Awake‘s creator, Kyle Killen, explains what happens in the final episode of the now-cancelled NBC show. Don’t read if you don’t want to be spoiled, obviously.
Year: 2012
CBS unveils proper trailers for its new shows
CBS has finally got round to making proper trailers for its new shows, Elementary, Made In Jersey, Partners and Vegas, which you can view after the jump. Worryingly, Elementary looks the best of the lot…
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Monday’s “The Clarice Starling TV series, Room At The Top clear to air, and Malin Akerman to play Debbie Harry” news
Film
- Malin Akerman to play Debbie Harry in CBGB
Theatre
- Michelle Ryan to play Sally Bowles in Cabaret
UK TV
- Thursday ratings: Grandma’s House underperforming
- Friday ratings: Lip Service ends low
- BBC4’s Room At The Top gets the all clear [subscription required]
US TV
- Suits‘ Vanessa Ray to guest on Pretty Little Liars
- Men At Work starts with 2.65m viewers
- Cougar Town finds a showrunner
New US TV
- Lifetime working on Clarice Starling TV series
Possibly the worst written, most nonsensical scene in movie history
Unless you can think of a worse one. It’s from 1987’s Hard Ticket To Hawaii, by the way, which stars Wolf Larson who also starred in the worst ever TV show in history, LA Heat. I wonder if he’s been cursed after excavated an ancient druid monument or something.
If that’s whet your appetite, you can watch the ‘best’ bits if you have 10 minutes to waste. You may not be prepared for that degree of awesome, mind you, so ensure you’re sitting down first:
UK TV
Review: Hit and Miss (Sky Atlantic) 1×1
In the UK: Tuesdays, 10pm, Sky Atlantic
In the US: Acquired by DirecTV. Starts July 11
For many years, BSkyB has been seen by many in the UK as something of a scubby parasite. It earns a fortune from sports subscriptions and then what does it do with them? Uses them to price every other broadcaster out the sports market to make even more money, which is uses to acquire all the good US TV shows to make even more money (£6.6 billion in 2011). But does it make any programming itself? No, just tacky reality shows.
But the times, they are a changing. Sky may have poached all the good US TV shows, even signing an exclusive deal to acquire everything HBO makes and air it on a new channel Sky Atlantic, but now it’s started to get into the business of making halfway decent, scripted TV shows. It’s putting a real effort into comedy on Sky 1, it’s got two more-than-halfway decent arts channels in the form of Sky Arts 1 and 2, and despite the confusing name on the tin, Sky Atlantic now has its first home-grown UK drama.
Created by Paul Abbott of Shameless fame and written by writer-film director Sean Conway (brilliantlove, Alex and Her Arse Truck (no really), Rabbit Stories and Kings of London), it’s about a trans hitwoman who suddenly discovers she has a son by a former girlfriend. Chloë Sevigny – a Golden Globe-winning US actress who’s best known for Showtime’s Big Love but also for movies such as American Psycho, Lars von Trier’s Dogville and Boys Don’t Cry, in which she played a woman who falls in love with a trans man – is Mia, the hitwoman in question, who has to trundle off to meet her new family and to become both father and mother to them.
And unlike a lot of previous attempts by Sky at original programming, it’s not half bad. Even though it also stars Jonas Armstrong from Robin Hood, it’s about a trans hitwoman trying to raise a family in the Yorkshire Dales and it’s called Hit and Miss. Clever, huh?
Here’s a trailer.