Bits and pieces

Stills from JJ Abram's Star Trek reboots have started appearing all over the place. AICN has a number of links. I have to say, it's looking damn good and it's nice to see the short uniforms of TOS have been retained ^_^

This news passed me by, but Boston Legal won't be coming back next year. However, David E. Kelley will have a new hour-long legal drama, this time over at NBC.

The Daily Mail is reporting that the BBC wants to shift Question Time to Scotland. While it's always wise to take the Mail with a pinch of salt, if this story is true then it's a quite ridiculous move on the part of the BBC. Let's be honest, most of the people who appear on the programme are based in London. It's a political show and whether or not the BBC wants to admit it, London is the political centre of the nation. This move would serve to do nothing but diminish a programme which will struggle to attract high-profile panellists to make the schlep north of the border. It's even dafter than the decision to move Five Live to Manchester.

Bafflingly, Quentin Tarantino has changed the name of his forthcoming film Inglorious Bastards to Inglourious Basterds.

Elsewhere, Ian Williams has a good analysis of last night's presidential debate, which I recorded and watched frst thing this morning. Certainly the liveliest of the debates so far. McCain was more fired up and aggressive, but I got the impression he was flailing around somewhat. Banging on about links between Obama and Bill Ayers is a dead-end, save with the people who were always going to vote for McCain anyway. Anyone with powers of objective reasoning can see the idea that Obama 'pals around with terrorists', to quote Sarah Palin, is patently absurd, as are the accusations he's an 'extremist' on abortion or participating in 'class warfare' on economic policy. Obama himself remained cool as ever, concentrated on issues of substance and, to be honest, simply appeared more presidential.

There's more good analysis of the debate by Jonathan Freedland and Melissa McEwan.