Serienstarts

In den nächsten Tagen starten einige neue Serien und Filmreihen - manche sind auch Wiederholungen, aber sei's drum. Hier meine Auswahl (mit Unterstützung des wunschliste.de Newsletters):

Sonntag, 10.2., gegen 23 Uhr auf RTL 2
Firefly - Der Aufbruch der Serenity: ein Scifi-Western-Mix von Joss Whedon, dem Macher von Buffy (dieser Vampirjäger Serie mit Sarah Michelle Gellar) aus dem Jahr 2002. Es gibt 14 Folgen und noch einen Film, glaub ich. In der Serie spielen einige bekannte Gesichter mit, z.B. Nathan Fillion, der Rick Castle aus der Krimiserie Castle, die freitags auf kabel eins läuft. Außerdem  Morena Baccarin aus V - Die Besucher und Homeland, Adam Baldwin aus Chuck oder Gina Torres (Sydneys Nemesis aus Alias - Die Agentin).
Korrektur: es handelt sich hierbei um den erwähnten Film und nicht um die Serie. Schade.

Montag, 11.2. gegen 21:50 auf zdfneo
Bartolis Gesetz: Dreiteiler aus Frankreich über einen Richter in Südfrankreich. Hab vorhin eine Vorschau gesehen, dachte kurz, der Hauptdarsteller wäre Dr. House Hugh Laurie. Ob's gut ist, keine Ahnung. Leider etwas spät, da es jeweils bis nach 23 Uhr dauert. Mal sehen.

Dienstag, 12.2. um 20:15 auf Servus TV
North & South: BBC-Vierteiler, der im 19. Jahrhundert in England spielt. Es geht um die Industrialisierung und Richard Armitage spielt mit. Manch einer hat ihn vielleicht als fiesen Sheriff in dieser Robin Hood Serie gesehen, die neulich auf Super RTL lief, oder man kennt ihn aus dem neuen Hobbit Film, wo er den Zwerg Thorin Oakenshield spielt (oder wie der heißt). Eine Liebesgeschichte kommt natürlich auch vor, sonst würde es mich ja auch nicht interessieren :-)

Mittwoch, 13.2. um 23:15 auf zdfneo
House of Lies: Comedy über Consultants / Unternehmensberater mit Kristen Bell aus Veronica Mars und Don Cheadle (aus Picket Fences, Ocean's Eleven, Hotel Ruanda usw.). Lief schon auf AXN vor kurzem, hab aber nur einen Teil der 1. Folge gesehen. Hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Muss es wohl aufnehmen, da die Sendezeit leider sehr spät ist. Außerdem kommen an diesem Tag (ich glaube, direkt vorher, also wohl so gegen 22:30 Uhr) neue Folgen von Mad Men auf zdfneo.

Montag, 18.2. um 20:15 auf Vox
Grimm: wie bei Once Upon a Time, von dem letzte Woche die erste Staffel auf Super RTL zu Ende ging (wobei ich noch total im Rückstand bin mit den Folgen), werden auch in dieser Serie Märchen thematisiert. Es scheint aber alles etwas düsterer und gruseliger zu sein in Grimm, wenn man sich die Teaser-Trailer auf Vox so anschaut. Von den Darstellern kenne ich nur Silas Weir Mitchell, der in Prison Break den verrückten Haywire gespielt hat, glaube ich.

Und was schaut ihr so in der kommenden Woche?

Prison Break season 3

... will start airing in Germany on January 8 - yay! Stupid me could have known that 4 weeks ago if I'd checked Serienjunkies PB page. Ah well, better late than never ... Too bad it's on so late again (11:15 p.m.) again. I need my sleep : (

So ... will I go back to being obsessed with Wentworth Miller? Hm. My new actor crush is Hugh Jackman. Tough competition. Hehe. I'm so looking forward to AUSTRALIA (which will open on Thursday). Hugh is sooo handsome and so cute with his kids. He can ride horses like a real cowboy and can sing and dance. What more could a woman ask for? : )

Okay, time for bed. Gute Nacht, John Boy. Oder so.

More TV and music babble

Prison Break Season 1 DVD box:
Have now watched discs 1-3 and the specials on disc 6. Am happy with the box, but there are still a few things I wish they had added:
- Audio commentary from Wentworth Miller. He’s the only actor not doing one, I think. Instead, you get the very monosyllabic Dominic Purcell on more than one episode.
- Outtakes. They were always the best thing about the ALIAS DVDs, mainly because Jennifer Garner was so different from her character Sydney (i.e. clumsy and girlish-giggly) and that was so much fun to watch.
- More deleted scenes. What I most would have loved to see is a longer version of the kiss in episode 19 because it’s edited very strangely in the episode itself.

Dinotopia:
Oh yes, I’m still very much obsessed with Wentworth Miller. So although I hate dinosaurs I watched Dinotopia on TV last night (both parts were shown back to back) because he was in it. What really confused me was that his brother (played by Tyron Leitso) had his German Prison Break voice (Gerrit Schmidt-Foss, who also dubs Leonardo DiCaprio) while Wentworth had Lex Luthor’s voice (from Smallville, done by Björn Schalla). So when the brothers were in a scene together I always thought it was Went’s character speaking when I heard the Michael Scofield voice. Anyway … I found the whole thing highly amusing. It was all such a fantasy land … the costumes alone made me laugh quite a bit. Oh boy … poor Wentworth … no chance of looking cool in a light green shirt or a beige pilot’s uniform … hehe. But it was interesting to see him in a different part than the one he plays on Prison Break, just for a change.

New songs stuck in my head at the moment:
Bad one: Leona Lewis - Bleeding love. Argh.
Good one: Michael Bublé – Lost. You are not alone, I am here for you … la la la. Like it.

End of the year blah

Sorry, long time no post.

Update: Christmas was okay. I was at my parents' place on the 24th and 25th. My sister's boyfriend was there, too, for the first time. We played some board games. Very exciting : )

As presents, I got loads of DVDs. Most of them Clive Owen films, and of course the Prison Break Season 1 box. Yay. Love the audio commentaries. Unfortunately there's none by Wentworth Miller. I wonder why. Hm. Too bad. The specials on disc 6 are very interesting as well. They were the first thing I watched when I got home on the evening of the 25th.

On Wednesday I met up with a friend/former co-worker. We hadn't seen each other in over a year, I think, so we had a lot of catching up to do. So we sat in a Starbucks for hours and talked. The Creme Brulee Latte was too sweet for me, though. And the next day I went shopping with my sister and we also went to Starbucks cos I felt like I was still half asleep, but what did I do instead of ordering some "normal"-tasting coffee? I go for the Vanilla Latte. Too sweet as well. Yuck. The Christmas Blend they sell tastes good, though. Bought a bag cos I thought it had some spices in it (cinnamon etc.). That's not the case, though. Whatever.

Still haven't seen 3:10 to Yuma. Wanted to go tonight but I have a headache. Argh.

New obsession

The excellent drama series Prison Break just started on German TV 2 weeks ago. RTL is airing it on Thursdays at 10:15 p.m. (always 2 eps in a row). The ratings have been pretty bad – especially given RTL’s high standards (they are the market leader, at least when it comes to 14-49 year-olds) – so I hope they won’t take it off the air again soon. That’s because I’m very obsessed by the show already. I had heard only good things about PB beforehand (on the internet and from a friend of mine who has already seen most of season 1) and it really is a great show. In the German press it’s been compared to 24 a lot. I don’t see too many similarities, but that doesn’t matter. The basic storyline is this: Michael Scofield, an engineer from Chicago, gets himself into prison in order to break out again – together with his brother who’s already in there for having killed the vice-president’s brother and whose execution is only about a month away. Wentworth Miller is excellent as Michael Scofield, and of course there is also a romantic storyline: the prison has a pretty female doctor, Sara Tancredi, played by Sarah Wayne Callies. So I ship MiSa, naturally. And yesterday I started looking for fanfiction and videoclips about the 2 of them. Thank goodness for YouTube, but damn my slow internet connection. And it’s hard to find something without seeing, hearing or reading spoilers, which is not a good thing with any show that builds on suspense and thrill and surprising twists or whatever you would call that (in German we have this word Spannung, which can mean tension or suspense, but it’s hard to find a good expression in English). Um, yeah, so this I my new obsession (besides Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice). Wentworth Miller has fascinating blue eyes and is very good at staring intensely at someone. Sigh.

Blah. So there, I’m a silly fangirl once again.