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An archive of articles about US television programmes and production.

Wednesday’s fun-filled news

7 February 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

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News

Mystery solved

6 February 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Hardy Boys

It’s Tuesday’s news.

Film



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  • Another trailer for Life on Mars is available.
  • Channel 4 has decreed the police will need a court order to look at unseen footage from Celebrity Big Brother [registration required]. Doesn’t look at all suspicious, does it?

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Things I learned from watching television last week

5 February 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

24: Even when a character played by Eddie Izzard is recast, his spirit lives on in the role

30 Rock: Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin speak pretty good German. Inbreeding jokes never get old.

CSI: Left to his own devices for too long, William Petersen will always grow an unfortunate beard.

Daybreak: Was cancelled way too soon. Be patient, networks!

Heroes: Just get on with it will you. Plus Christopher Eccleston really can act when given a grumpy role to play.

House: Sooner or later, the crankiness of a character needs an explanation. He can’t be cranky for no reason at all.

My Name is Earl: Some Americans actually think the US won the 1812 war.

Smallville: Red Kryptonite needs to be in every script from now on.

Studio 60: It’s no use applying the rules of reality to anything Aaron Sorkin writes. You just have to sit back and enjoy it.

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Review: The Sarah Silverman Program 1×01

5 February 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Sarah Silverman

In the US: Just about every day of the week. It’s on Comedy Central anyway.

In the UK: Not yet acquired. Maybe E4 or More4. Who knows though?

Apparently, there aren’t enough shows about grown women with the minds of 8-year-old boys. Who knew?

Okay, let’s be a little fairer than that. Sarah Silverman is a very funny stand-up. She’s very imaginative, as is her new Comedy Central program, wisely called The Sarah Silverman Program. I was looking forward to it a lot.

But you know what? It all falls a bit flat. Mainly because I’m not eight years old.

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Events

Morning, you

5 February 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Flakes are back

Have a nice weekend?

Film and comics

  • Joss Whedon’s off the Wonder Woman movie.
  • Ghostbusters 3 is still happening. Both Dan Ackroyd and Bill Murray are up for it. But it’s going to be all-cg.
  • A new version of Barbarella is in the works.
  • Joel Schumacher wants to film Sandman.
  • The Flash has a new director.

Commercials

  • The Cadbury’s Flake ads are coming back on Friday. Directed by Jack “son of Ridley” Scott, they will focus “on the unique way of eating a Cadbury Flake: peeling back the wrapper and enjoying the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate in the world.” Ooh, top euphemism.

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