UK TV

An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.

Wednesday’s kick-arse news

13 June 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

  • John Barrowman does the Torchwood promo tour for Australia

Film

Media journalism

British TV

US TV

  • Stargate SG-1 may never end
  • CSI exec mulls over hiring Two and a Half Men writers, plans a trip to San Francisco and thinks seriously about London
  • The UK’s Ladette to Lady becomes Lady or a Tramp, with Donald Trump keeping a watchful eye on party girls. Hmm
  • Spoilers for 24, Supernatural, and House in the Ausiello Report, as well as the not unexpected news that if Supergirl’s popular in Smallville, she’ll get her own show

Tuesday’s fandabbydozey news

12 June 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Commercials

Radio/Books

British TV

US TV

UK TV

Review: Doctor Who – 3×10 – Blink

11 June 2007 Rob Buckley 18 Comments

Blink

Steven Moffat’s always game for a good script. Even on his worst days, he writes at a level Chris Chibnall can only dream of. Now Blink, this year’s Doctor-lite episode, was a very good script. It was scary, funny, cleverly plotted, with some good characterisation and dialogue served as the metaphorical icing on the cake.

But was Blink great? Not quiet.

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Monday morning news

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Doctor Who

Film

Commercial

  • Darth Vader makes beans on toast for Woolworths [free registration required]

British TV

US TV

  • Jericho‘s coming back, maybe as early as the end of the year if anything gets cancelled, with a lower budget and another cliffhanger. But don’t watch it on PVR, watch it as it airs if you want that tiny hamster to live
  • David Anders (Sark) from Alias might join Heroes next season
  • Bradley Whitford on the demise of Studio 60
  • Reactions to Fox’s forthcoming Anchorwoman from the town where it’s shot
  • Isaiah Washington’s a bit annoyed that he’s not in Grey’s Anatomy any more
  • David Eick would like a BSG movie

Cult TV: The Golden Age of ITC

8 June 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Cult TV: The Golden Age of ITC
by Robert Sellers

Anyone interested in the history of British television will be aware of Lew Grade’s company, ITC. Dominating the 50s, 60s and 70s with shows such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, Danger Man, The Saint, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, The Prisoner, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Jesus of Nazareth, and Sapphire and Steel, ITC was a production powerhouse, the likes of which we’ll probably never see again.

Robert Sellers book, Cult TV: The Golden Age of ITC, attempts to chronicle at least some of that history. With a foreword by Sir Roger Moore and an afterword by Gerry Anderson, the book includes interviews with many of the shows’ surviving stars and production staff and provides some insight into their continuing success as cult television, even if it’s not the perfect .

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