Television programmes

A new version of Dangermouse is being made. 52 episodes. I was a big fan of the original and if they can keep the wit but improve the animation, which was very cheap, it could be amazing.
Good voice cast too- Alexander Armstrong is playing Dangermouse, Kevin Eldon as Penfold, Stephen Fry s Colonel K, Dave Lamb as the Narrator and Morwenna Banks (probably as every female character).

They better keep the original theme tune-

Watching the last Colbert ever.

The song was great, but I'm really glad they went out with the callback to the Daily Show and the outtakes of Stewart and Colbert goofing around during the inter-show trade-off they used to always do.  That was the perfect final note.  Goddamn I'm gonna miss Colbert.  Thanks for all the laughs, insights, and memories.

I did not know that was even ending, so when I heard "Colbert" I put in "Ferguson" in my head, as Craig Ferguson is also quitting his show.

I didn't know that. I've only seen bits of Craig Ferguson's show, but what I saw I enjoyed. That's a shame. Colbert was an institution for me, though. Following news and current events won't be the same without him.

Yeah, Craig Ferguson also had his last episode a couple of days ago.

And he didn't have Peter Capaldi on as his final guest?!!!

Pettytyrant101 wrote:And he didn't have Peter Capaldi on as his final guest?!!!

Was he supposed to?


Anyway, I just finished season one of Broadchurch!
I quite liked the show, and Tennant was extremely enjoyable, as always. I have absolutely no idea what a second season could contain, or why it would even exist, outside of monetary attractions for the show creators.

Was he supposed to?- Forest

It seemed inevitable- they are best friends, grew up together, dropped acid together, were in a band together and are both mad Who fans.
Ferguson has had Tennant and Smith on numerous times because of Who (and Capaldi once promoting In the Loop, not that they did they just reminisced) - seemed inevitable he would have his mate on now his mate is the Doctor.

Such a shame he never got him back on now he is the Doctor.

I just watched the first of the six episode miniseries Wolf Hall from the BBC.
Its basically everything the BBC does better than everyone else, done better than everyone else- its a period costume drama based on the novels by Hilary Mantel.
Now Ive never read the novels so I have no idea how it stacks up as an adaptation, but as a tv drama I thought it was excellent.
Its well paced, allowing for characters to slowly develop and unfold through the events, it has certainly retained the feel of a novel in its pacing and development, its got an amazingly good cast so every performance is an outstanding one and it covers a hugely interesting period of English history, covering as it does Cromwell's rise in the time of Henry 8.

Definitely recommended.

Nice, I will look into it! Hopefully it's not new, as I can't seem to get newer BBC productions here in the states for quite a while.

Try here Forest (make sure you have an ad block on though!)

http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/internet/wolf_hall/

I watched that too Petty. I like these sort of dramas. Good start I thought, eager to watch the next episode & what helped was the fact it IS on BBC, no bloody adverts !

Yeah I think adverts would kill it- not just the mood but also its quite complex in a subtle way.
I would also say it helps if you have at least a school history grasp of the period- which I think most in the UK should have but probably not many outside of it- in that it does hop about at one point ahead three months and then back again- and all you get is a subtitle reading " three months after the fall of Wolsley", who was just in the previous scene. If you dont know roughly what happened to Wolsley this may be a bit confusing and you will be left thinking- what do they mean fall? What kind of fall? Is he dead? where is he? What happened to him?
And it rather assumes you already know who certain characters are without really explaining them or why they are important or to who- like Anne.

I like that 'matter of fact' way. I like how that episode ran, I thought it flowed just right. I thought it was beautifully handled with just enough info & detail without giving away too much. ( listen & learn peejers ! ) I didnt need at all to be told, like some fooking halfwit, who people were. It meandered along, everything falling sweetly into place.

Oh dont get me wrong- I really liked it too. I thought the pacing was spot on for the material.
But I was just thinking of how it might be watch for a non Brit audience who might not have at least heard the basics of the history of Cromwell, Wolsley, Henry 8, Anne Boleyn ect.

No, I dont get you wrong Petty I was getting annoyed at the way peejers patronizes his audience Even if you dont know history that well, I think youde twig who this people are, well, youde realise they are important

Yeah Id much rather a story that assumes some ability in its audience to follow a plot rather than the assumption PJ and co make that the entire audience have the same IQ as Boyens does real Tolkien knowledge (somewhere about zero)

So apparently FX made a pilot episode of Wheel of Time in secret as a ploy to help Red Eagle keep the rights and it was aired tonight at 1:30 am. I hope it makes its way online cause this is bound to be funny to watch.

The rights were about to expire so this was ... something of a rush job.  It's based on the prologue to Eye of the World and according to the director's Twitter had a 22 page script. It was filmed in one day in late January and the final cut was submitted four or five days ago. There was no marketing and this only came to fans' attention like 10 hours ago when someone saw it on FXX's revised schedule for 1:30 am.

Surprisingly, all the impressions I've read so far have been negative.

Eldorion wrote:So apparently FX made a pilot episode of Wheel of Time in secret as a ploy to help Red Eagle keep the rights and it was aired tonight at 1:30 am. I hope it makes its way online cause this is bound to be funny to watch.

That is so stupid. If you want to keep the rights, why not actually do something with it? Why make a completely half-ass attempt at something just so you can keep the rights and possibly not do anything with it in the future? Maybe let the rights go to someone who is actually interested in making it into a movie/tv show? What's the point of sitting on the rights if you've no intent of actually adapting it?