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OMG – new The Wire clips I haven’t seen – and they’re prequels!

13 January 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

OMG! Actual bits of The Wire I haven’t seen! These are all prequels that I think HBO put on its web site before the fifth season or stuck on a DVD or something, so some of you might have seen them already. But it’s actual The Wire footage I haven’t seen. I’d forgotten how joyous that felt.

Before the jump, when McNulty met Bunk for the first time. After the jump, it’s Young Omar and Prop Joe.

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Matt LeBlanc auditions to play Matt LeBlanc in Showtime/BBC’s Episodes

13 January 2010 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Imagine you have a hit BBC sitcom and the US want to adapt it. In the UK, it’s Ian McKellen or Derek Jacobi who stars. In the US, it’s… Matt LeBlanc. Ruined huh?

Well that’s what happening with the BBC’s/Showtime’s Episodes. Except this whole process is the comedy, not the TV show. Matt LeBlanc plays Matt LeBlanc in the show, except for the show within the show, he has to audition to play Matt LeBlanc. Confusing, huh? Then watch this:

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Wednesday’s Mannequin on the move news

13 January 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

British TV

  • Hugh Dennis to replace James May on Oz and James’ Big Wine Adventure? [registration required]
  • Law & Order watched by 5.6m viewers
  • Glee does well, too
  • iPlayer now available

Canadian TV

  • Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald to make half-hour 80s nostalgia comedy for Canwest

US TV

US TV

Preview: Archer 1×1

12 January 2010 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

In the US: Thursdays, 10pm, FX. Starts January 14th, 2010

Who doesn’t want to be a spy? Imagine the glamour, the excitement, the women/men you’d meet.

Of course, reality is going to be a whole lot different. It’s all going to be screwed-up people stuck in relatively normal workplaces, quibbling about expense accounts – at gunpoint.

That, at least, is the premise of FX’s new half-hour animated comedy Archer, which features the daring exploits of Sterling Archer, ace superspy for top secret organisation ISIS.

What kind of man is Sterling Archer? Well, imagine James Bond. Imagine his lifestyle, all the glamour, the excitement, the women – then imagine that instead of James Bond, you have an American, trust fund-holding, egotistical, self-centred, empty-headed, misogynistic jock douchebag with mummy issues.

It’s brilliant.

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