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Jul. 6th, 2009 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightA few not unrelated things to do with TV:
Firstly, I was miffed to learn on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deborahw37's LJ this morning that ITV are only showing a cut version of Moonshot, in which, as you no doubt mostly know, James Marsters appears as Buzz Aldrin. The History Channel are showing the full version, but since I don't get that, I shan't be able to see it. Grrr! (and the satisfaction of knowing Rupert Murdoch isn't getting a penny off me for Sky is tempered by the knowledge that he's probably getting it off me some other way, it's just that I don't know it).
Secondly, from the rate at which JM Live are dropping emails into my inbox, James is filling up his schedule fast with con appearances and fan events, which suggests he has no acting work and currently no prospect of it. :( I don't blame him at all for this, btw. He has bills to pay/kids to raise same as most of us, and if he can't get acting work, he has to do something. In fact, considering the state of things at the moment, and considering he doesn't have a steady gig like DB, (even if Bones is so boring I'd rather rip my own eyeballs out than ever watch another episode), he's just very lucky that he has a loyal fanbase who still want to see him. There must be hundreds and hundreds of jobbing actors like him who are really, really struggling.
Apropos of which, last week this story appeared in the Guardian, about how the BBC have cancelled their Saturday tea-time kids' show Robin Hood. Also in the newspaper article (though I don't know if it's repeated in the online version), the actor James Nesbitt (probably not well known outside the UK, but a staple of TV drama here) complains that the roles have dried up and Brit actors will be forced to decamp to Hollywood. Dunno where he thinks the jobs will come from, given that local actors like JM already can't get any work.
Finally, off at a wacky tangent, in today's Guardian, there's a bizarre piece about Dominic West, in which he says he's sick of foreign actors playing great Brits from history and British actors should be cast in those parts - which is a bit rich coming from an old Etonian who spent 5 years playing a Baltimore policeman in The Wire. I suppose if he discovers people he knows in the US are irritated by this, he's going to give the trademark McNulty shrug and say, "What the f**k did I do?"
Firstly, I was miffed to learn on
deborahw37's LJ this morning that ITV are only showing a cut version of Moonshot, in which, as you no doubt mostly know, James Marsters appears as Buzz Aldrin. The History Channel are showing the full version, but since I don't get that, I shan't be able to see it. Grrr! (and the satisfaction of knowing Rupert Murdoch isn't getting a penny off me for Sky is tempered by the knowledge that he's probably getting it off me some other way, it's just that I don't know it).Secondly, from the rate at which JM Live are dropping emails into my inbox, James is filling up his schedule fast with con appearances and fan events, which suggests he has no acting work and currently no prospect of it. :( I don't blame him at all for this, btw. He has bills to pay/kids to raise same as most of us, and if he can't get acting work, he has to do something. In fact, considering the state of things at the moment, and considering he doesn't have a steady gig like DB, (even if Bones is so boring I'd rather rip my own eyeballs out than ever watch another episode), he's just very lucky that he has a loyal fanbase who still want to see him. There must be hundreds and hundreds of jobbing actors like him who are really, really struggling.
Apropos of which, last week this story appeared in the Guardian, about how the BBC have cancelled their Saturday tea-time kids' show Robin Hood. Also in the newspaper article (though I don't know if it's repeated in the online version), the actor James Nesbitt (probably not well known outside the UK, but a staple of TV drama here) complains that the roles have dried up and Brit actors will be forced to decamp to Hollywood. Dunno where he thinks the jobs will come from, given that local actors like JM already can't get any work.
Finally, off at a wacky tangent, in today's Guardian, there's a bizarre piece about Dominic West, in which he says he's sick of foreign actors playing great Brits from history and British actors should be cast in those parts - which is a bit rich coming from an old Etonian who spent 5 years playing a Baltimore policeman in The Wire. I suppose if he discovers people he knows in the US are irritated by this, he's going to give the trademark McNulty shrug and say, "What the f**k did I do?"