Well, Dan Starkey who plays Strax the Sontaran in Doctor Who, anyway.
Month: January 2014
Michael Palin returns to acting, no new Wonder Woman TV show and a Veronica Mars spin-off
Film casting
- Harrison Ford joins The Age of Adaline
Trailers
- Trailer for Walk of Shame with Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden and Gillian Jacobs
- Trailer for Date and Switch with Dakota Johnson et al
UK TV
- Outnumbered to return for final series
- Tuesday ratings
New UK TV shows
- BBC green lights: Flat News
- Michael Palin to star in BBC1’s Remember Me
US TV
US TV show casting
- Benjamin Bratt joins 24: Live Another Day
- Nathan Parsons to replace Luke Grimes on True Blood
- Jane Alexander to guest on Elementary
- Paul Rudd joins The Greatest Event in Television History
- John Hodgman and Dan Castellaneta to guest on Parks & Rec
- Bill Paxton to recur on Agents of SHIELD
New US TV shows
- NBC green lights: Mission Control, Ellen More or Less and Love Is Relative
- The CW red lights: Amazon…
- …green lights: Veronica Mars digital spinoff…
- …acquires: Channel 4’s Labyrinth
- Comedy Central green lights: Another Period
New US TV show casting
- Thomas Dekker joins Fox’s Backstrom
- Kendrick Sampson joins Fox’s Gracepoint, Kelsey Chow joins Fox’s Hieroglyph
- Kelen Coleman joins CBS’S The McCarthys, Zach Cregger to star in Fox’s Fatrick
US TV
Review: Enlisted 1×1 (Fox)
In the US: Fridays, 9.30/8.30c, Fox
If there’s one genre of comedy that the US does particularly well, it’s military comedy. Think The Phil Silvers Show. Think MASH. Think Private Benjamin. Don’t think Down Periscope.
But there’s been a bit of a lull of late. Wonder why. In fact, despite largely the conclusion of the Iraq war and the withdrawal of US troops from both there and Afghanistan, many are questioning if it’s ‘the right time’ for another military comedy.
Is there ever a right time?
All the same, a cautious greeting I think to Fox’s Enlisted, a welcome, funny comedy from Kevin Biegel, a former Scrubs writer and the co-creator of Cougar Town, that sees a ‘super soldier’ (Geoff Stults) sent back from Afghanistan for punching a superior officer. He winds up at a ‘rear detachment’ base in Florida, which coincidentally happens to be the same base where his two younger brothers are stationed – one who hates the army but is quite a good soldier, the other who loves the army but is a terrible soldier. Put in charge of them and the rest of their platoon of losers, Stults finds himself having to deal with not just his new, less prestigious mission, but competition from another sergeant (Angelique Cabral), his superior officer who also happened to raise him after his parents died (Keith David)… and a lost dog.
Galaxy Quest: The Documentary
Galaxy Quest was a brilliant 1999 movie about a fake TV series called Galaxy Quest (which bears more than a passing resemblance to Star Trek and certain other sci-fi shows, in both the fake onscreen and fake off-screen moments), its cast and its fans. If you haven’t watched it, you really should, since it stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Robin Sachs, Missi Pyle and Justin Long – and is very funny.
You can buy it on DVD or Blu-Ray.
But even dedicated Galaxy Quest fans might not know that when Galaxy Quest came out, E! created a mockumentary about the show for its ’20th anniversary’ that included interviews with the cast in-character, as well as footage that wasn’t included in the film. Guess what I just found, though:
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Random Acts
Random Acts: Amber Heard dyes Jonny Depp’s hair, Scarlett Johansson gets busy with the fizzy
The battle between various actresses to be as random as possible is hotting up, but it looks like one of them just gets random in a way that the others don’t. Amber Heard, for example, has randomly decided to get Jonny Depp to dye his hair blond.
How odd.
But Scarlett Johansson demonstrates once again that she’s the best at knowing how to bewilder us all by becoming the global brand ambassador for SodaStream.
Amazing. Who can top that?