Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
It’s the Daily Star so this particular little rumour probably has about as much truth to it as something you’d find written on the wall in a pub toilet, but Saturday’s edition (no web link, sorry) claimed:
Doctor Who’s new sidekick Freema Agyeman will strip to sex up doc.
Not sure what “sex up doc” means in this context.
Remember Stargate? I think you do. It starred Kurt Russell and James Spader, way back in 1994, and spawned a slightly successful TV series. And another slightly successful TV series. And a bad cartoon series. That first series has now been running for 10 years.
So it is with much amusement that I read that Dean Devlin, Kurt Russell and James Spader are all interested in making a second and possibly third movie following on from the original movie. Most entertainingly, it’ll be set 12 years after the original and yet somehow, according to Devlin, “We would just continue the mythology of the movie and finish that out. I think the series could still live at the end of the third sequel. So we’re going to try to not tread on their stories.”
Right. Can’t really see how that one’s going to work.
All the same, I’ll probably watch it when it comes out. Sounds like it might be a laugh…
In the UK, Channel 4 is only halfway through the second season of Lost. But you can find out what’s going to be happening in season three, thanks to a TV Guide interview with exec producer Carlton Cuse.
One thing I will say, without giving too much away, is that the all-out carnage in the finale that I talked about may not be as bad as I thought. Apparently, people were hiding under things after all. Not as bold and as daring as I’d have liked, then, but should open up a whole load of new scenarios.
Remember I talked about Nobody’s Watching a while back? It was the pilot for a comedy that didn’t get picked up, but which its creators decided to put on YouTube.
Well, it’s been so successful, Variety reports, it looks like NBC is going to commission six episodes. The fact it’s going to be cheap to make might have swayed NBC, but apparently Web 2.0 is seeping into the consciousness of network executives over there as well.
Freema Agyeman chats with Doctor Who Magazine this month about her role as the new companion, in her first proper interview since the Beeb announced her casting.
Meanwhile, David Tennant gives a local paper something to write about for a change by opening a school fair.
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