BBC Two is “terrified” to announce that Psychoville, written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, will return for a one-off special programme to be shown next year, and a new, six-part second series.
The dark comedy thriller was centred on very different characters, who each received an anonymous mysterious letter claiming: “I know what you did…” The last series episode concluded the story at Ravenhill Hospital, for the completely insane, with a huge explosion. In the new series, all will be revealed as to who managed to survive the blast.
November 18th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, The Silence
A deaf girl witnesses a murder.…. THE SILENCE.
18 year old Amelia Edwards (introducing Genevieve Barr) has recently been fitted with a cochlear implant, enabling her to hear, but she struggles to accept that she has a place in the hearing world.
Blake Lively has admitted that she often finds it “absurd” playing Serena Van Der Woodsen in Gossip Girl, as she dresses so much like her in real life.
“I dress just like Serena,” she told Nylon. “I own half her wardrobe, so it’s far too similar to the way I dress. I feel ridiculous at times with her because I’m, you know, killing someone or marrying someone, but I look like me. I’m like, ‘Oh, this is absurd’.”
House actress Jennifer Morrison has admitted that she is confused by her exit from the show. Morrison is one of the original cast members on the show and her character Dr Allison Cameron has been written out after some troubled times with her on screen husband, Dr Chase.
Rumours have been circulating that Morrison’s departure is a temporary one, however speaking to Entertainment Weekly, she said: “I find the entire situation sort of confusing.”
I had absolutely no idea that my fuzzy, warm image of one of my favourite childhood authors was totally out of whack. Enid Blyton wasn’t so much warm and fuzzy as cold and barbed it would seem.
I’d heard some rumours about Blyton’s taciturn character but I’d never really taken much notice, and I suspect that’s because, as I mentioned, her work ranks right up there on my Top Ten Childhood Memories, in the Rose Coloured section, so it was rather a disappointment to me to witness her vileness.
But Helena Bonham Carter did a remarkable job of portraying a woman who was no doubt plagued by inner demons but thought nothing of making miserable lives – quite by design – for those who crossed her or didn’t interest her, her own children included. Read more & comment »
Orlando Jones has been drafted in to guest star on US medical drama House.
The Ausiello Files reports that The Vampires Assistant actor will play Marcus, the estranged brother of Foreman. Although not much is known about his character, we have previously heard that he and Foreman had difficult childhoods and that Marcus is currently serving a jail term for drug charges.
Fans of David Tennant will have been drinking him in as the Doctor last night, for his time is nigh. After two Christmas episodes, Matt Smith will become the eleventh incarnation of the famous Doctor, and Tennant shall be a mere memory. Awwww.
But what a way to go; sticking his beak in on Mars in the year 2059 where there a real problem with the water. Not just those air bubbles you get sometimes and wonder if it’s something icky – this water can kill you. And unpleasantly at that.
On Bowie Base One – love that – Captain Adelaide Brooke, excellently played by Lindsay Duncan, is showing that in the future, women are still in charge of anything that’s important. However, Brooke and her team dropped a clanger in that they melted some ice in the ice fields and let loose a nasty virus. Worse than Swine ‘flu even. Or David Cameron. Read more & comment »
November 15th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: ITV, The Bill
Die Hard fans of ITV’s The Bill are quaking in their boots as the show is put on hold during this years’ I’m A Celebrity run.
ITV have already axed popular dramas Kingdom and Heartbeat this year and with The Bill off air now until mid December, fans fear its fate will be the same.
One source told The Mirror: “Morale among the cast and crew is at an all-time low.
I’ve always hated wasps; they’re useless critters and sure enough, as if I needed more reason to dislike them, it was a spawn of Satan wasp that caused the Collision.
But I suppose to give the wasp its due, it also caused love among the pile up. Mind you, one of those love affairs would’ve meant a bloke leaving his wife… mmm, every silver lining has a cloud eh?
I must say, it was a factor that took me a tad by surprise in a drama that had been filled with intrigue and what-ifs, but the wasp did in fact make its presence known in the very first episode, so the clue was there, we just had to be able to absorb seemingly useless trivia.
The scene in which the waitress tried to kill it didn’t seem especially relevant at the time but of course, with hindsight, if she’d swatted it, none of what happened would’ve happened. It’s all very interesting and chaos theory, which for me, added to the general excellence of the drama. Read more & comment »
Can you believe that it’s just a month to Christmas? Panic!
But the good news is, this week, we get to see last Christmas’s Gavin and Stacey special again. I wish I’d got it on DVD actually so I could watch it over and over… hope you’re reading Father Christmas?
Anyway, without further ado, here’s what we recommend you take a look at this week. We haven’t included Friday’s Children In Need because, well, you won’t need a reminder from us that it’s on! Read more & comment »