I didn't like last night's Doctor Who. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there was something really offputting about the whole thing.

'Any Dream Will Do' was pretty good - way better than the Grease version. I was watching it with my cousins and we all really liked Chris C! It's so cruel telling them who came last in the public vote, when it actually has no impact on who leaves. Not to mention he'll probably be stuck with insecurities about being 'too skinny for Joseph' for the rest of his life. Poor guy.

I discovered that my cousin Becky is a comedy genius btw. She was telling us a little anecdote from her school ski trip last week: one of her friends managed to break the wardrobe in the hotel room, resulting in the entire back of the wardrobe falling off. And then she observed: "We can go to Narnia now!" I thought it was hilarious XD

I need to watch 'Spaced' some day. Has anyone else ever seen it? I only discovered it yesterday after they showed about 30 seconds worth of clips on '50 Greatest Comedy Characters', but I think I love it already. People whose lives play out like films and TV shows as a result of having watched too many of them seems like something I can relate to. And Simon Pegg is the coolest.

'Black Books' and 'State of Play' are also on my watching list, although they'll probably have to wait until the summer. Thank God for YouTube - I'm running out of space on my hard drive. gingersuzal is completely obsessed with 'Black Books' and it does look pretty awesome (Bill Bailey w00!) - it's just finding the time to watch all this stuff that's the problem.

Philip Glenister is so cool. It's so typical that I start watching Life On Mars just as it's about to finish. *sigh*

'The Prestige' is a pretty good film. Actually, it's really good, but just a little morbid for my liking. And I had to concentrate to keep up. lol. There is a huge twist at the end that I never saw coming... but that's all I'm saying.

I think my TV and film-watching is drastically outweighing the revision proportion of my Easter holiday so far. I've made a revision timetable thing (but only after I started panicking because Ali described how much she was planning on doing over these couple of weeks). I'm concentrating on my language orals first, and then I'll probably get round to the rest of the revision when study leave starts. I think I shall have to take a break from Internet when study leave comes.

OMG DOCTOR WHO STARTS TONIGHT :D

They voted off the Doctor! I thought it would be David Tennant and John Barrowman to make it to the end of The Weakest Link.

I never knew Simon Pegg was in an episode of Doctor Who until they had the question about Satellite 5. Completely missed it. Probably because I didn't actually know who he was at the time.

But after hearing that, I finally remembered that's who John Simm reminds me of! I was trying to explain to Jo yesterday how much he looked like *someone* when he was in 'The Yellow House' but I couldn't remember who it was. Then when I asked my uncle to explain to my auntie who Simon Pegg was (even though she has already seen 'Hot Fuzz'), he said the exact same thing about the freaky resemblance. And then I just got really excited about everything all over again.

From marcella_riddle

Doctor Who series 3 full trailer :D:D:D

Some of it looks really creepy. And then the clip showing Captain Jack and John Simm just made me die of squee.

[ETA: Is the "family of blood" guy played by Harry Lloyd (Will Scarlett in Robin Hood)?? Suzy (aka gingersuzal) suggested it and it really does look like him...]

I don't know whether to go and watch E.R. now. I think I've got too hyped up about Doctor Who (2 days omg) to care about anything else right now.

So much excellent TV. Even though I'm getting excited about Doctor Who, I have decided that Life On Mars is officially my new favourite TV show. I love Sam, he is the sweetest character! Next week's looks really awesome. Gene gets arrested :O *excited*

I assume everyone has seen the new HP covers! tirwen_star03 and I have been meticulously studying the information in the inside flap to work out the possible plotlines for the 7th book. We have discovered the plot twist at the end involves a giant ball of pink fuzz and a banana riding Nagini the cantaloupe with legs. (Available smilies were somewhat limited.)

By the way, this is very funny. "They didn't study" - amusing things written in exams.

I have a new layout! To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I like it that much. I may make another one in the Easter holidays. But with the weather finally feeling like spring, my Doctor Who layout seemed a little out of season.

( layout screenshot )

I'm really looking forward to study leave now. Gina's managed to get me all excited about having all the spare time (can't spend it all working, can I?). I'm planning to catch up on all the Skins episodes I've missed, watch Life On Mars S1, watch the most recent series of Top Gear and work backwards from there... and try and get through my film list.

Me, Gina and Jo are already planning a couple of days in the holidays dedicated to movie watching. :D We're going for a couple of 'intellectual' films ('A Beautiful Mind' and 'The Last King of Scotland') on one day, and then some fluffier films ('Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Starter For Ten') on another. I can't wait for the extra long summer holiday.

I want to go to the cinema again. I think 'Amazing Grace' is probably next on the list, and then 'Mr Bean's Holiday', hehe. :D

And finally, a meme courtesy of the lovely teenagelogic:

The Challenge: Assemble a superteam from your various fandoms.
Your team must consist of the following:
(1) Team Leader
(1) Warrior
(1) Smartypants
(1) Hottie
(1) Comic Relief
All your superteam members must be from DIFFERENT fandoms.

( The Invincibles )

PIERS MORGAN GOT FIRED. :D

Yes, I know I'm almost a week late with my Comic Relief update... I don't even know what I've been doing that's eaten up all my time, but Internet hasn't been it. Anyway, Comic Relief was awesome. The Catherine Tate sketches were really funny - I couldn't believe Tony Blair actually did the 'am I bovvered?' thing! And I also found it hard to believe that the Top Gear team managed to pull off their performance lmao. And it was actually good! (Mostly.)

I watched Life On Mars and the Skins repeat yesterday. I'm officially addicted to Life On Mars.

( favourite quote of the episode )

As for Skins, the trailer for the big finale looks dramatic. *excited* I probably won't get to watch it tomorrow, so I'll remain in suspense until Tuesday...

( It's like an episode of The OC, innit )

- Primeval: Way better than I expected. When they first aired the pilot, I got bored halfway through and gave up, but last night's episode was much better. All the comparisons with Doctor Who made me expect something a lot more light-hearted... but I suppose something different is always good. I'm not sure I really like the central character very much though.

- John Barrowman: He's popping up all over the place again. First the lottery, then Al Murray's Happy Hour (a bit of an annoying show, but funny nonetheless). I finally found out why he always speaks in an American accent on TV but in a Scottish one with his parents! (Because the kids made fun of his accent when he moved to America at the age of 9, for anyone as clueless as I was.) His Scottish accent is amazing, I don't know why he doesn't use it more often.

- Liverpool v. Man Utd: Liverpool totally owned that game. They should've won! From what I could tell from the highlights, Man U barely did anything (apart from Paul Scholes trying to knock Xabi out, obviously) all the way until added time... when of course they scored. Irony sucks.

- TV tonight: Grey's Anatomy is finally back on Channel 5! :D I'll have to tape it, because I am determined to watch Top Gear properly for the first time as it's the Brit Awards one. Hopefully I won't be blind after all this TV.

Russell Howard on Buzzcocks was so so funny. :D I thought he was actually better than Ed last week. Their teasing of Simon Amstell's 'snotty-faced public schoolboy'-ness was great - Russell's Ferrero Rocher comment with the accent was genius.

I want to watch ER tonight. It looks really good from the trailers! Ali and Gina seem to like it, and seeing as there's nothing else to watch on a Thursday any more, I shall see if it's any good. I may have to catch the repeat at 10, considering I have History coursework to do for tomorrow. Which I still haven't started. Beginning to think that I should stop watching Ed Byrne and start writing about 19th century back-to-back houses.