Featuring Clive Owen (v funny), George Michael, Gordon Ramsay and yes, David Tennant pulling faces. I actually laughed, which is more than I did through much of season two.
[via CoffeeMakers That Think]
US TV
Bionic speculation
Skip this if you haven’t seen at least the first two episodes of Bionic Woman already. Potential spoilers after the break.
UK TV
Review: The Peter Serafinowicz Show 1.1
In the UK: Thursdays, 9.30pm, BBC2
In the US: Not yet acquired
Peter Serafinowicz has been quietly lurking, almost invisibly, within many of the good British comedy shows and movies of the last decade. He’s been in Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Look Around You, Little Britain, I’m Alan Partridge, Black Books and more. He’s also king of the voiceover: you may remember him from such shows as South Park, The IT Crowd and Hippies, as well as, most famously, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in which he played the voice – but not the body – of Darth Maul.
Despite this, he doesn’t get the name-check recognition of the likes of Simon Pegg, Matt Lucas et al. Is this about to change, now he’s got his own show, thanks to the all-powerful YouTube?
Er, maybe. Or, at the very least, more people will try to pronounce his name…
Friday’s mix of implausible rumours and actual news
Doctor Who
- Billie Piper to be in Doctor Who movie, not series?
Film
- Val Kilmer to be a felon
- Serenity 2?
- Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell to star in global warming mini-series
- Stephen Fry and Lily Allen to star in Jane Austen spoof?
Web TV
- Two new wildlife channels for Joost
British TV
- Sooty’s up for sale
- Reunion planned for Grange Hill‘s 30th anniversary
- Ofcom launches public consultation on Sky’s plans for not-FreeView
- Jericho‘s Lennie James joins C4 knife drama
- ITV to save The Prisoner remake
- Jonas Armstrong‘s been down the gym, apparently
- Peter Serafinowicz talks about his new show
- Dragon’s Den is back on the 15th
- Tribute acts to vie for Las Vegas contract
US TV
- Studio 60‘s Steven Weber joins Brothers and Sisters
- FX commissions pilot for Tim Robbins’ Possible Side Effects
- Ally Sheedy joins Kyle XY. Nice casting!
- More star cameos for 30 Rock
- Jericho‘s second season is completed
- The Daily Show‘s Lewis Black gets his own show
- Pushing Daisies gets good ratings
US TV
Review: Carpoolers 1.1
Once upon a time, I imagine this was a cracking idea. Something like The Smoking Room or Phone Booth. “Imagine a low-budget comedy set entirely in a car being driven down the freeway by a bunch of guys in a car pool,” the idea probably went. “They’d talk about life, their lives, their feelings. It could be an illustration of the ordinary working man’s lot in life in the early 21st century.”
I imagine then that some network suit thought that a bigger budget and a bit more activity was needed or else no one would watch, certainly not during primetime.
And thus this version of Carpoolers was born. It is, in a sense, the partner programme to ABC’s Big Shots. While Big Shots is about rich idiots who are supposed to represent men but who are in fact misogynistic morons, Carpoolers is about middle class idiots who are supposed to represent men but who are in fact misogynistic morons.