US TV

Preview: Fringe

 

In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, Fox. Starts 9th Sept
In the UK: Not yet acquired, because the UK ain’t buying not nothing right now

There are things in the world that can’t be explained, like the popularity of jazz or mysterious phenomena such as UFOs. Then there are other things that are far more easily explained, such as ‘déjà vu’ – the feeling that you’ve seen something before. That’s usually because you have. In the case of Fringe, it’s because you probably saw an episode of The X-Files once and buried it in the back of your mind.

Fringe, despite the initial presence of government agents investigating weird and spooky things, is fortunately more than just a simple retread of past Fox successes. It’s a disturbing glimpse into a parallel world in which weird fringe science of the 70s actually turned up results, results that are affecting – and sometimes destroying – life as we know it in the present.

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Tuesday’s “unforgiving Catholic church” news

Film

Commercials

  • Emma Watson replaces Keira Knightley as new face of Chanel

Theatre

  • John Cleese planning a stage version of A Fish Called Wanda

British TV

  • ITV Productions developing detective drama set in Brighton based on ‘Roy Grace’ novels [free registration required]
  • Matthew Horne says a third series of Gavin & Stacey is probable

US TV

US TV

Review: Sex and the City

Sex and the City

It’s here. It’s here! After all that waiting, it’s finally here.

Much like the January sales, there are strategies to be used when you’re going to watch something as anticipated as Sex and the City: the movie. Either you wait all night camped outside and then be the first in before everyone else, or you wait until everyone has been crushed under foot and enter at your leisure afterwards.

Which is why I’m sauntering in with a review of Sex and the City over a week after it opened.

What do you mean I shouldn’t be watching this cos I’m a bloke? Watching movies about women is ‘so gay’? Do you want to have a think about that?

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US TV

Review: Doctor Who – 4×10 – Midnight

Doctor Who - Midnight

Who’s this by again? “Russell T Davies”? Blimey. Is he still writing for Doctor Who then?

With all the Steven Moffat fuss of late, it’s easy to forget that Russell T Davies – aka RTD OBE – is still showrunner of Doctor Who and will be until 2010. Or that he actually writes scripts for it now and then.

With Midnight, he’s drawn something of the short straw for himself – the “we’ve run out of budget and Catherine Tate needs a break” episode. But given a small cast and three sets or so to play with, Rusty doesn’t do a bad job at all.

In fact, there’s only one man who can bring this house of cards tumbling down. You guessed it. It’s Murray Gold.

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rosby)

Special kudos to Rosby for getting both John Simm and David Tennant into her entry, from Jools Holland’s 2007 Hootannanananany particularly since they’re both sitting down.

But is it art? Let us know your interpretations below.

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.