What have you been watching this week (w/e November 12)?

It’s “What have you been watching this week?”, your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched this week. Except I actually haven’t had time to watch much TV this week and I don’t have time to do any mini-reviews right now – I’m actually writing an article at the moment and procrastination is the enemy.

So it’s all on you guys this week? Anything good?

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please. If you’ve reviewed something on your blog, you can put a link to it here rather than repeat yourself (although too many links and you might get killed by the spam filter).

UK TV

First Dirk Gently picture released

It started off as a couple of Doctor Who scripts written by Douglas Adams (City of Death, Shada). Then it got heavily altered and became a book (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) that got adapted into a radio series.

Now it’s a one-off BBC4 special starring Stephen Mangan, Helen Baxendale and Darren Boyd (don’t forget to listen to him in the third series of Safety Catch co-starring Joanna Page on Radio 4 at 11.30am today) – and here’s the first picture from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Agency (see how it’s now promoted to bold?). I’ll say one thing: they’ve got the hair right.

Friday’s “Rubicon uncrossed” news

Film

  • Zoolander 2, Star Trek 2 a go
  • Trailer for Nicolas Cage in Season of the Witch
  • Phillip Noyce to direct time-travel movie Timeless?

British TV

US TV

Thursday’s “sexy bad girl” news

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

US TV

  • Tuesday night ratings: Glee matches season low
  • TV Land orders pilot of Ex Men
  • Fox to pick up Christian Slater’s Breaking In to replace Running Wilde?
  • Ronald D Moore and Naren Shankar to remake The Wild Wild West
  • HBO passes on Miraculous Year