Gavin & Stacey

BBC America
Premieres tonight at 8:40pm ET
Perhaps you caught wind that we really dig this show when you saw it mentioned on The Awesome List, but just for proper cheerleading, let us review:
This show has been collecting the comedy awards in the UK, now it’s time for the U.S. bow. Gavin & Stacey met on [...]

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Apparently totes jealous of the Discovery Channel, Disney has launched a new production banner called “Disneynature.”  The slate of films will basically be like Discovery Channel stuff we see all the time, but for cinemas instead of televisions…and narrated by Patrick Stewart instead of Sigourney Weaver.  For Earth Day 2009, the film, “Earth” will hit [...]

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BBC Home Video
In shops now
Oh, soapsy, sudsy deliciousness.  I’ve been going on about this series for some time, so you best wise up and have a peek.  This hourlong comedy (with dramatic stories) has a quirky batch of characters - various staffers at a five-star London hotel who are witnesses and participants to the strange [...]

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Paula Abdul Gets More Air Time

Get excited, people!  Paula Abdul is going to appear on one of my favorite soap-sudsy shows.  It’s “Hotel Babylon” which airs on BBC America.  If you haven’t indulged yourself in this romp as of yet, then you are long overdue.  Have a look.  Abdul will be appearing in season three, which begins on 12 March.  [...]

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‘The Office’ Goes to Chile

BBC Worldwide Americas has licensed ‘The Office’ to the Chilean production company, Chilecorto and Canal 13–Chile.  This will be the first time Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s series will be done in Spanish, and, for that matter, in Latin America.
Perhaps the Chilean series’ leading man will follow in Gervais and Steve Carell’s footsteps to become [...]

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