One of the treats I’ve been waiting for for most of the year happens tonight. Finally, Einstein and Eddington comes to the screen. Can’t wait!
Einstein and Eddington Tonight.
Children In Need 2008.
Well now Christmas is TRULY on its way now another Children In Need is done and dusted for another year.
The theme for this year was “do something different”, did that extend to the BBC One program itself? Hell no! Still hosted by one of the world’s worst presenters in God’s universe, Sir Terry Wigon (Wogan) (Eurovision is a totally different matter – he’s sort of in his element there) along with Tess Daly – who actually held it together and helped to make it a little less shambolic. Everyone elses favourite female presenter, Fearne Cotton, was helping out too (she seems to be universally hated, but I like her). The night started off with *yawn* McFly doing a song. And it just kept descending from there. The cast of The Bill doing a Blues Brothers style musical medley.Performances from Duffy, Girls Aloud, Take That, Sugababes, Boyzone (yawn, yawn, yawn)
Thank GOD I wasn’t up late enough to see Jason Donovan’s performance!
The cast of Eastenders doing a “songs from the movies” themed musical medley – Lord help us all!
Terry Wigon and Tess Daly having a Strictly Come Dancing dance-off.
The BBC newsreaders doing a ABBA-esque-cum-Mamma Mia style musical medley (help!) I think by the time the newsreaders came on I thought, “I’m off to bed”. I don’t know why I do it to myself every year. You’d think I’d have learned from last year that it’s just awful and cheesy and full of crappy music acts that I don’t want to see, etc, etc. I NEVER LEARN! Apart from a passable special episode of Q.I., the best part of the show, and the only REAL reason I kept enduring it, was this. Now isn’t THAT interesting?! SO cannot wait for Christmas now!!!
Doctor Who Trailer Maker
The BBC Doctor Who web site has a little trailer maker thing on it for you to make your own Doctor Who trailer.
I made this one in homage to Mr T. Click the link HERE to view it.
I Heard The News Today, Oh Boy…
It’s been nearly a week and I’m STILL reeling from the news that David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who.
In his own words, here’s why:
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I’m in mourning.
I spent over 3 hours today online and on the phone trying to get a ticket for Hamlet to no avail.
*cries*
Relapse.
I have just spent the last hour looking for a suitable new image for my plurk page that’s David Tennant themed. Well, more to the point, just trawling through images of DT to find one of him I wanted to use. I decided on what is probably my favourite picture of him.
This one. I love it so much because he’s wearing his trusty Abercrombie and Fitch hooded top. He has a brown cord coat on over that, and the A&F logo gets obscured by the brown cord coat to read “fit”, which I just LOVE. And he just looks immaculate in the shot. Groomed, clean, looking reflective. Just pure male hotness.
I have relapsed into being REALLY gone on him. I felt I’d pulled it back a little lately. Even though I was still watching DVDs of things with him in it, it was all stuff I’d not seen him in before, or things (in the case of the Quatermass Experiment) I hadn’t watch for years.
But after the latest dream, you know, of him bringing me home two adopted children(!?), I’ve just relapsed to him being in my thoughts all the time. Usually with this song (see end of post) swilling around in my head, accompanying my thoughts of him. I sssooo need help.
I haven’t done it until now, but I’m going to do it from now on and add to past ones as well, so you can avoid them if you desire. I’ll make a David Tennant label, so avoidance of DT posts can be possible.
Sorry.
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Kylie Minogue – The One
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This.
Every night I go to bed, hoping that I’ll have a lovely dream about David Tennant. Most nights I’ll either have dreams, but not any of him, or no dreams (well, no remembered dreams – as we’re all meant to dream every night even if we don’t remember them) at all.
But last night was different. Man, did I end up having THE loveliest dream. Not only were me and Mr T together, but I think actually married. Well, in a long-term relationship at least. He’d just come home and asked me to come outside to the car, that he had something to show me. What was it? Only two little children he’d adopted for us?!!? A boy and a girl. The little boy was about 3 or 4 years old, and his sister, the little girl was roughly about 18 months old. They were absolutely adorable – and black -no problem as far as I’m concerned, but would’ve made it quite clear the kids were not biologically ours.
I spoke to the little boy, asking his name, while he alighted from the car. In the meantime David was taking the little girl out of her car seat. The last image I had before I woke up was of David walking back to the house with the little girl on his hip. OMG! I just woke up with the broadest smile on my face. It was the loveliest, loveliest dream. Even now I’m like “what the hell was that about?” and STILL catch myself smiling thinking about it. It was SSSOOO sweet!
I can only assume it must’ve resulted from a little Mr T overload. In recent days I’ve watched The Quatermass Experiment and some episodes of Doctor Who. The Doctor Who episodes always seem to spark my fantasies. Although I don’t know how they sparked such a far-fetched, but wonderfully dreamy scenario in my mind last night.
I finally got a copy of Recovery to watch now. Recovery was a one-off BBC drama with Mr T and Sarah Parish (who he worked with on Blackpool). He plays a man who’s had an accident and ends up in a coma. He awakens from the coma with head injuries that leave him slightly impaired and with a different personality to how he was. It’s pretty heavy stuff, and from the snippets I’ve seen he produces a wonderful performance. I can’t wait to view it proper.
Anyway, enough of Mr T dreams for now…
This was kind of what the it was like, that lasting image (except only a young boy and girl and the girl was smaller and black).
Alien Autopsy and Sci-Fi.
I just watch the DVD of Alien Autopsy, the film with Ant and Dec in it. It wasn’t too bad. Not absolutely “laugh out loud” funny, but good to watch. Liked seeing the story behind it.
There was a repeat of the Quatermass Experiment on BBC Four last night. They seem to be repeating a lot of Mr. T’s acting back catalogue on BBC Four at the moment. I watched it when it was repeated in 2005 (it originally went out live while I was away in Oz in 2005) and it was one of the first things to be on TV when it broke DT would be the next Doctor. I think with it being sci-fi based as well, it generated interest to see how he’d be.
I’ve got other DVD’s to watch. The final parts of the first series of Medium, the first 3 episodes of series 3 of Doctor Who and Blades of Glory, which I’ve been wanting to see for ages.
Coincidentally, the new, 4th series of Medium starts tonight on BBC One. I’ve recorded it as I’d like to try and watch the rest of the other series’ first.
Another thing I’m really anticipating is the (long, long, LONG overdue) return of Ugly Betty!! Yay! I have missed Ugly Betty SSSOOO much! God damn friggin writer’s strike!!!
Had a bit of a financial crisis today. Don’t really want to go into detail, but things will be REALLY tight until the rent is paid this month. Bread and jam for the next 10 days, me thinks! We’ll be okay. Just wasn’t something we really needed to happen right now, but you know how things are.
I Spoke Too Soon
Despite what I said in my earlier post, there ARE no repeats of the second series of Doctor Who. I stupidly thought there would be because it ended on the David Tennant – 10th Doctor Christmas Invasion episode last week. But that, sadly, seems it. Godammit!!
So now, apart from Einstein and Eddington coming on towards the end of the year, I WILL have to wait til Xmas for a DT fix…well, actually airing on TV anyway!DVD’s and movies.
Been filling my time with watching some DVD’s and listening to music. I’ve been watching the first series of Medium. It’s a bit arse about face, but I watched some of the last series (the 3rd/4th series?) on the BBC and it just got me hooked, so thought I’d start from the start. Only problem is, the DVD rental service I use, they have series one and series three, but NOT series two?! WTF??? So, I’ve had to be “naughty” in getting series two.
Speaking of being “naughty”. I got a film Mr T did in 1998 called “L.A. Without A Map” from a friend of a friend of a friend…
Has a moderate length of cameo appearance by Johnny Depp who crops up in several scenes. Mmmmm, 2 for the price of 1. Wipes up drool on floor with paper towel.
It weren’t a bad film. A shame really that Mr T hasn’t had much of a film career, but there’s time, I suppose. Still, we get to see far more of him as The Doctor anyway.
There are repeats of the 2nd series of the new Doctor Who now on BBC Three, so I’m not having to suffer from too many withdrawals until Xmas. I’d still love to get to see Hamlet in London, but not sure if I can stretch to it.
I’ve been listening to music via headphones on Em’s phone. I don’t know HOW many mp3 players I’ve tried in the last few years, to finally find that Em’s phone is the best player of the lot!! On rotation have been U2, Split Enz, Antony and The Johnsons, The Killers and The Ting Tings, with this song in particular on concurrent rotation in my brain.
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Split Enz – I Hope I Never
I do love my music. Well, that’s about it for now. Short and sweet.