Saturday Link-A-Mania

Baldwin’s Bonsai Agent
There’s a great little interview with Chuck actor Adam Baldwin over at The New York Times which cotains the following promising snippet: “Chuck struggled to find an audience until just before its holiday hiatus in mid-December, when critics, particularly online, started noticing that the show’s ratings had improved 12 percent from the season premiere. NBC is bringing the show back with a hefty marketing push, including a 3-D commercial during Sunday night’s Super Bowl telecast and a 3-D episode on Monday night.” Good grief. It may actually avoid the axe for the second time. Cross your fingers! Meanwhile, Baldwin reveals that it was his own idea to give his character, John Casey, an interest in bonsai, and to have the pic of Ronald Regan in his appartment. This is an actor who knows his character too well.

Angel Delight
Okay, okay, that’s the most predictable headline for a story about anything with Angel in the title, but it’s Saturday, we’re recovering from Friday night festivities and it’s the best we can do. Anyway, Variety reports that Sony has snapped up the film rights to a book called Angelology (try saying that after a few wine gums) about a 23-year old nun who teams with an angel expert to thwart a race of angel/human hybrids called Nephilim. Author of the book, Danielle Trussoni, is already working on a sequel, so we can smell franchise potential.

Land of the Lost Still Looking Ropey
Tagged onto the end of yet another self-agrandising post by Harry (“have I dropped a name yet?”) Knowles over at Ain’t It Cool is a new picture from Land of the Lost, the film version of the ’70s TV show about a modern day family trapped in a world of dinosaurs. Is it just us, or all all the stills being released from this film deliberately crud? Is there some joke we’re missing?