Today’s Sitting Tennant is from an episode of The Bill (Deadline) that David Tennant appeared in roughly 13 years ago. You can see a clip of it on YouTube as well. In case you can’t tell, he’s in an interrogation room, not a hair salon.
Amusing captions, please.
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(pic by Jalopnik)
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Anyone know why Five is bringing back classic 70s sports show Superstars?
Not only has BBC1 tried it and failed – perhaps because they had Johnny Vaughn as the main host and he’s best at armchair comedy – they’re bringing it back and messing around with the format. This time it’s going to be teams (three men and one woman in each).
Anyone going to watch it? Anyone got any ideas about why they’re bringing it back?
In the US: TNT. Coming in the Fall (no airdate or slot yet)
There are very few films that have essentially relaunched entire genres. Ocean’s 11 is one of those few. It managed to cause an outbreak of ‘cool criminal’ films and TV series, the effect of which is still being felt. Some of these have been successful (Hustle), some unsuccessful (the remake of The Italian Job, Smith).
Leverage is the latest TV series to take the idea of the caper movie and run with it. Starring Oscar winner Timothy Hutton, Angel‘s Christian Kane (without an evil hand) and our very own Gina Bellman (Coupling), it’s actually very good.
In the US: Fox, Wednesdays, 9.30pm ET/PT. Starts September 10th
There is a strange astral body that orbits the Fox network in the US. It’s called the "Galactic Ball of Sitcom Suckiness". It purges any Fox sitcom of even the slightest trace of comedy and makes you wish for the cold release of death as you watch it.
Look at Back To You or Til Death. They’re just awful. Even The Loop, which almost managed to achieve single-camera escape velocity in its first season, got pulled back into purgatory for its second.
Now we have Do Not Disturb, which while initially sounding like a comedy about an intrepid working party looking at the small print of the Lisbon Treaty, is actually set in a hotel. Starring Jerry O’Connell (Jerry Maguire, Sliders, Carpoolers), one of the funny ones from The Class and no one else of real interest, it is exactly the same as every other offensively poor Fox sitcom you’ve ever seen.
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