Serendipity

Various links from around my flist:

The 10 Most Amazing Ghost towns

Screech from Saved by the Bell is writing a tell-all book. I can't believe that it was all sex and drigs and rock 'n' roll on SbtB.

Harvey Kietel IS Gene Hunt, apparently - I've still not seen the US pilot. I think it's for the best.

John Barrowman IS Captain America? maybe, possibly - LOL, but no. But LOL.

Over on YouTube - John Barrowman and Naoko Mori sing highlights from Miss Saigon - Gareth David-Lloyd just looks a bit bemused sat in the middle of them. Bless him.

thefannishwaldo liveblogs the Doctor Who panel at the SD Comic Con. Interesting to note that Russell T Davies is writing the Torchwood scripts and the Moff is writing the first script of S5.

According to the Sun Freema's ruined Torchwood and RTD has crossed her off his Christmas list.
I did have a big rant attached to this about people slagging off Freema's acting, about how her acting is better than a lot of what passes for acting on Hollyoaks, still learning her trade, how it is required that you love Crossroads if you're a Brummie and how she can't be all that bad if she's getting jobs in loads of other things (unlike Emma Watson, who I've seen her compared to recently), but LJ crashed and it only saved the links in the drafts so it's a rant that's lost now to the mists of time. Which is probably for the best.

And a quick thing on Bonekickers:
Do they only have a £10 budget for the sets? I've been caving in and around Avon/Witshire and I've never seen any bright red caves dusted in gold glitter. I must have been going to the wrong caves, obviously.

For all its massive faults - I still can't stop watching it though.

A few links for your perusal:

The trailer for the US version of Life on Mars
I really don't know what to say. I hope this emoticon :/ goes some way to showing to you how I feel about it. Will they have the scary Test Card Girl? (Did American telly even have anything like that?) If they'd taken the basic plot and then completely reimagined it then maybe it'll work but so much of the trailer is shot-by-shot of our version. And Chief O'Brien is just too nice to be the Gene Genie.

Via gypsyjr:
Simon Pegg is auctioning a sketch of his puppy for charidee, go and bid on it

Via about a million people:
US version of Spaced axed
Brilliant, brilliant news!

Via cleolinda:
Audrey Tatou as Coco Chanel
si_lloyd, you really need to click that link.

In little under two hours Life on Mars will be done, finished, over :( And I'm really really sad about it. There was a massive one page spread on the show in thr Mirror today, but I was a good girl and didn't read it.

The BBC Entertainment News spoke to John Simm and Philip Glenister tonight. It was hilariously funny. You can catch it on the listen again feature, but I think only for 24 hours. Philip Glenister wins fandom - by far.

( Spoilers for 2x03 )

*mutters darkly about the bloody football*