US TV

HBO’s Fall 2008 shows

I’m still on holiday, so I’m going to be a bit slack on this one. So this is by no means full coverage of all the forthcoming HBO shows, since there’s a comedy or two on the way.

Plus there’s not much out of HBO about its forthcoming shows, other than a slightly old promo vid.

We’ve got the creators of The Wire looking at the Iraq war. We’ve got Alan Ball of Six Feet Under fame looking at vampires in the American South for True Blood. Deadwood‘s David Milch tries again after the flopparoo that was John from Cincinnati with 70s police corruption in The Last of the Ninth. 

And of course, thanks to that musical promo vid, we have clips from the new series of Entourage and Flight of the Conchords.

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US TV

NBC’s Fall 2008 shows

NBC have been difficult this year. They’ve messed around with the whole concept of upfronts, which isn’t helpful. They also haven’t really got round to filming any proper pilots, which isn’t helpful either.

All the same, they have given us some info about what shows they are going to make as well as a single solitary, slightly weak video to back it up. Let’s look at the highlights – including Knight Rider, Top Gear, a remake of Kath and Kim, Sean Bean in Crusoe and Christian Slater trying to be Jason Bourne – and that poor lonely little vid.

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News

Friday’s TV-AM news

The Rock and Steve Carrell in Get Smart

The daily news will return on Thursday 29th May.

Film

Radio

  • Anne and Nick reunite with Mad Lizzie and Wincey Willis on BBC London 94.9

British TV

US TV

The Andromeda Strain out on DVD

The Andromeda Strain - The Mini-Series

Blimey! That didn’t take long. 

It hasn’t aired in the UK yet – no one’s picked up the rights for one thing – and it only aired in the US over the Memorial Day weekend, yet The Andromeda Strain mini-series is already out on DVD in the UK.

I wonder what the thinking is there:

  • No one’s going to acquire it so get the cash while there might be Internet buzz?
  • No one’s going to acquire it so get the cash before there’s Internet buzz?
  • Sci-fi fans will buy it immediately and then watch it on tele anyway?
  • If it gets sold on DVD a lot, the TV companies will acquire it?
  • Something else?

Thursday’s “18 inch monument” news

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

US TV

  • Comedy Central renews Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil
  • Some mistake, surely? Sharon Osbourne to teach etiquette
  • Polly Walker joins Caprica
  • Gordon Ramsay nearly eats a Hell’s Kitchen contestant’s thumb