This week Jonas Armstrong and Andrew Lee Potts splutter about axed shows, John Nettles prepares to exit Midsomer, James McAvoy and Rupert Penry-Jones are replaced by Yanks, Orlando is robbed, Michael Sheen gets an award, John Barrowman frocks up, Robert Carlyle and David Tennant will be at Comic Con, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Craig and Jude Law will be on Broadway, Ewan McGregor dons the flying goggles, Stephen Fry torrents House and Spooks stops the trains. More...
( Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman To Star In New Broadway Play, Ewan McGregor's flying visit to Duxford, David Tennant to join the St Trinian’s film cast, Life's a drag as John Barrowman stops London traffic, Doctor Who Sponges Off Wet Monster on Mars, Jonas says Robin Hood shouldn't have been axed, Jude Law's Life Hacked Into By British Tabloids, James McAvoy gives way to Tobey Maguire in Details, Life after Midsomer Murders for John Nettles, Actor Michael Sheen receives honorary fellowship, Star Trek's Simon Pegg becomes a dad, Cops called to Sean Bean's house after 'domestic', Orlando's delayed Cross, 'Primeval' star 'gutted' over show axe, Ray and Jaime Winstone film in Wales, Nigel Planer reveals plans to bring Stevenson play to Scotland, Spooks prop delayed trains in 'bomb' alert, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe prefers to stay single, Danny Dyer Plays Vicious in Kurt & Sid Premiere, Alan Cumming Parks His Car at Vaudeville, Slater Deposes Penry-Jones )

Tags: colin morgan, daniel craig, david tennant, doctor who, ewan mcgregor, james mcavoy, james purefoy, john nettles, john varowman, jude law, links, merlin, philip glenister, richard armitage, richard coyle, stephen fry, stephen moyer, torchwood

I seem to be jinxed again today. I did manage to catch my bus this morning, but I tell ya, if you can spill it, walk into it, trip over it, entangle oneself in it, drop it, break it, delete it, rip it, soak it, stain it or otherwise variously fold, spindle or mutilate it, I've done it. In other words, I am a walking, or rather stumbling, bad hair day wardrobe malfunctioning disaster area.

Sigh. I make Maxwell Smart look suave.
( more: sorry about that, chief )

Tags: lucifer box, mark gatiss, robin hood, supernatural, true blood

Gentle reader, I put it to you that the makers of Merlin have seen the Princess Bride.
( more: spoilers, mary sues and unicorns )

Tags: merlin, the saint, the tudors, torchwood, ufo

This week the Harry Potter kids get drenched, Simon Pegg becomes a dad, Torchwood is on telly, Robin Hood is still cancelled, Jude Law is still treading the boards, John Simm will be treading the boards, the BBC has unveiled its Autumn line up, David Tennant has put his hand up for St Trinians (why, David, why?), Bill Nighy reveals his favourite song, James McAvoy sells himself for Samsung, Richard Coyle is doing Terry Pratchett and Dominic West gets weirdly protectionist.
( 'Torchwood' retains strong audience, Tennant joins St Trinian's film, Time for Doctor Who fans to hide behind the sofa, Fans await news of Doctor Who movie at Comic-Con, Dominic West hits out over foreign stars playing British heroes, James McAvoy voices Samsung ad shot by Skins promos director, Daniel Craig conquers his fear of heights, Simon Pegg welcomes baby daughter, Cumming makes West End return in Blue Car, Jude Law to play Hamlet in New York, Simm stars in Speaking In Tongues, Brian Cox brings Le Carre's classic back in from the cold, BBC axes Robin Hood, Daniel Radcliffe celebrates Harry Potter graduation by becoming art collector, Rupert Grint and the prison of Potter )

Tags: aidan turner, daniel craig, david tennant, doctor who, dominic west, dougray scott, james mcavoy, john barrowman, john simm, jonas armstrong, jude law, links, merlin, michael fassbender, richard armitage, richard coyle, robin hood, rupert penry-jones, stephen moyer, torchwood

We'll just pretend I'm talking about Tara if you've not seen it yet. ( more: spoilers )

Tags: torchwood

King Arthur wants you to buy his flour. I'm sorry, a friend sent me an Arthur monogrammed box in the post, and I'm delighted. Also delighted with the contents, and the hot water bottle has already been deployed, because it's touched on 20C here and that's the temperature at which I start to turn blue, soft southerner that I am.

Ouch. I just accidentally spoiled myself for Torchwood but good. And it kinda puts a thick black line through just about anything I was going to dribble about in today's post, and time's up on writing that anyway.
( more: spoilerly natter )

Tags: clint eastwood, maverick, richard armitage, roger moore, spooks, supernatural, torchwood

A weekend and a half. Saturday saw me up, not quite early enough, getting the washing done before trotting off to buy a new lawn mower. Himself simply will not abide a proper grown up mower, so it was yet another expensive folly of a womany electric mower that takes three days to charge for an hour's mowing, if you're lucky, and can't be used it so many circunstances that Himself declared it perfect (ie it'll never stir from the shed, nor Himself from the chair), but at least the staff were kind, if bemused by the fact I actually bought the klunker.

That done it was off for a rushed coffee and sweetie at the Lebanese grocer. I was hoping for a relaxing wallow of people watching but it was not to be so. At least coffee outside a shop with hookahs in the window can be had for the price of a bus fare (just as well as I'm not going anywhere further than my Zone 2 buss pass, apparently). Picked up some dates and figs, and some green tea at the Korean grocers nearby, and resisted the urge to but the 70s coffee set in the op shop window. At least the ethnic grocers survive in the face of the hideous mall they built nearby. ( more: gun shy )

Tags: maverick, merlin, the saint

( BBC kills off Robin Hood as viewing figures fall, John Barrowman slams Torchwood cut, Law to play Hamlet on Broadway, John Simm Returns to Stage to Speak in Tongues, Michael Fassbender to give film fleadh's actors' masterclass, 'Philanthropist's' James Purefoy digs good-guy gig on NBC, Aidan Turner plays Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rafe Spall plays William Holman Hunt, Inspector Lewis back on TV beat, The Magic of Merlin, McGann joins Globe's Helen, The Wire star Dominic West appears in Jane Austen coffee ads, Rob Brydon claims his Twitter identity, Hugh Grant under the spell of soap star, Ben Barnes is Valediction Vibrant, NCIS pathologist David Mccallum cut up dead bodies, The world according to Danny Dyer, Robert Pattinson reveals he 'felt like a bit of an idiot' at 'Twilight' audition, Christian Bale stuns daughter with 'Public Enemies' accent, Daniel Craig's New House Ruined by Ghosts, Jim Broadbent enjoys wacky new role in latest Harry Potter flick, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe on how he wants to be a bigger star, Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman to star in new BBC Four comedy drama )

Tags: aidan turner, colin morgan, daniel craig, david tennant, doctor who, dougray scott, ewan mcgregor, harry lloyd, james darcy, james purefoy, john barrowman, john simm, jonas armstrong, jude law, laurence fox, lewis, links, merlin, michael fassbender, rafe spall, robin hood, torchwood

"I even get to wear a big beard for the last three episodes and really go for it!" - Rafe Spall, Desperate Romantics

Last week: Hmmm, I was trying to go for boho this morning but I think I fell far short and ended up with hobo as usual Sigh. At least nobody tried to run me down this morning, but I did miss the bus.
( sex and drugs and rock and roll )

Current Mood: blah

( Why Shaw turned his back on drink, Interview with 'True Blood' vampire Stephen Moyer, Bill Nighy cast as the absent father, Rhys Ifans gets role in film ex Sienna Miller was axed from, Neeson's costume for 'Collins' fetches €3,700, Callum Blue Has Zod Complex, Dougray Scott's heaven on earth, Doctor Who's Tennant and Davies Heading to Comic-Con, John Barrowman Talks Torchwood, Bond star Timothy Dalton to appear in Doctor Who, Colin Morgan Talks Challenges and Characters of 'Merlin', Primeval axed by ITV in favour of post-watershed drama, Christian Bale Says There Might Not Be Another Batman Movie, Michael Fassbender Actors Masterclass at Fleadh, Dressed-down Billie Piper and Laurence Fox celebrate Father's Day with baby Winston, Daniel Craig eyes psychological thriller, Jonathan Rhys Meyers in airport punch-up, Simon Pegg is deadly serious about his Hollywood ambitions )

Tags: colin morgan, daniel craig, david tennant, doctor who, dougray scott, ewan mcgregor, james purefoy, jonas armstrong, jude law, laurence fox, links, merlin, michael fassbender, philip glenister, robin hood, sam troughton