TV Informer
TV News
by Fiona Rae
Welcome to TV Informer, a news and information blog featuring snippets and links related to the wacky world of television. Questions and comments? Email tvinformer@listener.co.nz.
• There's a mistake in our listings in our September 27 issue. The Living Channel doesn't appear on October 1-3 due to some sort of glich in our listing service's database. All is well for our October 4 issue, but in the meantime, you could try the Sky website.
• TV3 has announced that ASB Business will launch on Monday, October 6. That’s the show that TV1 lost to TV3 when presenter Michael Wilson pulled out. ASB followed, reportedly with $1 million of its sponsorship money.
• Lucy Lawless totally rocked as the Cylon Deanna in Battlestar Galactica, but a long-running gig since Xena has been hard to come by. Since the cancellation of Tarzan in 2003, she’s guest-starred in a number of series, including Veronica Mars, Burn Notice and the ill-fated US version of Footballers’ Wives. It looks like that continues: she writes on her fan club website that she’s been doing an episode of CSI: Miami and hints at an appearance in The L Word. Also on the agenda is a role in the new Adam Sandler movie, Bedtime Stories and the B-movie parody Bitch Slap, helmed by former Xena director Rick Jacobson. It also stars former Xena and Hercules alumni Kevin Sorbo, Renee O’Connor and Michael Hurst and Kiwi stuntwoman-turned-actor Zoe Bell and it looks very silly. In between the acting gigs, however, Lucy has been filling in time singing; her show is called “Come to Mama”.
• 24’s Kiefer Sutherland talks about his prison stint here. He was also candid on Letterman last month.
• New York Times’ columnist Maureen Dowd has had her ex-boyfriend, West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, write a column in which he imagines Barack Obama meeting with his fictional Democratic president, Jed Bartlet.
• From our shows-we-never-thought-they’d-revive file: Knight Rider has been updated but, says Zap2it’s Rick Porter, it’s one broken-down hooptie of a TV series.
• Australians are going to see the US version of Kath & Kim on October 12, just days after it screens in the US. How do you say “Look at moi?” in American?
