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Post by MS on Oct 23, 2010 14:54:22 GMT -5
From DoctorWhoNews.com: Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy has told fans that he has been cast as Radagast the Brown The Hobbit.
McCoy was actually in consideration for Bilbo Baggins for the Lord of the Rings films before it ultimately went to Ian Holm.
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Post by MS on Oct 24, 2010 17:58:51 GMT -5
The Social Network featuring Andrew Garfield got four and a half stars from Nick Hopton in his review in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph with the verdict of "A drama as addictive as Facebook itself."
Hopton also reviewed Red featuring Brian Cox which got three stars and the verdict of "Oldies drew pistols and pensions; story suffers senior moments".
Incidentally Red is also the name of a Seventh Doctor Big Finish story.
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Post by MS on Oct 25, 2010 19:24:38 GMT -5
A couple of days ago, Nine completed the first season of Sherlock and overall the first season was a very good contemporary take on the famous detective.
Meanwhile ABC1 showed the final episode of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes yesterday. Entitled The Cardboad Box it guest starred Deborah Findlay and Tom Chadbon and directed by Sarah Hellings.
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Post by MS on Oct 26, 2010 18:37:40 GMT -5
Found out that Lennon Naked starring Chris Eccleston and Naoko Mori will make its debut on ABC1 on Monday December 6. Correction: Lennon Naked will be on ABC1 on Sunday December 5 8:30pm.
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Post by MS on Oct 27, 2010 14:39:40 GMT -5
The penultimate episode of Spartacus: Blood and Sand is called Revelations and coinicentally I am currently watching the Revelation of the Daleks DVD from the Davros Collection.
On 7TWO last night The Professionals: Take Away guest starred Pik Sen Lim and Sharon Duce and directed by Douglas Camfield.
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Post by MS on Oct 28, 2010 18:48:26 GMT -5
The final episode of Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime called The Crackler guest starred Shane Rimmer.
Incidentally even though Partners In Crime finished screening on ABC1 in the same week of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series it was not intentional on the ABC's part as it had planned to start showing Partners In Crime a couple of weeks earlier only to be delayed due to election debates held at the National Press Club.
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Post by MS on Oct 28, 2010 19:45:33 GMT -5
Mark Sheppard was in the Chuck episode Chuck Versus The American Hero shown last night on FOX8.
Sheppard is also in the next episode to be shown on Thursday November 4 7:30pm.
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Post by MS on Oct 30, 2010 16:19:39 GMT -5
On 7mate saw Daphne Ashbrook in the Knight Rider original series episode Knight In Shining Armour. She was credited as Daphne Lee Ashbrook and she was blonde in contrast to being a redhead in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
On Ovation saw Caroline John in the penultimate episode of The House of Eliott. Incidentally The House of Eliott co-creator Jean Marsh was briefly First Doctor companion Sara Kingdom. Jean Marsh was formerly married to Third Doctor Jon Pertwee and Caroline John as Liz Shaw was a Third Doctor companion.
On ABC1, Ace Bhatti appeared as a villain in the season 8 opener of Spooks.
Alan Dale has a recurring role in Undercovers. His role in Undercovers means he now appears with the two actors who played the Jones sisters in Doctor Who. Undercovers stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw who was Tish Jones in Doctor Who and Dale previously appeared with Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones in the Torchwood episode Reset.
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Post by MS on Oct 31, 2010 20:17:55 GMT -5
From At The Movies: Brian Cox was mentioned but not seen in the clips for RED. David Stratton described RED as a hectic action movie and gave it 3 and a half stars. Margaret Pomerantz gave the same rating saying it was a silly but fun movie. She also says that it was not great but enjoyable.
Daniel Mays was included in clips of Made In Dagenheim with Margaret giving this movie four stars and David three and a half stars.
Andrew Garfield is seen in clips for The Social Network. David says that The Social Network was smart and fascinating on every level. Margaret says that it was a beautifully made film with a superb screenplay. David gave five stars and Margaret four and a half stars.
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Post by MS on Nov 1, 2010 13:41:24 GMT -5
On Halloween, I appropriately bought on DVD the 2002 BBC TV movie of Henry James ghost story novella Turn of the Screw. Turn of the Screw featured a character called Mrs Grose. Mrs Grose was also a character in Ghost Light and Ghost Light writer Marc Platt makes his clear in his novelisation of the story that this is the same Mrs Grose from Turn of the Screw.
Yesterday at 12:30pm ABC1 began a rerun of the 2002 remake mini-series of The Forsyte Saga with the music composed by Geoffrey Burgon.
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Post by MS on Nov 2, 2010 17:19:28 GMT -5
On 7TWO saw William Russell in The Professionals episode Involvement this morning.
Russell's character presented a problem to one of the main characters played by Martin Shaw a CI5 (a law enforcement department) officer as Russell plays the criminal father of the Shaw character's love interest.
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Post by MS on Nov 3, 2010 18:56:09 GMT -5
On 13th Street, saw Haven: Sketchy, the seventh episode of season 1 which had a couple of things similar to what occurred in Doctor Who. It had someone literally losing his mouth like in The Idiot's Lantern and another person drowning in dry land like in The Mind of Evil & The Shakespeare Code.
Out of the Unknown: Lambda 1 was directed by George Spenton-Foster.
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Post by MS on Nov 3, 2010 22:27:26 GMT -5
The 2009 Catherine Tate Show Christmas Special which also featured the title star's co-star from Doctor Who David Tennant will make its debut showing on the ABC next month December.
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Post by MS on Nov 4, 2010 21:54:43 GMT -5
Been watching on Go! the latest TV version of La Femme Nikita, simply titled Nikita. The Nikita character is an assassin.
Currently I am watching on DVD Revelation of the Daleks and that too featured an assassin Orcini.
Wonder if Nikita would had better luck than Orcini in killing Davros.
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Post by MS on Nov 4, 2010 23:02:04 GMT -5
Just saw on 7, today's midday movie The Kindness of Strangers a TV movie starring Julie Graham which is basically a version The Hand That Rocks The Cradle.
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