Every so often, TMINE flags up what new TV events the Royal Television Society is holding around the UK
All the UK television organisations have started to get the hang of their Zoom Pro subscription, with the RTS now cranking up its output at speed. Coming up in the next month, with possibly more events to come, are no fewer than three online meets.
After the jump, you can learn how you can attend Normal People: Working With Sound For Drama, The Future of the Studio Audience, and TV Brand Cut-through Re-Envisioned.
So DC Universe’s Stargirl is supposed to be set in the present day (or at least 2019, when it was filmed). Nine years earlier, there was a group of superheroes called the Justice Society of America. They all have a very 1950s vibe, despite living in the far off year of 2010.
They all seem to drive around in cars from the 1950s and 1960s and their costumes have a distinctly archaic look. Is there a reason why?
The latest episode of Stargirl, however, suggests that maybe the producers just thought it looked cool for their fluffy teenager-oriented superhero show and that anyone thinking about it too hard clearly has too much time on their hands. Because we now have a presumably definitive answer to that dating question.
Yep, Doctor Mid-nite was born in 1914 and was an active member of the Justice Society of America until he died in battle, aged 96.
That’ll teach you to look too hard.
NERD DISCLAIMER
Stargirl is explicitly part of the same multiverse as the Arrowverse, as it was featured at the end of the latest crossover event. That featured Arrow/Spectre reconfiguring the timelines of every universe in the multiverse, which led to various discrepancies and changes in the timelines of those universes.
So if you really want to apply some NerdFilla™, you could argue that this is a sign that Oliver wasn’t paying attention and really messed everything up for the Stargirl universe. While simultaneously causing the cancellation of Swamp Thing.
A temporary replacement for TMINE’s Orange Thursday feature in which I review a readily available movie you’ve probably already seen
As I’ve mentioned before, there is a hole in my mind. Through a weird combination of timings, I missed out on watching pretty much every Disney movie ever made. I just grew up in the wrong years relative to Disney release days. It’s weird.
But we’re in lockdown and one of the great successes of this period has been Disney+. Disney had a five-year plan for obtaining subscribers to its new streaming service… but is already more or less there. And we’re one of them.
So Lovely Wife, who had a similar gap in her cinematic education, and I decided to take advantage of the lack of new movies and new TV being released at the moment to watch some of those cultural touchstones we’d missed out on. Plus anything else that took our fancy.
We’re still working our way through them, so there’ll be more to come, and there’s absolutely no point properly reviewing them either, so after the jump you’ll find a potted selection of potted reviews of just a few of the things you can find on Disney+: The Jungle Book (1967), Aladdin (1992), Mulan (1998), Brave (2012), Moana (2016) and The Lion King (2019).
