Torchwood, Primeval and a little more Gale...

So, the Torchwood press pack informs us that the show will be back soon and when it does come back it will be on BBC1. This clearly shows the popularity of this show, or more likely the huge popularity of the lovely John Barrowman on both sides of the Atlantic, for it to be shown on the Corporation's premier channel.

Sadly the only regular characters helping Captain Jack (John Barrowman) this time round will be Ianto (Gareth David-Lloyd) and Gwen (Eve Myles), as the writer - um, Russell T. Davies - killed off two brilliant characters and favourites of mine, Owen and Tosh, at the end of last season!

Season 3 is only five hour-long episodes showing over one week at the end of the summer - still no firm date, but July keeps being mentioned - which is a mixed blessing. To see the complete season in such a quick burst, similar to watching something on video, can be quite an intense experience, as long as you are willing to put the rest of your life on hold to make sure you're in front of your TV every night of the week. Otherwise you'll have to record the thing and watch when you can, which kind of makes a mockery of the whole thing!

Oh, and another thing, there is apparently still no definite news as to whether James Marsters will be coming back as Captain John Hart for season 3 (in fact, his name isn't even mentioned in the press pack above). If he doesn't, it will be a terrible shame as he's a really fabulous and very underrated actor and turned out to be a great character on the show. His scenes with Captain Jack absolutely sizzled on screen! Plus I always loved Spike, oops, I mean James! ;)

Anyway, here's an extended version of the preview video shown earlier this year - just a heads-up, there's a kiss in there somewhere, don't get excited though it lasts a nanosecond and then it's gone!



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Conversely, after all that, there is some bad news for Primeval fans, after all the rumours, not even the popularity of this show can save it and it has definitely been cancelled.

Apparently with all the CGI involved in the making of these episodes, ITV can no longer afford such heavy investment in one show.

Also, I haven't heard much about the proposed film recently, but then no news is good news... most of the time.


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Lastly, here's a cropped version of a couple of the Gale pics of the last couple of days, what adorable expressions this man has! Enjoy, or at least don't get mad at me for posting more Gale, a girl's got to do something while she awaits fresh news about upcoming projects! ;)



Don't forget to click them to make them bigger. :)

Same Gale pics... only this time they're huge hi-res!

Keep clicking the thumbnails and they will become HUGE!





Click these and they become medium size. ;)








Thanks go to Gale Harold.it for these HQ pics.

More Gale pics...

These are from here.

The photographer said that Gale is "INCREDIBLY good looking in person"! :)


and that he was wearing the "TIGHTEST skinny black jeans ever". (I remember Patrick Antosh saying that when they were working on Brian Kinney's wardrobe for Queer as Folk, Gale always drove Patrick mad because he wanted all the pants' legs taken in so that they were skintight.) :)

New Pics... Gale as we've never seen him before!

Some new pictures have appeared taken at the Campus Moviefest Grand Finale at the Sherry Lansing Theatre at Paramount Studios,LA.

Gale and Stephen Kijak are hosting one of the workshops for the student filmmakers who are participating in the International Grand Finale of Campus MovieFest. Their workshop is called "Making Your First Feature" so they will be discussing how "Scott Walker: 30 Century Man" was made. The student awards for the best films will be given out tonight. It's a fabulous event for these young filmmakers from all over the US. Scott Adsit and Christian Slater were there giving presentations.

So, that's why he was at the Campus Moviefest, but that still doesn't explain that haircut! He must be filming something, because I am pretty damn sure Gale wouldn't opt for that haircut unless he had to! ;)

Anyone heard any news about anything he's doing lately?


Gorgeous! ♥♥♥

That hair! God, not since s2 of QaF have we seen him with such short hair! :)

We've seen him standing just like that a gazillion times in exactly those same shoes! Oh, Gale...

Gale with Nora Zehetner and Oded Fehr


Ooh, very sultry, Gale. It's so hard to believe that he's OLDER than Oded Fehr!

That's about it, he's gonna stop smiling any minute now...

... here we go, boredom is setting in fast and it looks like he's getting ready to scarper! :D

Nora Zehetner, Scott Adsit, Cristian Slater and Oded Fehr can't keep the smile on Galeface who, at 39 (which is around the same age as the men) and with that haircut, still looks the youngest and has more hair than any of them ! ;)

... a close-up of that adorable face. ;)

ETA: Go to this post for hi-res copies of these pics.

What would you put up with for Gale Harold?

I'm signed up to Google Alerts for "Gale Harold". As some of you probably know, it can be a living nightmare with all the strange posts which turn up having NOTHING to do with Gale.

Sometimes, however, along comes a post that I can really get into. Someone on LJ questioned what was "the biggest dating age gap" people would put up with in a lover. The first person to comment said that she'd go up twenty years for Gale Harold! :)

I gotta tell you that I am totally in agreement with her, I would most certainly put up with an age gap of twenty years for Gale Harold!

He's thirty nine and I'm... um... fifty-eight! :D :D :D :D


ETA: Ha, I suppose THIS is one of those Gale Harold posts which isn't really about him at all! Oh, dear...

Becks...

Damn! If it weren't for the tube strike yesterday here in London I would have gone to see the unveiling of a 25-metre billboard on the front of Selfridges, showing David Beckham in a pair of figure-hugging drawers. All to advertise Emporio Armani's autumn collection.


It would have also been nice to see and perhaps meet the real thing. He always seems to me to be such a sweet man, a great footballer and veeery rich! I mean what more could you ask for in a man... well, that body for a start! My god, if I was only twenty two years younger! ;D


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For God's sake...

... why, oh, why do we insist on tearing down today, those very same people we idolized and put on pedestals yesterday?

It happened spectacularly with Susan Boyle after her startling performance on the first week of Britain's Got Talent. The world loved her, couldn't get enough of her, she was going to win hand's down... or so most people thought for about four weeks. Then, suddenly, all her little idiosyncrasies were being paraded in the tabloids and all the criticism started. Everything started to get on top of her and she became very stressed and just when she needed us all to be behind her, people were jumping OFF the Susan Boyle bandwagon in droves. She eventually came second in the final and was promptly rushed off to a clinic, suffering from stress and exhaustion. She's out of the clinic now, but apparently still not 100 per cent.

The next example is what has been happening over the last couple of days with Gale Harold. Thousands of his fans who love him and think he's beautiful and talented have been waiting with bated breath since Desperate Housewives finished for any little bit of news on him. Then out of the blue there appeared a miserly 2:27 minute video trailer for the film Passenger Side. We weren't expecting much, after all we all knew beforehand that Gale was not the star of this film and that he may not even have much of a part. In fact there was a couple of days there when we thought his scenes had hit the proverbial "cutting-room floor".

However, much to everyone's initial delight there was Gale, long haired, scruffy chinned and for all intents and purposes naked, on our screens for, what, 6 seconds or so. Fabulous everyone said. Lovely. Someone mentioned, naked Gale is ALWAYS good. Scrumptious in fact.

Alas, that is when it happened, someone, somewhere said "but his chest looks flabby", another "he has man-boobs" and yet another "he has a fat belly" and people agreed with them! What the hell happened? This is vibrant, healthy pre - near-fatal - accident Gale. The Gale we love and adore. A beautiful thirty-nine year old fucking fantastic figure of a man, the same man who was apparently "far too skinny" by a few fans' standards when he appeared back on our screens, six months after his accident, in Desperate Housewives. The man cannot win. I hope he has a thick skin, he needs it to guard himself against the "adoration" of some of his "fans".

Now, today, I was happily reading the entertainment news and got very excited when I noticed the name Robbie Williams. There hasn't been a lot of news about Robbie for a couple of years now and I was beginning to get worried that he was gone for good, so you can imagine my excitement. I eagerly turned to the article and was dumbfounded to read this headline Old Before I Die: Robbie Williams shows his age as his hair turns grey! WTF!!!

So, Robbie Williams - at thirty-five years old - is going grey! So what? Was I showing my age when I started going grey at seventeen! I think not. Thirty-five is not old, whether your hair is grey or not. Seriously instead of being ageist, why didn't the paper simply emphasise what great news it is that Robbie is back in the studio recording a new album after so long. Imbuing the man with confidence that his new album is eagerly anticipated. Why do they think that the only newsworthy fact is that he is getting older and his greying hair is a testament to that! I for one don't care if he's in his thirties and his hair is going grey, I care that he has finally overcome his eating and drug problems and is back doing what he does best and that's "entertain us"!

So please lighten up on these people, if we loved them yesterday and thought they were perfect, why do we have to be so judgemental today. Let's just try to appreciate their talent whether we still like them or not and stop with all the personal insults.

Just a few pics...

... lest we forget what a beautiful and very talented man he is.

At long last, a "Passenger Side" trailer and some screen caps ...

Question: How do you get several thousand Gale Harold fans interested in this film since he's not the "star"?

Answer: Make a two and a half minute trailer with a tiny sequence of the gorgeous Mr. Harold - naked - weaving around totally out of his head, apparently filming a porn movie! :)

If you really cannot spare the time you can save 1:26 minutes by jumping straight to the bare arsed chested Gale! ;D



Here are a few screen caps - clicky, clicky. Look at the girl's legs. She's not acting there, that's just a pheromone induced physiological reaction to the proximity of a naked Gale! ;D









You can follow the progress of "Passenger Side" on Facebook

ETA: I think he looks gorgeous even with the longer hair and the scruffy chin! Mm mm! ♥♥♥

4oD

For those of us in the UK, we have some great news from 4oD, Channel 4's on demand web TV service. Next month they are opening their archives and letting us watch anything from their back catalogue for free.

This is great for those of us who remember all the good shows that Channel 4 used to show, the much neglected Queer as Folk, to name just one! So, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of watching this show and weren't interested enough to get the DVDs, please give it a try.

It's darker, grittier, ballsier and a lot more full-frontal than the US version. It has some great acting, especially from Aiden Gillen, Craig Kelly and Charlie Hunnam. As long as you don't expect it to be exactly the same story (although interestingly there are a lot of very similar scenes) or have the beautiful Gale Harold and Randy Harrison in it (only Charlie Hunnam comes close in the pretty boy department), you never know you may even enjoy it!

Roger wins at last!

I'm over the moon that Roger Federer has won the French Open and achieved what many people thought he'd never achieve, a Career Grand Slam. In the process, of course, he also tied with Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles. As much as I love Pete, we need progress so that record has to go and we only have to wait another two weeks until Wimbledon on the 22nd, to see whether he can set a new record and beat Pete's.

It was a great match, too, but I was so nervous I thought he was going to lose that last game, but he held on and won like a true champion. Absolutely fabulous.

It was also lovely to see two old favourites of mine, Steffi Graph and Andre Agassi, presenting the trophies this year. I loved them as individuals when they were both playing fabulous tennis, but I love them just as much as a couple, they always look so happy together and the love just shines through. :)

David Carradine 1936 - 2009

Very sad to learn of the death of David Carradine yesterday and apparently in such tragic circumstances.

My father was a great fan of his and really liked him as "Caine" in Kung Fu in the 70s. I enjoyed his acting too, but he always seemed to me to be such a sad man, always searching for that elusive 'meaning of life'. I think that's why he married five times too, always looking for happiness. I'm probably totally wrong. I just hope he's found peace now...

Rest in Peace, David

World Environment Day 2009

Do something for the planet today! Well, not JUST today, try doing something every day.

Walk instead of drive.

Grow your own organic veg.

Get off that laptop for a day or two... what... NO! Anything but that! ;)

Oh dear, and World Environment Day is only 4 days away!

This is an amazing story about a couple of Burger King franchises in Tennessee, USA putting up huge signs outside the restaurants offering up these words of wisdom "Global Warming is baloney"!

Burger King naturally completely distanced themselves from the signs. So after some detective work on the part of a local newspaper writer, Chris Davis of the Memphis Flyer, it appears that the two Burger Kings are owned, along with around 40 others, by one company who apparently haven't replied to his request for a comment!

I truly believe in free speech in this world, but come on, if you're going to take advantage of your position and preach to the rest of us, please, please don't make a complete idiot of yourself in the process! :)