TV

Rude and Not Ginger

This one is for Mark Goodacre. I am slowly getting caught up on my Dr. Who and when the good doctor took his most recent form, while Rose (Billie Piper) as still his able-bodied assistant, he asked if he was ginger. “Ginger,” to my fellow Americans, is the Brit term for redhead. Now, here is the back story, Billie Piper was married to Chris Evans (one of my favorite radio/TV personalities from the UK, I listen to his weekly podcast every…well, week) at the time of her landing the Dr. Who spot and Evans blamed their breakup on the show. So…is Dr. Who’s comments about being rude and ginger a reference to Chris? What do you think Dr. Goodacre?

[BTW it appears that "Rose" will be back!]

Pennsylvania Inside Out, Monday at 5:30pm on WPSU TV

Apr 24th, 2007

by Christian Brady.

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UPDATE: The video is now available online.

Yesterday I was on a panel with Dr. Tuana for Pennsylvania Inside Out on WPSU TV. The show will air on Monday and is part of the series on Climate Change/Climate Justice. Be sure to tune in or make it part of your regular podcast downloads!

Monday – April 23Very little has been done to address the ethical issues that would accompany climate change, which is largely fueled by pollution from the world’s wealthiest countries. Joining us to consider the ethical, religious and “social justice” implications of climate change are…Nancy Tuana, the director of Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute, and Christian Brady, dean of Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College.

Comic Relief – Vicar of Dibley

Mar 24th, 2007

by Christian Brady.

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Set aside 8 minutes and 49 seconds for a great laff. In this Comic Relief special short episode of the Vicar of Dibley Sting joins the vicar in a spouse-swap reality TV program. http://www.rednoseday.com PLEASE DONATE!

Oh Dear. Fashion Week in God

Feb 27th, 2007

by Christian Brady.

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Not posted yet, but The Daily Show had a special session on “Fashion Week in God” with Samatha Bee. Look for it here. God was a special guest and described Rt. Rev. Katherine Jefferts Shori’s investiture vestments as looking “like Grimace.”

UPDATE: Here is is:

The Last Sign of the Apocalypse

Feb 26th, 2007

by Christian Brady.

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Oh my. This can’t be good. (Although Roseanne Barr would have been worse.) I wonder if she will be an Episcopalian priest, you know, to keep that whole Anglican thing going. I am sure that Kirstie Alley is a nice person and all that, but I just can’t see it…. Dawn French or no one!

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Alley to star in US Dibley remake

Alley to star in US Dibley remake

Kirstie Alley won an Emmy for her role in Cheers
Former Cheers actress Kirstie Alley is to play the lead role in a US version of hit BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley.

Alley, 56, will star as a preacher who returns to the small town where she grew up as a teenage rebel.

The Fox TV network will make a pilot of The Minister of Divine – co-produced by Vicar of Dibley creator Richard Curtis – before deciding on a full series.

Dawn French took the lead role in the UK version, which will end on Comic Relief night on BBC One on 16 March.

The final two full episodes of The Vicar of Dibley came top of the British ratings for the Christmas period.

The Minister of Divine is one of a number of new comedy pilots that will be made later this year. But only the best will be made into a full series.

Since Cheers ended in 1993, Alley has had roles in comedies Veronica’s Closet and Fat Actress, which chronicled her battle to lose weight.