BLOGS
Bored and unawed by Heroes
- Posted at 11:51am
- 03 October 2008
- by DavidButcher-RT
- 32 comments
Sorry, Heroes fans, but I'm going to have a go at your precious great lump of a series. Prepare to shed inky-black tears. Prepare to write in to leap to its defence and tell me I don't understand, that I've missed the point. Only don't bother. You're right - I don't.
Throwing a rotten tomato at Heroes is, of course, hopeless: the show will just freeze time, step aside, grab the tomato out of the air and stuff it down my trousers before I can blink. That's more or less what happened in the first scene of the new series, only with a bullet. Four...
Is Daniel Radcliffe too old to play Harry Potter?
- Posted at 11:05am
- 03 October 2008
- by AndrewCollins-RT
- 22 comments
Now pay attention!
With the terrestrial premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire upon us, in which the 14-year-old wizard is mysteriously entered in the 17s-and-over Triwizard Tournament, I think it's worth considering the problematic age difference between Harry in the multi-million-selling books and how he's perceived in the films.
There are seven Harry Potter books, each one representing a year in the young wizard's life at Hogwarts School.
He is 11 when the first book, The Philosopher's Stone, whisks him for the first time to the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there to begin his epic quest against the evil Voldemort. He is 12...
The Doctor Who spin-offs that will never be filmed
- Posted at 4:55pm
- 02 October 2008
- by DavidBrown-RT
- 14 comments
Who'd have thought that when Doctor Who returned in 2005, there'd be so much scope for spin-offs? The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and now even the possibility of a Who movie being mooted. Not bad for a sci-fi show whose only previous stab at a TV offshoot was the creaky K-9 and Company back in 1981. So how long will it be before they milk a winning formula so much that we end up with the following?
The X-terminate Factor
Saturday-night entertainment as Davros and Dalek Caan audition potential allies in their bid to enslave the universe. The X-terminate...
More
CHOOSE BLOG
LATEST POSTS
-
- Gordon Ramsay's F Word
- Fri 20 November 2009, 4:05pm
-
- Camilla quits I'm a Celebrity…
- Wed 18 November 2009, 12:54pm
-
- The X Factor: week thirteen
- Mon 16 November 2009, 1:30pm
-
- Strictly Come Dancing: week nine
- Mon 16 November 2009, 12:32pm
-
- Bruce to miss Strictly because of illness
- Fri 13 November 2009, 11:40am
LATEST COMMENTS
-
- Martina Cole's The Take
- "FAO suzanne - We're told that…"
- Fri 20 November 2009, 6:20pm
-
- The week in soapland
- "Has the wholly bizarre grandmother…"
- Fri 20 November 2009, 6:06pm
-
- Why I Hate...Spooks
- "Come on, Danger Man, Avengers, Man…"
- Fri 20 November 2009, 5:44pm
BLOGS ARCHIVE
ADVERTISER LINKS