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Rosemary and Laura Go Gothic
When Nick Elliot stepped down as Controller of ITV Drama, Director of Television Simon Shaps and new Drama Controller Laura Mackie announced the cancellation of a number of the channel’s successful shows in a kind of ‘image makeover’ favouring youth and ‘edginess’. Foyle’s War was one of the casualties, and Rosemary and Thyme was another…
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The Writers’ Guild at 50
Here’s a thing I didn’t know: if you’re a member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and you sell a script in the US, the hefty WGA registration fee is waived. And WGA membership is a requirement over there, not an option. This just received from Tom Green: The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain…
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On the set of Crusoe
The Crusoe Region 1 boxed set is now officially out, with the first torrented rips preceding it online like pageboys scattering rose petals ahead of the bride. But really, save your bandwidth and your blank discs; at $19.99 from Amazon piracy really isn’t worth the trouble, even when you add international postage. It’s also available…
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Eleventh Hour US
We – I say we, because the Bruckheimer gang have gone out of their way to make me feel a part of the team – are going through a weird-feeling time at the moment, waiting to see if CBS are going to opt for a second season. The show has its champions, and also its…
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Six Things of No Importance
Over at Blowing My Thought Wad, I was tagged by Good Dog to reveal six things of no real importance about myself. These are the rules of this particular tag game and I can tell you now, I’m going to break one of them… (A) Put the link of the person who tagged you on…
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Squawk Like A Pirate
I’ve got mixed feelings about the jail terms and fines passed by the Swedish courts on the operators of the Pirate Bay filesharing setup. I’d have more sympathy over the sentencing if the guys in question weren’t such clanging assholes. Piracy is, by its very definition, a parasitic act, and the successful parasite is the…
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Killing the Joke
I’ve only once given up on a movie and walked out of a cinema in the middle of it, and it was in Las Vegas in 1980. We were backpacking across America from West coast to East, and we were taking full advantage of a cheap room deal and the even cheaper all-you-can-eat buffets in…
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John Garforth
By the miracle of Google (and I can’t for the life of me remember what I was looking for at the time) this morning I discovered this, the personal website of one-time – or, more accurately, four-times – Avengers tie-in writer John Garforth. Garforth wrote four Avengers novels for Panther Books in 1967. Two years…
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Eleventh Hour back in the UK
According to The Guardian, Virgin Media’s Living TV has picked up the first US season of Eleventh Hour for screening from April 8th. The show, from CSI producer Jerry Bruckheimer, has been one of the biggest hits of the US TV season, averaging around 12 million viewers on CBS. The drama stars British actor Rufus…
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Young Sherlock
Happy to see that my old friend Andy Lane is the writer chosen to helm a series of Young Sherlock Holmes adventures approved by the Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. According to the announcement on the United Agents site, “The Colossal Schemes of Baron Maupertuis (is) due to be published in Spring 2010. The…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
