It seems like the weeks until the premier of "Skins" went by quickly (didn't feel that way when the show was still two months away) - and the time is now, finally (tomorrow). I don't really understand the tagline "can it really be the new Doctor Who" in the Guardian-article (it's just a very British thing to embed drama and amazing character development in ridiculous plots and over-the-top minor characters, right, that's nothing "Doctor Who" specific?), but I am vaguely amused that fan fiction is now an issue discussed in mainstream media, and, oftentimes not exactly with the support of people who write fan fiction, mentioned in interviews with cast members. Also, the description of how viewers didn't like the love triangle so consequently this season is more about Naomi and Emily is lovely (having stumbled across some video clips of cast members attending events, British female teenagers really do like Lily Loveless, a lot - and I kind of get why).
More Caprica-stuff before the first new episode airs next Friday: Jane Espenson discusses sexuality on "Caprica" , and the LA Times Show Tracker blog interviews Magda Apanowicz, who plays Lacy (I am looking forward to strange conversations between her and Zoe the Cylon.)
We love Soaps has an interview with the two leading actresses of "Anyone But Me", Rachel Hip-Flores and Nicole Pacent. New episodes are released every second Tuesday (although there was no new episode yesterday, but you can subscribe on iTunes).
Amber Benson and Adam Busch's "Drones" premiered at Slamdance and got a rave review from SLUG magazine. The "office comedy with alien undertones" features among others Samm Levine ("Freaks and Geeks") and Jonathan Woodward (the man who has been in every Joss Whedon show except "Dollhouse").
And, finally, die Zeit writes about the new Tocotronic record "Schall und Wahn" ("doch die Texte sterben allzu oft den kleinen Tod allerschönster Verrätselung." - but that's true for the past two records, and you either like it or you don't, right?), and Paste finds five reasons to celebrate Cat Power on her 38th birthday, and while I would certainly find more, I was amazed to find her cover of Oasis' "Wonderwall" on that list, which is the first song ever I heard her sing, and that was one of the small coincidences in life that sometimes lead to great things.
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