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Well, now I'm looking forward to the return of Doctor Who in September, with an episode intriguingly titled "Let's Kill Hitler".
The mind croggles.
After the mid-season finale ("A Good Man Goes to War" for the non-spoiler-phobic) asploded my head, it might well take that long to collect the splintered pieces of my brain sufficiently to understand what is going on.
Phil
My friends say I have CDO…
which is like OCD but with the initials in proper alphabetical order…
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Wed, 08 June 2011 17:21 |
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Current season Doctor Who has been airing concurrently on BBC America - except for the last two episodes. At this point, BBCA is two weeks behind actual BBC.
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Wed, 08 June 2011 17:23 |
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| jaccairn wrote on Mon, 06 June 2011 09:06 |
you're almost asking for a repeat of these episodes, so that you can watch and then re-evaluate everything.
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I wonder how long it'll be available on iPlayer...aha!
The first episode of the current series will be available until this coming Saturday (11th June 2011).
HTH HAND
Phil
My friends say I have CDO…
which is like OCD but with the initials in proper alphabetical order…
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| Re: Looking Forward To... [message #42578 is a reply to message #42575 ] |
Wed, 08 June 2011 17:27 |
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| NotACat wrote on Wed, 08 June 2011 17:16 |
| Maren wrote on Tue, 07 June 2011 19:43 |
| Beauty/Anna wrote on Tue, 07 June 2011 13:12 |
I hope none of that was a spoiler for anyone.....
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This is not so much a modly admonishment as a personal request for myself and other technologically deprived Americans who have to wait until it's out on DVD here, which will be sometime in late summer I think. 
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You can't watch it on BBC America?
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No, in most markets that's only in satellite and upper-tier (more expensive) cable packages. I barely watch what's on basic cable, so can't justify paying even more for a bunch more channels I also wouldn't watch, and one that I would.
I believe the only other way it's legally available here right now is through Amazon streaming, so anyone who has a streaming device can get it for $2 an episode. (I could watch that on a computer, but I'd rather wait for the slightly larger screen and better quality.)
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Mon, 13 June 2011 17:06 |
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| Maren wrote on Wed, 08 June 2011 17:27 |
| NotACat wrote on Wed, 08 June 2011 17:16 |
You can't watch it on BBC America?
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No, in most markets that's only in satellite and upper-tier (more expensive) cable packages. I barely watch what's on basic cable, so can't justify paying even more for a bunch more channels I also wouldn't watch, and one that I would.
I believe the only other way it's legally available here right now is through Amazon streaming, so anyone who has a streaming device can get it for $2 an episode. (I could watch that on a computer, but I'd rather wait for the slightly larger screen and better quality.)
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Update on this for anyone else who has a Comcast cable package that doesn't include BBC America: I just discovered I can watch Doctor Who on Comcast's Xfinity streaming video site here. I see that it says BBC America customers only, and BBC America definitely isn't included in my Digital Basic TV package, but it worked and I'm not going to ask why.
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Mon, 13 June 2011 22:00 |
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| Maren wrote on Mon, 13 June 2011 14:06 |
| Maren wrote on Wed, 08 June 2011 17:27 |
| NotACat wrote on Wed, 08 June 2011 17:16 |
You can't watch it on BBC America?
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No, in most markets that's only in satellite and upper-tier (more expensive) cable packages. I barely watch what's on basic cable, so can't justify paying even more for a bunch more channels I also wouldn't watch, and one that I would.
I believe the only other way it's legally available here right now is through Amazon streaming, so anyone who has a streaming device can get it for $2 an episode. (I could watch that on a computer, but I'd rather wait for the slightly larger screen and better quality.)
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Update on this for anyone else who has a Comcast cable package that doesn't include BBC America: I just discovered I can watch Doctor Who on Comcast's Xfinity streaming video site here. I see that it says BBC America customers only, and BBC America definitely isn't included in my Digital Basic TV package, but it worked and I'm not going to ask why.
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You can also get any of new Doctor Who (including current season) on iTunes; 99 cents per episode to rent (download, but the episode disappears 24 hours after you first watch it) in high definition, more to buy. Not that that helps if you want to watch it on something bigger than your computer screen.
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Fri, 17 June 2011 19:16 |
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| Melodie wrote on Wed, 08 June 2011 10:23 |
As a few people have already mentioned, The Hobbit movies are getting closer! I am already in full, mega fangirl status about the new additions to the LOTR film series.
I can't wait! It seemed like for years and years, there was nothing but bad news about delays in the production, but we fans finally have a date to fixate on: December 14, 2012!
I don't know how I'm going to contain my excitement until then.
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Yes, I know what you mean. I'm thinking that if PJ makes more of those videoblogs, they could tide me over, even as they make me even more anxious for the movie to arrive! In fact, it's been quite a while since the last one, hasn't it? (Or it just feels like it... ) I could use a new videoblog right about now...
Meanwhile, here's some Hobbit-news:
Luke Evans has been cast as Bard:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/luke-evans-to-play-bard-in-t he-hobbit/
And the voice of Smaug by - this should please Sherlock-fans - Benedict Cumberbatch:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/benedict-cumberbatch-to-voic e-smaug-in-the-hobbit/
And, to something different - though not completely different - a new Harry Potter-trailer:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/hot-trailer-harry-potter-and -the-deathly-hallows-part-ii/
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Sun, 19 June 2011 13:48 |
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I'd heard that Martin Freeman had let slip that Benedict Cumberbatch was going to be in the Hobbit, but hadn't thought of him as the voice of Smaug.
As to the Dr Who/Sherlock thing I supspect that they already had plans not to show it all at once (Matt may have asked for time off for other project, they did do that year of only specials for David Tennant)and the other guy, worrying about complaints from fans, is trying to suggest that Moffat is overworked to head this off.
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Sun, 19 June 2011 16:19 |
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You know, I wouldn't have thought of him as the voice for Smaug either, but - the more I think of it, the more I like it. It was really "Hmmmm... this might actually be... really good..." I haven't seen Sherlock, but I thought he was very good in Amazing Grace - and voices are rather important to me, since I can't see faces very well, the voice is often the thing I'll recognise an actor by.
And thank you for your input on that other matter - it just sounded like those two needed to talk to each other, as they seemed to be at complete crosspurposes!
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Tue, 19 July 2011 08:36 |
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Thanks for those, Anna! The ensemble really does look formidable in the former - what a cast! And The War Horse looks really good too - the only reason I wouldn't want to see it is worry about the horse - does anyone know if it dies? (It's based on a book, isn't it? So I thought if anyone here has read said book... Or seen the play?)
And - some Hobbit dwarves!:
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2011/07/here-come-dwarves.ht ml
Er, well, I mean... well, you know what I mean. I think it's great the way they've managed to make each dwarf distinct - I think that this means they are going to make each one into his own personality in the film, instead of, say, just emphasising one or two, and then letting the rest be just a group of dwarves... I'm looking forward to more pictures!
And some trailers:
Hugo:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/hot-trailer-martin-scorseses -hugo-2/
Brave:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/hot-trailer-disneypixars-bra ve/
And The Dark Knight Rises:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/hot-teaser-trailer-the-dark- knight-rises/
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Thu, 21 July 2011 14:21 |
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New production video on the Hobbit blog. They look to be having such a great time!
http://www.thehobbitblog.com/
tried to add a link but it's not showing.
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Sun, 31 July 2011 16:31 |
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Some updates from Brandon Sanderson about "A Memory of Light":
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2011/07/brandon-sanderson-up date-on-memory-of.html
I don't mind if they take their time on it - seeing as it will be the last book. In a way, though I will be very glad to finally get to it, I'll at the same time feel sad to see it all end. Though I wasn't "in" on it from the beginning, I've been reading the series from 1996 - so, it's the end of an era. (No doubt Potter fans feel/felt the same way about the last book/movie.)
And an interview with Sir Patrick Stewart about Dorothy of Oz:
http://www.movieline.com/2011/07/sir-patrick-stewart-on-doro thy-of-oz-captain-picards-legacy-and-his-favorite-scene.php# more
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Sat, 03 September 2011 17:21 |
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I haven't actually seen the first Johnny English movie yet - but that trailer made me laugh so I coughed.
Here's a mish-mash of things - I've been a bit lazy lately, but have collected a few links here & there, so see if I remember them all...
A new Sherlock Holmes story:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/anthony-horowitz/house-o f-silk.htm
written by Anthony Horowitz, who is, among other things, the author of the YA Alex Rider spy-series, and the writer/creator of Foyle's War. Could be interesting.
What will be the next Harry Potter:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the -next-harry-potters-where-are-they-now/242103/#slide1
though to be honest, I don't really care what will be "the next" HP, or "the next" anything else - but it's a good roundup of MG/YA series that are to be, or have been, made into movies.
There seems to be a renaissance of the Western on TV:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/tnt-gives-cast-contingent-or der-to-western-gateway/
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/abc-buys-western-from-ron-mo ore/
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/bill-paxton-to-star-in-histr orys-hatfields-and-mccoys-mini-kevin-reynolds-to-direct/
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/tom-berenger-mare-winningham -powers-boothe-join-historys-hatfields-mccoys-mini/
Not so much on the big screen, however, alas, since last I heard we still don't know if there will be a Lone Ranger-movie or not:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/disney-dilemma-johnny-depp-w ont-make-lone-ranger-without-gore-verbinski-bruckheimer-brin g-lower-budget-to-studio/#more-157132
Looking at this, it seems that it is already a sufficiently long comment, so I'll save what else I've got for another one.
To Be Continued...
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Sun, 04 September 2011 17:49 |
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As for costume dramas, other than Westerns, there may be a drama on the way set in a New York hotel in the 1890s:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/shonda-rhimes-to-produce-189 0s-new-york-hotel-drama-for-abc/
Of course, I was quite disappointed when two of the dramas I was interested in, both set in the 19th Century - Reconstruction and Poe - were not picked up to series, although I understand that the pilots were said to be good; but I suppose if they keep at it, at last something has to stick, right? Right? (sigh)
A mini-series about the Titanic:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/quartet-boards-bbc-titanic-s eries/
Or another one, rather. This is about the making of the ship.
The trailer for The Woman in Black:
http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2011/08/wom an-in-black-2012-trailer.html
Looks creepy - in a good way. (I'm not much into "horror" as such - you know, the blood & gore variety.)
Some trailers for the second series of Downton Abbey:
http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2011/09/new -trailer-for-season-2-of-downton.html
The Lady - a movie about Aung San Sun Kyi:
http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2011/08/lad y-2011-teaser-trailer.html
http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2011/04/lad y-2011.html
And a movie about Professor Tolkien:
http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2011/08/mir kwood-upcoming-film-based-on-jrr.html
- well, sort of, anyway. This might be more in the nature of "curious about", than "looking forward to" - but at least he doesn't seem to be killing the undead.
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Tue, 20 September 2011 16:36 |
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Brandon Sanderson is now beyond the half-way point in (his first draft of) "A Memory of Light":
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2011/09/final-wheel-of-time- novel-enters-home.html
Some later tweets on the subject:
https://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/112630457107095 552
https://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/112630743808737 280
https://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/112647957337223 168
https://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/112648292525023 232
https://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/112649755741523 968
https://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/113394011313680 384
There's more there, of course, for those who are interested. I think I'll begin a new post for non Wheel of Time-stuff, since this will easily get a little long else, and those not interested in WOT can just skip ahead, and see if I've been able to dig up anything they'd care more for.
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Tue, 27 September 2011 13:10 |
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P D James' next book will be Death Comes to Pemberley:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15023862
I've known since watching a BBC documentary about Jane Austen, that P D James was a fan of hers, so I think this is quite exciting news - really looking forward to it.
A new Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15054089
This is a book actually written by him, not something written by another author, though the question is, whether Sir Arthur himself would have been quite pleased:
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"My shock at its disappearance would be as nothing to my horror if it were suddenly to appear again - in print," he once joked.
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The latest developments (that I've seen) on the Lone Ranger-movie:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/will-the-lone-ranger-ride-ag ain-there-is-guarded-optimism-disney-film-is-alive-again/
The release of Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln-biopic will be delayed until after the 2012 election:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15000181
Some info on the Doctor Who Christmas-special:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/ 09_september/21/who.shtml
Some new cast additions to Upstairs Downstairs:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/ 09_september/26/upstairs.shtml
And finally - a spooky trailer for The Awakening:
http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2011/09/awa kening-trailer.html
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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