Posts with tag Jamie Bamber
Posted Jul 21st 2008 5:41PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Programming, Battlestar Galactica, Law and Order, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Reality-Free
I'm a huge
Law & Order fan, and as such, I am quite jealous of the Brits today. Not only are they getting their very own
Law & Order, called
Law & Order: UK, but
Battlestar Galactica's
Jamie Bamber is set to star. Bamber, who just ended his role as Apollo on the Sci Fi Network series, is playing one of the main detectives, along with fellow Englander, Bradley Walsh.
According to Bamber,
L&O's UK edition is just like the American version, but will be about "London judiciary and London cops. It's got the same premise as the original American
Law & Order, same everything, just with a UK production company and UK actors."
The series is slated to begin production in August and will air on the UK channel ITV. There's no word as to whether or not it will jump the pond and be available to American audiences, but I'd definitely be interested to see how this long-running series translates overseas.
Posted Jun 6th 2008 11:59PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: House, Celebrities, TV Squad Awards
Attention, TV Squad readers, my friends and fellow television fans, it's time to announce the winner for The Excellence in Outsourcing Award, that is, the foreign actor who possesses the best American accent. There were many worthy nominees, but the overwhelming winner was
House, MD himself, actor Hugh Laurie. That Englishman, one of her majesty's loyal subjects, has been making us all believe that he's just a Jersey boy. As Dr. Gregory House of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, he sounds like he was born in south Jersey, spent his summers in Asbury Park, and is as much a Garden Stater as Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano.
Continue reading The Excellence in Outsourcing Award: Winner - VIDEO
Posted May 27th 2008 4:41PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Awards, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, TV Squad Awards
Have you been checking out the best American accents on TV today? TV Squad has selected five fantastic nominees for The Excellence in Outsourcing Award, the television actors who have the best American accents. These five are all non-Americans, naturally, but you would never know it by their performances as good old folks from the United States.
So read all about these five worthy candidates and see why they've been selected. Then, check out the poll at the end. That's when you have a job to do. We want to know your top choice from the five nominees we've selected. Please take a moment to answer our poll at the end, casting your ballot for the Reader's Choice award in Excellence in Outsourcing.
Continue reading The Excellence in Outsourcing Award nominees
Posted Jun 18th 2007 10:01AM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, The Shield, Entourage, TV Squad Lists, Hidden Palms
First I thought this would be a summer filled with possibly watching one or two summer series, and then catching up on the growing stack of books in my "to be read" pile ... but somehow it's morphed into the "DVR + TV shows on DVD Summer of Rock " *fanfare*. It's actually not that dramatic, but I like to stick fanfare in whenever I can. Theme songs are one thing, but fanfare can pepper mundane events with joy. "Here's your latte, sir." *fanfare* See what I mean?
Continue reading What I'm watching this summer: Kevin's list
Posted Jun 11th 2007 11:27AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Battlestar Galactica
According to the film site, IESB, the cast and crew of
Battlestar Galactica would really like to do a movie. Only, it's not up to them. It's not even up to NBC/Universal. The permission for doing a movie must first come from the original series creator, Glen Larson. He's the guy who created the series in the 1970s.
IESB says Larson hasn't been thrilled with the current adaptation of
Battlestar Galactica, so getting his permission to make a movie might be really, really difficult. Apparently he has already made things slightly difficult for the current run of BSG. Since he holds the movie rights to the series, SciFi's plan to create a
stand-alone movie about the Pegasus had to be altered a bit. Instead of going straight to DVD, the two-episode feature will have to air on television first.
In interviews with the website, BSG producer David Eick mentions that he has "extended an olive branch" to Larson and actor Jamie Bamber flat-out begs Larson to let them do a big screen flick.
Would you like a BSG movie? I surely would. I know I'll miss these characters terribly once
the series is over.
[Via
Dark Horizons]
Posted Oct 4th 2006 6:33PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Battlestar Galactica, Video, Sci Fi
Everybody's wondering whether BSG is going to suck this year since the season finale seriously altered the direction of the show. You can get a sneak peek of the season three premiere (which airs on Friday) over at
SciFi's website and decide for yourself. The first 13 minutes of the episode, or the "First Act", is available for viewing. It basically answers the question, "What will happen next?" You'll see how the humans and Cylons are living/interacting on New Caprica. I'll just say that everybody seems to be working on their own method of survival... and Starbuck seriously kicks some ass.
Based on just those 13 minutes, I'd say BSG fans don't have anything to worry about. Then again, I liked the turn the show took at the end of last season and I like what I see so far.
*The video played for me in Internet Explorer, but had trouble with it in Firefox.
[Thanks, Akbar!]
Posted Jun 17th 2006 11:59AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, Industry, Programming, Celebrities
On the cover: four covers, actually, featuring TV's Sexiest Men: Wentworth Miller, Isaiah Washington, Daniel Dae Kim, and Ricardo Chavira. Other guys inside include Jamie Bamber, David Boreanez, and Jensen Ackles. What, no Jorge Garcia? No Allen Colmes?- Matt Roush loves Robert Duvall's new western, Broken Trail.
- Will Rob Morrow get an Emmy nomination for Numb3rs?
- In the print edition: a Q and A with supermodel/host Janice Dickinson; a profile of Robert Duvall; a summer guide to investigating the HansoFoundation.org site; and can the Dog Whisperer work on humans?
Posted Mar 9th 2006 10:09AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Cable, Programming, Battlestar Galactica
As
Battlestar Galactica wraps up
its second season tomorrow night with a 90-minute finale, its cast is just about to start shooting season three. Just
to keep all of us fans sane, Sci Fi has already announced that
Galactica will return to its Friday night
timeslot in October, although a specific date has not been revealed. The network has ordered 20 episodes.
We already know that Lucy Lawless
will return as cylon for a 10-episode arc next season. It looks like we'll get to see most of the major cast members
again next season, too. Filming of season three of BSG starts in April in Vancouver, B.C.
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