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Post by MS on Nov 5, 2010 6:19:30 GMT -5
ABC1 just debut the series Identity featuring Shaun Parkes.
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Post by MS on Nov 6, 2010 15:01:08 GMT -5
Last night on Ovation finished watching The House of Eliott. However due to the series coming to an abrupt end the series finishes with things left unresolved.
Something I did not know before is that Cathy Murphy who played Tilly in The House of Eliott later appeared in Doctor Who in The Christmas Invasion. Incidentally her on-screen husband in The House of Elliot was played by Toby Whithouse later to become a Doctor Who writer with his Doctor Who debut being School Reunion just three episodes after The Christmas Invasion.
On ABC1, in Spooks 8.2, Ace Bhatti is seen only in the reprise his character having been killed off in the previous episode.
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Post by MS on Nov 7, 2010 14:51:46 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph has a review by Lucy Clark of Stephen Fry's autobiography The Fry Chronicles, An Autobiography. Clark wrote that it should actually be called A Part Autobiography as it deals with less than a decade of Stephen Fry's life beginning with his time at Cambridge University but says it a revealing look at one man's formative years.
Also in the Sunday Telegraph is the review by Nick Dent of the movie Wild Target with Bill Nighy. Dent gave it one and a half stars with the verdict of "A wildly off-target farce".
Elsewhere in the Sunday Telegraph there is an interview with Nighy about Wild Target and he enjoyed doing the film which was helped with him not seeing the original French film Cible that Wild Target was based on.
7 is rerunning the 2009 BBC TV version of The Day of The Triffids but this time in the mini-series format that it was intended for, with the two episodes pencilled in for the midday movie slot on Thursday November 11 and Friday November 12.
In Poirot: Evil Under the Sun, the David Suchet version on ABC1 last night guest starred Lousie Delamere and Russell Tovey.
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Post by MS on Nov 8, 2010 17:36:23 GMT -5
Last night's The Vampire Diaries episode on Go! was called Rose which is the same name of the Doctor Who season 31 opener. Somehow I don't think this is a coincidence as The Vampire Diaries has a character called Tyler and Tyler is the surname of Doctor Who's Rose.
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Post by MS on Nov 9, 2010 16:58:38 GMT -5
From 9, saw the movie Pluto Nash which featured John Cleese in a small role as a car computer.
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Post by MS on Nov 9, 2010 17:23:15 GMT -5
Found out too late that Secret Diary of a Call Girl season 3 had already started on Australian TV on Nine’s digital channel GEM in late September. It is currently screening on GEM on Wednesdays 10:30pm and repeated on Thursdays 3am. By some other way including on FIXPLAY I catch up on the viewing of season 3 shown on GEM so far. In Doctor Who despite some initial teasing between the two Rose and Jack never got it on as they became good friends instead. In the season 3 opener of Secret Diary of a Call Girl Rose actor Billie Piper finally got it on with a Captain Jack actor. However it was not John Barrowman, it was instead Matt Rippy who had played the real Captain Jack Harkness in the Torchwood episode that bears his name. Another of Billie’s clients this season was Tom Price (PC Andy in Torchwood) in episode 3. Interestingly one thing I did not notice before is Hannah’s (Billie Piper) sister’s name is Jackie. In Doctor Who, Jackie is the name of Rose’s mother. Jackie seems to be a common name in the family of a character that Billie plays. Noticed for this season Billie is an executive producer.
Meanwhile Secret Diary of a Call Girl makes its pay tv debut on Arena on Thursday November 18 9:30pm.
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Post by MS on Nov 11, 2010 16:50:30 GMT -5
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Post by MS on Nov 12, 2010 23:40:10 GMT -5
The second episode of Identity, Chelsea Girl guest starred Michael Maloney.
In The End of Time, the Ood Elder was voiced by Brian Cox.
In 1986 Cox was the original Hannibal Lecter (although spelt here as Lecktor) in Manhunter. Despite the fact that Cox had originally played that character it was not until 1991's Silence of the Lambs that Hannibal Lecter became well known to film audiences when he was played by Anthony Hopkins.
Even though he's a friend of the two Bakers, Tom and Colin, Hopkins has yet to appear in Doctor Who.
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Post by MS on Nov 13, 2010 16:03:53 GMT -5
Last night on ABC1, the reprise for Spooks 8.3 again featured Ace Bhatti. Spooks 8.3 was also the final appearance of Miranda Raison as Jo Portman.
On the same night on ABC2, was the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie Terror By Night which was about the transport of a precious diamond just like Queen Victoria carrying her precious diamond in Tooth and Claw. There is one difference though. The precious diamond in Terror By Night was travelling on a train whilst the diamond in Tooth and Claw was not on a train due to sabotage.
Out of the Unknown: The Last Lonely Man featured Peter Halliday and it was directed by Douglas Camfield.
The Last Lonely Man was originally shown on January 21 1969 a month after the conclusion of the Douglas Camfield-directed Doctor Who serial The Invasion which too had also featured Peter Halliday.
The Last Lonely Man also featured Lillias Walker and Camfield later directed her in Doctor Who in Terror of the Zygons in 1975.
Other Last Lonely Man cast members who had appeared in Doctor Who serials directed by Douglas Camfield were Bryan Mosley (The Daleks Master Plan) and Norman Hartley (The Time Meddler/The Invasion).
Another Last Lonely Man cast member to have appeared in Doctor Who but not ones directed Camfield was Peter Welch (The Highlanders/The Android Invasion).
The producer of Out of the Unknown when The Last Lonely Man was made was another Doctor Who director Alan Bromly.
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Post by MS on Nov 14, 2010 5:35:38 GMT -5
Survivors (2008-10) season 1 will be shown on Go! this Friday November 19 11:30pm.
ABC1 just finished showing the last of the initial six episodes of the series however viewers would have notice there was a promo for Last Chance to See for next week Sunday November 21 7:30pm.
This is because this is a special called Return of the Rhino and it was only shown in the UK on BBC Two quite recently on October 31.
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Post by MS on Nov 16, 2010 18:25:15 GMT -5
ABC reran the original TV series of Edge of Darkness starting last night on ABC2. The first episode Compassionate Leave featured John Woodvine and Charles Kay and for included for the behind the scenes credit was Mat Irvine.
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Post by MS on Nov 17, 2010 16:45:45 GMT -5
Saw George Takei in the Quattron/Sharp ad.
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Post by MS on Nov 18, 2010 17:39:43 GMT -5
ABC1 will show the TV movie Framed featuring Eve Myles on Sunday December 12 9pm: www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/11/airdate-framed.htmlFramed is a case of Torchwood meeting Doomwatch as it also featured fellow Eve, Trevor Eve. Trevor Eve was the lead actor of the 1999 Doomwatch TV movie Winter Angel and Doomwatch is listed as among the influences to Torchwood by Torchwood Magazine. Framed also features Mark Lewis Jones who had appeared in Torchwood when he ran Out of Time.
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Post by MS on Nov 18, 2010 23:45:21 GMT -5
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Post by MS on Nov 19, 2010 15:52:14 GMT -5
Identity: Pariah guest starred Phil Davis.
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