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The first 7 (out of 8) episodes of 'Summer Heights High' start tonight at 11.45. I've already seen them but if you haven't yet and want to catch up with this Australian comedy then here's your chance. The last episode is screened next week.
Latest: Kelsey Grammer has blamed pressure from his cancelled sitcom Back To You for contributing to his recent heart attack.
The actor, 53, was rushed to the hospital in May after suffering a heart attack while paddle-boarding in the sea near his home in Hawaii.
He was taken to a nearby hospital and then airlifted to another clinic in Honolulu.
Now the former Frasier star has revealed the cancellation of the sitcom, axed in May by U.S. network Fox after one year on air, contributed to his health problems.
He tells People.com, "It was a very stressful time for me, and a surprise to me (the show was cancelled).
"But you know, everything that doesn't kill us - which it almost did - makes us stronger."
I really wish channel four hadnt bother showing any of this..... more than half the season isnt being aired here and neither was it in america, some american dvd release will have all the episodes. Was sad to see this after how fantastic 'Fraiser' was.
Steroid-chomping bodybuilders, hideous beauty pageant wannabes and obsessed dog owners: they're just some of the crazed characters who couch potatoes can expect to meet in the new series of Little Britain.
Little Britain USA, slated to premiere on American pay TV network HBO in September, introduces several new characters created by award-winning comedians David Walliams and Matt Lucas - and many of them sound just as crude as fans would expect from the blackly humorous series.
According to British paper The Daily Mail, the fresh faces include Tom and Mark, bodybuilders who frolic naked in their gym - showing off their sizeable muscles and, er, other assets - while boasting about their female conquests.
Walliams described the characters as "possibly the most outrageous we've ever done".
Walliams and Lucas will continue the Little Britain tradition of donning dresses: in one new sketch Lucas plays an unfortunate-looking little girl with aspirations of winning beauty pagents, while Walliams plays her bossy mother.
Another new character is Bing Gordyn, "the eighth man on the moon", who's bitter about the lack of recognition he has received for his achievement.
Little Britain favourites such as foul-mouthed schoolgirl Vicki Pollard, political aide Sebastian Love and Harvey - a British aristocrat whose parents still breastfeed him and wipe his bottom - will also make a return.
"Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II" is a go. Days after the Adult Swim show landed a best animated series Emmy nomination for its "Star Wars" episode, the cable network is moving ahead with a sequel that will premiere Nov. 16.
"It doesn't even seem real -- getting to make Star Wars twice!" said "Robot Chicken" co-creator Seth Green, who is set to direct the second "Star Wars"-themed episode after winning an Annie Award for helming the first one.
Many members of the voice cast from the first special, including original "Star Wars" actors Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams -- reprising their roles as Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian, respectively -- are back. Also returning are Seth MacFarlane as Emperor Palpatine, Conan O'Brien as Zuckuss, Breckin Meyer as Admiral Ackbar and Boba Fett, and Ahmed Best as Jar Jar Binks. Green will voice several characters, including Ponda Baba. Joining the voice cast this time around is Andy Richter.
As for the creative direction in the sequel, "we decided to focus on the bounty hunters a bit and explore their stories," "Robot Chicken" co-creator Matt Senreich said. "It's a geek-fest for us all."
"Robot Chicken" hails from Green and Senreich's Stoopid Monkey Prods. and Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico's ShadowMachine Films.
The first "Robot Chicken: Star Wars" special was released Tuesday on DVD.
Source: HollywoodReporter.com
TCA -- Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt just announced a spin-off plan for “The L-Word.”
“We’re in the process of working on an ‘L-Word’ spin off,” he says. “I’m not going to give you too many details. We’re shooting after ‘L–Word’”
The spin-off will star one of the actors from “The L-Word,” though Greenblatt didn’t say who. The show will be created by “L-Word” showrunner Ilene Chaiken, who will take a storyline from the original show’s final season and extend it into Internet-only content. If Showtime moves forward with the new series, the online storyline will segue into the new series.
Oh, and he also announced two more seasons of "Weeds" and another season of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit." So there's that.
Source: THRFeed.com
That was the end of the final episode after five seasons and over 100 episodes.
Joss Whedon has presented his plan, which includes a three part, gratis, time-limited web-streamed Superhero musical featuring Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion.
"A LETTER FROM JOSS WHEDON
Dear Friends,
At last the time has come to reveal to you our Master Plan. BEWARE! Those with weak hearts should log off lest they be terrified by the twisted genius of our schemes! Also pregnant women and the elderly should consider reading only certain sentences. Do not mix with other blogs. Do not operate heavy machinery while reading this blog. You must be this tall to read. ‘Kay?
It is time for us to change the face of Show Business as we know it. You know the old adage, “It’s Show Business – not Show Friends”? Well now it’s Show Friends. We did that. To Show Business. To show Show Business we mean business. (Also, there are now other businesses like it.)
ONE WEEK ONLY! AN INTERNET MINISERIES EVENT!
"Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog" will be streamed, LIVE (that part’s not true), FREE (sadly, that part is) right on Drhorrible.com, in mid-July. Specifically:
ACT ONE (Wheee!) will go up Tuesday July 15th.
ACT TWO (OMG!) will go up Thursday July 17th.
ACT THREE (Denouement!) will go up Saturday July 19th."
Spoilers from Digital Spy
# Nathan Petrelli is apparently dead. We see him rushed to hospital, where resuscitation attempts fail. "There was nothing we could do," a doctor tells the family. I don't believe it.
# Looks like Elle (Kristen Bell) is going to be spending a bit of time sparring with Sylar this season.
# Angela Petrelli introduces us to "Level 5", a housing place for the most dangerous criminals in the world - rapists, arsonists, killers. Presumably this is where the band of Villains escape from.
# Matt Parkman is alone in the middle of a desert screaming for help.
# New Villain 'The Speedster' steals something from Hiro and quips, "Gotta run."
# Is Sylar in league with Angela Petrelli? In one short clip he is seen approaching her from behind and placing his hands on her shoulders.
# Linderman is back with a prophecy of doom. "The second coming is at hand," he warns.
# And, perhaps the most shocking tease of all: a big bald man, incarcerated in Level 5, shouts: "I'm not who you think I am. I'm Peter Petrelli..."
The third season of Heroes will play out on BBC Two and BBC Three (and BBC HD) from the end of September, with a delay of just eight days on the original US broadcast. The season will comprise two "volumes", each containing 13 and 12 episodes respectively.
