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Unusual PR move this one: Fat Pig stars Ella Smith and (yes, it is she) Joanna Page are appearing on Monday next's Ready, Steady, Cook for a cook-off.
Not sure it's how I'd promote a potentially caustic Neil LaBute comedy about size-discrimination, but I'll be setting the PVR anyway. I do like that Ainsley's cous-cous.
Posted 23 hours ago | 3 comments |
Just in case you'd all forgotten, UK Tennant-lovers, Derren Brown is playing Trick or Treat on David Tennant tonight at 10.00pm on Channel 4. Apparently, DT will travel into the past and predict the future.
Derren Brown talks to Simon Mayo about it in passing, BTW, on 14th May's Daily Mayo (11MB download).
Posted yesterday at 14:00 | Post a comment |
It's competition time again! Woo hoo!
On offer this time is Nicholas Knight's Supernatural - The Official Companion Season 2, which as you might suspect, is a "companion" guide to the second season of Supernatural. Here's the promo blurb:
This official companion is packed with exclusive interviews, photos, behind the scenes secrets, a complete episode guide, plus a color portrait gallery of the stars.
This season 2 official companion features a foreword from producer/director Robert Singer, plus an abundance of exclusive comments and content from series creator and executive producer Eric Kripke. There's a complete season two episode guide, packed in with exclusive interviews, and dozens of photos, including a 16-page color portrait gallery, and behind-the-scenes secrets, including a Meet the Crew section on the writers, editors and make-up designers.
Fans will also find detailed features on the characters and creatures from the show, including a closer look at Creepy Clowns, and you won't want to miss our 22 useful hints for aspiring monster hunters!
Indeed.
It's pretty much what it says on the tin, here. As with any licensed book or magazine (not just Titan's), you'll find nary a word of dissent or suggestion that any episode was not in fact the best thing to happen to the human race since Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden – each building on the previous glorious episode until the Rapture of the finale.
All the same, it's not half bad for what it is. One page bios on supporting actors aren't going to tell you very much at all, and the useful facts about monsters are one of those filler concepts that have been crammed into genre books since practically the dawn of television. But you get some behind-the-scenes facts that are quite interesting, as behind-the-scenes facts go, and you learn about how the story arcing was done, how it progressed, how budget limitations changed it and so on.
At £9.99, it's possibly a bit pricey for a softback book that's predominantly black and white with a few colour photograph pages. And the writing style is possibly a bit young for a show that's aimed at slightly older teenagers and young adults. But if you're a big lover of Supernatural and want every possible nugget of info possible about the show, it'll do what you want.
To win a copy of the book, all you have to do is leave a comment below before the 31st May (that's two weeks away), explaining why you deserve it more than anyone else – the most deserving plea will get their pristine copy posted to them ASAP. Or you can just try to amuse me: that'll work, too.
Apologies to overseas readers, but again, the competition's open only to UK residents, since I can't be airmailing these things on my budget. I'm not made of money.
You can find out more about the book or buy it from Amazon.co.uk.
Posted yesterday at 10:47 | 2 comments |
Not much new non-reality programming from struggling network The CW for its Fall schedule. In fact, only one new drama: Surviving the Filthy Rich.
It's a drama adaptation of the Zoey Dean novel How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, which centres on a Yale graduate who has moved to Manhattan, but finds nothing going to plan. When her job at a tabloid magazine turns sour, she accepts a position working for infamous teenage twins who are filthy rich, and unmarketable, as far as their grandmother and upper-echelon colleges are concerned.
Her challenge? Get them into an A-list university. Her reward? Ample pay, plus a significant check that will wipe out her hefty college loans.
Here's the promo and what I'm seeing is the worst of Gossip Girl (mean rich kids) without any of the benefits (decent adult roles, some good romantic storylines, some charm). But then, I'm not exactly the target audience on this one.
Posted yesterday at 10:15 | 1 comment |
We've looked at ABC's new Fall drama, Life on Mars, and we've had a look through CBS's as well, so now it's time to give Fox's Fall 2008 output a looksie.
On the schedule, we have a new Joss Whedon sci-fi spy show starring Eliza Dushka, Dollhouse; a new animated comedy from Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane, The Cleveland Show; an X-Files for the noughties from Alias/Lost creator JJ Abrams, Fringe; a covert remake of Angela's Eyes in the form of Lie to Me; not so covert remakes of Australian show Sit Down, Shut Up and British shows Secret Millionaire and Outnumbered; Alfred Molina playing Judge House; and something that makes Hotel Babylon seem like art.
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Today's Joanna Page is the video to Mark Owen's “Makin Out”. All right, you don't have to listen to it – turn the sound down if you want to.
Actually, I was expecting the worse, but it's quite a nice little song, I think. The video's pretty good, although a little creepy in the light of the Torchwood episode From Out of the Rain (they're so similar, I'm wondering if the directors are the same). It's mostly in the style of silent movies of the 10s and 20s – although it could be argued that Mark Owen isn't so much doing Buster Keaton as Johnny Depp doing Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin in Benny & Joon.
Nice roller skating, too.
Next week: Joanna Page as Dickensian femme fatale* Dora Spenlow in David Copperfield.
* Let the debaters start preparing now!
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Posted 2 days ago at 13:42 | Post a comment |
She's popped up in the blog a couple of times this week now, providing invaluable information, so it would be very lovely if y'all could vote in the 2008 Mojo Awards for an album that she worked on.
After slaving away on 'Theme Time Radio Hour: With Your Host Bob Dylan' for much of last year, it's been nominated in the “Compilation Of The Year” category. I'm sure it would be equally nice if you bought it, too!
You can see the shortlists here and you can register to vote for it here.
Ta very much!
Posted 2 days ago at 11:15 | 9 comments |
Today's Sitting Tennant comes from Who's T-Shirt Do You Think You Are? in which David Tennant rummage's through Oxfam shop clothes racks and tries to find the most retro, unpleasant T-shirt that he can. Is it a chocolate coloured Charlie's Angels? Or one of Roald Dahl's shameless old Tales of the Unexpected merchandising tie-ins? Informed minds want to know.
Spurred on by a comment by Toby on the last entry in the gallery, I'm now opening “Sitting Tennant” up to caption-writers as well as photograph hunters. Either wow us with your ability to find pictures of David Tennant sitting down, or amuse the assembled Algonquin roundtable that is this blog's readership* with your pithy remarks about the photo. Both would be delightful.
* Really. You are all very entertaining, you know.
Posted 2 days ago at 09:23 | 3 comments |
We had a look at ABC's Life On Mars yesterday and seeing as that's pretty much its only new drama show, we'll be hearing nothing more from it for now.
So it's time to have a gander at CBS's new Fall shows: The Eleventh Hour, The Ex-List, Harper's Island, Project Gary, The Mentalist and Worst Week. Observant Brits (and Israelis) will notice a couple of remakes in there…
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Today's Joanna Page is From Hell, an impressively unpleasant and bad film, which is odd*, given that it was based on a graphic novel by the lovely Alan Moore, stars the equally lovely Johnny Depp and features the very lovely indeed Joanna Page. She plays a former prostitute trying to turn good for the sake of her baby. Which is... nice? Sigh. Where's Andrea Dworkin when you need her?
* Okay, it's about Jack the Ripper, so that should have been a clue. What's the fascination there, by the way? We're talking about a bloke who was really nasty to women. I'm not really sure he's worth dwelling on unless you're a criminal psychologist or a historian...
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Posted 3 days ago at 14:05 | 2 comments |
Here's an interesting bit of footage ('embedding disabled by request'. Sorry). Porn baron David Sullivan tried to define pornography to blog Hall of Fame member Chris Morris for Brass Eye. This clip never made the final cut as other Sullivan interview sections were chosen instead. But it still survives.
PS My sister sent me this. She cc:ed Stewart Lee on it. Absolutely typical!
Posted 3 days ago at 13:39 | Post a comment |
Hmm. Am I going to need a whiteboard for this?
I've noticed that on America's Next Top Model, Tyra Banks has an odd habit of saying, when she has the two photographs of the losing/winning models, that "You have a 50-50 chance of getting through".
Really, Tyra? Isn't this supposed to be a contest of skill, in which the best model gets through? Isn't it actually the case that you know who's getting through or at least know which model is better, and therefore the chance is actually 100% of one model getting through and 0% of the other getting through, since there's no chance element in the decision.
Or are you suggesting the judges just toss a coin to see who wins?
Yes, I know this is probably not the point.
Posted 3 days ago at 10:22 | 5 comments |
Tell me you didn't think this was a great new US crime drama series when you first saw it.
Posted 3 days ago at 07:50 | Post a comment |
Thanks Toby!
UPDATE: You can find more pictures on ABC Medianet.
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Posted 4 days ago at 07:59 | 6 comments |
I'm going to hazard a guess at The Impossible Planet as the source episode. But I'm not sure. Thanks to Rosby, though, who'll be getting a lump of plasticine through the post in gratitude. Once I can find some.
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Posted 4 days ago at 07:55 | 4 comments |
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Posted 4 days ago at 21:12 | 9 comments |
Just got this text from my sister
David Tennant and his onscreen 'daughter' from Dr Who are sat at the next table to me, snogging and I'm sat on the sofa next to Jason Donovan. It's the most wrong night ever…
Her life's just so much more exciting than mine.
Posted 5 days ago at 13:32 | 5 comments |
Look. It's Christopher Eccleston as a baddie with a bad taste in ties. Apparently, he's 'Destro' in GI Joe.
This means nothing to me. Even less than Speed Racer in fact, and all I knew about that came from a Friends episode. Is Destro a slashie (eg actor/model)? Or a stockbroker turned bad? [via]
Posted 5 days ago at 13:18 | 2 comments |
Liked Iron Man. Liked it a lot. But I wasn't prepared to sit through a day's worth of credits at the end.
So I missed this. It's brief but it's interesting for its Very Famous Person cameo and what it means for future movies.
UPDATED: I replaced the vid with one that Paramount hasn't taken down. But it has Spanish subtitles. Sorry.
Posted 5 days ago at 09:18
Today's Sitting Tennant is from Recovery. I never saw it. Was it any good? Bit harrowing, I hear. Anyway, don't forget to send in your entries to the Sitting Tennant gallery for a chance to have your name read out on British TV*. Just leave a link in the… Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at 08:54
Doctor Who: Pipes' return covered up by “bin girl”; Catherine Tate to star in Under The Blue Sky; The Doctor (and Chuck from Pushing Daisies) voted sexiest TV characters; Church leaders watch Doctor Who for advice; Big Finish: the companions in the Companion Chronicles, the Wirrn and Key To… Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at 23:14
So my wife's getting into Chuck on Virgin 1. It's also available on iTunes. However, neither is entirely satisfactory.Virgin 1: 4:3, not widescreen; edits for violence; ad breaksiTunes: fuzzier picture; £1.89 an episodeSo should we go with iTunes for widescreen, all the content and greater convenience or Virgin 1, with a… Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at 20:37
Well thank heavens for that. For one terrible moment, I thought we were going to go through an entire nu-Who series without there being a completely bollocks episode. But praise the Lord, it's happened. A true piece of rubbish. Ladies and gentlemen, we've found this year's Evolution of the… Continue reading
Is there any way to cure me of my addiction to the word 'actually'? I used it twice in a sentence today. I'm out of control!
I'm off to see the wizard: the wonderful wizard of Oz.
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