So… I guess you all have heard/read/seen the news. It’s been pretty hard to miss it – the death of Sherlock Holmes. I’m gutted but I’m doing my best to keep it together. I don’t know about you guys, but I refuse to believe it. That he was a fraud. He just can’t have been, can’t have! I saw him at a crime scene once, I had followed the sound of sirens in hope it’d be one of his cases, and there is NO WAY he was a fake. You can’t make that sort of shit up, he was too good! He was an inspiration for all of us to be more observant in our every day lives, and I won’t accept the so called truth about Sherlock that is all over the media. I know you feel like I do, and now it’s our turn to show that we haven’t lost faith in him. Sherlock might be gone, but I won’t sit silent!

#BELIEVEINSHERLOCK

Imagine being a Sherlock fan in the show universe. You’ve been following John’s blog, stalking Sherlock a bit at crime scenes, try to be within earshot so you can hear him do his deductions. You’ve got cutouts from the papers. Then the news reach you. What do you do? Some would believe the papers, but not everyone would buy it. And they would do what they could to clear his name.

This is my take on what I would like to propose as a tribute campaign, to show our love and support. Yes, in real life. We put ourselves in the mindset of the in-show fans, and we take a Bad Wolf/Who Killed Amanda Palmer twist on it. Guerilla art/campaigning. (Not sure if everyone is familiar with WKAP. Palmer is an american artist who in order to promote her album told her fans to spread rumours about her death through street art. I can’t seem find any of it documented online though I’m afraid)

Let’s scribble on cubicle doors, back of bus seats, lamp posts. I won’t tell anyone to do anything illegal, but graffiti like in the pictures would be amazing. Paint on t-shirts, make buttons, go to the beach and write in the sand. Take photos of what you’ve done, put on twitter or tumblr and tag it!

suggestions of things to write:

• I believe in Sherlock Holmes
• Moriarty was real
• Richard Brook = FRAUD
• No doubt, Sherlock! (instead of no shit)

And feel free to come up with your own stuff!

Using digital media and spray paint is relevant to this chapter of the fandom. Why repeat what the original fandom did, when we can do something that is unique to us?

(I suggest you just grab an old t-shirt and slap some paint on it, but in case you’re not able to do that, I took the text from the two examples here and put them on a couple of shirts)

PLEASE SPREAD AND REBLOG!

A Associação de Telespectadores considerou a série O Último a Sair, da RTP, como melhor programa do ano 2011, tendo atribuído aos três canais generalistas ex-aequo a distinção do ‘Pior do Ano’, com as programações de fim-de-ano.

A distinção ‘O Melhor do Ano’, foi atribuída a «uma sátira inteligente aos ‘reality shows’! E ainda por cima uma ideia original, o que é raro nos canais portugueses», considerou a Associação de Telespectadores (ATV).

Já a programação de fim-de-ano colocou no mesmo pódio do pior do ano RTP, SIC e TVI. Segundo a associação, o canal público mostrou «um programazito de pretenso humor» e a SIC e TVI fizeram o que «já seria de esperar – o final dos respectivos ‘reality shows’ (…). Portanto foi mau, péssimo», considerou a ATV em comunicado.

A ATV distinguiu ainda como ‘revelação do ano’ a renovação de pivots que resultou da saída de José Alberto Carvalho e Judite Sousa da RTP para a TVI, abrindo caminho à afirmação de Cristina Esteves e João Adelino Faria, «dois grandes profissionais que, por mérito próprio, fazem esquecer os consagrados, merecendo o nosso aplauso».

A privatização da RTP foi «galardoada» com a distinção «bronca do ano», uma bronca «tão grande que nem à ‘troika’ lembrou», intenção política à qual a ATV, «em representação da lógica dos espectadores, é frontalmente contra».

Entre «menções de mérito» atribuídas pela associação figuram no Canal 1 programas como Herman 2011; Prós e Contras, ou Portugueses pelo Mundo; na RTP2, Sociedade Civil e Diário Câmara Clara, na SIC, Grande Reportagem SIC ou Jornal da Noite e na TVI Jornal das 8 e Repórter TVI, entre outros.

Em contraponto, Preço certo e novela Ribeirão do Tempo na RTP; A família Mata e Cartas da Maia na SIC e os programas Perdidos na Tribo e Depois da Vida, receberem menções de demérito.

(via Lusa/SOL)

# “Nurse Jackie”, “The Big C” e “The Borgias” regressam dia 8 de Abril, um domingo.

# “Episodes” apenas regressa no Verão e a série terá uma campanha promocional mais forte que no ano passado.

# Prometeu que as próximas temporadas de “Dexter”, “Nurse Jackie” e “The Borgias” (ou até “Weeds”) vão ter algumas mudanças significativas e permanentes.

# Que “Dexter” deve acabar após a oitava temporada. Ou não.

# Que “Weeds” deve acabar após a oitava temporada. Ou não.

# Defendeu AQUELA storyline da sexta temporada de “Dexter”.

# Prometeu que a cena final da temporada de “Dexter” vai ter um verdadeiro impacto na série. “I’ve been pushing to shake up the formula a bit”, disse.

# Em “Nurse Jackie”, as acções da personagem principal vão começar a ter consequências. E das grandes.

# Em “The Borgias”, cujo plano inicial é de quatro temporadas mas pode ir além disso, a segunda temporada terá mais acção e a sua história terá uma abordagem mais ampla.

# Sobre “Homeland”, diz que a relação Carrie/Brody ainda agora começou e que a mesma continuará a ser um foco na segunda temporada.

Sorcery, sexuality and socialism make for a nasty threesome. Yet one television program is not afraid to promote this agenda to America’s young adults. Games of Thrones, the newest hit on the HBO Station, has truly broken the barriers of decency with this offensive science fiction action series and it’s about time that parents took notice.

Aimed specifically at the male teen demographic, with a specific emphasis on the awkward and the outsiders amongst them, this series is an obscene fairy tale of beasts and wizards, promiscuous “wenches” and bare-chested knights. With its plotlines of paganistic deviancy, occult violence and anti-Christian propaganda, it has been incredibly successful at luring immature boys of all ages into the raunchy domain of adult cable entertainment.

In essence, Game of Thrones is a poorly produced copy of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart with a dash of smut straight out of Hustler Magazine added to spice up the frustratingly complicated drama. It can be preachy and pretentious one moment, and decidedly X-rated the next. You will witness effeminate men having sex in bathtubs while speaking about dragons, dead bodies splayed out in satanic pentagrams in the snow and some of the most artificial acting ever broadcast on the small screen.

How can such an illicit program be allowed on American television? Does it pose risks for our children? Can Christians voice their outrage and have the show censored or cancelled? Below are twelve solid arguments for boycotting Game of Thrones in the coming year.

1. Sexual abnormality, including incest and lesbianism, appears in graphic detail.
From casual rape to group orgies, each episode of Game of Thrones has something astonishing for viewers. For many children, this will be the first time they are introduced to wanton fornication. Will they choose to experiment like this in real life?

2. Witchcraft is presented as empowering while Christian values are utterly insulted.
Deadly potions and menacing spirits dominate the storyline, but there is no mention of Jesus despite the fact that His love was the backbone of wisdom in the Middle Ages.

3. There is far too much violence and this prevents the overall plot from ever becoming compelling.
Do we really need to see all these bloody close-ups of beheadings and elaborate jousts? It just doesn’t contribute anything educational to the viewing experience.

4. Emilia Clarke is such an untalented actress that her only role in the show is to be eye candy for pedophiles.
This pretty young girl unfortunately lacks the intellect or the sophistication to appear on prime time television. The producers seem to know this and require her to disrobe in every scene. Her gentle, undeveloped teenage body does not evoke womanhood, but the innocence of a lost child, alone on the side of a highway and ripe for the picking.

5. By depicting the traditional heterosexual family unit as dysfunctional and a socialistic revolutionary army as an ideal alternative, the show reveals its underlying communist bias.
Should it come as any surprise that author George R. R. Martin, a power broker in liberal Hollywood, named the dominating spirit of these soldiers “The Red God”?

6. Actor Peter Dinklage, who plays a dwarf on the show, has become the poster child for sodomy amongst America’s youths.
Children identify with Dinklage because of his small size and comical accent, but his obsession with anal penetration crosses the boundaries into pure propaganda. How many children will watch the little man and want to try his grunty thrusts at home?

7. At times, the series appears to be little more than an excuse to display illicit homosexual scenarios.
Flamboyant costumes, effeminate longhaired men, boys shaving each other’s armpits… Add to this the voluptuous, swarmy acting style of gay porn star Kit Harington (who plays sycophant Jon Snow) and you’ll feel like you’ve been transported to a San Francisco bathhouse full of the apes from Star Trek.

8. The Irish actors willfully glamorize severe alcoholism.
The ignominy of Ireland has always been the weakness of its people when it comes to alcohol indulgence. Why must Games of Thrones attempt to find humor in such a national disgrace?

9. Pet wolves and dragons mirror demonic spirit guides in pagan cosmology.
When you pair up children with conduits of divination, you are inviting them to experiment in spiritually reckless ways. Sadly, atheism and Satanism await them down this path.

10. The show is incredibly difficult for adults to understand.
Most parents will find the thick European accents of the actors confusing. The story, vamped up from the original book, is frustrating for its leaps of logic and implausible romantic scenes. The producers of Games seem to understand this and have crafted the series so that it intentionally turns away older viewers. Should we be suspicious that they have worked so hard to have some private alone time with America’s children?

11. There are no positive role models.
It may sound a bit old fashioned, but what ever happened to the strong male figures we had on shows like Little House on the Prairie and Touched by an Angel? Instead we have Littlefinger and androgynous Joffrey Baratheon prancing about as heroes for today’s confused young men who appear to be insanely obsessed with this outrageous series.

12. The moody, dark cinematography will make teens depressed.
Many youth subculture groups, including Goths and Skinheads, prefer to inhabit the world of the night. In darkness they find convenient cover to master their addiction to drugs and sexual violence. Does Games of Thrones actively promote marijuana usage and rape? Should parents really sit idly by as we await the answer to this important question?

E agora que chegaram ao fim e estão certamente de boca aberta, posso-vos finalmente dizer que o texto, bem como o resto do conteúdo do site são apenas sátira. Não vos queria estar a enganar, mas o artigo realmente tem muito mais piada quando se pensa que é um real reflexo da opinião de alguém.

“It came to me in the middle of last season. I always felt like it would be the experience of human life. And human life has a destination. It doesn’t mean Don’s gonna die. What I’m looking for, and how I hope to end the show, is like … It’s 2011. Don Draper would be 84 right now. I want to leave the show in a place where you have an idea of what it meant and how it’s related to you. … I was 35 when I wrote the Mad Men pilot, 42 when I got to make it, and I’ll be 50 when it goes off the air. So that’s what you’re gonna get. Do I know everything that’s gonna happen? No, I don’t. But I just want it to be entertaining and I want people to remember it fondly and not think it ended in a fart.”

Recordo que “Mad Men” está em hiato há mais de um ano devido ao arrastar das negociações entre Weiner, o AMC e a Lionsgate que apenas foram concluídas há uns meses, e que a quinta temporada da série só deverá regressar em Março do próximo ano.

Filmada, pela terceira vez consecutiva, na Samoa, “Survivor: South Pacific” vai voltar a trazer dois antigos participantes no jogo (cuja identidade será revelada em breve), a “Redemption Island”, se bem que agora limitada a duelos entre duas pessoas ao longo de toda a temporada, e há introduz um novo conceito no que toca aos Idolos de Imunidade escondidos: também as pistas para os descobrir serão agora escondidas.

Para conhecerem melhor os elementos do elenco, eis um vídeo de apresentação dos mesmos:

Para já, tudo isto não passa supostamente duma intenção do realizador/actor, e não sei até que ponto uma série que teve uma saída comercial tão fraca consegue arranjar financiamento para regressar ao grande ecrã. Mas, se algum dia acontecer, uma coisa é certa: pelo menos um espectador na sala do cinema têm garantido.