Stargate

Friday’s pre-Bank Holiday weekend news

4 May 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Doctor Who

  • There’s going to be a treat at the end of The Lazarus Experiment. Something that appears to involve John Simm

Film

  • Pierce Brosnan is likely to start soon on a sequel to The Thomas Crowne Affair called The Topkapi Affair
  • Maybe Jessical Biel was too buff. Liv Tyler is Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk

Music

Australian TV

British TV

  • Bummed you can’t watch CSB’s pirate reality TV show Pirate Master? Don’t worry, Sky One’s just bought the rights [subscription required]

US TV

Wednesday 18th’s news

18 April 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Film/Books

Commercials

  • ‘Smith’ (Jason Lewis) from Sex and the City is to entice women to chocolate for the new Aero ads

Radio

British TV

US TV

Stargate: The Movie – a sudden thought

7 April 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Y’all remember Stargate when Kurt Russell and James Spader meet the nice Egyptian descendants and offer them chocolate as a sign of friendship, right?

Well, isn’t the ability to process lactose in adulthood a relatively recent (c. 3000 years ago) genetic mutation that originated predominantly in European farmers? Since the alien humans are descendants of Egyptians from 10,000 years ago, wouldn’t they be lactose intolerant and therefore likely to get diarrhoea as a result of their chocolate bar gifts?

Maybe it should be in the standard “meeting alien” protocols: don’t offer them milk chocolate, only dark or white chocolate, in case they’re lactose intolerant?

Just a thought.

Thursday’s working from home news

29 March 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Sophia Myles likes David Tennant to dress up as the Doctor for?��Ǩ�� you know. Allegedly
  • A Metro interview with RTD
  • Freema talks about Daleks
  • The Doctor is the coolest

Commercials

  • The Trident gum ads have been banned for being racist [free registration required]

Film

  • The first Bourne Ultimatum trailer is up and at ’em
  • Andy Serkis (you may remember him as Gollum but he was great in kids’ bicycle courier drama Streetwise back in the 80s) is to star in The Cottage with Reece Shearsmith and Jennifer Ellison
  • Spoilers for Die Hard 4.0

British TV

  • Pat goes postal in the US
  • Now we’re adapting Italian formats
  • Sky has recommissioned Cirque de Soleil. Why? Oh. Ruby Wax won’t be in it this time [free registration required]



US TV

  • Standoff hasn’t been cancelled, honest. It just looks like it
  • USA Networks has some character-driven pilots. It’s their thing. They also have a few new character-driven series starting soon.
  • Mr Linderman in Heroes has a secret (spoiler alert)
  • Stuff about the Stargate movies

“Eek. I’m late” news

26 March 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Bloody alarm clocks

Doctor Who

  • Interview with sweet FA
  • The Mirror says David Tennant has confirmed he’ll star in all of the fourth series
  • Lots of (alleged) spoilers about Captain Jack’s appearance this season

Film

Media Journalism

  • Charlie Brooker discovers what the rest of us journalists have to go through every single time we deal with a PR firm

US TV

  • Homeland Security is testing drones named after Chloe from 24
  • Watch Shatnerisation as it happens: Billy boy is to appear alongside himself in Boston Legal using footage from 1957
  • Goodie. Another Stargate series is on the way. It’ll deal with the ninth chevron. Wow.
  • Pilot casting