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Year: 2012
UK TV
Review: Doctor Who – 7×5 – The Angels Take Manhattan
In the UK: Twas on BBC1 on Saturday. Available on the iPlayer
In the US: It was on BBC America on Saturday, y’all
Vroomfondel: I think our minds must be too highly trained, Majikthise
From the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
So here we are. The end of an era. Exeunt Ponds, stage right, chased by a baby Angel. Stevie Moffat introduced them to us two and a half years ago with the first of his stories, The Eleventh Hour, and here he is, writing them out again.
Should be quite a moving moment, shouldn’t it? Rusty usually managed to make companion departures the big tearjerkers they should be. Maybe not Martha, although who cared about her. But the ‘death’ of Pipes? The ‘death’ of Donna? Pass me a snivel-rag now.
Except, while there was a certain degree of sadness right at the end, this wasn’t quite the tour de force I was hoping for from our Stevie. The trouble? I think that Stevie might be getting too clever for his own good. And working too hard.
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Monday’s “Channel 4’s winter dramas, Greg Kinnear returns to TV and Morrison redoes Watchmen” news
I lied
Doctor Who
- The Angels Take Manhattan gets 5.9m viewers
Film
- No Taken 3?
- Andrew Garfield confirmed for The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan join Edgar Wright’s The World’s End
- Judi Dench and Steve Coogan to star in Stephen Frears’ Philomena
Trailers
- Clip from Red Dawn remake with Chris Hemsworth and Adrianne Palicki
- Trailer for Bullet to the Head with Sylvester Stallone and Christian Slater
Comics
- Grant Morrison to finish Alan Moore’s original Watchmen idea
UK TV
- A Downton prequel?
- Blinkbox acquires Veep
- Sky Living acquires Chicago Fire
- Top Gear presenters sign up for another three years
- Channel 4’s autumn/winter showlist and drama showreel…
- …details of new commissions…
- …casting on Southcliffe
US TV
- Thursday ratings: Elementary starts big, The Last Resort starts okay
- A third season for Franklin & Bash
US TV casting
- Nicole Richie and George Takei join American Horror Story
- Michael Trucco to recur on Revenge
New US TV shows
- Jason Katims to adapt About A Boy
- Craig Ferguson sells two shows to CBS
- CBS buys dating comedy Nerds in Love
New US TV show casting
- Greg Kinnear to star in adaptation of Rake
- CBS picks up Jerry Bruckheimer FBI drama The Bureau
- Ken Leung to recur on Infamous
Sitting Tennant
Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 36, 2012) + August/September’s winners
Hear no evil, see no evil, drink no evil – or something similar appears to be the message of Sitting Tennant today. Whatever the case, that’s a big 5 points to everyone who sent in a picture. And that means that we have two winners of the August/September rollover: Sister Chastity, and for the first time this year, Toby! Well done to you both!
October’s competition will start on Tuesday. Anyone can enter so get picture-hunting!
- Toby, Sister Chastity: 45
- Hebbie: 35
- Shilohforever: 20
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
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!
US TV
Review: Vegas 1×1 (CBS/Sky Atlantic)
In the US: Tuesdays, 10/9c, CBS
In the UK: Acquired by Sky Atlantic HD
As you may recall, last year, everyone when 60s crazy. And by everyone, I mean NBC and ABC, with The Playboy Club and Pan Am. The Playboy Club was hampered essentially by budget and a script that tried so hard to fair to everyone and not be exploitative that not much interesting happened when Amber Heard wasn’t around in a scarlet bunny outfit. Certainly nothing interesting happened when Eddie Cibrian was on-screen.
Pan Am, by contast, had no problems with budget or even its cast. Instead, it was hampered by a script that was tedious bollocks. Trans-atlantic flights are more interesting.
The accusation then was the networks were trying to cash in on the popularity of period cable show Mad Men. Maybe a bit, but given Mad Men first aired in 2007 and the networks had already tried series set in the 70s, 80s and 90s, it’s a stretch to say it had to be because of a mad rush to ape Mad Men. But it was at least an attempt to emulate the tone of the quality period dramas of cable TV. Hell, even Starz is trying to do that with Magic City and it is a cable network.
But all those efforts failed, because fundamentally neither NBC nor ABC can make those kinds of shows. Fox? Don’t even think about it. It’s busily trying to be CBS.
Just as we all were starting to despair that no US broadcast network could actually make decent, quality dramas of any kind any more, let alone period dramas, along comes CBS – our last, best hope for quality – and saves the day with Vegas, written by Nicholas Pileggi of GoodFellas fame. Set in 1960s Las Vegas and based on a real story, it has a stellar movie-star cast that includes Dennis Quaid, Carrie-Anne Moss from The Matrix and Michael Chiklis (The Shield, Fantastic Four, No Ordinary Family), features some seamless attention to detail, a suitably complex bit of plotting and characterisation, and – because it’s CBS – a bit of police procedure.
Oh yes, and it’s got Jason O’Mara from Terra Nova. Can’t have everything right, huh?
Here’s a trailer and behind-the-scenes preview.