30 Rock

News

Wednesday’s less tired news

4 April 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Surprised

Doctor Who

Books

  • An unpublished 1979 interview with Douglas Adams resurfaces

Film

US TV

  • Marta Kauffman does reality TV with a programme about psychics for Fox. That’ll be rigourous then
  • Ruin the CSI finale for yourself with a load of spoilers
  • Set designing for 30 Rock isn’t easy, thanks to HD
  • FX has picked up Glenn Close’s pilot
  • The Wedding Bells, Six Degrees and Seventh Heaven all bite the dust
News

Wednesday’s less tired news

4 April 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Surprised

Doctor Who

Books

  • An unpublished 1979 interview with Douglas Adams resurfaces

Film

US TV

  • Marta Kauffman does reality TV with a programme about psychics for Fox. That’ll be rigourous then
  • Ruin the CSI finale for yourself with a load of spoilers
  • Set designing for 30 Rock isn’t easy, thanks to HD
  • FX has picked up Glenn Close’s pilot
  • The Wedding Bells, Six Degrees and Seventh Heaven all bite the dust
News

“Why are my feet so cold?” Wednesday news

21 March 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

New Who

Ah, headlines no one but me will understand.

Doctor Who

Film

  • Tom Cruise’s UA has picked up Francis Ford Coppola’s first movie in 10 years. The Man will star in Bryan Singer’s WWII film
  • Sean Connery fancies coming back as Bond’s dad
  • Hellboy 2 begins shooting in May
  • Film rights to old Bruce Lee show The Green Hornet have been picked up again

British TV

  • Alan Sugar complains about how rubbish series two’s apprentices were [free registration required]



US TV

News

News from over the weekend

19 March 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Freema Agyeman

Let the third series publicity machine grind into action.

Doctor Who

Comics

  • Stan Lee Media sues Marvel. Stan Lee condemns the move. Confused?

Film

  • A sequel to 300?
  • The next Bond movie will be a direct sequel to Casino Royale
  • Erk. Here comes Pirates of the Caribbean 3‘s trailer

British TV

US TV

Things I learnt from watching television last week

5 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

24: As long as something exciting happens all the time, I can watch the most mindless drivel.

30 Rock: Manatee. Hee, hee!

Battlestar Galactica: It is possible for Starbuck to be boring.

Heroes: Even people you suspect can’t act will start acting if you give them something to do. “Claire-bear” can reduce a grown man to tears. Sniff.

Jericho: Flashbacks are only interesting if you give a monkey’s about the flasher. If you know what I mean.

Lewis: Occasionally the writers can be funny. Lewis “not a professional Northerner”? Hee hee!

Lost: Oh yes. Lost used to be fun. I remember now.

Primeval: As long as something exciting happens all the time, I can watch the most mindless drivel. Also, the right backing track for a flock of dodos is Kasabian’s “Club Foot”.

The Unit: Eric Haney should be allowed to write episodes, too, not just Lynn Mamet as I suggested last week – another lesson learned. Also, all previous attempts to write realistic war dialogue have been rubbish: if it was authentic, we wouldn’t understand a word of it, as Haney has just proved. I had to watch it twice to work out what was going on.