Friday’s stopping wife news

Film

Theatre

Radio

British TV

  • ITV promises to show dramas it’s been keeping on its shelves
  • Lucy Montgomery gets a sketch show written by Graham Linehan and Kevin Eldon among others

US TV

US TV

Review: Heroes 3×14 (aka Volume 4×1)

The Hunter in Heroes

In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, NBC
In the UK: “Simulcast”, which apparently means some time within the next month or so

So Heroes is back.

Woo.

Do I hear a hoo anyone?

No? Why’s that then? Ah, you got hacked off with it. Too many odd character flips and complicated storylines that made no sense? Sounds about right.

But wait. Sit up and pay attention at the back. This is an all new Heroes. A refreshed Heroes. A Heroes that’s going back to basics.

Promising a clean break with the overly complicated past storylines that estranged its audience (this being the third such clean break promised), Heroes is trying to recapture the glory days of season one with this, its fourth “volume”.

With Nathan gone bad after the last volume, his new plan as junior senator for New York is to cosy up to the US President (Michael Dorn – Worf off Star Trek) and make him go Guantánamo on his fellow super-powered friends, who are all just trying to live normal lives now.

And that means – in case you missed all the advertising – if the heroes are to survive, they’ve all got to work together. The question is does this all add up to new and improved Heroes or is it well and truly time to call it a day?

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Tuesday’s Duff criminals news

Doctor Who

Film

Theater

British TV

  • Lost premiere gets 1m viewers, Being Human comes second at 898,000

US TV

  • V and Lost in the ’80s pilots get green light
  • Michael Shanks to do Stargate: Universe cameo, next Stargate movie to be RDA heavy?
  • CTB returning to House?
  • Clips from the next episode of Heroes
US TV

Review: Lost 5×1-5×2

Lost 5x1

In the US: Wednesdays, 9/8c, ABC
In the UK: Sundays, 9pm, Sky One. Starts 25th January 2009

Ah, don’t we all remember those glorious days when Lost was simple and easy to understand?

No? Just me? Oh wait, it was always a bit tricky, wasn’t it? Now I remember.

However, relative to season five, season one was a breeze where everything was clear, well understood and you wondered where all the mystery was. Ever since then, we’ve been getting flashforwards, flashbacks, time travel, ghosts, Jacob, the others, the Dharma Initiative, Jim from Neighbours, mysterious not-French women and smoke monsters.

Season five carries on directly from where season four left off. Except three years later. And in the 70s. And the 40s. And possibly in the year umtidllyumptious as well. The dead walk the earth and maybe come back to life. Yes, it’s the fabled zombie season, here at last.

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Friday’s new companion news

Doctor Who

  • Yes, Michelle Ryan is the next companion. On the Easter Special anyway. Lee Evans also appearing.

Film

British TV

  • Culture secretary backs Channel 4/BBC Worldwide merger
  • Five US to rebrand as Five USA in Feb, acquires The Beast, will show 30 Rock
  • New BBC circus sitcom, Big Top, begins filming

US TV