Can Misfits Survive Without Nathan?

I return after a little break (sorry, I know you missed me!) with some sad, sad news. Misfits has already jumped the shark.

After months of online debate, the horrible rumours have been revealed to be true. Robert Sheehan aka Nathan aka what we look forward to every week, has officially left Misfits.

The 23-year-old is leaving the show to concentrate on his film career, which has gone from strength to strength with roles in Cherrybomb with Rupert Grint and Season Of The Witch with Nicholas Cage.  He can currently be seen in the Irish comedy Killing Bono. His next role will be the lead in Romeo and Gertrude, an American-set comic version of the Shakespeare tale, written and directed by British comedian David Baddiel.

  

The news was announced by Misfits executive producer Petra Fried at the Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday. Nathan, who has been a character on the supernatural show since it began in 2009, will be replaced with a new character, Rudy, when the series returns for its third series later this year.

The casting for Rudy is still on-going. I almost feel sorry for whoever eventually gets the part as they will have to compete with Sheehan's hilarious and popular performance on the show. Rudy's arrival will be explained in online episodes on the E4 website before series three starts.

Misfits is scheduled to return to E4 in November. Can the BAFTA winning show keep the 1.5 million viewers it regularly attracted with its second series?

Sometimes You Should Judge A Book By Its Cover...

After weeks of buzz about David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman series for NBC, the first image of Adrianne Palicki as the super heroine have been unveiled...

And it's rubbish! Skin tight blue latex pants/tights? Blue boots rather than her trademark red ones? She looks more like a tacky and cheap hooker than the beautiful and strong half princess and half goddess.

Wonder Woman is supposed to look like this:

I am the number one Wonder Woman fan, but even I'm hoping this pilot isn't picked up.

The Three Zuckerbergs - Mark Zuckerberg Surprises Jesse Eisenberg on SNL

This weekend, Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, as Jesse Eisenberg was presenting.

After watching last year’s biopic, The Social Network, everybody was eager to know more about its billionaire protagonist, but word was he was less than flattered with Jesse Eisenberg’s portrayal of him.

He declared the film fictional and was not happy with being portrayed as a conniving, socially stunted geek. But his appearance on SNL showed him to be a good sport.

After Eisenberg was joined by SNL regular Andy Samberg (star of Hot Rod, Jizz In My Pants and I’m On A Boat) dressed up as Zuckerberg, the two men were then joined by the real article; it was the first time the two Zuckerbergs had met.

Last night at the Screen Actors Guild awards, Eisenberg told E! how happy he was that Zuckberg agreed to do it. He was probably relieved that he hadn’t really pissed of a man worth $6 billion. 

New Series Of The Million Pound Drop

New series of The Million Pound Drop starts tonight on Channel 4 at 10pm. Watch it live and play against me online.

A Nostalgic Post - Schools I Wish I Attended And Ones I'm Glad I Didn't

Five Schools I Wish I Attended:

5. Grange Hill

This school was so good that when it moved from North London to Liverpool, instead of attending another school in London, the students moved with it. If my school had moved, I would have just gone to the school down the road instead.

4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Shermer High School 

The egocentric teenager who skipped school, lied to his parents and friends, got the whole town involved in the lie, stole and caused millions of dollars worth of property damage by destroying Cameron's dads car was the good guy, and the man who was trying to do his job and actually gave a damn about his students futures by ensuring they attended school was the bad guy? I wish I got away with that kind of crap.

3. Sixteen Candles - Shermer High School

The hot Jake Ryan dumped his beautiful, willing and sweet girlfriend to date the nearly invisible sophomore just because she stares at him and "maybe [he's] interested in more than a party." Well I'll stare at you all you want Jake!

2. Clueless - Beverly Hills High School

This is a school where even the likes of Cher Horowitz - "That's Ren and Stimpy. They're way existentialist" - manages to talk her way into an A- average.

1. Harry Potter - Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry

During the run up to my 11th birthday I waited and waited for my acceptance letter to Hogwarts but unfortunately it never came and I had to attend a chump school for Muggles. Instead of Quidditch, we had netball; instead of Charms with Professor Flitwick, we had geography with Mr Kent; instead of being in Gryffindor, I was in Davies, and it certainly wasn't chosen by The Sorting Hat. They may have had to deal with Lord Voldermort, but I had to deal with Mrs Williams! 

Five Schools I'm Glad I Never Attended:

5. Veronica Mars - Neptune High

Not only does everybody at this school seem to end up in prison at some point or other, but you also can't get away with the slightest wrongdoing without Veronica Mars getting on your case and pointing the finger at you. Back off blondie!

4. High School Musical - East High

STOP SINGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. The Craft

Girls in school are bad enough when they are just bitchy, but in this school you risk your hair falling out or getting thrown out of a window every time you upset somebody...I would not look good bald!

2. Scream

A psycho, murderous ex boyfriend who kills your mother. His best friend who joins in...why does he kill people again? And then they both start killing every person in the school, whether connected to the storyline or not.

1. Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Sunnydale High School 

"We're not good friends. Most of us never found the time to get to know you, but that doesn't mean we haven't noticed you. We don't talk about it much, but it's no secret that Sunnydale High isn't really like other high schools. A lot of weird stuff happens here. But whenever there was a problem or something creepy happened, you seemed to show up and stop it. Most of the people here have been saved by you or helped by you at one time or another. We're proud to say that the class of '99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history, and we know at least part of that is because of you." 

That was the lowest mortality rate? I think I'd move to a town where there aren't any zombies, hyena people or vampires.

Take A Chance On New Channel 4 Show 10 O'Clock Live

Is anybody else looking forward 10 O'Clock Live starting tonight? There is a great possibility that it will be a monumental pile of bull crap, in the style of previous Jimmy Carr let down Friday Night Project but I'm living in hope that the four fantastic presenters, David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr and token female Lauren Laverne, will make it all kinds of awesome.


I will not be watching it live as I will be too busy having a life (/watching a preview of The Fighter with my Dad) but will be watching it on 4od tomorrow (living the dream).


Here are some snippets of humour from each of them in celebration of this new programme:

You tell them David -

I miss screen wipe -

Jimmy Carr pwns -

I couldn't find any funny Lauren Laverne clips. 

Community: My New Lifes Mission

It disappoints me greatly that the brilliance that is NBC's Community has been humiliatingly reduced to being shown on Viva, the channel nobody watches / has heard of (it's like Gilmore Girls all over again when I seemed to be the only one watching it on Hallmark. Although now everybody seems to watch it and I want my programme back E4). I am therefore making it my mission in life to get everybody in the UK watching this masterpiece.

Time for the longest promo ever:

In case that wasn't enough to entice you, here are 10 reasons you will love Community:

1) Cast

If I could, I would make each character a separate reason to watch Community but that would be far more than 10 reasons.

The star of the show is presenter of The Soup, Joel McHale (a funny version of Ryan Seacrest). While he is very funny, I think a picture of his surprisingly muscular body will encourage you to watch more:

The show also stars Chevy Chase in his first funny role since the 80s... actually his funniest role ever. He plays the older, politically incorrect, offensive member of the study group. 

Then there is Danny Pudi and Donald Glover aka Troy and Abed, the greatest comedy duo since Bert and Ernie. I can't actually put into words how brilliant their chemistry is - "Get out of my brain". 

Then there is the beautiful and talented Alison Brie from Mad Men, showing that she can do sitcoms just as well. It is weird that she's playing an 18 year old but I'll forgive that because she's awesome:

There's also that crazy Chinese dude from practically every comedy film in the last few years, including The Hangover and Role Models, living up to his crazy reputation.

The rest of the cast, which includes Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash and John Oliver, are great too but I should probably move on to reason number 2.

2) The end credits


The scenes that play over the end credits every week are truly the funniest sketches I have ever seen and give you a fresh dollop of Troy and Abed every week to get you through till the next episode:

3) The pop culture references


So everybody likes The Simpsons and Family Guy film references right? Well Community's are so much better. Not only does Community make great pop culture references throughout each episode, but often entire episodes are one big pop culture reference. My favourites have been Apollo 13, Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, Aliens, Batman, zombie films and every action film ever made.   

4) Time Magazine says so

Speaking of film references, 'Modern Warfare' - an episode based on every action film ever made - was named the third best television episode of 2010 by a lil magazine called Time. And so that proves it is awesome! 

5) Guest Appearances

They are only into their second season and have already had guest spots from the likes of Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Hilary Duff and Betty White. A cast as strong as this doesn't really need guest appearances but I can understand why celebrities are lining up to jump on the C-Train. 

6) Stop motion episode

They seriously managed to produce an amazing stop motion episode without it seeming out of place with the rest of the series. Only Community could manage that. 


(Troy and Abed in stop mooootion)

7) Laugh out loud funny

Every week they manage to make me laugh out loud / giggle like a schoolgirl for the full 21 minutes of the show, plus for about 20 minutes afterwards when I rewatch clips on Youtube (God Bless the internet). 

8) Hidden Levels

It gets better with every viewing. The multiple layers of the show mean you spot something new every time you watch it, whether it is great reactions from the cast or a whole story. Check out Abed's subplot in the background of these scenes. 

9) The conspiracy theories

You find yourself constantly wondering whether everything you're watching is actually in Abed's head, with his constant movie references and narrations. (Screw you Matrix. You don't have to be pretentious and boring to question reality)

10) And finally, Joel McHale's body

I know I already mentioned it but seriously, who knew he was packing that: