The Good Wife

January 26, 2010  Filed Under Programming, Reviews, 11 Comments » 

With a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife is really a no-brainer. Good luck to any TV Critic that doesn’t give this one the thumbs up.

Thankfully they needn’t be at pains to do so. This US legal drama is one of the best new shows of the season.

The wife of any leader is nearly always more dramatically-interesting territory than that of her husband. Trapped between being ’somebody’ and ‘nobody’ all at the same time is a curious limbo. Hillary Clinton won international praise …

FOX to remake Ab Fab

October 8, 2008  Filed Under News, 18 Comments » 

Not content with re-making Kath and Kim, America is about to tackle Absolutely Fabulous -again.

Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz (who is also behind the animated and retitled version of Sit Down Shut Up), is one of three executive producers for Sony Pictures. Jennifer Saunders is also in on the deal, as one of three other executive producers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she will be hands on each episode.

The script will be put together by Saturday Night Live writer Christine Zander.

The new US version to air on FOX will be located in …