Television Watch
Joe Ahearne, who wrote and directed Ultraviolet (the TV show not the movie) which IMHO is the best use of vampires in a tv show/film/book ever - and not just because it's got Jack Davenport as a vampire hunter - and directed a few episodes of Doctor Who is making a superhero series for the BBC. It's going to be serious, but not anything like Heroes. You all know how much I love superheroes and you all know how much I love the BBC (since with the shorter episode runs and lack of network meddling, it just seems to produce better television) so this is absolutely brilliant news.
(Can it have Jack Davenport in it? Puleeeeease)
Also, this is news is rather old, but I'm bringing it up because I think it's fabulous, Željko Ivanek has been cast for ten episode of Volume Four of Heroes, Fugitives (which, I think, is going to be only ten episodes long). He played Ray Fiske in Damages and was one of the best things in brilliant television show. I suspect he's playing a villain, and I'm ridiculously excited about it.
I think I'm now going to do some Damages pimping, because I suspect I'm the only person on my flist that watched the first season, and it's such a good show. I'm not a person who can usually stand legal dramas. I go through phases of liking Boston Legal, but it's not something I watch every week. Legal thrillers, I have even less attention for. But I loved Damages.
It start in flashforward mode by positing the question of who murdered Ellen Parsons' (Rose Byrne) fiancé, and then answers it by skipping backwards a few months, as she starts a job working for Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) who is taking on billionaire Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson) in a class action lawsuit. And just watch if, for everything: the brilliant complex and sometimes (particularly in Patty's case) monstrous characters, the amazing acting, the slick direction and the plot which unwinds so brilliantly.
(Can it have Jack Davenport in it? Puleeeeease)
Also, this is news is rather old, but I'm bringing it up because I think it's fabulous, Željko Ivanek has been cast for ten episode of Volume Four of Heroes, Fugitives (which, I think, is going to be only ten episodes long). He played Ray Fiske in Damages and was one of the best things in brilliant television show. I suspect he's playing a villain, and I'm ridiculously excited about it.
I think I'm now going to do some Damages pimping, because I suspect I'm the only person on my flist that watched the first season, and it's such a good show. I'm not a person who can usually stand legal dramas. I go through phases of liking Boston Legal, but it's not something I watch every week. Legal thrillers, I have even less attention for. But I loved Damages.
It start in flashforward mode by positing the question of who murdered Ellen Parsons' (Rose Byrne) fiancé, and then answers it by skipping backwards a few months, as she starts a job working for Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) who is taking on billionaire Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson) in a class action lawsuit. And just watch if, for everything: the brilliant complex and sometimes (particularly in Patty's case) monstrous characters, the amazing acting, the slick direction and the plot which unwinds so brilliantly.