Thursday’s record ratings news

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British TV

  • Sarah Lancashire and Neil Pearson to star in BBC1 choir drama
  • ITV3 acquires CTV/CBS’s Flashpoint

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Wednesday’s pornographic news

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Theatre

British TV

  • Tim Roth, Kelly MacDonald and John Simm to star Skellig for Sky 1

US TV

Review: The Vengeance of Morbius

1 September 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment
The Vengeance of Morbius

It’s not often that the biggest fault with a Big Finish play is that it’s not long enough. Quite often, you just sit there, watching the tumbleweed go by and glaciers nip past you as you wait for the play to come to its inevitable conclusion.

But for the first time in quite a while, I came to the end of a play and found myself wishing that they’d spent a whole lot more time on it. I’m not saying that it was brilliant, it’s just when you have a character who has the potential to be one of the most interesting Doctor Who villains around, an hour doesn’t seem like quite enough to explore the character properly, does it?

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Today's Joanna Page

Today’s Joanna Page: Fat Pig

1 September 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Kevin Bishop and Joanna Page in Fat Pig

Today’s Joanna Page is Fat Pig, Neil LaBute’s size-related comedy play, which has been running in London for a good few months now. In fact, I’ve already reviewed it – twice.

However, from the 11th September, it’s going to be moving away from the Trafalgar Studios to the Comedy Theatre and Rob Webb and Kris Marshall are going to be replaced by Nick Burns and Kevin Bishop respectively. Then from October, Joanna Page is going to be off filming the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special and is going to be replaced by Kelly Brook. No word on what’s happening with Ella Smith, yet.

So here’s a publicity shot of our Joanna with Kevin Bishop (photo by Simon Turtle). And this is her (with Matthew Horne) in Gavin & Stacey:

Matthew Horne and Joanna Page in Gavin & Stacey

What a chameleon. How’s she do that?

PS There’s a video on the Fat Pig web site in which Neil LaBute interviews the current cast. In it, Rob Webb admits there was an evening where he chose to play Tom as “a complete spoon” then changed his mind and went back to playing it the original way. Any want to bet he did it on the night that I first went to see it, thus explaining the change in performance by the time I went back to see it again?