Eve Myles in All New People

So, regular readers will know I have a slightly odd campaign going to see how many scifi stars I can see live on stage: so I was excited to be going to see the Zach Braff play All New People, which features Torchwood's Eve Myles. Alas, the play was terrible - in ten years of theatre going, it's in my top three awful plays - and Myles wasn't great, hampered by a wonky English accent and unconvincing writing. Still, another one off the list, I suppose. (You can read my reveiw here...)

Captain Jack would liven this right up

Welcome back Castle!

The new series of Castle is back on Alibi tonight, taking off from where Beckett was shot at the end of the last season. I do love Castle - it's sexy and fun and Nathan Fillion is just impossibly charming (and, nicely, the show contains a whole load of shout outs to his fans, from references to Buffy to the classic moment when he dressed up as Captain Mal and the world swooned...)

If you've missed out, Channel 5 is also showing an earlier series. There is a slight story arc but mostly it's murder of the week, so just dive right in...

OK, this is from Firefly but he's SHIRTLESS, people.

Elementary: should Sherlock fans be bothered?

Yes, it's that time again: please pop over to Unleash the Fanboy to read my new column. This week it's about the planned Sherlock remake Elementary (there are some intelligent comments on there too, why not check out?) Plus an excuse ot post some nice Sherlock pics...

Bet Miller doesn't look this moody in a coat

Wait, how come I get Martin Freeman and Miller gets Lucy Liu?!

Justified gets 4th series

Yay! Few things cheered me up more than the news that Justified has been renewed for a fourth season (though we've yet to see Series 3 here - get your bloody finger out, 5 US!). To celebrate, here are some pictures of Raylan. Mmmmmm, Raylan....

Oh, my. Raylan Givens...

RIP Ralph Macquarrie

I was sad to hear that Ralph Macquarrie, the concept artist behind so many of the Star Wars designs, passed away yesterday. You can read one of the many tributes to him here. Farewell, Ralph, and for the part you played in shaping my childhood, I will always be grateful.

Some random hotness to keep you going

I am insanely busy this week, but promise normal service will resume shortly. Here's some hotness to keep you going till next week.

Giving up on Grimm?

I love the idea of Grimm, the new TV show which features a cop who discovers he is the latest - and possibly last - in a line of supernatural sorta-hunters that goes back to the famous Brothers Grimm. And the tagline - they weren't fairy tales, they were warnings - is genius. (As is 'not your usual suspects') But somehow the show has failed to grab me, and I'm not exactly sure why.

The cast are fine, though I'm finding lead David Guintoli a little bland for my tastes. Silas Weir Mitchell, who was so much fun on Burn Notice (he played the delightfully unhinged Seymour) is especially entertaining as a reformed werewolf: one of the best scenes so far is when he attacks some bad guys and 'gets carried away' and rips an arm off: it was so unexpected and both gruesome and funny that it really worked. But so far nothing is gripping me: the stories, reworkings of fairytales, have either been predictable or fairly unengaging, which is a shame given the clever premise.

In fact the programme is so bland I'm struggling to articulate anything about it, which feels like a problem in itself. Am I wrong? I've been super busy lately so my TV time has been spent multi-screening, which makes it hard to give any new show the attention it deserves. But nothing is telling me this is a show worth sticking with. What do you think?

Do they film this in Canada? Cos then I could use 'it's Grimm up north' joke...