Yes, it’s a radio-controlled Airwolf, now available from Maplin stores (not their web site) for about £30. It’s like a dream come true! Dare I?
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Today's Joanna Page
Today’s Joanna Page: The Vagina Monologues and Marie Claire
Bit of a brief Today’s Joanna Page today. But be prepared for an extensive one or two in the next fortnight.
Anyway, our Joanna’s appearing in The Vagina Monologues at the Wales Millennium Centre this week (anyone going?) and there’s a big interview with her about it over in thisissouthwales.co.uk. But she’s also doing a lot of work for Comic Relief, including appearing in a Marie Claire photoshoot. Here’s a behind-the-scenes vid of her, Stephen Mangan, Alison Steadman and her Fat Pig co-star Kevin Bishop at said photoshoot.
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
Stewart Lee’s got a new series starting soon – Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, which begins March 16th on BBC2 at 10pm. You can read an interview with him about it (and other things) over at The Scotsman.
In the meantime, here’s a little documentary (in two parts) called Don’t Get Me Started in which he discusses blasphemy and its place in comedy with various religious types – and Alan Moore, who’s religious in a completely different way. It’s not that funny, but it’s interesting.
Monday’s cloning Keira news
Doctor Who
- RSC preparing film version of David Tennant’s Hamlet
- Pic of David Tennant filming with Lindsay Duncan
- …and a returning monster (?)
- TARDIS interior to become most high-tech ever
Film
- Keira Knightley to star in cloning thriller Never Let Me Go
- Jason Bateman to star with George Clooney in Up in the Air
- Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Sam Jackson to star in Rape: A Love Story
- Next Gen cast appearing in new Star Trek movie?
- Antonio Banderas joins Woody Allen’s next film
- Friday the 13th gets a sequel. Is that a first?
Canadian TV
British TV
- Richard Armitage talks Robin Hood
- Five Days and Criminal Justice get renewed
US TV
- Kate Cassidy joins Melrose Place, Steven McQueen joins Vampire Diaries
- Four more join Day One
- Kim Raver and Alyssa Milano to star in pilots
- No Doubt to reunite for Gossip Girl
- 24 gets an eighth season, plus spoilers for tonight’s double-episode
- Heroes fires a writer, gets budget cutbacks, but plans a new web series
Facebook and followers
A very slightly exciting technical innovation: it’s now possible to log in to the blog with your FaceBook account and have your profile pic and a link to your profile appear next to your comments (comme ça). There’s a very slight formatting issue and it goes a weird if you log out, but it seems to work fine otherwise.
A very slightly less exciting technical innovation: it’s now possible to ‘follow’ the blog using the widget underneath the Recent Comments/News/Latest/Popular/Tags thingie in the sidebar. I think it means you get to find out when there’s an update or something, but I guess it’s also a way of showing support in a Web 2.0 sort of way.
Let me know if you have any problems.
UPDATE: If you want to link to a site other than your FaceBook profile such as your blog, let me know, either directly or in your first comment, and I’ll make it so – as I’ve just done with Marie’s comments (fingers crossed).