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Thursday’s paradoxical news

21 May 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

  • Rusty off to the US to make Doctor Who movie?

Film

  • Ghostbusters 3 to feature female ghostbusters including Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku?
  • Robert Evans to produce big screen version of Gerry Anderson’s UFO
  • Zach Braff to re-write, direct and co-star with Cameron Diaz in Swingles  

British TV

US TV

Thursday’s even more Greek myths news

14 May 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • Kevin McKidd, Michelle Ryan and Ewen Bremner to star in Odyssey-inspired One Night in Emergency
  • Sky 1 trying to lure TV Burp from ITV
  • E4 acquires Privileged

US TV

What have you been watching this week (w/e 8 May)?

8 May 2009 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Seen anything good? Seen anything bad? Let your fellow blog readers know, so they can spend their viewing time wisely.

We’ve caught up with House in the US. Last week’s episode about the deaf community nearly caused my wife to turn into She Hulk and start to smash things – particularly the bits about cochlea implants – but this week’s seemed better, and head Amber’s as fun as the original so it’s been nice to see her again.

Life’s a bit duller without Heroes though, 24 has fallen right through the floor and David Caruso trying to interact with children on CSI: Miami was one of the scariest things on television since Ghostwatch. I think I almost fell asleep during The Mentalist, at times, but nice to see a female near-rival to Jane’s talents – will she become his Irene Adler for season two?

The Unit managed to mess up what had been a previously promising story arc with a dumb twist. Stupid Unit.

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please? Ta!

June at the BFI

29 April 2009 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Time for our regular look at what’s on at the South Bank in London in June. Not much, basically, but here’s what I found:

  • 12th: Torchwood: Children of Earth – Day 1. The first episode of the third series, followed by a Q&A with members of the cast and crew
  • 18th: Chandleresque: Raymond Chandler on Film & TV. An illustrated talk featuring film and audio clips.

For those that want the full description of that Torchwood episode (why?), here you go:

1965: Twelve children are gathered on a deserted moor, before being surrounded by a harsh, bright light… and then they are gone! Today: All over Earth, children stop moving. Stop playing. Stop laughing. Then, as one, they begin to speak with the same voice, announcing the imminent arrival of a new alien threat. ‘We are coming…’ As the British government closes ranks, it issues a death warrant against Captain Jack and Torchwood…

Anyone want to help out?

There’s also a “Jazz at Ronnie Scott’s” season, but if you think I’m wasting more than a nano-second on that, you’re wrong.

Members’ priority booking opens: 11.30am May 5
Public booking opens: 11.30am May 12

As always, visit the BFI web site for more details