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Tuesday’s serving up Bacon news

19 January 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Wednesday’s Mannequin on the move news

13 January 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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  • Hugh Dennis to replace James May on Oz and James’ Big Wine Adventure? [registration required]
  • Law & Order watched by 5.6m viewers
  • Glee does well, too
  • iPlayer now available

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  • Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald to make half-hour 80s nostalgia comedy for Canwest

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Preview: Archer 1×1

12 January 2010 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

In the US: Thursdays, 10pm, FX. Starts January 14th, 2010

Who doesn’t want to be a spy? Imagine the glamour, the excitement, the women/men you’d meet.

Of course, reality is going to be a whole lot different. It’s all going to be screwed-up people stuck in relatively normal workplaces, quibbling about expense accounts – at gunpoint.

That, at least, is the premise of FX’s new half-hour animated comedy Archer, which features the daring exploits of Sterling Archer, ace superspy for top secret organisation ISIS.

What kind of man is Sterling Archer? Well, imagine James Bond. Imagine his lifestyle, all the glamour, the excitement, the women – then imagine that instead of James Bond, you have an American, trust fund-holding, egotistical, self-centred, empty-headed, misogynistic jock douchebag with mummy issues.

It’s brilliant.

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Tuesday’s illegal immigrant bear news

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Monday’s purple, not blonde news

14 December 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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  • John Simm to play Hamlet at the Sheffield Crucible

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  • The Vampire Diaries to be released on iTunes at the same time as in the US
  • Fox content including 24 to go on BT Vision

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