Year: 2012

Monday’s “Borgen 2, Lilyhammer 1, musical Back to the Future, How To Live With Your Parents and the Columbine massacre” news

6 February 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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British TV

US TV

Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 5, 2012)

3 February 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Shilohforever's Sitting Tennant

Is it hot, does he want to kiss it, is he about to serenade it or is he in fact a ‘chip whisperer’? Who knows, but have a good weekend.

  1. Hebbie, Sister Chastity: 15
  2. Toby: 10
  3. shilohforever: 5

Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition!

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

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 “Jamie Bamber pilot, Michael Sheen masters sex, and Munsters are not Munsters” news

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Film

British TV

  • BBC1 commissions series based on PG Wodehouse’s Blandings, starring Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders
  • S4C lobbies for investment in online-only content [subscription required]
  • Midsomer Murders gets more than 6m viewers

US TV

  • Munsters remake to be called Mockingbird Lane
  • Lost‘s Ken Leung joins Sarah Silverman comedy
  • ABC Family renews The Secret Life of the American Teenager, picks up new Baby Daddy
  • Jamie Bamber to star in Chelsea General
  • TV Land renews The Exes
  • FX developing comedy starring Dana Gould
  • NBC orders JJ Abrams/Eric Kripke’s Revolution
  • Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan to star in Masters of Sex
Random Acts

Random Acts: Ali Larter eats cake, Amber Heard photobombs

2 February 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Ali Larter loves Reddit

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from our Ali, although she’s been off doing lots of charity work and raising her new son. But she recently did an interview on Reddit in which she revealed not only is she working on a cookbook, she’s also working on a TV show not too far from home:

I’m developing a TV show. I love the brainstorming and creative process…exciting to be a producer, help guide the show, and be an actress… It’s a dark comedy based in the charity world…it’s about doing bad in the name of good.

I’ve also been working on a cookbook about entertaining. I started traveling at a young age, and cooking/entertaining was a way to create a familial environment everywhere I went.

Meanwhile, Amber Heard has been off photobombing people:

Amber Heard photobombs

Don’t ask me why. I mean this is random acts, isn’t it?

Classic TV

Lost Gems: The Ascent of Man (1973)

2 February 2012 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Well, as ‘Lost Gems’ go, you can’t get much more ‘Lost Gem’-ier than The Ascent of Man, the 65th official most important programme in the history of British television. Made in 1973, it was the follow-up and some might say companion series to Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, which looked at evolution of Western culture and art. In it, Brains Trust member Jacob Bronowski discussed the history of science, starting with the evolution of man (and, of course, woman) and working its way through early human society to modern times.

And it was, quite simply, breathtaking.

Here’s a clip of the show and the then-controller of BBC2 and the man who commissioned the series, Sir David Attenborough, to tell you all about it. Then after the jump, you lucky people, all 13 episodes of the series.

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