Monday’s tiny superhero news

10 March 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Michael Brandon’s going to appear in the next series. It’s in The Mirror apparently but I can’t find a URL

Film

Canadian TV

  • The Border renewed (yey!), Sophie renewed (boo!) and jPod cancelled (WTF!)

German TV

British TV

  • Richard Wilson cast in BBC’s new Merlin drama [free registration required]

US TV

Movies you should own

Movies you should own: Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel & Laurence

8 March 2008 Natalia Romanova 11 Comments

From the 17th March, Film4 are going to have a new range of budget DVD titles. The RRP is £6.99 and the films being released are:

  • The Yards
  • My Beautiful Launderette
  • She’s All That
  • Bostonians
  • Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel & Laurence
  • Raining Stones
  • Another Country
  • Maurice
  • Monsoon Wedding
  • Life is Sweet
  • Sexy Beast
  • Bread and Roses
  • Dogma
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • My Name is Joe
  • Riff Raff
  • Heat and Dust
  • Europeans
  • Blue Juice
  • Gangster No. 1

I’ve just checked Amazon and they’re listing them at £15.99 discounted to £11.99, so I’d advise buying them in shops while the initial discount campaign is running at least.

Anyway, since I’m very partial to Monica Potter, Rufus Sewell and Ray Winstone, and don’t mind Tom Hollander (shame about Joseph Fiennes though), I ordered up a nice review copy of Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel & Laurence as a sample of the range.

They sent me 10.

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US TV

Review: Ashes to Ashes 1×5

7 March 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

 

Well, folks, I did say there was going to be a chance I did episode by episode reviews of Ashes to Ashes and here I am, not doing a review of the fifth episode of Ashes to Ashes. Sorry, I had to go pick my wife up from the station midway through and I haven’t watched the end of it yet.

More to the point, I’ve had every chance to but I haven’t. I haven’t felt motivated. Last night’s seemed quite well written, like the writer (who also wrote last week’s) knew what he was doing. I just didn’t really enjoy it, right up until the moment I turned off the telly.

I’m trying to work out what the problem is with Ashes to Ashes. Why is it just not very interesting?

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Glen A Larson: what’s the next hot remake?

7 March 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Glen A Larson was the king of 1980s action series. He created Magnum, Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, The Fall Guy, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as well as less well known shows such as The Highwayman, Manimal and Automan.

Recently, he’s become all the rage again with a rather good remake of Battlestar Galactica now about to enter its fourth season and Knight Rider having been made into a TV movie that will probably be a series in the Fall.

So, what do you reckon should (or will) be the next remake on the cards – because you know there will be one? Magnum‘s been in development as a movie for ages. Do you reckon it will emerge into the light first? Or will it be something else? And who do you think should star in it? Or how should it be altered for the new millennium, if at all?