It’s quite short, but it includes some funnies from behind the scenes of the third season, including Alison Brie rapping.
Community
Monday’s “Plenty of trailers, Diana Rigg joins Game of Thrones and Joss Whedon starts acting” news
Film
- True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten to star in Sex and Sunsets
- Jessica Biel cast in The Wolverine?
Theatre
- Chicago to close at the Garrick
UK TV
- The Killing director to helm BBC2’s Murder
US TV
- Community‘s Joel McHale to guest on Sons of Anarchy
- Joss Whedon to appear in Jane Espenson’s Husbands
- Hulu acquires Prisoners of War
- Street Fighter: the TV series
- Diana Rigg, Mackenzie Crook, Tara Fitzgerald, Paul Kaye et al join Game of Thrones
- Original Eddie Munster to cameo on Mockingbird Lane reboot
- Kelly Hu to play China White on Arrow
- Ed Asner returning to Hawaii Five-0
- Anger Management down another 28%
- Bruce Boxleitner developing Lantern City
Trailers
Community’s Dan Harmon talks about TV and why he was fired
The creator of Community and its former showrunner has just been on Attack of the Show to explain why he’s no longer its showrunner. It largely revolves around money, but it might also be because he’s an ass. At least, he thinks so
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Watch some of the US version of The IT Crowd with Richard Ayoade and Community’s Joel McHale
The first episode of The IT Crowd is perfection apparently. At least, several other countries seem to think so, judging by the number of times it’s been remade more or less frame by frame overseas.
We’ve already had a gander at German TV’s version, Das iTeam – die Jungs an der Maus. Germany, of course, has something of a track-record of remaking things more or less identically. The US, however, either remakes a show more or less frame-by-frame at first (e.g. The Killing) or it does something almost completely different, while still using some of the original ideas (e.g. Homeland).
Now, back in 2007 with The IT Crowd, the US took the former path, choosing to recapture the apparent perfection of the first episode with an almost frame-by-frame remake. Although most of the cast were American, the producers even went to the effort of importing Richard Ayoade to revisit the character of Moss for them. But, as so often happens with US identikit copies of comedies, it still wasn’t funny, as you can see from this delightful video from the pilot episode.
Interestingly for Community fans, Joel McHale here plays the part of Roy and Richard Ayoade went on to direct an episode of Community‘s second season – I wonder if he had a hand in that.
Inspector Spacetime gets his own series! Except he doesn’t!
If you watch Community, you’ll know it features a Doctor Who spoof called Inspector Spacetime. Even Karen Gillan wants to be in it.
Well now, Inspector Spacetime has his own six-part web series, in which he’s accompanied by his faithful associate Piper Tate on his adventures to stop his arch-nemesis Boyish The Extraordinary.
Except he doesn’t, because for legal reasons he can’t. So instead of Inspector Spacetime, may I present to you a trailer for Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time!
Admittedly, it would probably be funnier if Dan Harmon were writing it.
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