In which we find out what exactly happened between Camille and the Montrachets, and the era's most prominent historical personality gets a cameo.

( Spoilers continue to like this prequel series )

Aka, the new BBC show "based on characters by Alexandre Dumas", which is a wise credit to insert in your opening titles because it tells your audience at once the show won't have anything to do do with the novel beyond using the same names and perhaps one or two vaguely similar situations. This being said, I was amused and not bored, as opposed to ( Read more... )

A few monts back, someone mentioned to me the BBC was planning on a Three Musketeers tv series. The cast and something about the content has now been announced, and I am... cautiously optimistic? I mean, there is still a godawful hangover from the horrid 90s Disney version in the form of D'Artagnan wanting to avenge his father (his father is ( Read more... )

At first I thought this was a big practical joke and/or a fannish prank, but apparantly it is for real: Joss Whedon used his spare time (?) between Avengers directing to film Much Ado About Nothing at his house with various of his favourite actors from pretty much every show he ever was involved with. *blinks* I remember first hearing about the ( Read more... )