Monday’s “Grimm renewed, the BBC’s sci-fi comedy pilots and Matthew Rhys is an American” news

Film

UK TV

  • Hollyoaks‘s Gerard McCarthy joins The Fall
  • Johnny Vegas starring in BBC3’s UFO sitcom A Saucer Full of Secrets, BBC planning alien invasion comedy V Sign

US TV

US TV pilots

US TV

Review: Missing (ABC) 1×1

Missing (ABC)

In the US: Thursdays, 8/7c, ABC

Spies are back. In a sense, they never really went away, but with several spy show pilots lined up for the fall, Covert Affairs now a regular on the USA Network and Homeland clearly the best new show of last fall, it seems like we’re ready to have secret agents back in our lives now, particularly with ABC’s Missing being thrust onto our screens just to fill in the gaps.

The big new trend in spy shows, though, as that list shows, is female spies. Covert Affairs stars Piper Perabo, Homeland revolves around Claire Danes, The Asset‘s lead is Ali Larter and Missing has Ashley Judd doing a Jason Bourne all over Europe (yes, they actually have come all the way to Europe to film this).

I say doing a Jason Bourne but Missing is really a sort of hybrid between The Bourne Identity and Taken, with former CIA operative Judd beating up Eurotrash to rescue her son, who’s been kidnapped by who knows who? While it never quite hits the heights of either movie, it’s actually a pretty good stab at doing both on the small screen.

Apart from the chase on Vespers. That was just silly. Here’s a trailer – yes, that is Sean Bean. Yes, there are a lot of spoilers for later episodes.

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Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 11, 2012)

Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Shilohforever's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Why’s David so angry this week? Oh yes, because no one except Ms Rullsenberg is captioning pictures any more. Poor David.

  1. Sister Chastity: 35
  2. Shilohforever: 25
  3. Hebbie: 15

Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition! Because unless more people start taking part – or at least promising to take part at some point when they’re feeling more inspired – no more captioning competition and we’ll just have the picture competition.

Otherwise, it’s just going to look silly.

Sitting Board of Winners
January
Pictures: Hebbie, Sister Chastity
Captions: Rullsenberg, SK

February
Pictures: Sister Chastity
Captions: Rullsenberg

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.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.

Each month, I’ll name the best picture provider and best captioneer, and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!

Friday’s “Nathan Fillion is Hermes, trailer for Dark Shadows, E4 acquires Revenge and Idris Elba is Imhotep” news

Film

Theatre

  • Tim McInnery, Samantha Bond and Georgia Moffet join Omid Djalili in What The Butler Saw
  • David Strathairn to star in The Heiress with Jessica Chastain

UK TV

  • E4 acquires Revenge
  • Idris Elba to play Imhotep in Warren Ellis’ Ascension
  • Sky and STV plan YouView launches [subscription required]

US TV

US TV pilots

  • Upstairs DownstairsNeil Jackson to star in Notorious
  • …along with Damages Tate Donovan; Lights Out‘s Holt McCallany joins Golden Boy
  • John Corbett to star in Widow Detective
  • Scott Bakula to star in Table for Three (aka Daddy’s Girls), Rick Schroder to star in Fox spy drama, The New Adventures of Old Christine‘s Hamish Linklater joins The Asset, Nurse Jackie‘s Zak Orth joins Revolution
US TV

1950s movies and 1970s Saturday morning shows artistic brain twisters

Remember the 1970s US sci-fi TV show quiz pic from a couple of years ago? Well, the man behind that has done a couple of others. For Americans, here’s the Saturday morning action TV shows brain twister:

Saturday Morning Action Adventures

Click on it to make it bigger, if necessary, and you can go to the original site for an even more extreme close up.

Seeing as I think we got perhaps two or three of those shows, tops, during the 70s in the UK (there’s one show there I’d entirely forgotten about for 30+ years until this very moment), I’m not suspecting any UK readers will get these, but Americans, off you go. The answers for those who need them are here and here.

For everyone else, there’s this exciting 1950s sci-fi, horror and fantasy movie extravaganza:

1950s horror movies

Everyone should be able to get most of those, I reckon. Click to make it bigger, the original site is over here but there are no answers! Off you go!