Year: 2012

Tuesday’s “new seasons for The Client List, The Borgias and Southland; and NBC picks up five pilots” news

8 May 2012 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

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Canadian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

  • NBC picks up 1600 Penn, Animal Practice, Save Me, The New Normal and Revolution
  • TNT’s Tin Star not going forward
Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 18, 2012)

4 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Shilohforever's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Toby's Sitting Tennant

Who needs captions when pictures tell a thousand words each?

  1. Shilohforever: 15
  2. Hebbie, Sister Chastity, Toby: 5

Sitting Board of Winners 2012
January
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

February
Sister Chastity

March
Sister Chastity

April
Sister Chastity, Shillohforever

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!

Friday’s “David Cronenberg back on TV, Michael Bay’s Treasure Island TV prequel, Supernatural renewed and the BBC’s new dramas” news

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The Daily News will return on Tuesday

Film

Trailers

  • New trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Trailer for End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena
  • Trailer for The Expendables 2

Theatre

Canadian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

  • Jeff Fahey and David Cronenberg to guest on SyFy’s Rewind
  • AMC orders pilots for two shows, including Low Winter Sun
BFI events

What TV’s on at the BFI in June 2012

3 May 2012 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Diana Rigg as Klytemnestra

Time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of June 2012. Not a huge amount but what there is is cracking.

As well as a 1962 production of The Winter’s Tale with Robert Shaw, Rosalie Crutchley, Ron Moody and Patrick Macnee, there’s an illustrated lecture on TV’s depiction of women in the workplace by Dr Rachel Moseley of Warwick University, and – Δευς! – it’s a season of Greek tragedies on TV, including that famous 1962 production of Elektra that ITV aired in Greek without subtitles, as well as Oedipus Tyrannus with Patrick Stewart, Ronald Radd and Rosalie Crutchley (again), Agamemnon with Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg, Peter Hall’s The Oresteia with David Bamber, and Iphigenia at Aulis with Roy Marsden and Fiona Shaw.

I’m going to be bankrupt before the end of the month, aren’t I?

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Thursday’s “Spiral star joins Mr Selfridge, three join Spartacus and Adrian Pasdar is the president” news

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