More to come next week – what do you think? Any good? Were SyFy wrong to turn this down for a series?
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Month: November 2012
US TV
Willow and Oz reunited at last!
Alyson Hannigan, who played Willow on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, is, of course, a regular on How I Met Your Mother. Seth Green, who played Oz on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, is currently one of the people behind Robot Chicken but he’s taken time out to appear in How I Met Your Mother – and here’s a picture of him with Hannigan. Sweet, huh? He’s doing a very Oz look, too.
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Monday’s “Ken Branagh’s Macbeth, a full season for Beauty and the Beast and new BBC DG” news
Film
- Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt to write next Star Wars movie
Film casting
- Maria Bello joins Prisoners
- Chris Hemsworth out of American Assassin
Trailers
- Trailer for PJ Hogan’s Mental with Toni Collette
Theatre
- Ken Branagh to play Macbeth in Manchester
- Rufus Hound joins One Man Two Guvnors
- Indira Varma and Kevin R McNally to star in Dance of Death
Canadian TV
- Haven renewed for a fourth season
UK TV
- Tim Davie appointed BBC director general following George Entwistle’s resignation
US TV
- Beauty and the Beast gets a full season
- Ben and Kate gets new showrunners
- Thursday ratings: Elementary down, The Last Resort up
- Friday ratings
- Saturday ratings
US TV casting
- Matthew Perry returning to The Good Wife
- Rosemarie DeWitt and Patton Oswalt to recur on The Newsroom
- DB Woodside to recur on Emily Owens MD
- Hal Linden to guest on The Mindy Project
- Mary Lynn Rajskub to guest on The Mentalist
- Brittany Snow to recur on Ben and Kate
New US TV shows
- Trailer for Fox’s The Following with Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy
- ABC cuts White Van Man adaptation Family Tools to 10 episodes
New US TV show casting
- Royal Pains‘ Jill Flint to star in After Hours
Sitting Tennant
Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 42, 2012)
Whatever happened, it clearly sucked the life out of David and was quite pleasant. See you on Tuesday!
- Toby: 15
- Hebbie, Sister Chastity: 5
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
October
Hebbie, 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!
It's Hammer Time!
It’s Hammer Time!: The Man In Black (1949)
Although it might not seem like it these days, BBC Radio was once a haven for horror. Back between 1943 and 1955, ‘The Man in Black’ introduced a series of horror tales to scare the nation, first in Appointment With Fear and then in his own show The Man In Black. Comprising plays originally written for American radio by John Dickson Carr, as well as adaptations of stories by the likes of Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe, the show ran for ten series in all, four on the Home Service, the rest on the Light Programme, with the Man In Black being played for nine of them by Valentine Dyall, the part being taken his the second series by his father Franklin Dyall when he was unavailable. Who’s Valentine Dyall? Well, if you’re a Doctor Who fan, you’ll know who Valentine Dyall was:
In the late 40s, Hammer was looking for radio properties to turn into movies and The Man in Black seemed a shoo-in. Starring Sid James, Anthony Forwood, Sheila Burrell, Hazel Penwarden, Betty Ann Davies and, of course, Valentine Dyall, the film sees a step-daughter return home following the death of her father, only to discover that someone is trying to drive her insane…
Here’s the whole movie for you to enjoy, and it’s introduced by Robert JE Simpson:
The Man in Black took an extended leave after the end of the radio series, but Radio 4 resurrected him in 1988 for Fear On Four, with Edward de Souza taking on the role. In 2009, Mark Gatiss took over for a series of BBC7 radio plays. The De Souza episodes are all on YouTube so turn the lights down and make an appointment with fear…