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Review: The Sarah Silverman Program 1×01

Sarah Silverman

In the US: Just about every day of the week. It’s on Comedy Central anyway.

In the UK: Not yet acquired. Maybe E4 or More4. Who knows though?

Apparently, there aren’t enough shows about grown women with the minds of 8-year-old boys. Who knew?

Okay, let’s be a little fairer than that. Sarah Silverman is a very funny stand-up. She’s very imaginative, as is her new Comedy Central program, wisely called The Sarah Silverman Program. I was looking forward to it a lot.

But you know what? It all falls a bit flat. Mainly because I’m not eight years old.

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Events

Morning, you

Flakes are back

Have a nice weekend?

Film and comics

  • Joss Whedon’s off the Wonder Woman movie.
  • Ghostbusters 3 is still happening. Both Dan Ackroyd and Bill Murray are up for it. But it’s going to be all-cg.
  • A new version of Barbarella is in the works.
  • Joel Schumacher wants to film Sandman.
  • The Flash has a new director.

Commercials

  • The Cadbury’s Flake ads are coming back on Friday. Directed by Jack “son of Ridley” Scott, they will focus “on the unique way of eating a Cadbury Flake: peeling back the wrapper and enjoying the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate in the world.” Ooh, top euphemism.

Events

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News

Friday’s glorious news

Hot Fuzz


Doctor Who

Commercials

  • Orange has decided to continue with its Film Board cinema ads. First up: Michael Madsen.

Film

British TV

  • Apparently, we needed another The Bill. Details of the long-promised HolbyBlue are emerging. It’s got Zoe Lucker and Tim Piggott-Smith, for one thing. Oh Tim. You were so good in The Chief. Why ruin the memory?

US TV

Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – Phobos

Immortal BelovedSo we’ve had something Dalek, something silly, something thought-provoking and now, something traditional. Blah, blah, blah, blah, Doctor and companion arrive, Doctor and companion find people being killed off one by one, Doctor and companion get put in peril and discover monster is behind it all.

Ring any bells with anyone?

Yes, it’s standard Doctor Who plot #3. It worked for countless episodes of the old series (Image of the Fendahl, Curse of Peladon, The Dominators and just about anything else you care to name) and it’s readily deployable to the halfway house between old and new Who that is the Big Finish universe.

The question is, did you feel the fear?

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UK TV

Life on Mars for the lazy

Life on Mars press pack



Want to know all about series two of Life on Mars? Want to write an entire article about it without having to watch an episode or buy a DVD? Thank goodness for the Life on Mars series two press pack, now available from the BBC web site.

Shall we start a book on how many strangely familiar ‘exclusives’ will be appearing in various outlets soon?