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Friday’s slightly more lucid news

2 March 2007 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Party Doctor

They must have been out partying.

Doctor Who

Film

  • Talk with Zack Snyder about Watchmen. Narrowly avoided: Tom Cruise as Ozymandias.
  • A sequel is being planned for LA Confidential
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is contractually obliged to appear in Terminator 4
  • Latino Review casts its eye over the script for Matt Helm. There’s a blast from the past, hey?

Art

  • Sotheby’s has a Munch sale towards the end of the month

British TV

US TV

  • Big changes afoot for season two of Heroes
  • Bereft of inspiration, ABC turns some commercials featuring cavemen into a pilot
  • Richard Dreyfuss joins the cast of Tin Man
  • Season five of The Wire will be the funniest but only run to 10 episodes
  • Lots of casting news, with Donald Sutherland joining Peter Krause’s Dirty Sexy Money
  • Yet another Spiderman cartoon is on the way.
  • Heroes‘ Jessalyn Gilsig gets a pilot
  • Trailer for the last Heroes before the season break
  • Paul Reubens joins the cast of the Area 52 pilot

Share the thrill on Monday

12 February 2007 Rob Buckley 14 Comments

God, it’s good to be up and working, isn’t it?

Doctor Who

  • The Sun reckoned John Simm was in negotiations to appear in Doctor Who. The Sunday Times said yesterday that he’s filming a kids’ show (allegedly. Can’t find it on the website though). Scottish Big Issue had him saying “’I’ve got one more thing in 2007, which was kind of unturndownable, and then I’ll stay away from telly for a bit’.” And The Independent says he’s definitely been cast. Yes, John Simm is… Maybe? [via TV Today]
  • Sheridan Smith talks about life as a companion. Discussions are underway for another load of BBC7 stories, apparently.
  • Looking forward to Recovery, Tennant fans? Apparently, highlights are seeing “Tennant in the nude, having sex and pooing into a bucket”.
  • John Barrowman expects series two of Torchwood will run in early 2008

Art

Film

British TV

US TV

Tues news

9 January 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Choose life

Art

Commercials



Film

British TV

US TV

  • Fox has a trio of new pilots: Canterbury’s Law, about a rebellious female defence attorney; Supreme Courtships, which is about the personal and professional lives of six Supreme Court clerks; and an untitled comedy drama about the lives and loves of nurses.
  • NBC has greenlit two pilots as well: one is a “light-hearted drama about a female police office”; the other is based on Candace Bushnell’s Lipstick Jungle, so there’s the hint of Sex and the City about it, apparently.
  • There’s an interesting interview with Thomas Schlamme, exec producer of Studio 60, in a magazine. It’s a Christian magazine, incidentally.
  • Erik Estrada got annoyed when someone called him Emilio Estevez.
  • There’s a long interview on EW.com with Kiefer Sutherland about season six of 24
  • From E!’s Kristin:
    • Six Degrees should be back in the next two months.
    • One of The Class‘s cast is leaving.
    • Some juicy Prison Break spoilers.
Events

Wednesday news

3 January 2007 Rob Buckley 15 Comments

Sarah Jane with pictures of Harry and K9

?ɂǨ la recherche du temps perdus.

Doctor Who

Art


Film

US TV

  • NBC has greenlit three new pilots: Fort Pit is a cop show from the Rescue Me team, who claim for some reason that TV is missing a cop show at the moment; Chuck is an action-comedy about 20-something spies, in the vein of Grosse Pointe Blank; and David Eicke’s Bionic Woman remake has been given the go-ahead as well.
  • There are a few BSG, Heroes and The OC spoilers over on Ask Auriello, although nothing staggering. The rumours of misery on the Medium set are far more interesting.
  • USA Network has picked up Mary Sunshine, starring Murder One/The West Wing‘s Mary McCormack. It’s about a US Marshal “who tries to balance her intense job at the witness-protection program with her equally intense and amusingly dysfunctional personal life”.
  • CBS is doing a nifty job of promoting Liev Schreiber’s arrive on CSI:
    Who is Keppler

Review: Simon Schama’s Power of Art

23 October 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Simon Schama's Power of Art

In the UK: Fridays, 9pm, BBC2, 9pm. Repeated Fridays, BBC1, 1.40am

In the US: Nowhere yet

There’s a certain quality of being thrown in the deep-end with Simon Schama’s Power of Art. Unless you look at the web site, you’ll be at a loss to know what the point of the show actually is. There’s no introduction, no explanation, just Simon Schama bleating on about Caravaggio from the word go. I thought I’d missed an episode at first. But no. We’re here to watch Simon Schama and it’s about art: that’s all we need to know apparently.

The actual explanation for the show, “This is not a series about things that hang on walls, it is not about decor or prettiness. It is a series about the force, the need, the passion of art… the power of art,” makes approximately no sense whatsoever. Instead, it’s best to think of the show as “Art: The Rock and Roll Years”, a series about ‘interesting’ artists and their lives. On the schedule: Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko. And, so far, it’s pretty good.

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