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Quarantine viral video: the Community charity table-read

18 May 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Community, which as I pointed out in a recent podcast is one of those comedy shows you have to watch if you haven’t already (it’s on Netflix), might have ended a while ago, but that doesn’t mean it’s faded from the minds of either its fans or its cast and crew.

This evening at 10pm UK time (2 pm PT), in another one of the charity table read-throughs that we’re getting from the US during lockdown, the cast and crew will unite (via Zoom, of course) for a table read of the fifth season episode Cooperative Polygraphy on the Community YouTube channel. Yep, Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong and even Donald “Star Wars: Solo” Glover will be there, as will series creator Dan Harmon.

The biggest fans will recall, of course, that that episode featured Walton Googins as well. He can’t make it so they’ve got Pedro Pascal – the star of The Mandalorian (and Narcos and the forthcoming Wonder Woman 1984) – to take his helmet off and read his part onstead.

While you’re waiting for that, you can always make a donation or listen to The Darkest Timeline, which is a podcast run by Ken Jeong and Joel McHale for Community fans. This one features Danny Pudi

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Update

And here’s the read through itself, followed by the Q&A that followed – enjoy!

US TV

Quarantine viral video: Tony Shalhoub returns as Monk

13 May 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Peacock is US TV network NBC’s new streaming service (Peacock because of NBC’s logo, in case you’re wondering). One of its first is At-Home Variety Show – a virtual series hosted by Seth MacFarlane, that ‘aims to raise awareness and support for essential workers and struggling communities during the pandemic’.

First guest? Tony Shalhoub, reprising his mysophobic character from Monk, who’s not enjoying the lockdown one bit. Also appearing are fellow Monk stars Traylor Howard, Ted Levine and Jason Gray-Stanford.

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Film

Quarantine viral videos: Back to the Future’s cast and creators reunite on Reunited Apart

12 May 2020 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Reunited Apart isn’t something of which I was aware until now, but it’s an online series that showcases charities working to provide resources during the lockdown. Hosted by Josh Gad (yes, that one), each episode also reunites (virtually) the cast and crew of classic movies.

The first of these featured The Goonies (1985), which by some miracle I’ve never seen.

However, the subject of the second episode is Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels, which I most definitely have seen and rather love. In it, Gad and co manage to bring together stars Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen and Elisabeth Shue, as well as director Robert Zemeckis, writer Bob Gale, and… Huey Lewis!

That’s got to be worth a half hour of your time.

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Film

Quarantine viral videos: the Lego Movie PSA

12 May 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Continuing with our series of viral videos put together by creative types during lockdown, here we have a really quite elaborate one put together by the makers of The Lego Movie (2014). Elizabeth Banks and Chris Pratt reprise their roles to explain to everyone how to socially distance oneself and maintain good hand hygiene.

It’s funnier, better made and more musical than any of that sounds.

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