the rambling fanatic

Mwah ha. The computer is mine once more! Even if I have to get up at 5am on a Sunday to get a turn.

Everyone at home is on vacation, except for me, so there's been little computer time for me. Some interesting things I've come across while catching up.

Murdoch Mysteries has been sold domestically and will air on select PBS stations starting June 30th .Yay! It's a fun show and hey lots of crossover fic potential with Forever Knight. ( Julia is a professional precursor to Natalie )

Being Erica has begun filming their 2nd season. More yay!

BBC America has announced the premiere date for Being Human. It will premiere on July 25th. I can't wait to check it out.

The full trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth is up at BBC America. It premieres July 20th.

Vanity Fair has a wonderful pictorial in which actors are given three scenarios and a photograph is taken of them expressing the topic. ( They're all fantastic. )

I posted six reviews of Geraint Wyn Davies at geraint_fans  of his performance as King Duncan in the Stratford production of MacBeth. Colm Feore plays the title role.

Television Without Pity offers their suggestions on five kids properties to cross to the big screen along with casting recommendations. ( Sign me up for almost all of these. )

Television Without Pity also suggests 13 TV shows that should get a reboot. ( Reboots both scare and intrigue me. )

ChillerTV was having a mini marathon of Polgergeist: The Legacy later episodes last weekend. Forever Knight's Kristin Lehman (Urs) had already joined the cast. ( So that's where Michael Sadowski ended up. )

I watched the pilot episode of The Listener on NBC, the latest Canadian import. Unfortunately, it was a little on the drab side. ( Former Forever Knight writers on staff )

The New York Times has an article about Canadian TV and the current crop of foreign coproductions. ( The Newsroom and Slings & Arrows mentions )

The Smallville season 8 DVD cover will be Clark and Lois in front of the Daily Planet logo. Very pretty. They did their usual red and blue color scheme on the wardrobe even though it's not what they were wearing. It'll be released August 25th.

Warner Bros. has released the official trailer for Smallville season 8 on DVD and boy is that thing not only ( NOT advertising season 8 but )

 

And lastly, I came across the official White House Flickr account. Lots of great photographs.

So for a few weeks I've had this post I was preparing full of vid recs for tons of fandoms. It had links and lots of commentary on why I loved them. It was under the saved draft thing that LJ does. But last week I had a total brain lapse and when I was prompted on whether I wanted to retrieve the draft I pressed cancel instead of yes. Doh! Sometimes I copy/paste the text onto a text document just in case but apparently I didn't in this case.

So this time around to avoid any accidental stupidity on my part I'm simply going to post this list of Vividcon recs and I'll add thoughts later on.

I've compiled this list from the helpful postings at the vividcon community.

Deadwood

Special Death by kiki_miserychic

Doctor Who

Handlebars by flummery
Don't Give Up by millylicious
New Dawn Fades by obsessive24
Shut Up and Drive by laurashapiro


Friday Night Lights

Let the Sun Fall Down by chasarumba
New Slang by obsessive24

Gilmore Girls

Strength in You by heresluck

Gossip Girl

Into the Groove by darlulu

Torchwood

Try Not to Breathe by gwyn_r
Be Kind to My Mistakes by wolfling

Smallville

Sorry  by darlulu

Supernatural

Woman's Work by sisabet and sockkpuppett


Multifandom

To Touch the Face of God  by destina
Girl 4 All Seasons by foomatic

So a few days ago I was lamenting on what appeared to be a major dearth in Forever Knight videos. I noted that kristin1228 looked to be the only person out there currently making videos for the fandom. For the most part I still think it's true but not long after writing that post I stumbled upon the most awesomest of awesome FK video and I couldn't help but just sit there and grin like an idiot. And of course watch it over and over again.

Now I've always enjoyed the trinity of Nick, Janette and LaCroix.  It's a great balance and contrast to the Nick, Natalie, Schanke trio but as I watch the video for the umpteenth time I can't help thinking to myself, "Boy are these three beautiful together."