In the US: Mondays, 8:30/7:30c, The CW. Starts October 1
In the UK: Not yet acquired
Wow. Who saw that one coming? Of all the pilots for new shows, this is one of the ones I’d heard the least about. Yet it’s easily one of the smartest, is easily the funniest and it’s also quite touching.
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Firstly, can I just ask, “What the Hell happened to the Big Finish web site?” Have a look at it: it’s horrible!
Putting that to one side for a moment, though, does anyone actually look forward to the Sylvester McCoy releases? Just before I’m about to listen to one, I always feel like I’m in that Revels ad – you know, the spoof of Deer Hunter – and someone’s pre-loaded the bag with toffees.
For one gleaming moment, though, it looked like I was going to get a coffee-flavoured audio play with Valhalla. No Sophie Aldred. Good. Sylvester McCoy playing the Doctor all quiet and melancholic, with scarcely a word beginning with ‘r’ in sight. Excellent. Hints that we’re going for season 25 or 26, rather than 24, with the Doctor having a cunning plan up his sleeve from the beginning. Excellente.
Then, oh dear. Mango-flavoured.
In the US: NBC, Sundays, 10/9c. January 2008 start
In the UK: Not yet acquired
Sorry for the slight delay on this one: I needed to draft my wife in to watch this one as well, or else my opinion would be even more irrelevant than normal. This is, after all, one for the ladies.
The good news is that it’s based on Candace “I wrote Sex and the City, I did’ Bushnell’s book of the same name so has a reasonable pedigree, the show runners have already been fired, and Kim Raver can act.
The bad news is that no one else can act, the script’s awful, and they’re going to air the pilot as is, without changes.
As my wife put it, ”I like trashy TV, but that was just bad.“
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