I loathed the show utterly, but now there’s a reason to watch to Brothers and Sisters: Rob Lowe is joining the cast as a potential love interest for Calista Flockhart. Amusingly, he’s going to play a Republican senator.
Kidnapped’s future
As mentioned yesterday, Kidnapped has been pulled from NBC’s schedules completely. What fate lay in wait for it, we wondered. The answer was swift in coming: it’s going to air online and then make its way onto DVD. Fortunately, work on all 13 episodes has almost been completed, so the storylines will get finished.
UPDATE: More details at Variety.
The Hughes Brothers to direct Kung Fu
The talented Hughes brothers have won the coveted chance to direct the movie version of Kung Fu. I’m actually starting to look forward to it now, since Warner Brothers have put some actual talent to work and they’re intent on preserving the “zen spirit” of the show. The Hughes brothers have also approached the Shaolin Temple outside Beijing – to do what, I don’t know, but that shows a certain sensitivity to the subject matter that I wasn’t expecting.
UK TV
Review: The Haunted Airman/Dennis Wheatley: A Letter to Posterity
In the UK: BBC4, October 31st, 10pm
As everyone knows, October 31st is the pagan festival “Dennis Wheatley Night”. It’s a time of the year when occultists of all varieties traditionally get together to wonder why Wheatley, whose books were once as popular as Agatha Christie’s, was such a right-wing Nazi loon*.
This year, BBC4 chose to celebrate Dennis Wheatley Night with a dramatisation of one of his stories, The Haunting of Toby Jugg, and a documentary about his life that had a group of experts wondering why he was such a right-wing Nazi loon.
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How iTunes saved the US Office
Interesting piece over on Newsday about how the ability to download whole episodes of The Office from Apple’s iTunes Music Store saved it from cancellation. 30 Rock might also be a beneficiary of this phenomenon as well, as might Studio 60.