A brief sneak peek at next week’s episode of Heroes. OMG, an honest to goodness, interesting character moment and bit of dialogue for Angela and Peter.
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Heroes
US TV
Review: Heroes 3×20 – Cold Snap
So it’s been trailed for weeks. It’s been the one everyone’s looking forward to since it’s by Bryan Fuller – the season one producer responsible for classic episode Company Man who defected to ABC to create Pushing Daisies. NBC described it as ‘a classic’ even before it aired. And there’s many an ex-Heroes fan who has been waiting to use it as a barometer: if it was good, they’d come back; if it was bad, they’d stay away forever.
No pressure then.
So, all things being equal, was it indeed ‘a classic’? Could it live up to the hype?
Oh, yes. It most definitely could.
News
Monday’s mental Primeval promos news
Doctor Who
- Surprise return by someone for final special (spoiler alert)
- Invent aliens and film them for John Barrowman’s talent show
Film
- Alex Proyas talks about The Tripods
- Coen brothers to remake True Grit
- The IT Crowd‘s Chris O’Dowd to be villain in Gulliver’s Travels
- No, it’s not a time paradox: Warren Beatty sued over Dick Tracy
- Terminator Salvation ending completely changed after plot leaks
- Giovanni Ribisi joins The Rum Diary
Theatre
- Judi Dench pulls out of Madame de Sade
British TV
- ITV1 goes mental with Primeval Web 2.0 promos
- Red Riding ends with 1.7m viewers
- SciFi acquires Knight Rider and Dollhouse
- Gordon Ramsay to travel round India, become vegetarian for Gordon’s Great Escape
- BBC to increase web spending
US TV
- Lost‘s Elizabeth Mitchell signs up for V
- Heroes‘ Bryan Fuller wants to remake Star Trek
- BSG‘s Mary McDonnell guesting on The Closer
- Clip from SciFi’s forthcoming Warehouse 13
- United States of Tara showrunner leaves
- Julia Ormond and Jeffrey Tambor among pilot castings…
- …as are Holt McCallany…
- …Christine Baranski and Chris Noth
- BSG ends with 2.4m viewers
- Roseanne Barr returning to primetime?
- Lost ratings dropping
- SciFi orders three mini-series, including updates of Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom, as well as an adaptation of the Riverworld series
- Hilary Duff to appear on Law and Order: SVU
Another Heroes Cold Snap promo
To tide you over for another week until there’s a new episode of Heroes, here’s another NBC promo. Since they can’t say “It’s by Bryan Fuller. You know that guy who used to write for Heroes but left to write that other show that no one watched on another network altogether and has come back now it’s been cancelled” and expect normal people to care or be excited, they’re now trailing it as “a classic”. A tad pre-emptive, but let’s hope so. Interesting to see who’s in it and what the focus is
Canadian TV
Review: The Listener 1×1
In Canada: CTV. No airdate yet
In the UK: Sundays, 8pm, FX
In the US: Thursdays, 10pm, NBC. Starts June 4
This is all very bizarre.
Firstly, The Listener is a Canadian TV show about a guy who can read minds. What is it about Canada and mind-reading, particularly mind-readers with really odd blue eyes? There’s Scanners back in the 80s, with Stephen “Appropriately Named” Lack cast really only on the grounds of his odd eyes rather than acting ability; now we have this, starring Craig Olejnik, which looks like it’s Serbian or something for “has really odd blue eyes”.
So that’s bizarreness one.
Bizarreness two is that despite being a Canadian TV show, The Listener‘s been picked up by NBC for primetime airing over the summer in the US. NBC showing foreign shows in primetime? Blimey. It’s like the world has stopped turning on its axis and taken us back to the 1960s – it’s even bought in the BBC’s Merlin of all things, too. Still, that’s cost savings for you. TV drama: very, very expensive to make these days.
Bizarreness three is that despite being a Canadian TV show, it’s not being shown in Canada until later in the year. Instead, Fox International is showing it in 180 other countries, including the UK, first – a move that seems to have worked a treat in terms of ratings.
That last one was actually bizarreness five. Shall we have a look at the show itself to see why?