Steven Spielberg

New show: Smash

Musical drama Smash premieres tonight at 10 on Sky Atlantic. If you like drama, singing, beautiful people being magnificent bastards and Marilyn Monroe then you have come to the right place. Step inside, the overture has just begun.

Falling Skies II: SKIES WILL FALL

It's literally that easy to write poster taglines, but you don't see them that often for TV shows. 'Mad Men 5: MEN WILL BE MAD'. 'Coronation Street: A STREET WILL BE CROWNED'. 'Party of Five: FIVE WILL PARTY'. I ruined it. :`(

Sing your fool head off with Smash

"Smash!" said Steven Spielberg to me, getting all up in my grill, a little unnecessarily. "SMASH!" If I'm honest I hadn't the foggiest what he was on about at the time, but it actually makes sense with hindsight.

Four things that might have happened in Terra Nova by now

Is anyone still watching Terra Nova? What's happening? How many of them have been eaten by dinosaurs yet? Let me guess, the main characters tend to narrowly escape every time, right?

Review: Terra Nova - season one premiere

Man, oh man. Someone's got some money to spend. Four million dollars an episode, Steven Spielberg on board as exec producer, and a shit-tonne of CGI dinosaurs. Welcome to Terra Nova.

Films on TV round-up: shark bites! God smites!

DISCLAIMER: there is no God. There are sharks, though: a friend of mine's seen one. Of course, he also claims he saw Jesus in a Findus Crispy Pancake but that's beside the point.

Review: Falling Skies – season one, episodes 1 and 2

An dinosaur show AND an alien show? What, is Spielberg just getting people to remake all his films for TV and picking up a cheque for it? What's next, a Schindler's List game show? (*double-checks whether Matt made essentially the same joke when he posted the trailer*) Oh.

Noah Wyle is the least likely alien invasion survivor

Over 80% of the world's population is killed in an alien invasion, but the weedy doctor from ER survives? Pffft.

Terra Nova: recession? Fox shits it

"Gosh, thanks awfully for being executive producer on our show, Mr Spielberg. Do you want any creative input?" "Not really. Other than it should basically be Jurassic Park with a strong ecological slant." "Right you are, then. Anything else you want turning into a series?" "Oooh, how about The Terminal? ... Hello? ... Hello?"

Films on TV round-up: robots, vampires and WAR

By astonishing coincidence, the key themes of this week's three featured films are exactly those of the script I've been trying to get Hollywood interested in: 'Last Cyborg Out of Saigon: The Bloodsuckening'. Spent three days shopping it round Cannes but there wasn't much take-up, if I'm honest. I mean, I'm not saying it's Citizen Kane or anything but you'd think I'd at least get a call-back off Michael Bay, right?