REMEMBERING THE TWIN TOWERS AND THOSE WE LOST

I didn't know what to add to the dialogue for today, so as usual I'm letting Toobworld speak for me.......

The video has it right at the end - it should be all about those who died that day and those who tried to rescue them.

In October of 2001, the Twin Towers were inducted into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame......

BCnU

SKED ALERT: "TRUE BLOOD" PREVIEWS

Tomorrow night (Sunday Sunday Sunday!), HBO presents the season finale of 'True Blood'. Here are some clips to whet your appetite. Or blood-thirst, whichever the case may be......

BCnU in Bon Temps!

THE LATEST NUMBERS RUNNING

Been filling up on 'The Numbers' from 'Lost' lately. Doesn't matter that show has ended - just because it's no longer visible to the Trueniverse doesn't mean that it doesn't keep on going in Toobworld.

First, a reminder of the numerical sequence:


Here are the numbers I've O'Bserved in the last few months:

From 'Maverick':

From 'Foyle's War':

From "A Cry For Help: The Tracy Thurman Story":

From 'Leverage':


From the pilot episode of 'No Ordinary Family':


From the pilot episode of 'Nikita':


I've also noticed that the number "23" keeps popping up in dialogue - the number of years since an event happened, the age of a character, etc. And I keep forgetting to write them down as soon as I hear them. The only one I remember is the age of an American soldier in an episode of 'Foyle's War'.......

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"SHERLOCK" - BEHIND THE SCENES

Here are some behind the scenes clips of the creative talent behind the new series 'Sherlock', which has already aired in Great Britain and will be coming soon to 'Masterpiece Mystery' on PBS here in America.

Those who are interviewed here are Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Martin Freeman (Dr. Watson), and the creators of this modern retelling of a 2010 221 B Baker Street - Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.

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AS SEEN ON TV: PAMELA ANDERSON

PAMELA ANDERSON

AS SEEN IN:
'Robot Chicken'

AS VOICED BY:
Herself

Pamela Anderson has two Golden Globes.

'Nuff said!

TELE-QUICKIES: TOOBWORLD TIMELINE

It's 1965 right now in the 'Mad Men' timeline, and it was said that Sally Draper is ten years old in "The Chrysanthemum And The Sword". So she was born in 1955 (making her the same age as me... if Matt Weiner lets her live through the sixties on the show.*)

Unless otherwise stated, Toobworld Central believes that TV characters are the same age as the actors who are playing them. So in the Toobworld timeline, Maureen Robinson was 40 years old in 1997 when the Jupiter Two blasted off and became 'Lost In Space'. That means she was born in 1957 and so she was eight years old in 1965, thus making her two years younger than Sally Draper (and me).

Wrap your mind around that.

BCnU!

* Weiner has the opposite problem with the young actress playing Sally than the producers of 'Lost' had with the kid who played Walt. If 'Mad Men' keeps jumping the storyline ahead a year or so with each season, she's never going to be able to keep up in her own personal growth.

TVXOHOF, 09/2010-B: MADELINE BRIGGS

In connection to the induction of Anthony Zuiker into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame, we're also bringing in Madeline Briggs, as played by Amanda MacDonald. Madeline Briggs was one guest character who appeared in all three episodes of that 'CSI' trilogy.

Even so, she was still something of a minor character (even though the case was focused on her.) Toobworld Central would have to run out of every other candidate before she finally got a month to herself. So it's better that she ride in on Mr. Zuiker's coat-tails......

MADELINE BRIGGS

"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"
{The Lost Girls}

"CSI: Miami"
{Bone Voyage}

"CSI: NY"
{Hammer Down}

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TVXOHOF, 09/2010: ANTHONY ZUIKER

In September, the TV Crossover Hall of Fame salutes those behind the scenes in the Trueniverse who make the various crossovers possible. In the past we've honored Dick Wolf, Jamie Tarses, Russell T. Davies, and Wm. T. Orr. (Orr pulled the strings on those cowboy and private eye crossovers from Warner Brothers and ABC back in the fifties. No, the cowboys didn't interact with the private eyes, but I'd watch those if they did!) This year we're honoring Anthony Zuiker, the man who came up with the 'C.S.I.' concept, which started out in Las Vegas and has since spread to Miami and New York City.

With each launch of a new series, a character or two from the previous series has been involved in the pilot episode. So this confirms that each series is connected. Last year, there was a three-way crossover between all of the 'CSI' shows, with Dr. Raymond Langston as the central linchpin. (He was inducted back in February.) It was a cross-country tale of human trafficking that got too bloated and convoluted to make much sense. But at any rate it served to solidify Zuiker's qualifications for entry into the Hall.

(Thom Holbrook, still king of the crossover websites, goes into far more detail about this 3-way than I would choose to.....)

So here's to Mr. Zuiker, who saw the possibilities in a TV show about forensic science - and in such a way as to make it look cool and sexy. BCnU!

SHERLOCK 2010 - CAN'T WAIT!

Apparently 'Sherlock' was a big hit on the BBC when it aired about a month ago. O'Bviously it's about Sherlock Holmes, but a Sherlock that exists in 2010. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson.*

I can tell that it was wildly popular, because there are so many music video tributes to be found for it at YouTube.

It hasn't arrived in America yet, but since the DVD will be on sale by early November, I expect we'll be seeing it quite soon on 'Masterpiece Mystery'. And I can't wait, being a big fan of Cumberbatch since first seeing him as Hugh Laurie's oldest son in 'Fortysomething'.

I'll have to watch the three episodes first**, but right now I'm leaning toward letting it remain in Earth Prime-Time, even though it might appear that it conflicts with the classic view of the character, especially as portrayed by the incomparable Jeremy Brett. However, the theory I'd like to employ would be that this Sherlock Holmes is descended from the original (but not via Nero Wolfe who is considered the son of Holmes by Irene Adler).

Toobworld has often seen characters repeat, although usually with different names. And most often these reoccurrences are lateral copies - that is, within the same time frame. For example - the proliferation of clones for 'The Office' and 'Ugly Betty'.

Usually shows like this end up in the TV dimension of remakes, as did the second versions of 'Flipper', 'The Addams Family', '87th Precinct', and soon, 'Hawaii Five-O'. (Shows like 'Star Trek: The Next Generation', 'Young Maverick', 'Knight Rider', 'Burke's Law', and the 'Bonanza' TV movies are continuations.) But I have high hopes I can pull off the claim that this version of the Great Detective can remain in the primary Toobworld. But again, I'll have to watch it first. BCnU!

* My sympathies to Freeman - apparently he lost out on the role of Bilbo Baggins in the movie version of 'The Hobbit' because he had already signed up for the second season of 'Sherlock'. If only there was a way he could have done both!

** My British blogging buddy MediumRob tried to warn me off from watching the middle episode (three in all of 90 minutes in length), but I'll have to see it - there might be some nugget of trivia within it that could prove necessary for Toobworld.

AS SEEN ON TV: ALAN TURING

ALAN TURING

AS SEEN IN:
"Breaking The Code"

AS PLAYED BY:
Derek Jacobi

From Wikipedia:
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was influential in the development of computer science and providing a formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, playing a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.

During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE.

Towards the end of his life Turing became interested in mathematical biology. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and he predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which were first observed in the 1960s.

Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952—homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that time—and he accepted treatment with female hormones (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. He died in 1954, several weeks before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined it was suicide; his mother and some others believed his death was accidental. On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way in which Turing was treated after the war.

It was serendipiteevee that I found out on Tuesday that today was the one year anniversary of that "too little, too late" apology. And besides, it wasn't just him that deserved an apology.....

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