Thursday’s news of variety

But not Variety for once

Film

Art

Comics

  • Preview of Battlestar Galactica Season Zero

Theatre

British TV

US TV

Tuesday’s “four more days until I’m on holiday” news

Film

Theatre

British TV

  • Sean Astin, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee to star in The Colour of Magic with David Jason

US TV

News

Monday’s “five more days until I’m on holiday” news

Joker

Naughty Heath. Don’t be so mean to Maggie

Doctor Who

Film

Books

Theatre/Comedy

  • Amnesty launches Behind The Fringe vodcasts

British TV

US TV

US TV

Preview: Bionic Woman

Katee Sackoff in Bionic Woman

In the US: Wednesdays, 9pm/8c, NBC. Starts September 26th.
In the UK: Acquired by ITV2

Battlestar Galactica is everyone’s favourite current example of adult science-fiction. It has two exec producers: the highly visible, highly involved Ronald Moore; and the not very visible, not very involved David Eick. Many people have wondered exactly what parts David Eick is responsible for in producing this top show.

Judging by this pilot for NBC’s remake of The Bionic Woman, he’s responsible for all the crap bits.

Now, it’s worth remembering that the pilot is already being extensively retooled, with recasting, rewriting and more happening behind the scenes to bring the programme up to scratch. But it’s going to take a lot of work to remove the clunky dialogue, poor characterisation and tedious pseudo-feminist sub-text.

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News

Friday’s news of inconsequence

Tom Cruise in Valkyrie

Would you trust this man to assassinate Hitler?

Doctor Who

  • An interview with John Simm about many, many things (no State of Play 2. Sniff. Boo hoo)

Film

British TV

US TV