The Sun seems to have put a foot wrong for a change. The Beeb is now denying the Currant Bun’s story from yesterday that Zoe Lucker is up for the role of the Rani. No word on whether The Rani will be appearing in the third season, but with a different actress playing the role.
It has been pointed out that the Rani rumour has some interesting timing, given the pretty rubbish Mark of the Rani has just come out on DVD and might need some promotion…
Thanks to Paul, via Lisa, for ending all my productivity this afternoon with links to the Beeb’s Doctor Who Years, three half-hour guides to Doctor Who during the 60s, 70s and 80s. Clips from every story, plus Blue Peter, Nationwide, et al, complete with entertaining captions. Save you having to wade through them all, if you were never a Fan (with a definite capital) of the old series.
Took me forever to remember the originating format came from The Rock & Roll Years. Curse my encroaching senility.
Here’s the Sci Fi Channel’s reason why Stargate SG-1 (running for 10 years and 200 episodes) is the world’s longest running science-fiction show, not Doctor Who (running for 40 years on and off and approximately a billion episodes):
Guinness awarded the title of longest-running sci-fi series in tv history to Stargate, which took the title away from X-Files (at the 203rd episode, technically). Both shows overshadow Doctor Who in that they had consecutive episodes. Doctor Who while it ran several hundred episodes, had long gaps of not being in production, far longer than a regular hiatus. The show was revived several times and I’m told one of the gaps between production was over ten years.
All they had to do was say “longest running US sci-fi series” and they’d have been off the hook, but no, they just had to start making stuff up…
Or something…?
It’s just so wrong.
In the US: NBC, Tuesdays, 8/7c. Starts October 3rd.
In the UK: Not acquired (and probably won’t be cos it’s about American football)
Ah, the TV series of the film of the book. Always a heady combination. And it’s all about sport: (American) football, to be exact. Who can resist?
Okay. I’m being sarcastic. Plus ça change, and all that. But actually, despite being a notorious (any) football hater, I really kind of enjoyed Friday Night Lights. It wasn’t totally captivating, but it had ‘qualities’.
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