I thought the The Colbert Report was on hiatus on FX UK, turns out they are dropping the show. Hopefully More 4 will pick it up, they can put it on after The Daily Show. Meanwhile, another another addition to the Torrent RSS queue.

The BBC3 pilot
Being Human from a few months back has been commissioned for a six part series according to SFX. Apparently it did very well on iPlayer which points to very good word-of-mouth.

via Gizmodo.
In a move which will gladden the hearts of Futurama fans, Twentieth Century Fox have filed for a trademark for Slurm.

The "Slurm" trademark includes:

...carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks; fruit drinks; fruit juices; mineral and aerated water; bottled drinking water; energy drinks; syrups and powders for making soft drinks ( Read more... )

via lonemagpie and others.

Choose five series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.

( and the Q&A )

via lonemagpie, twinfair and others.
( 4, count 'em 4 memes behind the cut )

The show has bounced from Living to Trouble. Only caught a trailer by accident while channel flipping. Series 3 started last Tuesday at 9pm, with repeats at Wednesday at 8pm, Sunday at midday and 5pm. Seems an odd fit for a channel which seems to mostly consist of half hour sitcoms of varying vintages.

Just saw this on the TV in our canteen staff restaurant,
Should Jedi be recognised as a religion?, and on screen they were interviewing someone whose on-screen name and title was given as Jedi Spokesman, Simon Cohen

Just read on TV Squad that NBC have ordered 9 more episodes of Aaron Sorkins's latest series Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip to give it a full season of 22. I've been downloading and enjoying this, the latest episode was perhaps the best yet, so I'm happy to see it is getting a chance despite struggling with ratings (though I hear the audience ( Read more... )

Alerted by this recent post by sbisson I kick-started my trusty Bittorrent client and downloaded the pilot of "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip" which has somehow managed to escape on to the Interweb. Ooh, it's good. It's soothing-the-residual-pain-from-watching-the-last-ever-episode-of-The-West-Wing good. It's smart and it's funny but then so was Sports ( Read more... )