Next season’s Simpsons voices

It lost its edge years and years and years ago, but The Simpsons is still worth watching occasionally, particularly for the guest voices. Fox has announced that guest stars for next season will include Kiefer Sutherland, Natalie Portman, Michael Imperioli, Joe Pantoliano, The White Stripes and Dr Phil. Can’t wait for the Kiefer appearance, myself…

But here’s the weirder bit: they’re also getting on authors Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen. That’s just odd.

Blake’s 7 back?

A while ago I suggested that bringing Blake’s 7 back was a good idea, since the whole “terrorist or freedom fighter?” concept is one that ties in well with nos jours, as they say in pretension-land.

Rumour (and I do mean rumour) has it that the Beeb might be thinking the same thing.

Of course, Blake’s 7 revivals are promised more or less every other week, but this one has a slight hint of possibility to it. After all, if the Beeb is thinking of Survivors, I’m sure they visited Blake’s 7 during their mental journey.