Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant: Derren Brown again

David Tennant on a space hoppe

It’s been quite some time since our last Sitting Tennant, which came from Anna. So to kick it off again, here’s one I prepared earlier: it’s from the finale of the last series of Derren Brown: Trick or Treat, in which DT and friends did all sorts of weird things in an unwitting attempt to get fish to swim.

The current Sitting Tennant league tables stand (ho ho) as follows. For pictures, Rosby is still in the lead with five entries, Persephone at four. Poly with three and a half, Toby on three entries and Scott on two entries. Anna has one and a half and Marie and Rullsenberg are at the back with one each.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table has changed. Thanks to some dueting between Toby and Persephone, Toby is top now with seven captions, while Marie and Persephone have six, Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon both have three captions and Poly and Stu_N are on one each. Feel free to leave captions below for this entry, too.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.

If you want to watch all the Derren Brown: Trick or Treat episode from which this picture came, here it is on YouTube.

UK TV

Review: Lost in Austen 1×1

Lost in Austen

In the UK: Wednesdays, 9pm, ITV1

What’s that? Is it the sound of something precious and beautiful being trampled underfoot by philistines and idiots?

Erm, no. Surprisingly, it’s not and we have yet another miracle of the post-Grade age: an ITV1 primetime drama that doesn’t suck, doesn’t insult the intelligence and actually makes you hunger for more.

Any more of this and it’ll almost become ordinary, expected even, that ITV1 dramas won’t make you feel like you’ve been hit on the head by a six-pack of Kestrels on a night out in Malia.

Anyway, it is a truth, universally acknowledged, that all women of a certain temperament love Pride and Prejudice, particularly that bit with Colin Firth in the water. Many are the women who know it almost word for word; and no doubt there are many who wish they could be in it, particularly during that bit with Colin Firth in the water.

So Lost in Austen is quite a clever idea, even if sounds a bit daft at first: what would happen if somehow you ended up in the novel Pride and Prejudice, having taken Elizabeth Bennet’s place. You’re a big fan, you know what’s supposed to happen, who’s supposed to end up with whom and how.

But what if you ballsed it all up?

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Thursday’s record ratings news

Film

British TV

  • Sarah Lancashire and Neil Pearson to star in BBC1 choir drama
  • ITV3 acquires CTV/CBS’s Flashpoint

US TV

Wednesday’s pornographic news

Film

Theatre

British TV

  • Tim Roth, Kelly MacDonald and John Simm to star Skellig for Sky 1

US TV