass Experiment, it needs no introduction, but in case I’m wrong on that, not only can you read that previous entry where I do introduce it, Hammer historian Marcus Hearn will tell you more about it first when you click on ‘Play’.

Personally, I think it’s the better of the three Hammer Quatermass movies: Quatermass comes across as less of a dick, it’s got Sid James and William Franklyn in the cast, and it’s faster paced.

You don’t need to have seen the first to know whats’ going on so enjoy!

Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 40, 2012)

26 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Toby's Sitting Tennant

Does anyone here understand sign language?

  1. Hebbie: 40
  2. Sister Chastity, Toby: 30

Sitting Board of Winners 2012
January
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

February
Sister Chastity

March
Sister Chastity

April
Sister Chastity, Shilohforever

May
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

June
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

July
Hebbie

August/September
Toby, 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!