One of the hits of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Celeste and Jesse Forever is a romantic comedy in reverse. The script by Parks and Recreation Star, Rashida Jones (who also plays Celeste) and Will McCormack, which has earned the pair a 2013 Spirit Awards nomination, plays merrily, and Continue Reading
Miranda Hart asks: “Is it just me?”
In the fine tradition of all modern media personalities, Miranda Hart, star of sitcom Miranda (soon to return for series 3), and Call the Midwife, not to mention (and yet I just did) sometime Swiss mountain climbing companion of one Bear Grylls, has branched out and written a book. Continue Reading
Zombies with you “In the flesh”
In the Flesh (written by newly-discovered writer Dominic Mitchell and directed by Jonny Campbell who has previously worked on Doctor Who) is an imaginative new three episode drama from the BBC, currently in production, charts the events that follow one startling night when the dead rise and, as the undead are Continue Reading
Birthdays: a TV show writer’s best friend
Birthdays are a great narrative device for any TV show. Unlike other major holidays such as Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (the latter two being especially favoured by US TV while Christmas it seems belongs to everyone) which aren’t about anyone in particular (anyone mortal anyway), birthdays are about one Continue Reading
Happy birthday to … my favourite fictional celebrities
Right … now … in the interests of complete and utter birthday cake-covered full disclosure, it is my birthday today. And in the interests of making that full disclosure even more plump, I love birthdays. I mean seriously love them in a would-celebrate-them-24/7-365-days-a-year kind of way way. So at Continue Reading
First Look: Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy turn up “The Heat”
I am a huge fan of Sandra Bullock. From the moment I saw her in Speed in 1994, I was totally in love (in a sweet non-stalker-ish way that doesn’t bring on Do Not Approach Orders and doesn’t involve hundreds of photos plastered across a blood-splattered wall in a Continue Reading
The red, red wine of “Cougar Town”
ew.com, which exclusively revealed the new TBS promo for Cougar Town, is pretty much right on the money when it says this is the “ultimate laundry nightmare”. (With the exception of trying to put a load of whites on when a pack of rabid juvenile wolverines break in and force you Continue Reading
The pop culture vultures are circling: The first cancellations of the new TV season
Whoosh! What is that sound? Why I believe it is the sound of the wind rushing over the wings of hungry pop culture vultures descending with unseemly haste to feast upon the corpses of now dead TV programs that just a few months before were bright eyed and bushy Continue Reading
Chevy Chase lets slip the bonds of “Community”
Are we shocked that Chevy Chase is leaving Community? No, and I am reasonably sure no one really is. In news first reported by Deadline, and swiftly carried by everyone else, it was announced that Chevy Chase, who was known to be unhappy about his role as bigoted Pierce Continue Reading
Ryan Gosling’s not just a pretty face
Every actor worth his or her salt – are they even paid in salt anymore? Maybe Armani suits? Spa vouchers? Chickens? – craves credibility as a thespian. They may have matinee idol good looks or enough charisma to start a cult (a very pretty cult at that) but while Continue Reading