Dang. Does anyone know if/when Life on Mars is supposed to run on BBCA? I tried looking but I quickly discovered I'd be quite spoiled if I looked any further.

The first series already ran. I can't find anything on the BBCA site about series 2, sorry.

hmm, I guess we'll have to wait and see if I am justified in ahemmmming it.

BBCA doesn't tend to update stuff that isn't currently running. I think that Life on Mars was one of the titles mentioned in the BBCA upfronts. (You know when they were talking about their schedule by show-type per day: Saturday for things like Life on Mars, Torchwood, Hex.)

Anyway, that schedule goes into effect in June. But I don't know what shows are going to be on first EXCEPT that they've been running MANY ads for season 2 of Hex.

Ben Browder, from Farscape, Stargate: SG1, and occasional guest-star appearances in my dreams.

Bwah! Yours too? The guy gets around, oneirically speaking.

BSG - I gave up on the podcast about 10 minutes before the end. RDM needs to get the frack over the spoiler thing. I swear, the more I hear him whine about it, the more I want to break into the SciFi offices and start stealing scripts so I can post them online. (Note to SciFi honchos: just kidding! Really! I don't even live on that coast!)

Maybe it's just that with the podcasts, he's got more of an outlet to whine about this than Joss & Co did, but I honestly don't remember spoilers being taken so seriously back in the old days. (Taken seriously in the "taken as a personal affront" sense -- obviously ME were masters at leaking foilers when they wanted to, but I always got a sense that they treated it as a game rather than a personal betrayal of everything fandom was supposed to stand for.)

The end of Season 5 definitely made me feel that Joss and the Mutant Enemy folks were having fun with the foiler chaff. It turned out I was actually spoiled for "The Gift," but there were so many contradictory rumors that it felt like being unspoiled. The thing was like Schrödinger's Finale until it actually aired.

Man, the Life on Mars whitefont is killing me. And the thing is, I have the entire series two ahemed but haven't had the chance to watch anything past episode 2. I know I'd be better served by resisting WF and watching the eps unspoiled, but MAN. It's tempting.

Someone on my Flist a few days ago linked to this clip: [link]

I haven't watched 24 Hour Party People, but apparently John Simm was in it and he played the New Order front man Bernard Sumner? (Must Netflix right now OMG!) The clips shows Simm singing with Sumner in a New Order concert, and he has this cute leather jacket-over-hoodie outfit on, and he's all shy about being pulled into stage, then you could see him go, "oh, what the hell" and belting it out with all he's got, and really, it's fucking adorable.

It also helps that I just fell for New Order, 20 years behind everyone else.

Well, and also it was way more difficult to get ahold of stuff like sides and spoilers during the Joss heyday. The online community would pass it around hush-hush so well that it was like fight club. Today, you're like as not going to see thirty livejournal posts blaring the same information, which means a wider spread.

I do think it's kind of ridiculous to bitch about spoilers, though. The folks who care enough to hunt down the spoilers are the avid watchers of the show, so why complain that your audience loves your show so much that you *have* to find out what's going to happen?

And the thing is, I have the entire series two ahemed but haven't had the chance to watch anything past episode 2.

YES. sigh.