PatrickStewart-related stories
Posted Aug 3rd 2009 3:12PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, Music and Variety, Reality-Free
I've been counting down the days with sadness this year, as we get closer and closer to David Tennant's final foray into space and beyond as The Doctor. And with only a few movies to tide me over, it's even more bittersweet. By the end of the year, he will be gone and replaced by Matt Smith.
But while
Doctor Who has to move on without Tennant, another classic will be coming stateside with Tennant in the lead. PBS will be airing the television adaptation of the
Royal Shakespeare Company's Hamlet with David Tennant as part of its
Great Performances series in 2010. Tennant performed as Hamlet live with the Company to great success in 2008.
If that's not enough to get you excited, how about the fact that the cast includes yet another pop culture icon. None other than one of the greatest Starfleet captains in the history of
Star Trek: Captain Jean-Luc Picard himself, Patrick Stewart, as King Claudius.
Continue reading David Tennant's Hamlet coming to Great Performances
Posted Jun 1st 2009 5:04PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV Royalty, Programming, Doctor Who, Celebrities, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
I may be getting a little obsessed. Most of the
posts I've written recently have been about the soon-to-be-departing
Doctor Who lead David Tennant. I'm also quite disappointed that a lack of time and funds did not permit me to take a trip to England to see Tennant in the RSC production of
Hamlet. Thankfully, the BBC has come to the rescue.
For those like me, the BBC is
reassembling the cast and filming that production of
Hamlet for broadcast in late 2009, with American and Japanese broadcasts to occur in 2010 (I wonder which channel would show it in the States? BBC America? PBS?). To sweeten the deal for us nerds, former
Star Trek: The Next Generation captain Patrick Stewart plays Claudius.
Perhaps they'll even let Tennant improvise the role a bit. I would love it if he could throw a little script that
Neil Gaiman wrote for him upon hearing of his participation in the role.
Posted Mar 30th 2009 1:16AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
I made it my business to catch the episode of
Family Guy which
guest-voiced the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and I have to say I was somewhat disappointed.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed some parts of the episode. The "shut up Wil" line by Patrick Stewart had me in stitches, as well as the sudden death of Denise Crosby (obviously, the writers are
ST:TNG fans). Hell, Patrick Stewart is a recurring guest on Seth McFarlane's other series
American Dad.
It just seemed to me that after the brilliant
Star Wars parody from last year, they would do something more with such a line-up of talent than simply "Stewie gets to hang out and go bowling with the cast." It was even relegated to the "B" plot, with the "A" plot being Meg's sudden faith in God as a result of watching Kirk Cameron on TV.
I was hoping for something more akin to an episode of
The Next Generation done
Family Guy-style. Or would that have been redundant of the
Star Wars episode? What do you think? Was the episode decent or could it have used improvement?
Posted Oct 8th 2008 2:03PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, Doctor Who, Casting, Reality-Free
Okay, let me preface this first: this tidbit of information comes directly from The Sun. Not the piece of crap North American tabloid but the piece of crap United Kingdom tabloid. This was the same paper that reported Doctor Who was ending after the fourth series, which ended up being refuted by millions of other reputable sources. So, take this information I write below with a grain of salt.
The Sun is reporting that Captain Jean-Luc Picard himself, Patrick Stewart, has agreed to guest star in the next Doctor Who series (season, to us in the Colonies) as a Time Lord. The agreement came after Stewart performed with Who star David Tennant in a summer production of Hamlet. According to the report, Stewart would team up with the Doctor in a two-part episode involving the Daleks (who just. Won't. Die.). He would play the role of a renegade Time Lord seen during the early days of the first Doctor Who series called the Meddling Monk.
Continue reading Patrick Stewart to portray a Time Lord?
Posted Sep 12th 2008 2:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free
One of the greatest TV mini-series of all time was
I, Claudius. It was riveting TV and every time it's been repeated since it premiered in 1976, I've watched it religiously. The Robert Graves novel about the Roman empire, including the mad Caligula, is now set for a remake.
Director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot) will be helming an adaptation of I, Claudius with Nye Heron and Sheridan penning the script.
At this point, the project seems headed to the big screen. That would be a plus insofar as the set design and lush look. However, one of the benefits of the 1976 version was the length. It was 13 episodes, a hour each (sans commercials). That meant the complexities of Graves' novel -- and there were dozens of them -- not to mention the enormous cast of characters, could be played out.
Continue reading I, Claudius set for remake
Posted Feb 22nd 2008 2:24PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, The Amazing Race, CSI, Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Casting
Nobody would ever confuse Rufus Sewell for Patrick Stewart (
Star Trek: The Next Generation), right? Well, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer
has chosen Sewell for the lead in the $4 million pilot of the British drama series
Eleventh Hour. Presumably, Rufus will be playing the same role Patrick played, that is Professor Ian Hood, Special Advisor to the government's Joint Sciences Committee, enlisted to tackle all kinds of dangerous threats stemming from science gone awry.
Continue reading Rufus Sewell cast in new Bruckheimer pilot
Posted Mar 26th 2007 9:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E14) The up and down season of
Family Guy continues, and I thought this one was a bit of a valley, rather than a peak. It had its moments, to be sure, but as a whole, it was somewhat lacking. Peter summed up my feelings for this episode pretty well with his quote after seeing the opening to
Maude, "That was an ordeal."
That bit is a good example of what was wrong with this installment. Aside from the fact that it was a reference to a show that you have to be 40 years old, or a tv nutter, to get, it just wasn't funny. And no matter how long the song went on, it was never going to be funny. I found myself in much the same situation while watching tonight. I was just sitting and watching, waiting for it to get funny.
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