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Thursday’s catching up news

29 May 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Minutemen from Watchmen

News from today and since Friday. That’s holidays for you – always with the catching up.

Doctor Who

  • Neil Gaiman to write an episode? Can it be true Stu_N?

Film

Art

British TV

  • Gavin & Stacey was nearly set in Porthcawl and almost featured Ray Gravell
  • iPlayer rolled out on Virgin Media platform next week
  • Gorillaz design BBC Olympic titles [free registration required]
  • The Street gets a third series
  • ITV to show ‘lost’ Pushing Daisies episode online
  • BBC Four will show the second season of Mad Men

US TV

US TV

HBO’s Fall 2008 shows

28 May 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

I’m still on holiday, so I’m going to be a bit slack on this one. So this is by no means full coverage of all the forthcoming HBO shows, since there’s a comedy or two on the way.

Plus there’s not much out of HBO about its forthcoming shows, other than a slightly old promo vid.

We’ve got the creators of The Wire looking at the Iraq war. We’ve got Alan Ball of Six Feet Under fame looking at vampires in the American South for True Blood. Deadwood‘s David Milch tries again after the flopparoo that was John from Cincinnati with 70s police corruption in The Last of the Ninth. 

And of course, thanks to that musical promo vid, we have clips from the new series of Entourage and Flight of the Conchords.

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Scariest movie ever: Phase IV?

28 May 2008 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

It occurred to me that after The Andromeda Strain and The Satan Bug had already cropped up on the blog as examples of truly scary movies, it might be interesting to work out what the scariest might be. Anyone got any further suggestions? I’m sure The Exorcist will be in there somewhere, but Phase IV – the one with the ants – has got to be in there (I was minded of it by Marie’s current problems). 

Directed by Saul Bass and featuring some stunning micro-photography of real insects, it asks the question: “What if ants suddenly became intelligent, stopped fighting each other and decided to gang up on us for their own sinister purposes?” Non-stop scary and very weird.