From the Secret Policeman’s Ball 08, two of the stars of Gavin & Stacey give their dance interpretation of Enya’s ‘Orinoco Flow’.
Articles by Rob Buckley
James Earl Jones recites the alphabet
To be fair, it was for Sesame Street, rather than The Phantom Menace
Thursday’s Shakespearean news
Doctor Who
- Pics from Torchwood
Film
- Jamie Foxx to star opposite Gerard Butler in Frank Darabont’s Law Abiding Citizen?
- Helen Mirren to play Prospera in The Tempest
- Josh Brolin to play Jonah Hex?
- Ryan Gosling to play the Green Lantern?
Theater
- Oliver Platt to star in Guys and Dolls
British TV
- Freeview channel to be auctioned off
- Hat Trick to produce online journalism drama Neon Candy
- Virgin 1’s autumn/winter schedule
- BBC to give regions more control
- S4C to increase subtitling
- Michael Grade outlines ITV’s future
US TV
- ABC Family making 10 Things I Hate About You and Ruby and the Rockits
- Jason Priestley to direct an episode of 90210
- Trailer for Nathan Fillion’s Castle
Review: Doctor Who – Kingdom of Silver
Two questions. First, do you think there’s a reason that the seventh Doctor has been particularly companion-bereft of late? The Big Finish-ies claim it’s because they want to explore the ‘vast’ time that he’s alone before the TV Movie. I’m wondering if so few people are buying the seventh Doctor audio stories, they can’t afford companions as well. Or maybe they don’t like Sophie Aldred.
Question two: why do writers bother trying to be clever with Big Finish? Here we have a cyberman story. We know this because there’s a great big cyberman on the front cover and because the story’s Kingdom of Silver. Mondas gets mentioned halfway through the first episode and one of the ‘houses’ in the play is called Argentum (sp?). So what’s the big cliffhanger at the end of episode one? OMG, it’s a cyberman! Who saw that coming?
US TV
Heroes 3×4 – I am Become Death
In what’s likely to become a weekly, "Hang on but…?" brief look at the current US episode of Heroes (UK fans can join in in about a fortnight and a day, or maybe less if they have BBC3 – it’s simultaneous broadcasting, the BBC way), I have a think about various things that puzzled me this week. Perhaps you can help? At the very least, we might be able to come up with a title for the feature.
Join you after the jump.