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The last two episodes of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome
So here they are the final two episodes of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, complete with surprise ending. What do you think? Should have been a series or was it a big old waste of time?
In case you missed them:
Monday’s “The return of The Saint, a new-look TARDIS and Pan’s Labyrinth musical” news
Doctor Who
- A new-look TARDIS for Christmas
- Skins‘ Will Merrick to guest in Cyberman episode
Films
- Nicolas Winding Refn to direct The Equalizer
- Clerks III to be Kevin Smith’s film swansong
- Film to be made of German The Office
Film casting
- Kristen Stewart joins Ben Affleck in Focus
- James Marsden joins Walk of Shame
- Ty Burrell joins, Christoph Waltz leaves The Muppets 2
- Terrence Howard joins Prisoners
Trailers
- Trailer for Oblivion with Tom Cruise
- Trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness
- Japanese Iron Man 3 trailer
- Red band trailer for This is 40
- Trailer for The Sorcerer and the White Snake, with Jet Li
Theater
- Pan’s Labyrinth: The Musical
- The Honeymooners: The Musical
Comics
- Harlan Ellison and Paul Chadwick working on DC sci-fi comic
- Gail Simone fired from Batgirl
Canadian TV
- Andrew Gower and Thomas Howes guesting on Murdoch Mysteries
UK TV
- Andrew Davies to write Dylan Thomas biopic for BBC
- Sky 1 commissions two new dramas
- Sky Arts launches location-specific culture app
- Guest stars for second series of This Is Jinsy
- Dave orders pilot of Undercover
- BBC3 2013 trailer
- A second series of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
US TV
- Leverage to end this season?
- A new showrunner for Up All Night
- Two more episodes for Law & Order: SVU
- Wednesday ratings
- Thursday ratings
- Friday ratings
US TV casting
- Mary Grill to recur on The Mindy Project
- Treat Williams to recur on Chicago Fire
- David Clayton Rogers to guest on Nashville
- Gina Torres to guest on Castle
- Oliver Kieran-Jones to recur on Glee
- Gregory Itzin to recur on Once Upon A Time
New US TV shows
- ABC’s Only Fools and Horses remake not going ahead
- Trailers for Masters of Sex and Ray Donovan
- USA orders World War 2 sci-fi pilot from Gale Anne Hurd
- Bravo working on series of Death Becomes Her
- ABC developing cop comedy with Hannibal Buress
New US TV show casting
- Adam Rayner to play The Saint
TMINE
Introducing The Hawkeye Initiative
Comics’ depictions of women – particularly superheroines – is something of a thorny issue. For a lot of people, both male and female, the hypersexualisation of female characters is off-putting at the very least. Those who want to investigate this angle further can read this fine essay at Comics Alliance or this one at Comic Book Resources.
There are some, however, who argue that both genders are treated fairly: the depictions of superheroes aren’t exactly realistic portrayals of men and their bulging muscles are equally hypersexualising. That, in fact, superheroes and superheroines are treated equally (badly).
To disprove this theory, a little project has been gathering steam this week. The Hawkeye Initiative (NSFW, which should tell you something) has a simple premise: take a given picture of a superheroine and put Hawkeye (the character played by Jeremy Renner in The Avengers) in the exact same pose and the exact same costume. If he doesn’t look like a tool and you can argue that what he’s wearing is actually a really good outfit for fighting (or doing anything) in, then that pose isn’t hypersexualising. And women from all over the Internet have been sending in their ‘compare and contrast’ drawings.
My favourite, though, is this one:
Thursday’s “Jonathan Creek returns, ABC orders Weird Desk and an Office reunion” news
The Daily News will return on Monday
Film casting
- Giancarlo Esposito joins Poker Night
- Ben Whishaw to star in Lilting
- Timothy Olyphant joins Bone Tomahawk
- Dennis Haysbert replaces Michael Clarke Duncan on Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
UK TV
- Jonathan Creek to return for Easter special
- Greg Davies to guest on This Is Jinsy
US TV
US TV casting
- Brooklyn Decker to guest on New Girl
- BJ Novak to guest on The Mindy Project
New US TV shows
- ABC orders Weird Desk…
- …puts Jenni into development
- Shawn Ryan developing Badlands for HBO