In the UK: Thursdays, BBC2, 9pm
In the US: Season 1 being repeated on HBO. No word on Season 2.
The ultimate test of any comedy is whether it makes you laugh. On those grounds, series two of Extras is an occasional success: when it makes you laugh, it makes you laugh hard. The rest of the time, it’s either not very good or slightly distasteful.
In the UK: Thursdays, 9.30pm, BBC2. Repeated Tuesdays, 10.30pm, BBC3.
Well there’s surprising. A funny sketch show on BBC2. I wasn’t expecting that. I thought those days were long gone. Certainly, I wasn’t expecting it from Mitchell and Webb, whose Peep Show everyone keeps going on about but which I only found slightly amusing.
But this I actually look forward to each week. I’ve set the PVR and everything!
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Looks like Blade: The Series has been cancelled. Oh no. That’s just awful.
And lo, the rehabilitation of Robert Downey Jr did continue. It’s just been announced that everyone’s favourite former junkie and top-grade actor is to be Tony Stark in the new Iron Man movie, which is being directed by Jon Favreau. The project’s already had Tom Cruise’s name hanging from it, an idea that didn’t exactly endear itself to Iron Man fans, but Downey’s a pretty good choice, I reckon.
For those of you not in the know, Iron Man features a billionaire industrialist who fashions himself an iron weapons suit as a means to keep himself alive from a terminal heart condition and to escape a prison camp (I’m précising here: there was a weird amount of Vietnam-era propaganda in the origins story). In common with all comics these days, there are attempts to inject some depth into the character. So there’s a fair amount of angst by Stark over his weapons-manufacturing past and he later descends into alcoholism.
Who reckons Downey can do that?
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