Richard Armitage tangentially related

Urban and the Shed Crew:

• A Region 2 DVD for pre-order has appeared on Amazon.co.uk. January 14 is the projected shipping date. You will need a region-free DVD player to play it outside the U.S. I’ll believe it when I see it.

Berlin Station:

• On the process of choosing Angela Merkel’s successor. (Since this article appeared, her successor has been chosen: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, called “AKK”).
• Interview with Leland Orser. And another.
• Here’s a vid of Orser in Budapest in which he mispronounces “Armitage.”
• Berlin Station has also made a number of US “what to watch” lists this week (e.g., Washington Post, which hated it originally; Seattle Times) — are the critics going to like this season better?
• For U.S. viewers, scenes from Berlin Station 3.2 here and here.

Ocean’s 8:

• One of the artists whose paintings we see.
• Gets a mention in Decider‘s Top 10. And Autostraddle‘s.

Kudos for Armitage:

• Armitage tweeted it already: Castlevania on a list of best performances of the year. The season 1 DVD/Blu-ray is available now.
• Wolverine: The Long Night also made Apple’s best podcast list.
• Heads You Win is a November listener favorite; and his titles make the “best of 2018” lists at Audible in three categories (Mysteries and Thrillers; Customer Favorites; and Romances.

Things Armitage has said:

• He’s a fan of Schitt’s Creek. The series has filmed a holiday episode.

Collateral attractions:

• Anne Hathaway (Ocean’s 8) may appear in a Sesame Street movie.
• Lee Pace (The Hobbit)’s Angels in America revival gets a mention as a top 10 production of 2018.

Social media:

• Tumblr is banning porn. This is going to be really hard on a lot of fandoms.

Things we’ve talked about:

• The horror genre is not defined by what scares us.

Random interesting:

• On that horrible racist article about Priyanka Chopra on The Cut and the response to it (and the Chopra/Jonas marriage) in different areas of social media.

~ by Servetus on December 8, 2018.