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Month: May 2013
Wednesday’s “Trailer for The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Maison close to close, and The Last Ship to sail” news
Film
- Warner Bros acquires Dungeons & Dragons film rights
- The exciting world of Avengers salary negotiation
- Shane Black to direct Doc Savage
Film casting
- John Travolta to star in The Forger
- Andrew Garfield to star in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
- Maggie Smith to star in My Old Lady
- James Franco to star in Wim Wenders’ Everything Will Be Fine
Trailers
- Trailer for Lee Daniels’ The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda and Forrest Whitaker
- Trailer for Ender’s Game with Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley et al
French TV
- Maison close cancelled
UK TV
- BBC4 chief leaves for ITV
- Casting on By Any Means, Give Out Girls and Strike Back
- Monday ratings: Vicious and Job Lot drop
US TV
US TV casting
- Annet Mahendru and Alison Wright promoted to regulars on The Americans
- Ioan Gruffudd and Raphael Sbarge to guest on Necessary Roughness
New US TV shows
- CBS green lights: Mom
- TNT green lights: The Last Ship
Wednesday’s “Trailer for The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Maison close to close, and The Last Ship to sail” news
Film
- Warner Bros acquires Dungeons & Dragons film rights
- The exciting world of Avengers salary negotiation
- Shane Black to direct Doc Savage
Film casting
- John Travolta to star in The Forger
- Andrew Garfield to star in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
- Maggie Smith to star in My Old Lady
- James Franco to star in Wim Wenders’ Everything Will Be Fine
Trailers
- Trailer for Lee Daniels’ The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda and Forrest Whitaker
- Trailer for Ender’s Game with Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley et al
French TV
- Maison close cancelled
UK TV
- BBC4 chief leaves for ITV
- Casting on By Any Means, Give Out Girls and Strike Back
- Monday ratings: Vicious and Job Lot drop
US TV
US TV casting
- Annet Mahendru and Alison Wright promoted to regulars on The Americans
- Ioan Gruffudd and Raphael Sbarge to guest on Necessary Roughness
New US TV shows
- CBS green lights: Mom
- TNT green lights: The Last Ship
UK TV
Mini-review: Doctor Who – 7×11 – The Crimson Horror
In the UK: Saturday, 6.15pm, 4th May 2013, BBC1/BBC1 HD. Available on the iPlayer
In the US: Saturday, 8pm/7c, 4th May 2013, BBC America
Not worth a full review, more a mini-review this, I think, since despite the presence of Diana Rigg (and daughter) in the cast, a reference to Tegan and a nice joke about Tom Tom (the sat nav, not the fourth Doctor), this was a pretty meh episode. It started off well enough, going for northern comedy and Victoriana, which are writer Mark Gatiss’s real strengths. Rigg was good, everyone was acting fine, and despite being Doctor-and-Clara-lite, it was engrossing, right down to Murray Gold’s Sherlock-riffs in the soundtrack.
But then it just sort of carried on, progressively becoming thinner, more predictable and less interesting as it tried to deport itself not as merely a comedy, but as a proper Doctor Who story, complete with evil, incredibly shit-looking beastie (we’re talking Invisible Enemy shit, here). Not even an Avengers joke, more references to Clara’s significance and a certain Sontaran getting to shoot people for a change could lift it from the “When’s this going to end, again?” Which is a shame, because as a comedy, it would have been a really good episode, I reckon.
Oh well, it’s Neil Gaiman doing Cybermen next week, albeit with the addition of a couple of kids to the companion line-up. Fingers crossed, it should be better.
Charley says: beware of electricity sub-stations
Inspired by Scarfolk, the English town that still lives in the 1970s, we’re continuing with this ‘ere blog’s latest feature: Charley says.
The 1970s was a terrible time, of course, where the risks to people from everything from electricity cables to water to other people could not be overstated. It was horrifying. Particularly the rabies.
To save the public from these threats – and themselves – the British government authorised a series of public information films designed to scare the living daylights out of anyone who watched them. And each week, I intend to scare the living daylights out of you with a public information film or two – watch them, as they might just save your life.
This week: electricity sub-stations. Don’t even think of playing frisbee near one, Jimmy.