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Preview: Lipstick Jungle

Lipstick Jungle

In the US: NBC, Sundays, 10/9c. January 2008 start

In the UK: Not yet acquired

Sorry for the slight delay on this one: I needed to draft my wife in to watch this one as well, or else my opinion would be even more irrelevant than normal. This is, after all, one for the ladies.

The good news is that it’s based on Candace “I wrote Sex and the City, I did’ Bushnell’s book of the same name so has a reasonable pedigree, the show runners have already been fired, and Kim Raver can act.

The bad news is that no one else can act, the script’s awful, and they’re going to air the pilot as is, without changes.

As my wife put it, ”I like trashy TV, but that was just bad.“

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Thursday’s “two more days until I’m on holiday” news

Doctor Who

Film

Commercials

  • Val Kilmer for the next Orange cinema ad [free registration required]

British TV

  • Channel 4 stops all but one premium rate phone-in
  • Latest episode of Cape Wrath gets just 845,000 viewers
  • Ten single mothers and kids to live together for Pramface Mansion on BBC3. Seriously

US TV

Apologies again

Sorry if you were actually trying to do anything unusual like view some blog entries today – my useless web host has struck again. Guess who’s going to be moving home when I get back from my holidays…
In the meantime, I’ve changed a specific setting in the blog, which should make the whole thing more stable, although it might make commenting slower. Sorry!

Wednesday’s “three more days until I’m on holiday” news

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

US TV

Tuesday’s “four more days until I’m on holiday” news

Film

Theatre

British TV

  • Sean Astin, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee to star in The Colour of Magic with David Jason

US TV