10 posts tagged “preview”
This series of Alarm für Cobra 11 seems to have Semir and Ben going undercover more. Last week’s 200th episode took them on to water and off-road, rather than on the Autobahn, while here’s next week’s preview:
I watched an episode of Leverage on a Chinese site, along with some promos, yesterday. It looks OK, but the best way to describe it is Hustle-lite. It’s not bad: apparently, the creators wanted to re-create some of the heist shows of the ’70s (shows? I can only think of Switch) and came up with this idea: an honest man leads a team of four reformed crooks to help innocent people get back what is rightfully theirs. Apart from having a “client”, the show is not unlike Hustle, with a bit of It Takes a Thief thrown in. (Summary, however: Hustle is better.)
The surprise was seeing Jekyll’s Gina Bellman as the lead actress opposite Timothy Hutton. Bellman is a New Zealand-born actress, and it surprises me that not more mention is made of her—especially when we are so ready to champion other programmes and movies with an even more tenuous connection with this country. (It’s a bit like how Andrew Niccol is treated here.) Here is a promo for the show with Bellman and Hutton, which illustrates that they are quite humorous people away from their acting:
The second series (or season to our US friends) finalé to Ashes to Ashes looks very good indeed.
As many fans have speculated, the man in the bed in 2008 in the first episode of this series is likely to be Summers, though he did not confirm that when Alex quizzed him during the seventh episode.
I believe there will be no tidy resolution this time around, and that we will get a few surprises to end the second year. Viewing figures have remained high, so here’s hoping the third and final series of Ashes to Ashes will appear.
Next week’s Ashes to Ashes in the UK:
I posted this last week but didn’t do a blog entry: a promo for the second series of Ashes to Ashes, which begins on the 21st at 9 p.m. on BBC One. It’s rather well made (it’s not from clips of the show, but especially filmed), and I didn’t recognize Chris (Marshall Lancaster) with his new hairdo!
With all the US Life on Mars stuff I haven’t kept up with another favourite show, Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei. The latest series started March 5, and Tom Beck seems to have relaxed into his role as Erdogan Atalay’s sidekick. Below is RTL’s promo from February previewing the new series.
If the ABC press release preview of next week’s US Life on Mars is any indication, Dets Ray Carling and Chris Skelton are dead. Or somehow each survived four rounds at point blank range. But here’s a great little clue for those of us who saw the original British series: ‘Peter Gerety as Agent Frank Morgan’.
It’s one of the many Wizard of Oz references in Life on Mars, and the Americans seem to be heading in the same direction. But we know the finalé will be completely different since the British one didn’t have Ray and Chris killed off with three episodes to go.
If it’s agent Frank Morgan, not DCI, then he isn’t Internal Affairs—the equivalent bureau the Americans probably had to the British one—but possibly a Fed. But it doesn’t explain the Aries Project or the nanobots that the American adaptors have created in the course of the remake.
His age is right if his character is like the original’s Frank Morgan, but I will feel a bit let down if Agent Frank Morgan is Sam’s doctor in 2009 as well. I will be watching for the clues next week.
The original was the funniest episode of the 16, in my opinion, so it will be interesting to see how the Americans adapt it. ‘What have you been eating, Pedigree Chum?’, Sam calling Gene ‘Gordon Brown’ and Ray’s explanation of what a vol au vent is to Chris were three priceless scenes, none of which really work “in American”.
What will translate is Sam’s explanation to his colleagues that some day, surveillance will bring down President Nixon’s administration and Gene’s retort, ‘Doesn’t sound very manly.’
Darn, this looks good. From the BBC’s Film 2008, and the VO is, of course, Jonathan Ross.
I hope Kiwi Lifers seeing the ninth episode of Life on Mars tonight for the first time enjoyed it. I did watch it again—yes, with the ads—and I didn’t mind the repeat, even if I could have chucked on the DVD. The acting was superb on every count, including that of guest star Marc Warren. Simm and Glenister were brilliant was always. Most of my commentary on the show was on IMDB, so it looks like I didn’t blog as much about the second series as I thought. Those messages, dating back to March 2007, have all disappeared, but I do remember being spooked out by the telephone call at the end from Hyde 2612.
As to the image at the left, wait till episode five of this series.
Strangely, the first promo I ever saw for the second series of Life on Mars was around 6.30 p.m.—two hours before the broadcast. If I hadn’t bought the DVD I would have been furious for the late under-promotion. I understand from the VO at the end of the episode that it replaced Without a Trace, and the American show was even advertised in some publications. The decision to air Life on Mars seems to have been a very late one, which explains why there was so little by way of promos.
If only TV One promoted this prime-time show with the fervour that the BBC had—I even suggested a year ago that the old 1973 NZBC logo should come on before the programme, just as BBC One put on the early-1970s blue globe before its second-series Life on Mars episodes:
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