A few items I haven't had a chance to cover in depth over the last week...
"The British are coming!", Colin Welland boasted in 1981, holding aloft his Oscar for Chariots of Fire – and given the annual British pirate raids on the Academy Awards, Welland may well have been proved right. Our home-grown thespian takeover of American television, on the other hand, has been an altogether stealthier affair – more like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in fact. Gerard Gilbert reports on how British actresses are leading an invasion on the US, while the Times feature an interview with Lena Headey about her gun-toting role in The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Miraculously none of them appear to have made it onto the bloated US chat show circuit for this coming week.
You can read a round-up of this year's Cranford dominated Bafta nominations here... A report on the trials for the new series of Gladiators on Sky One and a first detailed break-down of the new Apprentice contenders.
A piece about the triumphant return of three CBS comedies, plus Ginia Bellafante's scathing review of Fox's new Canterbury's Law and the Return of Jezebel James. There's also news about a personnel shake-up at HBO as the head of entertainment programming departs.
Finally, the truth of Lost, that metaphysical beacon of our times, seems tantalizingly within reach on certain spoiler Web sites. An extended article in the Washington Post warns that anybody getting too caught up in the quest will discover there's a downside.
"The British are coming!", Colin Welland boasted in 1981, holding aloft his Oscar for Chariots of Fire – and given the annual British pirate raids on the Academy Awards, Welland may well have been proved right. Our home-grown thespian takeover of American television, on the other hand, has been an altogether stealthier affair – more like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in fact. Gerard Gilbert reports on how British actresses are leading an invasion on the US, while the Times feature an interview with Lena Headey about her gun-toting role in The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Miraculously none of them appear to have made it onto the bloated US chat show circuit for this coming week.
You can read a round-up of this year's Cranford dominated Bafta nominations here... A report on the trials for the new series of Gladiators on Sky One and a first detailed break-down of the new Apprentice contenders.
A piece about the triumphant return of three CBS comedies, plus Ginia Bellafante's scathing review of Fox's new Canterbury's Law and the Return of Jezebel James. There's also news about a personnel shake-up at HBO as the head of entertainment programming departs.
Finally, the truth of Lost, that metaphysical beacon of our times, seems tantalizingly within reach on certain spoiler Web sites. An extended article in the Washington Post warns that anybody getting too caught up in the quest will discover there's a downside.
