question of the day: Is it too soon for a sitcom about an army bomb disposal squad?
It was 20 years after the Korean War ended before CBS gave us M*A*S*H. With the Afghan war still on, the BBC wants to make us laugh about bomb-disposal soldiers…
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Facebook smears Google; Disney trademarks “Seal Team 6”; men made ‘Bridesmaids’ suck; more: leftover links
Plus: Johnny Depp can’t see his own 3D POTC movie; Woody Allen sorta down on his own movies; why did Mel Gibson’s The Beaver flop?
‘The Shadow Line’ with Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor debuts tomorrow night on BBC Two
Eccleston and Ejiofor in the same TV thing? I would have been so there even if I hadn’t already had a chance to preview the first episode of this seven-part drama…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: no more ‘Sarah Jane Adventures’
There had been rumors of the show soldiering on without Sarah Jane and somehow explaining her absence…
question of the day: Are there too many crime dramas on TV?
The BBC’s highly rated crime drama Zen, which starred Rufus Sewell as a cop in Italy, was recently cancelled… because the BBC doesn’t want to get overloaded with crime dramas… or with shows focusing on male protagonists. Wow…
ungodly numbers of people watched the ‘Doctor Who’ premiere last weekend
Though some of the numbers are getting spun in interesting ways…
Christopher Eccleston at BAFTA on April 12
Get your tix now for a London preview screening of The Shadow Line and the Q&A with Eccleston afterward…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Season 6 BBC America trailer
There’s too much awesome and awful here for me to even begin to unpack it. Transparent aliens and River falling out of a New York skyscraper and something out of the corner of my eye and a spaceship graveyard and… oh, I just can’t wait.
the oh-yes! DVD of the week: ‘Lark Rise to Candleford: Season Four’
Lark Rise to Candleford reminds me very much of All Creatures Great and Small, with its bucolic setting and mellow sense of humor hiding a subtle sharpness…
the oh-yes! DVD of the week: ‘Being Human: The Complete Third Series’
If you love vampires but hate Twilight…
