Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rosby): The Unicorn and the Wasp

27 June 2008 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

David Tennant in the Doctor Who episode The Unicorn and the Wasp

Today’s Sitting Tennant is from Rosby again. It’s from the Doctor Who episode The Unicorn and the Wasp.

Rosby, who now leads the field with four entries in the gallery, writes:

…it’s obvious that he’s thinking about what it would be like to star in a series adapted from a book about Greek Gods in contemporary settings…

It would mean a move to the US though, if you’re thinking of the book I’m thinking of, Rosby, since Ben Stiller’s production company is busy adapting it. I’m not sure everyone would be happy about his relocation…

Witty or amusing captions please everyone, or perhaps you’d like to suggest the Greek god Mr Tennant would be best suited to playing and what accent he would use?

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery in due course.

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Preview: Pretty Handsome

26 June 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

In the US: FX. No airdate yet

Joseph Fiennes hit international stardom nearly a decade ago with Shakespeare in Love. He went on to do a few other movies, including Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel & Laurence. But then he disappeared for a bit, only to resurface on stage or in German films about the Red Baron.

So what’s he been up to? Turns out, he’s been doing a series for FX all about a gynacologist. Not too surprising, given that the show’s by the creator of Nip/Tuck. What’s more surprising is that said gynacologist wants to be a woman.

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Preview: Raising the Bar

25 June 2008 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

In the US: TNT, some time in the Fall. No airdate set

Lawyers, hey? Always such curmudgeonly old types, their actually having to know things n’all. So unphotogenic. Ugh.

Wouldn’t it be just the coolest thing, though, if we could have a TV show about young lawyers who were all really pretty? No, not like Shark. Absolutely no old folks around – you know 35 or even 40 – to mess things up. We want pretty, pretty, pretty.

But wouldn’t they all be a bit rubbish?

Maybe. But we could make that a virtue. How about they’re all a bit rough and ready and make mistakes? They’d screw up – and each other – because they wouldn’t know better.

They’d need practice and training before they could handle tricky things well. We could call it something like Law Squad? No? How about Training Briefs?

I know. Raising the Bar. That’ll do.

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