Month: March 2016

News: Ripper Street, Young & Hungry cancelled; JK Simmons is Commissioner Gordon; Andie MacDowell – model woman; Geena Davis – exorcist; + more

8 March 2016 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Film casting

  • JK Simmons to play Commissioner Gordon in Justice League

Internet TV

UK TV

New UK TV shows

  • BBC green lights: King Lear, with Anthony Hopkins; adaptation of King Charles III; adaptation of Zadie Smith’s NW; and multigenerational family drama Wanderlust 

US TV 

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

  • WGN America green lights: pilots of adaptations of DC Comics’ Scalped and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic

New US TV show casting

Weekly Wonder Woman

Weekly Wonder Woman: DC Comics: Bombshells #32-33, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year 5 #11, Justice League #48, Superman #49, Superman-Wonder Woman #26, Teen Titans #17, The Legend of Wonder Woman #16-17, Wonder Woman ’77 #16-17

7 March 2016 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Apparently, there was more filming of Wonder Woman over the weekend on some A-road northwest of London. I know this because it stopped my sister-in-law getting home from her mum’s on time. Can’t tell you what was being filmed, mind – that’s how good I am at news.

In other Wondy news, though, lots of releases in the past two weeks which I’ll review at different levels of sketchiness this week. In DC Bombshells, the Bombshells are lezzing up while fighting the Battle of Britain with the help of Steve Trevor, Wondy and her death horse. But Baroness von Gunther is back and she has a new horse of her own…

In Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year 5, alternative Wondy is having to deal with Bizarro Superman, while in Justice League, both Wondy and Steve Trevor are having to deal with all manner of godly and Amazon challenges.

Vandal Savage (and family) are continuing their attempts at world domination in Superman-Wonder Woman and Superman, while the Kryptonite-fuelled Superman isn’t quite sure whether Wondy is his girlfriend or ex-girlfriend… even if Wondy seems pretty sure.   

Over in Teen Titans, Wondy’s having to put up with some young superheroes burgling her flat to steal a stone head, while in The Legend of Wonder Woman, Diana is getting ready to strap on a very familiar outfit to fight the war in Europe. Be braced for another one of my helpful lessons in modern Greek while we’re at it.

And lastly, it’s time for a Very Special Wonder Woman ’77, in which we learn that killing elephants is bad.  

All that after the jump. But first, it turns out that The Legend of Wonder Woman now has a trailer. Be warned: as well as spoilers for already published issues, there’s a glimpse or two of issues to come, as well as some synth orchestra music straight out of a low budget smartphone game developed in the former Yugoslavia.

Continue reading “Weekly Wonder Woman: DC Comics: Bombshells #32-33, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year 5 #11, Justice League #48, Superman #49, Superman-Wonder Woman #26, Teen Titans #17, The Legend of Wonder Woman #16-17, Wonder Woman ’77 #16-17”

Yes, Spain does do science-fiction: meet El ministerio del tiempo

7 March 2016 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Although it always seems to be about time travel…

The latest Spanish sci-fi show is La 1’s El ministerio del tiempo (The Ministry of Time). I don’t speak Spanish, but as far as I can tell, it’s about a Spanish government ministry that tries to stop other countries from changing history to benefit themselves at the expense of Spain.

The show focuses on the ministry’s newest ‘patrol’ – Army of Flanders soldier Alonso de Entrerríos, 19th century student Amelia Folch and 21st century Samur paramedic Julián Martínez – who as well as avoiding the temptation to kill Hitler, et al, before the Second World War starts, frequently have to stop artistic works from being stolen/destroyed/never created, with everything from Don Quixote to Guernica needing to be rescued.

Currently airing its second season, it looks a lot of fun and won last year’s Ondas Award for Best Spanish TV series. Perhaps most interestingly for TV nerds like me, there’s an episode in which Michelle Jenner plays Queen Isabel I of Spain, who was the first to establish the Ministry back in 1491 – Jenner, of course, played Isabel in soapy biopic Isabel, which aired over here on Sky Arts. Nice crossover work, guys.

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