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19 February 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Lighting Flame

Sorry, fell asleep during the headline. Must get more sleep.

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End the week with news

16 February 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Carusobot

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  • You can view the blooper reels for Lost, seasons one and two, on YouTube
  • Talking of Lost bloopers, its ratings dropped again on Wednesday to a new low.
  • Friday Night Lights as good as The Wire?
  • Keith Olbermann gets his contract renewed by MSNBC.
  • Fed up with the liberal Daily Show? Now Fox has its own show for conservatives. Clips on YouTube already.
  • There’s going to be less torture on 24, because it’s becoming a cliché.
  • More behind-the-scenes fun at 24: among other things, there’s a log of all the characters from previous seasons who aren’t dead and could return to the show. Yes, even Behrooz.
  • Big Pierce Brosnan fan? You’d have to be to buy Remington Steele on DVD, out in the UK on the 12th of March.
  • Zooey Deschanel will be Dorothy in Tin Man.
  • Matthew Lillard (Shaggy in the Scooby Doo films) joins the cast of the pilot Area 52
  • The Carusobot makes fun of CSI: Miami one-liners and sunglasses. Spoilers for the last two episodes. He seems… animated.
  • Jim from Neighbours – aka Alan Dale – explains why he’s just so popular in Hollywood. Why didn’t they pick up that pilot with Dale as a gay English butler to rapper Bow Wow, I wonder?

Thursday’s post-Valentine’s news

15 February 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Get any heart-shaped chocolates?

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  • Oh no! Still no third season of Extras planned. Instead, a “drama based on an urban conspiracy theory”.

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Review: Life on Mars 2×1-2×2

14 February 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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In the UK: Tuesdays, BBC1, 9pm with the following episode on BBC4, 10pm

In the US: Coming to BBC America later in the year. With edits again, probably.

Characters re-cast: 0

Major characters gotten rid of: 1

Major new characters: 0

Format change percentage: 10%

It’s always a tricky thing reviewing Life on Mars. Can you praise/slag off an hallucination? Is it even an hallucination or is it regular drama with a sci-fi twist? Until the end of the series, we won’t know.

So I’m going to tread my way gingerly, here. First, I’ll lay my cards on the table and say I don’t think the first two episodes were quite as good as last year’s cracking crop. I think it’s now playing to the audience a bit too much and crosses from parody into self-parody a bit too often.

But let’s face it. It’s still bloody good fun.

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Love news?

14 February 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Love Valentine’s news.

Doctor Who

Film

  • There’s a look at M Night Shyamalan’s new script, The Green Effect. Wonder if there’s a twist at the end…

US TV

  • UK viewers: Haven’t already seen episode one of Heroes and want to see it now? The UK SciFi Channel is streaming it from its web site for free. You’ll need to register though.
  • The US military would like 24 to cut back on the torture.
  • Kevin Sorbo bitch slaps Sam Raimi over Hercules, Xena et al. Bitter? No…
  • Questions that will be answered in Lost this season (warning: spoilers for other shows):
    • Is Claire Jack’s half sister?
    • How’d Locke end up in a wheelchair?
    • What’s the link between the Others and Dharma?
    • What’s the deal with Jack’s tattoos?
    • What’s so special about Claire’s baby?
  • There are going to be video backstories of Lost‘s big four characters on the ABC.com web site, starting today. You’ll probably already have seen them, though.