At least according to Zap2It - the finale is ten minutes longer

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/05/game-of-thrones-season-2-finale-to-run-an-extra-ten-minutes.html

And Sky's listings on their site confirm we get the extended episode here

So, for those who, like sweetheartwhale and myself, were pissed off by Sky's announcer yapping all through the fucking song on Monday night....

...with no phone, net or emails, thanks to BT translating "we'll have your new service running by the 18th, then phone you to get the first payment and set up the direct debit" into getting it running on the 25th, then immediately cutting it off because they hadn't called to get payment a week earlier. Thanks a fucking bunch you incompetent cunts

Well, it's only really half of ANH, but nevertheless... the cast of Futurama (and other cartoons) do Star Wars as their characters, and as impressions of other famous folks. Ever wondered how Bender would play Leia, or Christopher Walken(s) as Obi Wan? Here we go...

Shatner's HIGNFY was fucking brilliant!

I'll have to record the extended repeat - he even did the Sex Pistols version of God Save The Queen...

which even Schwarzenegger thinks should be an official version:

This happened:



I know what I'm watching tonight - apart from the Shat presenting HIGNFY

Right, time for the one-a-week Bond-athon to take us up to Skyfall... Which means tonight it's Dr No. This is one that gets better with each viewing, perhaps because if (like me) you first saw it aged about 6, you probably started off disappointed by the lack of shootouts and explosions. But if you're older than 6, it's a treat with a wonderful vein of black humour running through it. Oddly enough, the book has always been (perhaps along with OHMSS) my favourite of the Fleming canon.... Connery's immediately fantastic in this, and, TBH, the weather tonight has an appropriate Caribbean sultriness to go with it!

watching Gotterdammerung on Sky Arts - nice production, has Matti Salminen (my favourite opera person), has Goth tribal Rhinemaidens, and so on. But, fuck me, the translation on the subtitles is dodgy. Did I say dodgy? I meant ridiculous. I think Yoda might have done them - but come on, "primeval laws, eternal rope?" save it for the lynching, while the rest of us stick with the chains. And, no, lass die Beute doesn't mean "put the bag down" - it means throw down the spoils... Still, it's just as well Lesley's not loose on the keyboard to complain, with her fluency and MPhil and all.

Oh, and the goth tribal Rhinemaidens being "winsome"? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Cos it's not a description that fits the look and performance of these Rhinemaidens...