Terra Nova canceled

I don't know if anyone on my flist followed Terra Nova, but Fox canceled it: link.

I never watched it because for me, only one dinosaur series was interesting: The Lost World and even there, I couldn't have cared less about the beasts - I watched it for the amazing Will Snow and Rachel Blakely as Lord John Roxton and Marguerite Krux.



Gosh, gosh, gosh, how I loved those two! I used to follow it religiously, but then our TV started airing it at weird times and I missed the ending. I wonder, how did it end? Anybody knows?

So, yeah. Will Snow and Rachel Blakely. I adore them, they had so much chemistry, in The Lost World and also in Tales of the South Seas, they were sizzling hot! But not just that, they were amazing characters in their own right. Marguerite owned the show, so hot and strong and spunky! She was definitely no damsel in distress!

And now I want to watch it again... *rotf*

CBS and their thieving ways

So, you would think that mooching off Sherlock's fame would be enough for CBS. But now, they they were caught with their hand in another cookie jar: CBS forced to scrap its "edgy hacker girl" drama because of supposed similarity to Girl With The Dragon Tattoo:

Emboldened by its years of taking successful risks on procedurals where an eccentric, cocky Sherlock Holmes descendant solves crimes using unorthodox methods, CBS has recently begun experimenting with some even more out-there ideas. Like Elementary, a procedural where an eccentric, cocky, actual Sherlock Holmes solves crimes using unorthodox methods in modern-day New York. Or Quean, a procedural in which an “edgy, independent hacker girl” helps an older male detective solve crimes using unorthodox methods, like edgy hacking.

(...) The network has recently come under fire for its new shows’ similarities to, respectively, the BBC’s Sherlock and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. And much as the BBC threatened to take legal action against the producers of Elementary, the rumblings of a lawsuit from Sony against Warner Bros. TV has now prompted CBS to ditch its Quean idea entirely.

Of course, Elementary was able to escape a similar fate by casting Lucy Liu as Watson, instantly rendering its take on Sherlock completely and totally original, because look at her. Unfortunately, Quean couldn’t negate its own comparisons no matter how many women and ethnic groups it added: According to Deadline, the pilot script was rewritten to change “the lead’s employer from a PI to a law firm, her boss from a white male private investigator to a black female lawyer, and the protagonist herself from a loner to a girl with a boyfriend,” and yet still Sony wasn’t appeased, simply because the lead was still a female hacker, even if she did work with a black woman now. So the show has now been scrapped, with CBS forced to look elsewhere for its next trailblazing idea for an eccentric, cocky Sherlock Holmes descendant solving crimes using unorthodox methods.

This article shouldn't escape the attention of all the people who think that casting Lucy Liu as Watson was anything but a way to escape a lawsuit. So, there *shrugs*

Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence

Listened to Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence, the BBC4 afternoon drama, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the young Rumpole. You can listen to it here: link. The official summary says: "1960. Hilda's had a baby son, Nicholas. Rumpole, awash with flu, defends a safe-blower, and exposes the dubious dealings of a senior police officer."

You know, I will have to find the previous 4 episodes of Rumpole and find out why exactly did he marry Hilda AKA "She Who Must Be Obeyed". I mean, he doesn't like to spend time with her, he escapes their flat whenever he can and all they do is bicker. He even calls his child the "Screaming Infant", not son or Nicholas.

But I loved, LOVED the way Rumpole disrupted the court session with his flu so that the prosecutor wouldn't get to cross examine too many witnesses: he sneezed and blew his nose and kept on coughing and wheezing until the annoyed judge decided to postpone the session till the next day. That was so, so funny!