Archive for January, 2009

Lie to me

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Have you seen the latest Fox series Lie To Me with Tim Roth?

I liked Tim Roth for ages – ever since The Four Rooms and then in Deceiver.

This is very House-y (I am fully aware thats not even a word) but you will know what I mean if you see the show. Sure Tim Roth’s character is better hm socialized then House (no boob grabs or nothing, at least for now) but that does not make him any less interesting.

See he can tell when people are lying.

Anyhow check out the promo and give this one a go. It is good telly.

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January 30, 2009 Posted Under Uncategorized

Red Dwarf returns

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Dear faithful readers,

we have wrote a while back that Red Dwarf is set to grace telly screens once again (it has been way too long and they have been sadly missed).

But finally we have some concrete news courtesy of lovely people at TV Scoop.

Dave channel in UK will premiere a new 2 part special called Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (written by Doug Naylor) on Good Friday. That will be followed by Red Dwarf: Unplugged and Red Dwarf: the Making of Back to Earth.

The best news – the original cast will all be present and accounted for.

After such a long wait this is excellent news. Yay!

Source: TV Scoop

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January 29, 2009 Posted Under Uncategorized

Dear House writers

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15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Dear House writers,

I have been watching since the beginning. You know back in the day when people didn’t know that Hugh Laurie was actually English. And I’ll continue watching because well of Hugh Laurie. I watched him since he was Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster and Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie. I really like the grumpy bollocks. And I like the medical stuff.

But I am just a tad bit confused (and worried) about the latest developments.

So lets ignore the fact 13 has been getting more airtime then hm lets say Wilson lately. But what I find very hard to comprehend she has gone from being all suicidal and reckless to making googly eyes and talking babies with Foreman. In a matter of few episodes. Seriously?

And Foreman is sooo in love he doesn’t care he might be jeopardizing his career? Really? After a few dates? We talking about the Foreman we grew to know over 4 season? The same Foreman who has colleagues not friends? And steals other people’s intellectual property? Seriously?
I would even address 13’s weird attempt at flirting but the less we say about that the better. I am all for awkward (love it in fact) but this was just plain creepy.

Lets ignore the fact you have made Wilson and House patch things up after a handful of episodes. Someone gets over the fact his friend killed his girlfriend that quickly? Seriously?
What bugs me is that Wilson is getting less airtime then Chase and Cameron. Combined. Which equals to itsy bitsy minuscule amount.

Lets ignore the fact the best scenes over the last few episodes were with Cameron and Chase. No in fact lets not. Why do you even keep poor buggers on the pay roll and give them wonderful lines when you do, just to throw them back in the pits of ER or wherever they curl up in fetal position in the meantime.
Tsk really not on.

Lets ignore Cuddy’s bangs for a moment (I’ll get to that one a bit later). You are turning the damn woman from a assertive, strong, sassy sort into a dish rag. Wet dish rag in fact. Ok she is a mum now. But she has been on a downward spiral over the last 2 seasons – give the woman a break. Give her her backbone back.

And for the love of god and everything that is holy do something about her bangs – they are driving me to distraction. I’m sure you can find some hair mouse somewhere. Hair gel even better. I know shallow, shallow blogger but she will end up with a permanent squint if those bangs are not taken care of.

Which brings me to the latest bit of news that Amber is coming back. Yes the Cutthroat Bitch will be back.
Now I liked Amber. I thought she was interesting. Fun even. And then you killed her. Or House did (whichever way you want to look at it).
And now she is coming back. I thought this was House not Grey’s Anatomy. Do we really need another ghost who simply refuses to go into the light?
Seriously?
Or even worse an evil twin? Even if it is a hallucination (which would be more probable for House, although these days I’m not sure of anything) – still what in the world’s name are you trying to do?

I could will away the boob grab and hammer in the toilet. But words fail me now.

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January 28, 2009 Posted Under Uncategorized

Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday – Friday night with Jonathan Ross

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Jonathan Ross is seen here arriving at Radio 2 for his show

Dear faithful readers – happy Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday!

Oh don’t worry I haven’t suddenly turned this into Jonathan Ross Appreciation Monday. Although he might need one after all the flagellation from the media.

You may or may not know but our lovely Mr. Fry was a guest on Friday night with Jonathan Ross last week.

Since Jonathan Ross has been suspended for 12 weeks after that Sachs-gate thingy (if you are unfamiliar with what exactly happened you can read about it here) the media was mighty interested who is going to appear on the first show after the Ross’ suspension.

Our lovely Mr. Fry being lovely as he is was one of the guests (other guests included comedian Lee Evans, Franz Ferdinand and that little known American actor Tom Cruise).

Now I have only seen bits and bobs of the show (due to my location) but from what I have seen our lovely Mr. Fry was his usual charming, witty, clever self.

Since both him and Wossy are fans of Twitter, that topic was discussed and unsurprisingly the number of new users and followers grew significantly.

Oh and Tom Cruise wasn’t so bad either – you have to hand it to Wossy he just plunges on and sure he can be damn crude sometimes but I had quite a giggle. Yes I find fart jokes funny!

Anyhow if you are curious there are itsy bitsy snippets of the show posted by BBC on YouTube, but if you ahem do a bit of digging around you will find more substantial clips.

Oh and for any of you living in London (you lucky buggers) – our lovely Mr. Fry will be giving a talk at the London’s Regent Street Apple store on February 2nd. Don’t think it will turn into a riot though Fry fans are exceptionally lovely bunch – people will probably bring cookies and refreshments.

And if anyone of you dear readers will be going do drop us a little how it went.

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January 26, 2009 Posted Under Uncategorized

Lost talking points

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So I have finally gotten down to typing up my Lost notes. So lets start with some talking points – but warning for anyone who still has not seen the 2 hour premiere there are spoilers ahead.

January 23, 2009 Posted Under US TV

Lost – what did you think?

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Monte Carlo Television Festival 2008 Day 5

So what did you think about the premiere of Lost?

I have to share with my faithful readers what this silly blond did – see I didn’t realize it was a two hour premiere. And I only went and watched the second part first!!! You know I would bite my own arse out of pure misery but it is too far and I can’t reach :)

However now that I have seen the episode in correct order (and second part once again) I do have to say it has lived up to the expectation. Or maybe I am of that opinion since it has been such a long bloody wait.

I don’t want to spoil anything just yet (I know there are not too many (if any) silly blonds like myself but people just might have not had the chance to see the premiere) however I do have to say that every single moment that made me giggle included Hurley.
Every single one of them.

I did jot down a good number of things in my notebook but I have to type them up.

So what did you think? Was it as good as you have expected? Or are you annoyed we have yet again more questions then answers? (how in the bloody name do they manage that? How? Hoow?)

January 22, 2009 Posted Under Uncategorized

Don’t forget – Lost TONIGHT!

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Did you watch the inauguration yesterday? Did you, did you? Oh it was fantastic! Not many things can top that. Well nothing can really top yesterday events.

But BUT tonight is Lost night! Yay!!! (Not to spoil anything but I have read somewhere Sawyer is shirtless in much of the tonight’s episode heh)

Anyhow here is a little interview with my favorite Jorge Garcia in TV Guide. So I’ll prepare some talking points for tomorrow :)

January 21, 2009 Posted Under Uncategorized

Life’s for sharing

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Confession ahead – I love commercials. Not the dodgy ones mind. You know the good ones.

And this is by far the best I have seen in a long, loooong while.

This was taped at Liverpool Street station. Which I love since you have to go there if you want to catch the train to Norwich. The only downside is that trains from Liverpool Street station always depart on time. Which we have unfortunately learned last year.

Anyhow this is a great commercial (even though it is by T-mobile)!

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January 19, 2009 Posted Under Uncategorized

Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday – another Twitter competition

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Stephen Fry promoting his latest book

Dear faithful readers – happy Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday!

Have you jumped on the Twitter bandwagon? Have you, have you?

Well you should as you are missing a lot of good stuff. Sure sometimes it feels like you are talking to yourself but with Jonathan Ross trying to recruit the cumulative British comedic genius to open up Twitter accounts things are far from dull. (I am keeping my fingers crossed Rob Brydon joins soon!)

Following the success of his last Twitter venture (the Oscar Wilde day) it seems our lovely Mr. Fry will have another competition to mark the occasion of hitting 50.000 followers on Twitter. Not literally hitting of course.

And it should be open to all followers (truth be told I wanted to cheat the last time and open up another account so I could qualify but it was too much of a physical strain :) which is good news for some of us that have had Twitter accounts for a while now.

Anyhow so if you want to take part in the competition go on, sign up on Twitter and start following our lovely Mr. Fry. See how helpful I am there is even a link :)

And just for the record this is where you can find me, you know just in case you fancy a chat or whatever :)

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January 19, 2009 Posted Under Uncategorized

13 things I learned reading Twilight

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  • If you ever fall in love with vampire you will never ever read another romance novel, watch a chick flick or buy the latest issue of Cosmo. To say they have a flair for romance and melodramatics is an understatement.
  • Having said that youaresofrakingbeautiful does get tedious after a while.
  • If a vampire turns you into a vampire you become beautiful and indestructible – all without the aid of plastic surgery. And you will never ever need to buy wrinkle cream again.
  • Having said that if you are dating a vampire and you are still human it would be better if you are not accident prone – even a paper cut can turn deadly.
  • Sex with a vampire is a definite no-no. Sure there is the whole thirst thing but then there is the matter of their industrial strength which means anyone who bruises easily would screwed.
  • You can forget garlic, sunlight, crucifixes and all that other nonsense – the only thing that can kill a vampire is slashing him/her and then burning him/her to bits. See they regenerate otherwise. Even if it is only one itsy bitsy finger left.
  • Vampires do not like nice weather. The reason why vampires do not like nice weather is because they go all sparkly shiny in the sunlight and that would blow their cover (that particular scene in the movie was a terrible let down. I expected special effects galore, instead I got Max Factor shimmer powder.)
  • Vampires also do not sleep. Like never ever. Which on one hand seems atrocious but gives them plenty of time to indulge other pursuits.
  • Under curfew? Not a problem – your vampire friends and boyfriends can climb the walls. Literally.
  • Got into a spot of bother? Not a problem again, like that Police song “Every breathe you take” your vampire will be watching you. Sure it might be a bit stalker like, but it can come in handy.
  • Derogatory terms for vampires – leeches; for werewolves – mutts.
  • When it is safe to approach a vampire? When you are not bleeding; when his/hers eyes are not red and/or there are no purple shadows under their eyes. If by any chance they are not vegetarian (meaning they do have red eyes on permanent basis) you are screwed. In all probability it will be the last blood donation you will ever make.
  • Another way to tell if someone is a vampire? Ostentatious cars. Then again you want to make double sure it is not just some old geezer going through midlife crisis. Which would be far worse then a vampire.

So dear readers this list is far from comprehensive – what are some of the things you learned while reading Twilight?

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January 16, 2009 Posted Under Movies
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