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Unlike feeble excuses to keep Billie Piper's "acting" career going, fill vacant post-pub Friday night slots on Channel 4 with badly-researched YouTube fodder, or provide Meryl Streep with opportunities to literally ham it up, there is a place in mainstream media for material derived from Internet phenomena. Whether or not you think the forthcoming ( Read more... )

Sadly it's the crappy, short-lived U.S. faux-cyberpunk series, not the Saturday evening pop video compilation show broadcast on Channel 4 ( Read more... )

You know that they do it, but the extent to which it is done may surprise you:

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But this time with the sort of misleading name which suggests nothing but children's programmes. (Mind you, they have got Footballers' Wives, so ( Read more... )

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...I've been asked to pre-plug Sherlock, the central concept of which will be familiar to those who remember Radio 4's Second Holmes* series many years ago, although a prime-time slot on BBC1 is likely to garner a somewhat higher profile for Moffatt and Gatiss' new contemporary TV take on Doyle's creation ( Read more... )

No connection, of course.

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It may only be coincidental that Djimon Hounsou's talents are as wasted in Push* as Samuel L. Jackson's were in Jumper last year but, since I dismissed (wisely, from all subsequent accounts) Heroes at the concept stage, and thus well before it apparently hit the inbuilt stumbling block of many modern, multi-season television programmes**, I'll ( Read more... )