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?

Weird day

On Thursday night the service team aka the back office team aka the assistants went out for dinner to an Italian restaurant. We had a good time and the food tasted good. I was home at about 11.30. But on Friday morning, I felt awful. Stomach ache. I first thought I couldn’t go to work at all, but it got a little better so I went. But the cramps started again so after about 2 hours, I asked my colleagues if it was okay if I went home. There was nothing urgent to be done that day and they saw that I looked even paler than usual, so I could go. At home, I felt a little better, of course, but still very tired and hungry.

But I was well enough to go the soccer match I had tickets for. There was me and my sister and my dad, and my sister’s best friend and her boyfriend joined us later, i.e. they got to the stadium by motorbike while we went by public transport. It was the 2nd match of the season, and the 1st home match. We, i.e. the team (1. FCN, see www.fcn.de) had won the match the week before 3-0 so we were at the top of the table – a very unusual thing for this club. The atmosphere in the stadium was very good. FCN has the best fans in Germany anyway (that’s what they say, at least, hehe). And we got free flags before the match, sponsored by the team’s beer supplier. Yay. We scored after 5 minutes. More yay. Unfortunately, one of the best players was injured after 20 minutes and after that, the team kind of lost its orientation. They managed to keep the 1-0, though. Even more yay. As we had to catch the train back home, we couldn’t stay in the stadium for long after the end of the match. We were almost squeezed to death on the train back to the central station, but we caught our connection train and didn’t have to wait an hour until midnight for the next one. So that was Friday night.

Nothing major planned for the weekend. I’ll watch Veronica Mars and The O.C. this afternoon and listen to the Robbie Williams concert from Vienna (see other post below) on the radio tonight. Tomorrow I’ll make pizza with my sister for lunch. I hope my stomach’s gonna agree with that.

Veronica Mars is addictive!

Remember that my best friend came to visit me shortly after Easter back in April? While she was here we watched an episode of Veronica Mars (VM) on TV (I think it was ep 104). She hadn't seen the show before (it's on at 2 pm on Saturdays, a time when no one but me seems to be home to watch it) but she enjoyed it and when she was back home she managed to find more episodes and she and her boyfriend are really into it now and have seen the complete first season. I have only seen about half of it because the German network ZDF that airs it only shows it once a week, but in Austria or Switzerland it was on every weekday so they got through the season much faster. Anyway, I don't think my friend has been so addicted to a show before. That's normally my part. Okay, she loves other TV shows too, such as 24 or Sex and the City or Lost (also because I showed her the first few episodes on DVD), but I'm the obssessed one who searches for info and photo galleries and clips and wallpapers on the internet. But now it's my friend. And she's become a shipper (without knowing that word, I guess). We talked on the phone a couple of days ago. I said I'd managed to steer clear from any VM spoilers, but we ended up talking about some things I hadn't known before anyway. She didn't say clearly what would happen, it was more like „V gets a new boyfriend“ and I'd guess who it was then. Or I'd say that Veronica's dad is really cool and that it was a pity he broke up with Veronica's teacher and then she'd say he'd find someone new, someone who's been seen before and I'd ask „Not Wallace's mom?!“ and she'd say „Yes!“ and we'd both laugh. We're such fan-girls. But VM is really worth it. Great show. And the dubbed German version is pretty good, actually. I haven't seen many English clips to compare it to, but (Kristen Bell's voice (she's the actress who plays Veronica) sounds more like Manja Doering (who dubs her) than I expected. When I'm used to one voice (either the original one or the dubbed one) it always takes me a while to get used to the other one. With Dawson's Creek, for example, it was like this: I had only seen it in German for a number of years before seeing an English episode and I couldn't get used to how strange Joey Potter (i.e. Katie Holmes) sounded. Okay, enough of that ....

What else is there to say? The weather is still hot and sunny, but I wish it would rain so I won't have to water the garden every few days. Thursday was a holiday and I had Friday off, so it was a very long weekend for me. I didn't do much except for watching lots of football. Last night I saw a really good film: Far from Heaven (German title: Dem Himmel so fern) by director Todd Haynes (who Christian Bale fans will remember as the director of Velvet Goldmine). Julianne Moore got an Oscar nomination for her role. The film is set in Hartford, CT, in the 1950s. She plays housewife (or homemaker or whatever you call that) Kathy Whitaker who has to deal with problems in her oh so perfect marriage (Dennis Quaid plays her husband Frank) and starts spending time with her gardener Raymond (Dennis Haysbert). Of course the predominantly white community doesn't approve of a white woman befriending a man of colour (or whatever the politically correct term is). Etc. etc. The film is kind of an hommage to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk and co. (according to my TV magazine). Very well done, excellent acting, and New England looks beautiful in the fall.