Or at least it’s not been renewed for a second season. One for my “Really very good but cancelled” section?
No.
News
More Sarah Jane Adventures stuff
My old pal Joe Nazzaro has got some more info about The Sarah Jane Adventures, over on SciFi Wire. Of note:
- The series proper starts filming in April
- Sarah Jane’s sidekick is going to be her 13-year-old niece, not her neighbour
- RTD loves the Big Finish Sarah Jane stories, and although he won’t acknowledge them in the TV series, he won’t contradict them either
Still not sure if K9’s going to be in the one-off special that will launch the series, thanks to contradictory reports, but it’s pretty clear he won’t be in the series itself. Instead, he’s going to be in K9 Adventures (scroll down to find the plot).
The value of a good screenplay
There’s an interesting piece over on the Hollywood Reporter about how a good screenplay can persuade actors and directors to drop everything and take pay cuts, simply to appear in a movie. The movie in question is Stranger than Fiction, which I’ve been looking forward to for some time. The trailer is below if you need persuading.
Varied reactions to the Lost finale
Lost, C4
“On the surface it’s good TV: glamorous, gripping, addictive even. That’s precisely the problem […] Lost is crack TV.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Lost, C4
“It should have run one season at most, at which span its empty enigmas and casual indifference to its own inventions might not have been quite so obvious.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent
Lost, C4
“There’s a real stirring sense of the writers letting their imaginations fly.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph
Lost, C4
“Lost has become the pub bore of the TV schedules, propping up the bar whenever you happen to be channel-surfing, forcing you to take swift avoidance action when you spot it.”
Joe Joseph, The Times
Lost, C4
“The longer Lost limps on for, the more viewers it will lose for the simple reason that, as Phineas T. Barnum said, you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express & Daily Mail
US TV
Review: Help Me Help You
In the US: Tuesdays, 9.30/8.30c, ABC
In the UK: Anything with Ted Danson in appears on Paramount Comedy. You know that.
Help Me Help You is what is known in the trade as a “smart comedy” – that is, you won’t laugh very much, but you’ll be thinking “Oh, that’s wry and accurate”. It’s also what is known as a “Ted Danson vehicle”. That is, it stars Ted Danson with shockingly white hair.