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Wednesday’s “Rufus Sewell projects, Shameless ends, Hulu acquires Braquo and more Great Expectations” news

10 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

  • Ralph Fiennes to star in Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone and Rufus Sewell to star in The Sea
  • Film4 launches iPad app

Theatre

UK TV

US TV

  • ABC Family cancels Secret Life of the American Teenager
  • PBS acquires The Paradise and The Lady Vanishes
  • Hulu acquires Braquo
  • Monday ratings: Revolution down slightly, Mob Doctor goes even lower, Gossip Girl down 43% on last year

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • ABC buys Great Expectations soap
  • Fox acquires comedy Adulting from JJ Abrams…
  • …and Rachael Harris and Angela Kinsey comedy Dirty Blondes

New US TV show casting

  • Clarke Peters joins AMC legal thriller, Thomas Wright joins The Bridge, Lauren Bittner joins The Secret Lives of Wives
  • Five joins Michael Bay’s The Last Ship
  • Madchen Amick joins Witches of East End
UK TV

The fantastic world of the Amazon.co.uk Paul Ross canvas print offer

21 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Are you aware of The Aristocrats? In case you’re not, it’s basically a joke told by comedians to one another to demonstrate their skill at their craft, each one putting their own stamp on it when telling it. There was even a documentary about it – here’s the trailer.

A similar thing appears to be occurring over on Amazon.co.uk with the Paul Ross canvas print. For those who don’t know, Paul Ross is a UK TV presenter who’s worked on shows including The Big Breakfast and Most Haunted Live!. He’s also the brother of Jonathan Ross.

So what more natural thing could there be than to buy a canvas print of him that you could stick on your wall, hey?

A Paul Ross canvas print

Okay, quite a lot, but soon it becomes clear that this might not be an entirely legitimate product and that someone is taking the piss. For starters, the starting price is £2,500 for a new one, £6,495.99 for a used one.

But all the same, possible, you might think, particularly since the “Technical Details” section seems fine:

This 20 Canvas Print features an image chosen by Mirror Photos. Estimated image size 508x333mm.
White Sides Ready to hang, 51cm along the longest edge (other side scaled to fit). High quality 300gsm canvas with Fujifilm water based pigment ink. Hand stretched and stapled to 30mm wood frame, bevelled to increase tightness. Back finished with artists tape
Image Description: Paul Ross – TV Presenter August 2001 Paul Ross on the set of his new Daytime TV Quiz – No Win No Fee – for the BBC cMirrorpix
For any queries regarding this item please contact Mirror Photos ℅ Media Storehouse quoting Media Reference 1068796
© MirrorPrintStore 2008 – All Rights Reserved

Where it starts to get interesting is “Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed”

Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed

Hmm.

Still, could be possible. Who knows what Paul Ross fans are like, huh?

But then we get to the Customer Reviews. It would seem more or less everyone who fancies themselves as comedians as come to this item and attempted to come up with the funniest reviews possible. So far, there are 491 of them. Some of them are works of genius:

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