News

Monday’s “How Not To Be A Gentleman” news

10 October 2011 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Dallas reunion NYPD Blue reunion

Film

  • Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire with Gina Carano, Michael Douglas et al
  • Tim Roth to star in Broken and The Liability
  • Trailer for The Raven with John Cusack
  • Prison Break‘s Dominic Purcell to play Satan in Paradise Lost

British TV

  • 5.2m watch Hidden
  • BBC HD to become BBC2 HD?
  • 100 jobs and programmes to go at BBC Wales
  • BBC imports budget to be cut
  • BBC4 to be more a BBC2 feeder channel in future

US TV

  • Perfect Couples‘ Hayes MacArthur to guest on Happy Endings
  • How To Be a Gentleman cancelled
  • Billy Dee Williams to guest on Man Up!
  • ABC developing version of Five’s Suburban Shootout
  • Rhea Perlman to guest on Kirstie Alley’s comedy pilot
  • USA orders pilot from White Collar‘s Jeff Eastin
  • ABC buys Jerry Bruckheimer’s Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
  • Trailer for Showtime’s House of Lies
  • Thursday ratings: Charlie’s Angels drops again, Grey’s Anatomy hits series low, Prime Suspect steady
  • Friday ratings: A Gifted Man steady, Fringe up, Nikita down
  • Two more seasons for The Simpsons
  • NBC picks up Roseanne Barr’s Downwardly Mobile
Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 36, 2011)

7 October 2011 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Erin C's Sitting Tennant

Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

He’s perked up since last week. Wonder what happened.

  1. Hebbie: 260
  2. Sister Chastity: 255
  3. Erin C: 125
  4. Rullsenberg: 55
  5. Janice: 20
  6. esgaril: 10
  7. theriverlady, Toby: 5

Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition!

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.

Friday’s “BBC cuts” news

7 October 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

British TV

  • Strike Back gets a third season
  • BBC1 to boost drama and comedy… [subscription required]
  • …BBC2 to replace daytime output with repeats… [subscription required]
  • …BBC3 to transfer a third of its drama budget to BBC1… [subscription required]
  • …and BBC4 to cut drama but keep comedy [subscription required]

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US TV

Web TV

Question of the week: what can NBC do to get people to actually watch its programmes?

6 October 2011 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Well, we’re three weeks into the fall season and we’ve already had our first drama cancellation – NBC’s The Playboy Club. It wasn’t a great show, but it wasn’t bad, certainly better than the likes of CBS’s Unforgettable and ABC’s Revenge. Yet The Playboy Club couldn’t even get 4m viewers for its final episode, while Unforgettable and Revenge are getting closer to 10m.

However, The Playboy Club is not alone. NBC’s remake of Prime Suspect got 6m viewers for its first episode, the worst debut for a Thursday night fall drama. And that’s pretty good. Now take a look at NBC’s undeniably excellent Community. That gets just about 4.5m, too, while the absolutely appalling and very racist 2 Broke Girls on CBS gets about 10m. What’s up there?

So today’s question is:

What does NBC have to do to get people to watch its programmes if quality isn’t it the answer and people will watch any old tat on the other networks?