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Review: The Peter Serafinowicz Show 1.1

5 October 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Peter Serafinowicz

In the UK: Thursdays, 9.30pm, BBC2
In the US: Not yet acquired

Peter Serafinowicz has been quietly lurking, almost invisibly, within many of the good British comedy shows and movies of the last decade. He’s been in Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Look Around You, Little Britain, I’m Alan Partridge, Black Books and more. He’s also king of the voiceover: you may remember him from such shows as South Park, The IT Crowd and Hippies, as well as, most famously, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in which he played the voice – but not the body – of Darth Maul.

Despite this, he doesn’t get the name-check recognition of the likes of Simon Pegg, Matt Lucas et al. Is this about to change, now he’s got his own show, thanks to the all-powerful YouTube?

Er, maybe. Or, at the very least, more people will try to pronounce his name…

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Friday’s mix of implausible rumours and actual news

5 October 2007 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Doctor Who

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Thursday’s offensive to Filipinos news

4 October 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

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Wednesday’s invisible Variety show news

3 October 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Variety is broken today, so if there’s no link for a story, that’s the reason. Sorry

Doctor Who

Film

  • Changes are afoot at The Dark is Rising. It’s now called The Seeker for one thing
  • Guillermo Del Toro to make Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness?
  • McG in talks to director Terminator 4. Woo hoo
  • Sacha Baron Cohen wants to remake Sellers’ The Party
  • Vin Diesel to return for fourth Fast and the Furious film
  • Blade Runner: The Final Cut in UK cinemas on 23rd November
  • Bradley Cooper to star in Yes Man with Jim Carrey

Radio

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  • Fox to remake ITV’s The Jury
  • Dick Wolf to make show based on Johnny Dynamite graphic novel
  • Prison Break star was forced to quit?
  • Jon Stewart prepping a second Daily Show spin-off: Important Things with Demetri Martin
  • He hasn’t even appeared in an episode yet, but Isaiah Washington might get a spin-off show from Bionic Woman
  • Val Kilmer, Karl Urban, Wes Studi et al to appear in Lonesome Dove prequel
  • Jeremy Piven’s Cupid resurrected
  • Dexter gets more than 1 million viewers – a first for a Showtime season-opener

The BFI’s Celebrating Channel 4 season: the highlights

2 October 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

There’s quite a few things to look forward to next month at the BFI, which is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Channel 4. It’s also celebrating the 25th anniversary of S4C but that’s apparently only produced one good episode of one programme ever. ‘British’ Film Institute my arse.

Anyway, here are things that you might want to buy tickets for, although you’ll have to join the queue or see if 4oD has them:

  • Monday 5th November: The cast and crew of Peep Show showing clips from the unseen pilot, among other things
  • Saturday 10th November: All of Spaced, followed by Pegg, Hynes, Wright and co discussing the series
  • Sunday 11th November: All of A Very British Coup and Ultraviolet
  • Monday 12th November: Episodes of Brass Eye, Jam and Jaaaaam

Plus there are six Film on Four productions, including My Beautiful Laundrette. Get thee to a membership application form, if you’ve not already joined.