Article Archive for March 2010
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, The Pacific is a ten-part mini-series following the real life stories of three US Marines as they fight in the Pacific maneouvres of the Second World War. James Badge Dale (The Departed, CSI :Miami) plays Robert Leckie – co-author of the book ‘Helmet for my Pillow’ from [...]
Hollywood can’t seem to get enough of novelist Nicholas Sparks’ trademark formula of enduring love mixed in with tragedy and hardship. Nick Cassavetes’ adaptation of The Notebook (2004) boasted that behind every great love is a great story; add an attractive cast, beautiful settings and intense kisses in the pouring rain à la Sparks and [...]
6:45:23 PM: 15 minutes to go! Channel 4 tell us that Alistair Darling, George Osborne, Vince Cable will be asked tough quesions by Guru-Murthy… 6:47:47 PM: The first tough question is surely how much of the youth audience will mistake Vince Cable for their granddad. 6:50:22 PM: Time stamps may be behind an hour due [...]
Jersey Shore is MTV’s rebirth of the Real World. The reality show takes place along Jersey Shore’s infamous, Seaside Heights over the summer of 2009. Recently premiered in the UK, just after one viewing, the show has had its fair share of mixed responses. The premise behind the show is to enter the party life-style [...]
News reaches us that two long-running shows are to end imminently. The Bill, ITV’s 27 year old police drama, has finally been sent down for good after numerous re-jigs and re-shuffles failed to find the audience, who showed Bin Laden-esque elucivity. MTV’s The Hills is quitting while the going’s good, announcing their final series which will [...]
Glee’s Rachel Berry is vocal lead in New Directions. She’s a self-obsessed, ambitious diva, with a heart. Having conquered every other challenge set to her in high school, her only dream is to be popular and to have a boyfriend, so she joined Glee. But is Rachel a prima donna, or a portrayal of [...]
Glee’s Tenth instalment has hit our screens in the UK. Monday’s E4 screening of Teen-centric chart topping Glee sees the cast start to unfold the truth about the father of Quinn’s baby bump. ‘’Ballad’’ also sees the Glee kids paired off in the bid to learn expression of emotion, through a ballad, which has been [...]
MTV have rolled out a re-brand of its channels which sees names changes and new idents and logos. MTV2 will now become MTV Rocks, VH1 Classic will be MTV Classic and MTVR becomes MTV Shows. Base, Dance and Hits will keep their name but will undergo the visual re-branding. This promo video shows the new [...]
I was so excited to be invited to the Baftas. I got the frock, researched all of the films and was ready to be amongst the alternative judging panel backstage. The event took place in the Linbury Theatre of the Royal Opera House – right next door to the Orange British Academy Film Awards – [...]
Katie’s Skins episode featured the angry, conceited redhead finally learning to find herself and bring herself down to earth. And it’s about time. Yet another week and another episode of Skins, with this time seeing bitchy, ill mannered Katie Fitch facing her own personal dilemma. With a very strange, almost unstable nurse delivering some bad [...]
