To watch later: David Brent in two 20-minute Microsoft training videos.
Category / Television
RIP Mike Douglas
“Carried Away By the Moment” is the New Buzz Term for “Wild, Out of Control, Animalistic and Quite Possibly Gratuitious Sex Thrown In To Boost Ratings”
BBC: “The sex scene, broadcast on 1 August, showed actors Kellie Shirley and Joel Beckett ripping off each others clothes and having sex on the floor of a nightclub….Ms Harwood again apologised for causing distress, but argued that ‘any sexual activity was implied rather than explicit’. ‘The intention of the scene was to indicate the passion of a couple being carried away by the moment,’ she continued.”
Holy Shit!
A.L. Kennedy writing an episode of Doctor Who! If this is true, this is a brilliant move on the part of Russell T. Davies and company.
A rumor, but I’m on the case. Calls to be made. (Perhaps Ms. Kennedy might want to jump in and clarify herself.)
[UPDATE: Maud’s been in touch with Kennedy. It’s only a rumor. She’s had no contact with the Who people. Perhaps Russell T. Davies might want to get in touch with Kennedy?]
Will They Get This Right?
Source material: Robert Sheckley, Harlan Ellison, Walter Mosley, and Robert Heinlein.
Thespians: Sam Waterson, Judy Davis, Malcolm McDowell, James Cromwell, and Brian Dennehy.
Sam Egan, who wrote many of the better episodes of the Outer Limits revival, is writing two of these. Stephen Hawking is providing introductions to each episode. This augurs well, but given the shaky quality of last year’s Masters of Horror, I still fear the worst.