Are you ready for the first Sitting Tennant of September? David is an I bet you are, too.
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Sitting Tennant
Year: 2012
Tuesday’s “Neil Gaiman writing another Doctor Who, TCM goes HD and iPlayer to offer mobile downloads” news
Doctor Who
- Neil Gaiman writing another episode
British TV
- IPad/iPhone iPlayer to offer downloads
- Friday ratings: Parade’s End loses a million viewers
- TCM to launch an HD channel [subscription required]
Theatre
Remember Maxwell Caulfield from Grease 2 and The Colbys? Well, now he’s doing Greek tragedy
Maxwell Caulfield. You might remember him. He essentially had the John Travolta role in Grease 2 and he was Miles Colbys in The Colbys as well. Look – here he is:
What’s he up to now? Well, he’s Menelaus in probably the first ever US production of Euripides’ Helen, being performed at the Getty Villa in Malibu. Didn’t see that one coming, did you?
No idea whether it’s going to be good or not, but it’s my favourite Euripides play so give it a try if you’re in the vicinity.
More over on the Getty site.
Possibly the worst theme song you will ever hear ever: The Incredible Hulk (1966)
It’s the theme to the 1960s cartoon The Incredible Hulk. Like having Freddy Krueger draw his fingernails over a blackboard… then over your own pulsating brain, before inserting themselves so they can eviscerate you slowly forever and ever as you’re unable to forget them.
[via Ian Gregory]
US TV
Preview: The New Normal (NBC) 1×1
In the US: Tuesdays, 9.30/8.30c, NBC. Starts September 11
In the UK: Acquired by E4
NBC. Comedy.
Funny how if you’d stuck those two words together in the 90s, you’d have got gold, thanks to Friends, and how if you stick them together now, despite Community and 30 Rock, you get lead. Certainly the viewers seem to think so, judging from the ratings.
In fact, ABC is largely the network to watch if you want to see something that’s actually funny, thanks to both Modern Family and Happy Endings. So what better network for NBC to emulate with a new comedy than ABC. Of course, being NBC, it’s done it all wrong.
The New Normal is the unwanted answer to the pointless question: “What if we created a sitcom based around the gay couple in Modern Family and how they adopted their baby? Except if we made them even more stereotypically gay and less interesting, and added a bland surrogate mother based on Anna Faris’ character in Friends?” Starring Justin Batha of The Hangover, Scottish actress Georgia King from Jane Eyre and The Book of Mormon‘s Andrew Rannells, it pulls off the miracle of being both inoffensive and offensive, practically its sole redeeming feature apart from a slightly intelligent script being Ellen Barkin as King’s bigoted grandmother.
Watch the trailer and see if you laugh.