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  • Broadcasters’ profits plummet  

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Review: Heroes 3×15 – Trust and Blood

Not a proper review as such, more like a question and a brief look-over: anyone actually want episode by episode reviews of Heroes, given it’s finally getting good again?

Given I don’t normally do e-by-e reviews of US shows, only the occasional Brit show (there’s only so much time in the week and let’s not commit to anything we can’t sustain), I thought there was an atypical lack of symmetry there that might need fixing. Besides, it’s about the only US show I’d want to review e-by-e, apart from 24, but my 24 reviews would just be me giggling insanely because each episode has more well executed action scenes in it than any other US show has per season (with the honourable exceptions of The Unit and Battlestar Galactica, of course).

Of course, if Heroes goes pants again, I might regret the offer, but I thought I’d put it out there – over to you.

As for this week’s episode, for a mini-review, join me after the jump.

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Wednesday’s famous Triffids news

Doctor Who

  • Matt Smith getting paid £1 million for five years’ work
  • Big Finish to record unmade Doctor Who scripts, and Highlander audio books

Comics

  • Marvel to sell comics through iTunes

Film

British TV

US TV

  • More Human Target and Absolutely Fabulous casting
  • More HBO pilot casting
  • FX goes for even more manly pilots
  • Katherine Heigl and TR Knight leaving Grey’s Anatomy
  • ABC doing pilot based on ITV’s No Heroics
  • NBC picks up another comedy pilot, Community
  • United States of Tara gets a second season
  • Clip of Chuck featuring Andy Richter and Jenny McCarthy [US only]
  • Local TV stations planning to end analogue broadcasts early

Recording dates for Safety Catch – Series Two

As discovered by me not so long ago, radio comedy Safety Catch, starring among others – oh look – Joanna Page from Gavin & Stacey, has been awarded a second series. Now the recording dates have been announced. Need anyone ask if I’ve booked my tickets already?

Safety Catch
1 and 8 March, BBC Radio Theatre

A second series of Laurence Howarth’s black comedy of modern morality set in the world of arms dealing.

Simon McGrath is generally is nice man who likes to think of himself as a good citizen. He donates blood, although not bone marrow because he’s heard that hurts. He recycles his newspapers, bottles and some of his cans. He’s adopted two tigers. But he has to pay his mortgage like everyone else and that’s why he’s currently working as an arms dealer.

Of course his real love is electronic music and this is just a stop gap until he finds the perfect outlet for his music – okay so it’s a five year stop gap but it’s a stop gap nonetheless.

Anyway, as his mum says, people will always want to kill each other, there’s nothing Simon can do about that and the job pays well, gives him good job security and enables him to buy a decent car. So that’s alright then……

Starring:
Darren Boyd (Green Wing, Saxondale, Little Dorrit) as Simon
Joanna Page (Gavin & Stacey)
Sarah Smart (Wallander, At Home With The Braithwaites)
Brigit Forsyth (Calendar Girls, Whatever Happened To the Likely Lads,)
Lewis McLeod (Look Around You)

Recording on Sunday 1 and 8 March at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London. Doors open at 7.15pm.

To apply for tickets, call the BBC Ticket Line on 0370 901 1227* or visit the BBC Tickets Website.

We are delighted to announce that we are now issuing E-tickets for all of our shows, so please keep an eye on the email address that you enter when applying as that is where your tickets will be sent.

We look forward to seeing you in our audience very soon.

Kind regards

BBC Studio Audiences
www.bbc.co.uk/tickets

Tuesday’s gods behaving very badly news

Doctor Who

Awards

Film

  • Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to star in a comedy directed by Nancy Meyers
  • Universal acquires rights to Spencer Quinn’s Dog On It
  • James Mangold to direct a legal thriller about an oil rig disaster
  • Mickey Rourke to star in Walter Hill-directed hitman movie St Vincent
  • New Watchmen TV spots
  • Moneypenny and Q back for next Bond movie?
  • McG trying to get Arnie into Terminator: Salvation

Comics

  • The Shield’s Michael Chiklis to launch comic book about Greek gods returning to the present-day Earth

Theatre

British TV

  • Beeb adding HD programmes to iTunes

US TV