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News

Tuesday’s news

27 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Radio Times covers

Doctor Who

Books/Comics

  • Neil Gaiman’s doing a book-signing at Forbidden Planet on Friday

Film

  • The original Transformers movie gets a re-release in London
  • Michael Biehn might have a part in James Cameron’s Avatar. QFS.

British TV

  • Philip Glenister from Life on Mars slags off British TV [free registration required]

US TV

  • Lots of BSG interviews. Looks like Caprica’s off, though
  • Piper Perabo is going to be House‘s love interest. Maybe.
  • More pilot casting, with The Thick of It getting a lead at last
  • The usual spoilers from Kristen this week, including a forthcoming Lost fatality, Prison Break fatalities, and a Heroes fatality
News

Tuesday’s news

27 March 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Radio Times covers

Doctor Who

Books/Comics

  • Neil Gaiman’s doing a book-signing at Forbidden Planet on Friday

Film

  • The original Transformers movie gets a re-release in London
  • Michael Biehn might have a part in James Cameron’s Avatar. QFS.

British TV

  • Philip Glenister from Life on Mars slags off British TV [free registration required]

US TV

  • Lots of BSG interviews. Looks like Caprica’s off, though
  • Piper Perabo is going to be House‘s love interest. Maybe.
  • More pilot casting, with The Thick of It getting a lead at last
  • The usual spoilers from Kristen this week, including a forthcoming Lost fatality, Prison Break fatalities, and a Heroes fatality

Are Americans nicer than Brits?

26 March 2007 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

There is a stereotype held by many Americans (this itself might be a stereotype) that British people are intelligent, polite, friendly people. This, of course, is not true. We are as stupid, rude and unpleasant as any other group of people in the world.

Why Americans might think this, I don’t know. We might venture a guess that it’s because they don’t encounter us much, there being only 10 passport holders among them. But that would be stupid and incorrect, too: we’ve swamped their TV screens and films with our actors, and New York, Las Vegas and other major US cities are now crammed to bursting point with tourists, flush with dollars thanks to the high exchange rate that are busy ruining the locals’ spending power.

But I’m coming to the opposite conclusion. I think that the average American might well be nicer than the average Brit. At least, the ones on reality TV seem to be.

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“Roll on the weekend” Friday news

23 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

  • The Stage has puts its Doctor Who podcast online

Film

  • Artwork for Gatchaman (aka G-Force)

British TV

US TV

  • BSG finale talk from Grace Park. There’ll be a two-hour special episode in the Fall, before the fourth season starts next January.
  • Miguel Ferrer joins the cast of The Bionic Woman and Orlando Jones is to star in Victoria ‘Green Wing‘ Pile’s first US show
  • NBC performs evil experiments on Heroes fans
  • Jamie Kennedy stars opposite the real bionic man, Lee Majors, in pilot Me and Lee?

“Only five minutes to write this article” news for Thursday

22 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

What can it all mean?

Doctor Who

  • Review of the first two episodes of the new series by OTT. Plus did you know sweet FA once went to a Star Trek convention dressed as Dax?
  • Review of the launch party
  • Clips available from the Weakest Link‘s Doctor Who special
  • And there’s more to come

Film

  • John Carpenter discusses the new Escape from New York prequel (it turns out)
  • Russell Crowe is making his directorial debut in features with a drama about surfers
  • Gordon Brown hits the evil film industry where it hurts, again
  • Batman will be in the Justice League movie
  • The Nancy Drew movie gets a sequel

Art

  • Rescued Francis Bacon art is up for auction

Theatre

  • Aaron Sorkin is creating a musical based on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”

British TV

  • The Apprentice will get re-packaged as a podcast [subscription required]

US TV