On Sunday, I posted the cast and crew of Doctor Who singing along to The Proclaimers "500 Miles." The video was part of a DVD that the crew got at the end of David Tennant's run as the Doctor. Also included in that DVD was a tribute to Executive Producer and Writer Russell T. Davies and Executive Producer Julie Gardner who were also leaving the series.
Performed by David Tennant, Catherine Tate, and John Barrowman, their version is a take off of British Comedian Victoria Wood's "Let's Do It" which is a cheeky piano tune about a couple wanting to, how can I put this lightly, getting it on.
I thought I couldn't like The Proclaimer's "500 Miles" even more because of How I Met Your Mother. Then I saw this...
How can this not make you smile or uncontrollably laugh? I know I did...a lot It was filmed during the production of the Doctor Who "End of Time" episodes and it was probably David Tennant's idea since he's such a huge fan of them. But once this video hit on Tumblr, gifs were made and an appreciation for a Welsh caterer name Sue followed. For this, I salute him.
I know acting is your priority right now. But sometime between films, can you release a new album? You don't even have to tour for it right away. It's been five years since you brought sexy back and when you do stuff like the History of Rap 3 on Late Night it just cements the need for having another Justin back in the music scene. Thanks.
Seriously, this is so cute. When I have kids, I'm dressing them up as the Doctor for every Halloween until they get sick of it or I go through all the Doctors. Hoping it's the latter.
With social media it only takes one tweet or post to get a fandom into a tizzy. Case in point, about an hour ago Nathan Fillion tweeted this:
When you clicked on the link it went to this:
From what I read on the interwebs, it's already been filmed, during Whedon's two week break from filming The Avengers and it looks like it might be a web-series, but we know until it comes out. If it's going to be web based, it'll be his first since Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog.
Much Ado About Nothing centers around Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero. Benedick and Beatrice, who may have had a past relationship, bicker with each other constantly proclaiming how they will never marry. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Claudio and Hero are blissfully in love with each other with plans to marry. It's through trickery that Benedick and Beatrice declare their love for each other and what causes Claudio to leave Hero at the altar. Who would cause such trickery, the evil Don John of course. It's also one of the first forms of romantic-comedy.
This will be the third version of Much Ado out this year. During the summer there two productions in London. The first one was at Shakespeare's Globe that starred Eve Best (Wallis Simpson in A Kings Speech) as Beatrice and Charles Edwards as Benedick, while the second starred Catherine Tate and David Tennant (they really like to work together) as Beatrice and Benedick in 1980's Gibraltar. Here's an audio clip of them singing "We Go Together."
Also in 2005, there was BBC TV production called ShakespeaRe-Told, where his plays received a modern retelling. This version was set in a local news station and starred Damien Lewis (Homeland) and Sarah Parish (Merlin). It also stars Billie Piper (Doctor Who) as Hero (I swear, there will be point where I reference Doctor Who in every post I write about).
I don't know to what extent the play is going to be adapted to, but this might be the first time that no one dies in a Joss Whedon project. Hence the title of this post.
But you never know...
Edit: A press release for this project has been released and it's going to be completed early spring an will be released through the festival circuit, "because it is fancy." Plus there's an article about it on Entertainment Weekly's site which included these production stills.
Last week I posted on how Community had a little spoof on Doctor Who called Inspector Spacetime. Well leave it to the Community and Doctor Who fandoms to take this 26 second clip and run with it. Not only does it have it's own page on TV Tropes, but there's also fan-fic and a blog called Inspector Spacetime Confessions, where people submit their thoughts about the "show."
