Thought that would get your attention.
How, you might ask, did I come to that conclusion? Simple. I saw Monday’s episode of CSI: Miami.
Articles by Rob Buckley
“Roll on the weekend” Friday news
Doctor Who
- The Stage has puts its Doctor Who podcast online
Film
- Artwork for Gatchaman (aka G-Force)
British TV
- Five Life has picked up Courtney Cox’s rubbish Dirt
- E4’s commissioned Kudos to make a stage school drama
- BBC2 is to screen a series based on Alastair Campbell’s diaries
- ITV announces its summer line-up
US TV
- BSG finale talk from Grace Park. There’ll be a two-hour special episode in the Fall, before the fourth season starts next January.
- Miguel Ferrer joins the cast of The Bionic Woman and Orlando Jones is to star in Victoria ‘Green Wing‘ Pile’s first US show
- NBC performs evil experiments on Heroes fans
- Jamie Kennedy stars opposite the real bionic man, Lee Majors, in pilot Me and Lee?
“Only five minutes to write this article” news for Thursday
What can it all mean?
Doctor Who
- Review of the first two episodes of the new series by OTT. Plus did you know sweet FA once went to a Star Trek convention dressed as Dax?
- Review of the launch party
- Clips available from the Weakest Link‘s Doctor Who special
- And there’s more to come
Film
- John Carpenter discusses the new Escape from New York prequel (it turns out)
- Russell Crowe is making his directorial debut in features with a drama about surfers
- Gordon Brown hits the evil film industry where it hurts, again
- Batman will be in the Justice League movie
- The Nancy Drew movie gets a sequel
Art
- Rescued Francis Bacon art is up for auction
Theatre
- Aaron Sorkin is creating a musical based on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”
British TV
- The Apprentice will get re-packaged as a podcast [subscription required]
US TV
- The fourth season of BSG is now getting 22 episodes instead of 13
- ‘British mentalist’ Derren Brown gets a show on the SciFi Channel
- ABC is renewing 11 shows including Lost
- Dennis Haysbert talks about 24 and his regrets
- Who knew Woody Harrelson’s dad was a hitman?
- Final Tin Man casting
- Prison Break might get renamed for the third season
Preview: Medicine Balls
For a bit of a change, yesterday, I headed off to watch a pilot Radio 4 show being recorded. Medicine Balls attempts to make the burning medical questions of the day into a funny panel show. Hosted by Dr Phil Hammond, it might well be making it onto the airwaves, some time in the next year or so, so I thought I’d let you know my thoughts on it.
Technology
Succumbed to the iPod fever
So I gave in and bought a new iPod.
My iPod’s been on the blink ever since I accidentally watered it. (I was aiming for the little Valentine’s rose bush my wife gave me. I hit the clickwheel of my iPod instead. No one ever said I was a good shot). I tried replacing the clickwheel with one I bought off eBay. But it still didn’t work out right and I can’t even get through the Lost podcast, these days, without the whole thing giving up.
So I bought a new iPod, capable of playing video.
This is cool in various ways, even if I am 18 months behind everyone else.
First, it means that backlog of videos can be cleared. Phew. I’ve Comedy Central’s Halfway Home, a couple of episodes of Life on Mars and Primeval, as well as the first episode of October Road to get through. My hour and a half commute every morning’s going to go a lot quicker now.
Then there’s the exciting “Export to iPod” function of my EyeTV software.