dana, SG, save me....

[Sundae]

Misfits ended this week.
The little teases - we didn't find out Nathan's super-power until the last five minutes of the series!

Won't spoil it in case anyone takes my advice and watches the series. It was really very good. And the door is certainly open for another series, which could focus on the group, on a single character (they're all strong enough) or even on different people similarly affected/ afflicted.

I'd be disappointed not to see Simon or Kelly again if they were missing though. Kelly for her attitude and accent and Simon for his brooding prescence. Oh and the fact he has the haunting/ haunted, slightly odd sort of looks Russel T Davies usually casts.

[richlevy]

Interesting, that reminds me of Misfits of Science (1985). It's refreshing to see the British steal television series ideas from us instead of the other way around. I actually remember some of the series.

Of course, they could be using "Heroes" as their model.

U.S. Shows taken from Britain

All in the Family
Coupling
Life on Mars
Absolutely Fabulous

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Misfits ended this week.
The little teases - we didn't find out Nathan's super-power until the last five minutes of the series!

Won't spoil it in case anyone takes my advice and watches the series. It was really very good. And the door is certainly open for another series, which could focus on the group, on a single character (they're all strong enough) or even on different people similarly affected/ afflicted.

I'd be disappointed not to see Simon or Kelly again if they were missing though. Kelly for her attitude and accent and Simon for his brooding prescence. Oh and the fact he has the haunting/ haunted, slightly odd sort of looks Russel T Davies usually casts.

Just a quick update to the Brits to say that Misfits won the BAFTA for Best Drama this year and is transferring to Channel 4 (it was previously on E4). Even the Radio Times has it as their Pick of the Day. So anyone who missed it can catch up. DO!

And even better news, the ensemble cast are currently filming the second series. I assume it's all of them - at least the articles I've seen do not suggest it's a single character spin-off.

In sadder news, Geoffrey Hutchings who played Mel in Benidorm died last week from a viral infection. His agent reported that he was fine at Wednesday lunchtime but dead by Thurday morning. He was only 71.

Benidorm hasn't had much luck, what with the loss of Geoffrey Perkins too. They're about to start filming a new series. I'd be worried for Steve Pemberton... but his name isn't Geoffrey.

Oh, just an aside - I'm saving up to go and see Ghost Stories, a horror play written by Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen) and Andy Nyman (who works with Derren Brown and starred in Charlie Brooker's Dead Set - as well as a cameo in TLOG ) It's transferred to the Duke of York (West End) from Hammersmith (not West End). Horror and Jeremy and Nyman - who acts as well as wrote - and theatre. Oh my.