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Film

DreamWorks close to leaving Paramount
Sienna Miller to play Maid Marian in Ridley Scott’s Nottingham

British TV

20th Century Fox and ITV create joint development fund to create original series and remake older shows: first up, British Versions of Dharma & Greg and Southern Comfort
Suranne Jones to star in ITV’s ex-con drama Unforgiven

US TV

BSG‘s Sam Witwer to play Doomsday on Smallville
Matthew Perry to play sweary talk show host on Showtime’s The End of Steve
Wilmer Valderrama to star in The Emancipation of Ernesto pilot
The Riches execs joining Captain Cook’s Extraordinary Atlas
Mary Tyler Moore joining Lipstick Jungle as Brooke Shields’ mum
Weeds creator wants a spin-off
Men in Trees‘ James Tupper joins Samantha Who?

Review: The Middleman 1×1

18 June 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

In the US: Mondays, 8/7c, ABC Family

Danger, Will Robinson! The engines canna take it, Captain. There are simply too many pop culture references, Mrs Peel, and unless you fetch Skippy right now, Commissioner Gordon is going to be in serious trouble.

Welcome to The Middleman, a show that pelts you with a 1,001 ironic references per second without ever really knowing why or what it’s even satirising. It’s still funny, though.

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Season finale: Battlestar Galactica

18 June 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Once again, Sky has been keeping up with the US nicely, so everyone with a Sky box should have seen this by now. So we can just babble on spoilerifically after the jump, if you’d so like.

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Wednesday’s pretend news

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Doctor Who

K9 spin-off to start filming… soon. Honest

Film

Spike Lee to direct Time Traveler
JJ Abrams to produce Mystery based on NY Times article
Universal to adapt The Last Call graphic novel

Theatre/Theater

Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty to move to Broadway
Dickens Unplugged to close after less than a month in West End
Jai Rodriguez to play Desi Arnaz in Dance With Me

British TV

Japanese silent comedians Gamarjobat get BBC3 pilot

US TV

Jon Harmon Feldman to replace Daniel Cerone as showrunner on Dirty Sexy Money
Secret Diary of a Call Girl gets record ratings on Showtime
Top Gear hosts free to say what they want about cars
Barry Sonnenfeld to adapt Argentina’s The Pretenders
BSG finale gets 1.8m viewers

Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno”

17 June 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

I’m not saying she’s a complete mentalist, but Isabella Rossellini’s done eight shorts for the Sundance Film Festival in which she dresses up as various insects and spiders and describes how they procreate. If you’re in the US, you can view them on the Sundance web site. Otherwise, you can view these lovely clips below to give you an idea of the full effect.

Mental but funny, anyway. But is it art?

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Review: The Middleman 1×1

Season finale: Battlestar Galactica

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