I’ve already reviewed episode one, but my series review of The Secret Millionaire is over on Off The Telly.
News
News from the weekend
Film
- Vincent Price film The Tingler is being remade. Will the producers wire up the cinema seats this time?
- Sam Raimi wants to do Spiderman 4, even if none of the cast do.
- Erik Estrada wants a cameo in the CHiPs movie.
- Phillip Pullman’s The Subtle Knife now has a writer.
- Sophia Bush is the latest suggestion for Wonder Woman.
- Clips pictures and stuff from Sean Bean’s forthcoming The Hitcher remake.
- The remake of Sleuth starring Jude Law and Michael Caine has started shooting.
Music
- Sad news. Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson’s daughter has committed suicide. More offensive news: the family issued a statement saying “She quietly and peacefully committed suicide to escape the ravages to her brain brought on by Asperger’s.”
British TV
- Tomorrow’s World is to return, but as a brand rather than a show.
- ITV2 has released details of its new comedy show.
- Ken Russell and Donny Tourette have left Celebrity Big Brother.
- Magnus Magnusson has died.
- Want to know what life is like as a nurse? Can’t be bothered to ask one? Watch Five’s So You Think You Can Nurse? to have Gail Porter, Sean Hughes and Janet Street Porter find out for you.
US TV
- Dominic Purcell talks about his latest movie, the fact he’s not going to be The Hulk and a new, alternative theory of John Doe.
- Paul Guilfoyle of CSI says there are too many CSI shows.
- Masi Oka spills some Heroes secrets
- SciFi is still working hard on a Flash Gordon TV series.
- Two of the stars of House are engaged.
- Dave Matthews of The Dave Matthews Band is to cameo on House.
US TV
Review: In Case of Emergency 1×01
In the US: Wednesdays, 9.30/8.30c, ABC
In the UK: Not yet acquired
All of a sudden, there are a lot of “baby-men” dramas around. We started with The Class, in which various former school friends reunite after years of separation and discover that life has taken them in strange directions. But now we have another comedy that looks back nostalgically at High School and the life choices taken afterwards.
In Case of Emergency is also a comedy about losers, of which there are also a lot around (cf Knights of Prosperity). Despite the high aims and achievements of Jason, Harry, Sherman and Kelly at High School, only one of them has done well and that’s all about to end, too.
News
The end of days news
Well, Friday’s news anyway.
Doctor Who
- David Tennant’s back in drag for the Friday Night Project tonight.
- There’s a new US subscription service for Big Finish CDs.
Film
- There are two batches of pictures from The Golden Compass on Ain’t It Cool News. That’s His Dark Materials in disguise, BTW.
- George Clooney and Robert de Niro are set to appear in a remake of French film 36 Quai des Orfèvres, which starred Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. Because all French films star Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu.
British TV
- Zoe Williams has a nice piece in The Guardian defending Celebrity Big Brother. [registration required]
US TV
- Rob Lowe’s proved so popular on Brothers and Sisters, he’s been hired for the rest of the season.
- IESB.net has three promos and two clips from Heroes. They’re quite big, so be patient. Only the promos are new though.
- Masi Oka talks about working with George Takei on Heroes.
- Jessalyn Gilsig has been cast on Heroes.
- A gossip writer points out where Dirt went wrong.
- How Heroes is avoiding Lost’s mistakes. It’s all about the Heroes today, isn’t it?
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I asked my sister about The Towers of London (cf Celebrity Big Brother). She’s in the biz, you know. Here’s her reply:
Absolutely. They’re a ridiculous bunch of Motley Crue wannabes. They have their own reality show on Bravo and are managed by the same scally who managed the Happy Mondays. They’re always in the press for having punch ups rather than because they have decent records.
They are in short, chaos.
So there you go. Donny Tourette is not a plant, as others suspected.