Look who the new vice dean of Greendale Community College is!
As if that weren’t exciting enough, Michael K Williams (Omar from The Wire) is the new biology professor. God, I love Community.
Community
Friday’s “Ali’s back” news
Film
- Robert Patrick joins Gangster Squad
- Ali Larter to star in feature version of The Rambler
- Kevin Bacon to join RIPD?
- Proper quality final scene + condensed post-credit scene from Captain America
- Trailer for Tower Heist with Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy
British TV
- Little Crackers to return to Sky 1 with John Bishop, Alan Davies, Jane Jorrocks, Sanjeev Bhaskar et al
- BBC2 acquires Pan Am
- Virgin to offer Sky 1 and Sky Living content on demand [subscription required]
- BBC launches its global iPad iPlayer app
US TV
- No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to return?
- Eastwick‘s Jaime Ray Newman to guest on CSI:NY premiere [minor spoilers]…
- …Hellcats‘ Aly Michalka to guest, too
- Julie Benz downgrades from regular to recurring on Gifted Man
- The Walking Dead to get webisodes
- David Anders to guest on Once Upon A Time
- Eddie Izzard to guest on The Good Wife in British episode
- BBC America’s first original scripted series is Copper
- Teaser for Bored to Death, season 3
- Michael Paré to guest in House season premiere [spoilers]
- Party Down‘s Martin Starr to guest on Community
- Patricia Clarkson to play Tammy 1 on Parks and Recreation
- The Playboy Club being retooled?
Tuesday’s “Who’s back?” news
Doctor Who
- A confirmed season 7 return for someone [spoilers]
Film
- ‘The Nutcracker’ to be turned into a movie
- Trailer for Margin Call
- The Unit‘s Max Martini joins Pacific Rim
- Liev Schreiber joins Mental
British TV
- Sky movies deal at risk
- E4 and Film4 have their best ever ratings quarters
- Sheila Hancock and Martin Kemp to guest on Hustle
- Terry Gilliam and Simon Callow to star in Peter Capaldi’s The Cricklewood Greats
US TV
- Jon Hamm to guest on The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
- John Goodman to recur on Community
- New series casting, including Melissa George on Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
- Breaking In‘s Odette Annable joins House as a regular [spoilers]
- Lie to Me‘s Monica Raymund to recur on Blue Bloods
- John Rhys-Davies to guest on Psych
- Recasting on The Ringer
Monday’s Chuck vs Luke news
Film
- Stargate‘s Christopher Judge joins The Dark Knight Rises
- Rhys Ifans denies Bond appearance
- Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire
- Guy Pearce and Amy Ryan to star in Drake Doremus movie
Theatre
- Thandie Newton to star in Death and the Maiden
British TV
- Merlin gets a fifth series
- Two Pints of Lager cancelled
- National Theatre and Channel 4 to work together on joint projects
- STV to finally air Downtown Abbey [subscription required]
- BSkyB growth slowing
- Anna Higgs to head Film4.0
US TV
- Heroes‘ Jack Coleman joins Vampire Diaries
- Another Hart of Dixie preview
- Lily Tomlin to guest on NCIS
- Pierce Brosnan to star in Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
- The Wire‘s Michael Kenneth Williams joins Community
- New trailer for The Walking Dead [spoilers]
- Lost‘s John Terry joins Charlie’s Angels
- USA’s Eden doesn’t get the go-ahead
- Sanctuary to have a musical episode
- Mark Hamill joins Chuck
- Castle to have Ghostbusters and superhero-themed episodes
Question of the week: your favourite TV comedy moment
Quite a simple question this week. So everyone may have a favourite comedy show, but sometimes individual moments from shows might be even funnier than the show itself. So this week’s question is:
What’s your favourite TV comedy moment?
Mine is from episode two of Community: it’s Pierce’s and Jeff’s presentation to the Spanish class, not just because it’s funny in its own right, but because of all the foreshadowing earlier in the episode. It’s not just clever, it’s funny and it has just the right ending.
For the uninitiated, the story is that Jeff and Pierce have to present a dialogue of five Spanish phrases to the class. However, they have a fight while writing them because Jeff just wants the easy option and Pierce wants to write something more complicated – which Jeff describes as over long, focusing too much on the Israeli Palestinian conflict and, most importantly, not featuring any of the five set phrases.
Although I do have to love the idea of a clips show montage from episodes that were never made.
Answers below or on your own blog, please