24: Never give jessie-wuss girls a gun because they’ll never use it, even when it could shorten a whole season and save the US
30 Rock: Is getting seriously cerebral. I thought Numb3rs was the only show on tele that could talk about “transitive properties”
Battlestar Galactica: James Callis can do a pretty good Yorkshire accent (he did go to the University of York, apparently); the class war will continue in space
The Class: Adultery is perfectly acceptable if your husband mixes you up with one of his ex-wives.
CSI: William Petersen’s beards can be used as plot development
Heroes: Is just so cool
Lost: Some flashbacks can be amazingly tedious and pointless and should be best left forgotten
Numb3rs: Just occasionally, Ken Sanzel can write a good episode. It’s still not great, though, not even though it’s ripping off 24
Studio 60: If you’re going to go, go out on a bang or your chances of ever coming back are scuppered.
The Unit: It’s possible to make the LA metro look like the Berlin underground system. A bit.
Articles by Rob Buckley
News
Monday morning o’news
Top O’The Morning to you, future Black Donnelly viewers. Begorra.
Doctor Who
- David Tennant says he’d like to be a woman for a day.
- Tennant and Piper get on great with their exs
- The Life of Mars cast confirm John Simm’s casting as… Or do they?
- More Who filming pics
Film
- The Oscar results. Yes, Martin Scorsese finally won one.
- JJ Abrams has signed up to direct Star Trek XI at last
- Work’s begun on a live-action Justice League movie.
- An Incovenient Truth is getting updated
- The Day the Earth Stood Still is being remade.
British TV
- Virgin Media has acquired the on-demand rights to Lost‘s first three seasons. Episodes from season three start in August.
- Two Primeval stars have shacked up together.
US TV
- Kiefer Sutherland is bemused that the US army would be influenced by 24
- Missi Pyle’s a regular on new series Wedding Bells
- Christopher Guest is to direct the pilot for the US version of The Thick of It
- The SciFi Channel and Richard Branson unite to fight crime together. Or to make money.
- Back from the dead, Six Degrees returns on March 23rd
- Alyssa Milano has a new pilot with Mary Steenburgen.
- An interview with an ex-Hero
- Jericho‘s back but its ratings aren’t so hot now it’s up against American Idol
- Sylar from Heroes (aka Zachary Quinto) talks to Kristin
News
It’s the Friday “I’m in a hurry” news
Thanks to Time Elements for the pic
Film
- Vinnie Jones is to star with Bradley Cooper in a Clive Barker story.
- And Gazza trying to get in on this acting lark, too
- Interviews with Ioan Gruffudd. He’s Welsh you know.
- Jason Bateman and Allison Janney join loads of other thesps for Juno
British TV
- Friday Night Lights does badly on ITV4
- Sky’s pulling its channels from Virgin Media
US TV
- Ving Rhames is to appear in Football Wives
- More Lost spoilers with Kristin
- Taye Diggs is to star in that Grey’s Anatomy spin-off
- Clips and pics from Monday’s Heroes episode.
- The Wire gets burgled.
- Texas really wants to keep Friday Night Lights
- Fox’s Summer line-up announced. The Loop‘s back. Yey!
Audio and radio play reviews
Review: Doctor Who – Human Resources (parts 1 and 2)
Thought I’d wait until both parts of the story had aired before reviewing this one. Then I thought I’d wait until I’d fixed my iPod, but I’m still waiting on a part off eBay (£10) – which seemed a better plan than getting Apple to fix it (£169) – so what the hell, I listened to it off my Mac directly. No obstacle can get in my way when I put my mind to it. Go me!
Rather than a rip-roaring, undeniably impressive two-parter to match the season opener, Blood of the Daleks, Human Resources was a reasonable, slightly dull, but flawed ending to Paul McGann’s first set of original Doctor Who plays for the Beeb. With the return of another old-series monster, the Cybermen, we might have hoped for more, but you can’t have everything.
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Thursday’s potted news
Morning has broken. Yey.
Doctor Who
- Russell T Davies says, “We’d love to have Hugh.”
Film
- Lots of Zodiac stuff, including a clip, on Ain’t It Cool.
- Pictures from Shrek The Third.
British TV
- The National Film and Television Archive is to be opened up to the public for free.
US TV
- Claudia Black will be guest starring on The Dresden Files.
- Stewie Griffin and Brian the dog from Family Guy are to become talk-show hosts
- Video interviews with the stars of Heroes.
- Jericho star Lennie James fesses up to being British and gives some pretty interesting insights.
- Nigel Lythgoe’s handling the Emmys this year.
- There’s a Grey’s Anatomy spin-off in the works.