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This week's television rules! There's the long-awaited Robot Chicken Star Wars special. Henry Rollins wants to know if you have the "warrior gene." Big Bang Theory does the JLA! Plus live(ish) comedy from Ricky Gervais, Jeff Bridges...and Monty Python. More »
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Ricky Gervais' disturbing little creatures, which look like a mix of private parts and lung butter, will be flying into your laps 3D in their own major motion picture. Is there room for more monsters? More »
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Everyone's favorite stuttering Brit, Ricky Gervais admitted to Entertainment Weekly that he passed on a part in J.J. Abram's big budget Star Trek origins tale. While we love all things from the creator of The Office, we're glad that this already fan-service heavy film isn't getting too many gratuitious cameos. That said, there are a few actors we wouldn't mind seeing have a cameo in the new Trek — which one do you think would rock the hardest? More »
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Ricky Gervais, creator of the acerbic British version of The Office, lives in an alternate universe in This Side Of The Truth. He's the man who discovers how to lie in a world where honesty is the only policy. Truth has a stellar comedy cast including Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Jonah Hill Christopher Guest, and Rob Lowe. Anything with Gervais and Bateman in it with a scifi alternate world slant has me interested. Click through to read more and check out a gallery of Gervais' set pictures. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=394162&view=rss&microfeed=true Doctor Who star David Tennant played himself (and the Doctor) in the final episode of Extras, and dredged up every painful stereotype about the show. It's all there: the crappy costume, the technobabble, the dumb science lesson (sodium chloride=salt) and the dying alien's mouth goo. It's not nearly as good a Who spoof as the French and Saunders version or Curse of the Fatal Death. But it's worth a look for David Tennant mocking his own jutting-jaw acting. More »
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Will Battlestar Galactica ever film its final episodes? Maybe not, says Ron Moore. Blame complicated contract wrangling: the studio wants to keep the show's actors on contract without paying them, under the "force majeure" clauses of their contracts. But because the show managed to film the required minimum of 13 episodes before halting production, their contracts may allow them to seek work elsewhere. Bottom line: when the show is ready to resume production, the actors may or may not be available. Says Moore: "I refuse to believe that we won't finish, that we won't be back to film our final stories, but I know and accept there is that possibility." [TVSquad] More »
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