Today's Joanna Page

Today’s Joanna Page: Christmas

24 October 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

There’s a question that is no doubt on everyone’s mind right now: “Where can I see Joanna Page this Christmas?” Fortunately, there’s an answer.

If you’re content to watch tele, she’s on the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special as Stacey (of course), which is currently filming in Barry. Here she is with Matthew Horne, filming a scene.

Gavin & Stacey Christmas special

But, you can see her in panto at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre as well. She’ll be playing Cinderella opposite Gareth Gates; Alistair McGowan’s in it, too.

Joanna Page and Gareth Gates in Cinderella

Who’s going?

Ron Howard becomes Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham again

24 October 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

It seems these days that everyone in Hollywood wants you to vote for Barack Obama in the Presidential elections*. Now director Ron Howard has joined the campaign with this video, in which he returns to his acting roots and recreates some of his most famous characters – as do his even more famous acting friends.

Howard and Andy Griffith play Opie and Andy Taylor from The Andy Griffith Show in the first half of the vid then he and Henry Winkler recreate Richie Cunningham and the Fonz from Happy Days in the second half. Enjoy!

* But only if you’re eligible to vote, otherwise it’s fraud

Friday’s pharoah news

24 October 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

British TV

US TV

  • Gary Cole joins Entourage as a regular
  • CBS moving Gary Unmarried into Worst Week‘s slot
  • Lindsay Lohan kicked off Ugly Betty
US TV

Review: Crusoe 1×1-1×2

23 October 2008 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Crusoe

In the US: Fridays, 9/8c, NBC

Setting’s very important to a story. Stick Crusoe on Saturday evening in a teatime slot in the UK and it would be a whole load of family fun. Sure, the purists would be complaining that this adaptation of Robinson Crusoe plays extremely fast and loose with the book – and indeed starts halfway through it – and seems to have been crossed with Pirates of the Caribbean and The Admirable Crichton along the way.

But this is a post-Merlin age and we’d have been quite happy with a big budget escapist bit of tatt that might at least get a couple of kids reading books and thinking about history and issues.

However, it’s not going out on Saturday night ITV1. It’s Friday night NBC fun in the US. They’re aiming it at adults, the fools. That’s never going to work.

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Thursday’s uncurbed enthusiasm news

23 October 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Theater/Theatre

Polish TV

  • Clips from London-based soap Londynczycy

British TV

US TV