Battlestar Galactica

“Roll on the weekend” Friday news

23 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

  • The Stage has puts its Doctor Who podcast online

Film

  • Artwork for Gatchaman (aka G-Force)

British TV

US TV

  • BSG finale talk from Grace Park. There’ll be a two-hour special episode in the Fall, before the fourth season starts next January.
  • Miguel Ferrer joins the cast of The Bionic Woman and Orlando Jones is to star in Victoria ‘Green Wing‘ Pile’s first US show
  • NBC performs evil experiments on Heroes fans
  • Jamie Kennedy stars opposite the real bionic man, Lee Majors, in pilot Me and Lee?

“Only five minutes to write this article” news for Thursday

22 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

What can it all mean?

Doctor Who

  • Review of the first two episodes of the new series by OTT. Plus did you know sweet FA once went to a Star Trek convention dressed as Dax?
  • Review of the launch party
  • Clips available from the Weakest Link‘s Doctor Who special
  • And there’s more to come

Film

  • John Carpenter discusses the new Escape from New York prequel (it turns out)
  • Russell Crowe is making his directorial debut in features with a drama about surfers
  • Gordon Brown hits the evil film industry where it hurts, again
  • Batman will be in the Justice League movie
  • The Nancy Drew movie gets a sequel

Art

  • Rescued Francis Bacon art is up for auction

Theatre

  • Aaron Sorkin is creating a musical based on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”

British TV

  • The Apprentice will get re-packaged as a podcast [subscription required]

US TV

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

The by-jingo it’s early Wednesday news

7 March 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Do you know you have to be at the US embassy at 8am for your i-visa interview? Bah.

Doctor Who

  • Troughton story The Web of Fear gets its first episode aired on BBC4 on Sunday 18th March as part of a London Underground season.

Film

  • Just when you thought there was no way for cinema to get crasser, now come plans to adapt John Milton’s Paradise Lost, getting rid of the dull bits, Adam and Eve being nude, etc.
  • M Night Hasbeen’s new film has been greenlit by Fox

Music

  • As though we cared, The Wurzels reveal who the mystery guest vocalist is on the re-release of “I Am A Cider Drinker” (it’s for charity though)



British TV

  • The DVD of Life on Mars, series two, is out on 16th April. It’ll feature a documentary about the Camberwick Green moment from episode 5.

US TV

  • The Black Donnellys gets okay ratings for its second episode, although others argue it’s a worrying slide.
  • Heroes will be back on April 23rd. Here’s the promo with clips from the next episode.
  • Zach Braff’s sorted himself a good deal to stay with Scrubs
  • An interview with Ronald Moore, exec producer of Battlestar Galactica
  • More pilot casting news. Anyone remember Party of Five?
  • Steve Coogan is to appear in Curb Your Enthusiasm as a psychiatrist
  • Create your own BSG video using SciFi’s BSG videomaker toolkit. You could win a prize
  • He may had jury duty, but he still has spoilers. Michael Ausiello lets us know useful things about Lost. Plus he seems to think a certain thing wasn’t permanent after all on BSG. Was RDM conning us?
  • Kristin talks to the producer of House about what’s to come and what’s past
  • Tim Robbins has a pharma-related drama planned for Showtime
  • Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver’s The Riches is going to premiere online this week

BSG: Maelstrom changes permanent?

6 March 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

So, US viewers who watched Battlestar Galactica on Sunday. Something happened, didn’t it? You all know what it was. I won’t mention it for the sakes of those in the UK who haven’t seen it yet. But it’s quite a big change.

Many people are wondering if this change is permanent, whether various elements of the story were hinting that something would undo it all by the end of the season. If you want to find out one way or another, this week’s podcast is pretty unequivocal.

Rubbish episode though, wasn’t it? Bored me rigid and the ending was obvious. Damn. Don’t tell me BSG has jumped the Lost… sorry, shark, too.