She was in Thor with Natalie Portman, she’s the star of 2 Broke Girls: she’s Kat Dennings. And when she was 13, she was in Sex and the City.
I feel old. How ironic.
US TV
Sex and the City
US TV
Review: 2 Broke Girls 1×1
In the US: Mondays, 8.30/7.30c, CBS
In the UK: Acquired by Channel 4
There’s a lot of Whitney Cummings around US TV at the moment. Best known from Chelsea Lately, not only does she have her own show on NBC – the eponymous Whitney – she’s the exec producer and co-creator of 2 Broke Girls, a supposed comedy about two waitresses who decide to run their own cupcake business – once they have enough money to quit their waitressing jobs, mind.
In case the mildly tepid Whitney hasn’t put you off the concept of a sitcom written by Whitney Cummings, here’s a little nugget of extra information that might sway you: it’s co-created and co-written by Michael Patrick King aka “The Man Who Ruined Sex and the City“.
So not funny in the slightest, but it does have two redeeming features: a relatively likeable pair of central characters; and Kat Dennings (Thor). But that’s it.
Here – try to laugh your way through this trailer.
News
Thursday’s “not Ideal” news
Doctor Who
- 50th anniversary celebrations to be “huge”
Film
- Mark Steven Johnson to direct Autobahn
- Trailer for The Darkest Hour
- New trailer for The Killer Elite
- Trailer for In Time
- No Sex and the City prequel – at least with Michael Patrick King
British TV
- Misfits‘ Ruth Negga to star in Shirley Bassey: A Very British Diva
- Ideal cancelled
- Shaun Evans to play young Inspector Morse
Canadian TV
- Jewel Staite to star in Highland Gardens
US TV
- CBS to drop Flashpoint?
- Dan Castellaneta to guest on Parks and Recreation
- The CW orders more eps of Gossip Girl, 90210, Supernatural and Nikita
- ABC orders Kirstie Alley pilot
- Michael Rapaport and Ed Burns to star in HBO’s 40
- Ray Romano to guest on The Middle
Monday’s double dwarf news
Awards
- Results of the BAFTA TV awards
Film
- Gary Oldman to play George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor… remake?
- John Carpenter to direct Fangland
- Trailer for Gulliver’s Travels
- Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis and Malin Akerman join Catch .44
- Sex and the City: the high school years?
Commercials
British TV
- Channel 4 barred from buying Five
- BSkyB buying Virgin Media channels for £160m
- Last of the Summer Wine cancelled
- IWA calls for more English-language BBC shows in Wales
- Two more series of Red Dwarf
- ITV to live stream ITV1 and ITV2 to iPhone
US TV
- A Heroes mini-series to finish off the show?
- Burn Notice and Royal Pains premieres get record-breaking ratings
- Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green to star in Camelot
- CBS to pick up Mad Love for mid-season…
- …with Sarah Chalke replacing Minka Kelly
- Tate Donovan and Christina Chang leave No Ordinary Family
- Life and Times of Tim cancelled
- Jason O’Mara to star in Terra Nova?
Question of the week: which TV show has had the best finale?
So, it’s finale time in the US. Various shows have already aired their finales (Smallville, Supernatural, Gossip Girl) while others are still to come (Chuck). However, some of these finales are going to be series finales, rather than season finales (Lost, 24). There’s not going to be any of these shows, so the writers are going to have to find a way to complete their stories.
Trouble is, a lot of shows when placed in such situations come up with endings that almost no one liked (Life on Mars US, The Sopranos, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise), maybe kind of liked (Battlestar Galactica) or that didn’t really finish off the stories at all (Rome, Quantum Leap). There are very few that almost everyone liked and more or less finished the narrative (Sex and the City – until the movies, of course; Star Trek: The Next Generation).
So this week’s question is
Which TV show has had the best ever final episode?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.