You’ve got to admire this newsreader’s dedication to the profession when his newsroom catches fire.
Friday’s returning assault course news
Doctor Who
- David Tennant getting Doctor Who withdrawal symptoms
Film
- Helen Mirren to play Mossad agent in The Debt
- DreamWorks picks up the rights to John Wyndham’s Chocky
Theatre
- Annie to return to the West End
British TV
- ITV to bring back The Krypton Factor?
- ITV Wales set to cut programming after ITV PSB changes
US TV
- Michelle Forbes to be series regular on season two of True Blood
- Do Not Disturb yanked after three episodes
- Low ratings for Knight Rider
- Sarah Michelle Gellar to star in The Wonderful Maladys?
- Moses Port and David Guarascio developing office comedy for Fox
- 90210 to bring back Dylan and Brandon – but not Luke Perry or Jason Priestley
US TV
Just how are the current US shows being advertised?
Getting people to watch your shiny new show (or returning old show) is always tricky. Billboards are among the main media you can use to get people to tune in, provided you create enough impact.
Here’s a shiny collection of billboards (and a couple of magazine spreads and covers) for the current and returning shows in the US, as featured by The Hollywood Reporter, complete with rating. Where I’ve reviewed the show, I’ve included a link to the review
- Gossip Girl : A (first series review)
- Fringe : B (my review)
- Heroes: C+ (my review)
- Pushing Daisies : B (first series review)
- Entourage : C
- Chuck: A- (first series review)
- House : B+ (my review)
- 90210: B+
- Knight Rider: B (review tomorrow!)
- Privileged : C- (first episode review; third episode verdict on Monday)
- CSI: NY : C+
- America’s Next Top Model : F+
- My Own Worst Enemy : B
- Dexter: A (my preview)
- Worst Week: B- (my review)
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles : A- (my review)
- Grey’s Anatomy: B-
- Simpsons/Family Guy/King of the Hill: B
- Eleventh Hour: B- (UK series review)
- Desperate Housewives: B
- Californication: B (first series review)
- The Ex-List: B
- Lipstick Jungle: D+ (first series review)
- The Shield: A
Audio and radio play reviews
Review: Sapphire and Steel – Wall of Darkness
There are species of sloth faster than me. I really do learn incredibly slowly sometimes. Case in point: the Big Finish Sapphire and Steel audio plays.
These have been a largely hit-and-miss affair, with the distinct emphasis on ‘miss’. Yet I’ve kept on getting them and wasting my time with them. Doh! Still, once in a while, a good one turns up, so I’m not wholly insane.
Where I’m learning impaired is in forgetting to note who writes each story. In particular, if it’s producer Nigel Fairs, the Sapphire and Steel supremo at Big Finish, you can pretty much guarantee that the first part of the whole play is going to be absolute drek, with a second part that manages to make the misery you’ve experienced almost worthwhile.
Turns out that for this, the final play in the series, possibly ever, pretty much the whole of the second part is absolute drek as well. The final ten minutes or so? Now that’s where it gets really interesting.
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US TV
Heroes musings
So Heroes is finally back on our screens after such a long wait — okay, if you’re in the UK, it’ll be on our screens on Monday. That means it must be time, à la Lost, for some rubbish theories and random speculation. Nothing revelatory, and since it’s mine, it’s going to be wrong, but I thought I’d share. And then you can tell me yours!