BFI events

Tuesday’s kick ass film news + more

The Bionic WomanFriday Night Lights

Film

  • Maria Bello ‘kick ass’ version of Rachel Weisz
  • ‘Kick ass’ trailer for Iron Man now available in QuickTime
  • Jennifer ‘Kick ass’ Hudson joins Sex and the City cast
  • Sky Arts helping ‘kick ass’ BFI convert films to HD
  • Anthony Head in ‘kick ass horror musical?’

Theatre

British TV

  • Marco Pierre White vows to quit TV after Hell’s Kitchen
  • Catherine Tate, Matt Lucas and David Walliams threaten to sue Christian groups for using their catchphrases
  • The IT Crowd is out on DVD on 1st October

US TV

The Peter Serafinowicz Show: recordings today and tomorrow

Go see him if you can: he’s great!

Apologies for the late notice but we have just been notified of a recording of sketches for forthcoming The Peter Serafinowicz Show on Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st August at County Hall, London.

THE PETER SERAFINOWICZ SHOW

This is your chance to take part in the forthcoming series of Peter Serafinowicz’s new show!

In the show, one of the characters is loosely based on a Jeremy Kyle style chat show host, who just happens to also be a robot. On Monday 20th August we are looking for people to come and be a part of Chat Bot’s audience

On Tuesday 21st August, two sketches will be filmed during the day. Dead or Undead is a Deal or No Deal style of gameshow hosted by and staring zombies. You’re A C**t is an X-Factor style show hosted by Peter playing a character who doesn’t have many nice things to say…

The show will be take place at County Hall, nr Waterloo Station, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7PB on Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st August at 9am, 11am, 2pm and 5pm. The minimum age for audience members is 16 years.

Booking is now open and you may apply online via our website at http://www.sroaudiences.com

John Barrowman’s new gameshow

Sent to me by one of my ‘Baker’s Street irregulars’ – thanks other Rob! Get calling if you want to get yourself a place

We have great pleasure in inviting you to JOHN BARROWMANs fantastic new BBC prime time television show THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT taking place at the famous LONDON STUDIOS, UPPER GROUND, LONDON SE1 (Waterloo 5 min walk) this SUNDAY 22nd JULY 2007. Doors open from 15:45 onwards.

So what is the show about I hear you say… Well The Kids Are All Right is the thrilling new prime time Saturday night show for BBC1, where each week a team of four friends come to our gladiatorial studio to try to win tens of thousands of pounds! But there are seven small things standing between them and the big cash… The Kids. Seven 9 to 15-year-olds, hand-picked for their remarkable range of amazing academic, mental and physical abilities.

Can the adults beat them in a series of head-to-heads or will The Kids triumph?

THIS IS SPECTACULAR & VERY EXCITING PRIME TIME ENTERTAINMENT AT ITS VERY BEST, BUT WE ONLY HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF PRIORITY PASS TICKETS AVAILABLE, SO BOOK YOURS NOW!

If you would like to book your exclusive FREE PRIORITY PASS* TICKETS, then all you have to do is call one of our friendly Audience Researchers on 08700 24 1000 right now or book online at www.applausestore.com! Remember you can invite friends, family…in fact anyone who would like to see this fantastic show being made! Minimum age restriction 16+ years.

I hope he didn’t remove the apostrophes personally.

Events

Friday’s Newsround

James Marsters with Sarah Michelle Gellar

No John Craven in sight.

Doctor Who

Film

Music

  • Avril Lavigne sued for ‘homaging’

British TV

  • Channel 4+1 launches on Freeview et al on August 20th. You’ll have to wait until Autumn for Five US+1 and Five Life+1 and they’ll only be on satellite [free registration required]
  • Michael Brandon from Dempsey and Makepeace to guest on The Bill for four episodes

Web TV

  • Minnie Driver is the voice of Lara Croft in an online web series, written by people like Warren Ellis and Peter Chung