5 posts tagged “flash forward”

This is hilarious.
   Because the entire planet outside the US does not have a November Thanksgiving Day, a tiny number of Americans, including The Hollywood Reporter, got upset that the Aussies (and, for the record, the Brits) aired Flash Forward’s 10th episode before the US.
   And, inevitably, it got on to the Torrents.
   Now these folks are pointing the finger at Australians for doing something Americans do commonly and regularly.
   ‘How dare those pesky Australians do what we do!’ they say, with their fingers pointed toward the southwest. ‘Gosh, we hate how they speak English and drive SUVs and big cars! Who do they think they are?’
   Not only is this massive and rather funny hypocrisy, The Hollywood Reporter’s “journo” says this: ‘For the record, Aussies do have a Thanksgiving holiday, but it's in May and they don't really do it right.’
   Australians have a Thanksgiving Day?!
   I have lived in the antipodes for three decades and this is the first I have heard of it. I also don’t remember any story about the first white settlers getting there and doing a big feed for themselves and the Aboriginals.
   Hey, I’d love to hop over to Sydney to watch their next parade in May with giant inflatable Ned Kellys going over the Opera House and floats in the shape of the Holden 48-215.

Who knew that there would be an Already Ghosts group right here in Wellington?!

For the record, I did not start a discussion on Flash Forward because ABC is advertising it on the Lucire site:

Though it is pretty cool that the ad is there. I never saw it last week, though I did happen across ads for other TV shows from this network.

Here’s an interview for the new ABC show, Flash Forward (yes, not being silly this time) with two of the leads, Sonya Walger and Joseph Fiennes. They, and Jack Davenport, are all Brits. While Davenport plays a Brit in the show, Walger and Fiennes play Americans and adopt pretty convincing American accents (Walger in particular, sounds “more American” to me). But here they are speaking in their normal voices.

I am not up with the play but I understand German actor Dominic Monaghan (Berlin-born and raised) has joined the cast.
   In this globalized world, nationality counts for less and less when it comes to arts and commerce.

I take it that this American Flash Forward TV show is not the one everybody is talking about these days: