So how about this for a dream combination? According to the always well-informed folks at Variety, there’s an unnamed crime drama in the works at Sony starring George Clooney (who will also produce it with his business partner Grant Heslov) and written by Chris Terrio, the writer of one of Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
The poor sequin-less souls of Eurovision
Pack the sequins away. Stow away the glitter. And don’t even think about setting off that pyrotechnics display. No, not all of you. Just Portugal, Poland, Greece and Cyprus who hinted strongly this week that the European debt crisis may just have claimed Continue Reading
Stephen King’s “The Dome” heads for TV
Apocalyptic tales are all the rage these days as AMC (The Walking Dead) and a newly resurgent NBC (Revolution) have discovered to their great satisfaction and now CBS is climbing aboard the end-of-the-world bandwagon with a 13-part serialised adaptation of Stephen King’s 2009 novel The Dome. And the plot, about Continue Reading
Backstage with the stars of TV (3)
It’s a brave new social media-saturated world out there for celebrities, and while for some of them it is tinged with more than a hint of bad PR-waiting to happen, for most it is a golden opportunity to have a two way mutually-beneficial conversation with fans. Everyone walks away Continue Reading
Movie review: “Celeste and Jesse Forever”
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