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27 November 2006 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Robot Santas



Doctor Who and Torchwood stuff from the weekend:

  1. Cardiff council’s TARDIS flower display is to appear at the Chelsea Flower Show.
  2. John Barrowman’s named the day and place where he’s getting married: surprise, surprise, it’s the St David’s Hotel and Spa.
  3. The time slot for the Christmas episode of Doctor Who, The Runaway Bride, is going to be announced today. More importantly, the Beeb has confirmed that plans for series four are now underway, the 2007 Annual is going to be more popular than The Beano’s, and retailers have sold out of the Cyberman voice-changing mask.
  4. There’s still been no confirmation of a second season for Torchwood, according to John Barrowman. But Captain Jack will be in three of the four final episodes of the next series of Doctor Who. Barrowman also admits Captain Jack’s personality changes according to which show he’s in…
US TV

Review: 3 Lbs 1×1 (US: CBS)

15 November 2006 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

3 Lbs

In the US: CBS, Tuesdays, 10pm ET/PT. Also available on Innertube.
In the UK: Airing on BBC1 towards the end of 2007, with possible pick ups on UK Gold

When a project’s been sitting around for two years and has already had the main character recast after a failed pilot, you suspect things are wrong with it. But when it’s rushed forward to replace a failed drama – in this case, Smith – there comes the suggestion that maybe it’s not going to be too bad.

3 Lbs is a combination of various other hospital dramas, in particular House and MDs, but it does have a few sprinklings of originality. Starring Murder One’s Stanley Tucci, Good Morning Miami‘s Mark Feuerstein and Torchwood‘s Indira Varma, it focuses on that much neglected organ: the brain.

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Duck!

14 November 2006 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

Apparently, we’re not positive enough for the MSN Torchwood group. Now mean bullies are throwing stones at us! Okay, mostly at me, thanks to my fifth-episode verdict, but also at a few of the assembled “moaners”, as well as at anyone who dislikes Torchwood.

Most disheartening comment, on so many, many levels: “And as good as David Caruso is in his own time and place, he is hardly a measure for an episode of Torchwood.” They don’t like the Carusometer?!! How can this be? Sniff.

Still, there is a request for help: “Are there ANY bloggers who actually like and appreciate Torchwood for a great bit of British Science Fiction we can all enjoy?”

Can anyone point them in the right direction?