Gossip Girl season 2 gag reel plus Ed Westwick goes English

More because it’s vaguely amusing and you get to see Blake Lively (Serena) do the robot than because it’s very funny, here’s the Gossip Girl season two gag reel.

And although Hugh Laurie gets all the kudos these days for his American accent, Ed Westwick who plays Chuck Bass does an equally good job I think – and here’s proof of just how English he is in real life, together with his advice on how to convince people you’re American. He might be joking.

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The Doctor in Dreamland

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Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (from Sister Chastity): School Reunion

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

It’s back. Friday’s Sitting Tennant is with us, once again, ready to entertain you of a weekend. How have you been able to withstand its absence?

Actually, don’t tell me.

Anyway, today’s lovely piccie is from Sister Chastity, and for once I know where it’s from: the Doctor Who episode School Reunion. Do Time Lords have heat vision and is DT trying to cook a chip the hard way? I don’t know.

All the same, that means – insert trumpet fanfare here – Ms Rullsenberg and Sister Chastity are now joint top of the picture board. Could this be any more tense?

  1. Rullsenberg, Sister Chastity: 47.5
  2. Jaradel: 34.5
  3. Toby: 5
  4. Rosby: 2.5
  5. Lauren: 3
  6. Amy: 2
  7. Persephone, Sabine: 1

Back at witty captions, Electric Dragon recovered his captioning mojo with this effort, so gets an excellent 10 points. Good luck this week everyone!

  1. Marie: 152.5
  2. Toby: 141.5
  3. Rullsenberg: 102
  4. Jane Henry: 70.5
  5. Persephone: 45.5
  6. Electric Dragon: 41
  7. Jaradel: 38.5
  8. Rev/Views: 25
  9. Scott 2: 14
  10. Joe, Sister Chastity: 10
  11. Scott: 3
  12. Aaron: 2
  13. almostwitty.com: 1
  14. Stu_N: 1

Remember, you can submit as many captions as you like for today’s picture, with the wittiest getting 10 points next Friday.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery.

Every photo displayed on Monday (one per person who sends one in) gets a point, with a bonus point if it’s from the latest DT production; the best pic in the stash each week will appear on Friday and get three points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Friday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points.

What have you been watching this week? (w/e 21 August)

The weather’s been kind of good, lots of people have been away on holiday, but just in case you’ve caught something good this week, why not everyone know below?

I’ve been playing catch-up on Royal Pains, Leverage, Burn Notice, Dark Blue and a number of other shows this week – fingers crossed, Mad Men and Dexter this afternoon, and I might even get on to watching all of Defying Gravity as well at some point. Royal Pains is starting to branch out a bit thanks to the addition of a new character, but given it is essentially summer viewing, ‘hots up’ – while puntastic – probably isn’t the right word – more like . Burn Notice was interesting, but the horrors committed against Irish accents with the last episode made it slightly unwatchable at times.

Leverage had quite a nifty, outright comedic episode set in a private school that was good to watch, but the others didn’t leave much of an impression. Dark Blue continues to be almost very good, but continues to be spoilt by Dermot Fluffyhair and an inability to ever cross the dark edge it would like us all to think it was approaching, only look over it a bit and ho hum a lot.

How’s about you guys?

UPDATE: I should have mentioned that I also saw the first episode of the fourth season of Psych. Slightly disappointing, and I feel like I’ve missed an episode, judging by the arrival of Shawn’s unseen new girlfriend. Not desperately funny, but there was a really good joke about The Mentalist and Cary Elwes was fun as a master art thief (of sorts). And will they ever go anywhere with the Shawn/Juliet saga? At least there are hints this episode.

UPDATE 2: And I left off 10 Things I Hate About You, which is still okay, but is lightweight and only a 10th as good as the movie. Nice to see they’re not teasing out the relationships forever, and the dad is turning out to be more interesting than previously suspected, too.

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please

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Heroes: Redemption – Dreams promo, a fight scene and some set pics

Heroes news is hotting up as its fourth season premiere next month approaches. NBC has another promo out for the next volume of Heroes, this one called ‘Dreams’. It doesn’t reveal too much that’s new, although if you look closely, you’ll notice that (spoiler) Tracy now appears to be indestructible, too, in her own watery way.

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