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Ooh! A Colombian version of Breaking Bad

Metastasis will the be the Colombian version of Breaking Bad

Thought Breaking Bad was a bit white knuckle? Well, imagine what the Colombian version will be like, with Walter Blanco (Diego Trujillo) deciding to take on the cartels at their own game in Metastasis. Sounds fun, huh? One big difference, though: he’ll be cooking meth in an old school bus, not an RV.

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UPDATE: Now with English language trailer!

Thursday’s “David Tennant to star in Broadchurch (US), more Wilfred and SHIELD down” news

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  • Trailer for Last Vegas, with Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, et al

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The Weekly Play

The Wednesday Play:The Come-uppance of Captain Katt (1986)

A lot of the plays that have appeared in ‘The Wednesday Play’ have been serious and for adults. Yet, plays are for everyone and needn’t always be so ‘challenging’. We’ve already had one entry from ITV’s Dramarama series, but I think it’s about time we had a look at The Come-uppance of Captain Katt, the opener to the fourth season of the series starring Alfred Marks and written by Peter Grimwade. If that latter name is familiar, it’s probably because you’re a Doctor Who fan and while I’m not saying that this play about the making of a long-running science-fiction TV series and the politics involved has anything to do with Grimwade’s experiences of working on said show, you would be forgiven for thinking that perhaps it has…

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Wednesday’s “Camp cancelled, more Cedar Cove, ABC’s musical fairy tale and more Narnia” news

Hannibal - season two

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  • Trailer for Delicious, with Louise Brealey and Nico Rogner
  • New trailer for The Hobbit: THe Desolation of Smaug

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  • Trailer for ITV’s Breathless, with Jack Davenport, Iain Glen, Joanna Page et al

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Charley says: Splink

Apparently, the Green Cross Code, with its mantra of ‘Stop, look, listen, think’, was a bit too hard for 1970s kids to remember. Dolts. Oh hang on, I was one of those. 

So to help us dolts out, in 1976, the Green Cross Code recruited Jon Pertwee to teach us all the obviously far easier to remember mantra of ‘SPLINK’, which stood for (can you guess?) ‘Stop at the Pavement, Look and listen, and If traffic is coming, let it pass. When No traffic is near, cross the road, but Keep looking and listening.’

There. Simple hey?