Did they really need the blonde girl's chest to be hanging out in the pink number?

eddy | September 22, 20:19 CET

I saw a trailer for this last night, it did seem to have some Buffy connotations. Interesting tribute to the Whedon legacy.

And I'm still recovering from the revamp of the Sky One logo. It's awful. Looks like Sky Onc.

Simon | September 22, 20:41 CET

That cast photo makes me crave a pretty WB cast.

Melisande | September 22, 21:09 CET

Yep Melisande you're right. Within it contains a Michelle Bass look-alike, Jemima Rooper (who was pretty attractive playing Nikki in "As If", but not so much as George in "The Famous Five", well she was 14, a blonde women who looks pretty great in the top photo, but not that amazing in the cast photo.

But its their acting thats mostly important and I don't think Jemima Rooper is that bad. The rest are pretty much unknown's.

Unfortunately I don't have Sky, but if I did I would have put an hour aside to watch it. If I'd liked it, I would have continued watching it. But.....sob....i'll never know!

Apocalypse | September 22, 21:29 CET

it does seem a bit harriet potter to me i told my hubby it was the british version of buffy he said thatll be pants then

penni | September 22, 21:29 CET

Ha, I was just reading the description of the series premiere. Can they clone Willow any further? (except, you know she wasn't desperate to fit in and didn't have a crush on Buffy)

The majority of the students belong to "The Crowd", except two clear outsiders: Cassie and her best friend Thelma. Thelma is an outsider for a very clear reason: she is a lesbian with a crush on Cassie, however the reasons behind Cassie's exclusion are vague - somehow she is just different. Despite this, Cassie longs to be part of The Crowd, especially to be close to one person - Troy.

BlindHawkeyes | September 22, 21:48 CET

penni, is "pants" kinda like "the cat's pajamas"?

Me, personally, I'm waiting for a British version of Harry Potter.

Caleb | September 22, 21:57 CET

Personally, I'm waiting for this American adaptation of Harry Potter ;).

And pants means a load of old rubbish.

Simon | September 22, 22:05 CET

That American Harry Potter would probably be better than I'm expecting this Hex thing to be.

Ghost Spike | September 22, 22:22 CET

Ah, it's interesting that feline nightwear would mean the opposite of human trousers.

Ouch, a HP series? I dunno about that one... still, probably better than Hex. But not much... yuck, a "typical teen drama"? That's what HP ISN'T. It's like saying Buffy is a typical teen drama.

"J.K. Rowling's books are extremely British," said Levin. "America's a much more diverse place than Britain, and we really needed to introduce a more urban element to the very provincial original."

Will the spells be latin raps?

Bah

EDIT: LOL at the spoof, shows me to read whedonesque while at work and dodging the man.

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Caleb | September 22, 22:59 CET

That HP things a load of bull right, 'cos frankly I wouldn't have put it past Levin.

Ghost Spike | September 22, 23:12 CET

Slightly off topic but aside from the new logo (which really does seem to suggest i'll be watching Sky Onc from now on) i'm quite impressed with the website revamp. Much better than what we have had from Sky so far.

Still think that Sky would have been better off sharing the funding of an actual new slayer show with either UPN or the WB rather than attempting this copycat version. Surely whatever Hex costs to make would have gone at least half way towards the cost of a new show set in the slayerverse.

Ah well, that didn't happen so i'll give this a chance to see if it is any good at all. You never know, i guess.

Koven | September 22, 23:47 CET

Ouch. Simon, you almost had me with the Americanized Harry Potter spoof. But even before reading the site's "disclaimer", the printed comments seemed just a little *too* colorful . . .

WB soaps are "filled with ludicrously attractive twentysomethings pretending to be teenagers and sleeping around at the drop of a hat. The very concept of "Hogwarts 90210" makes me want to retch." It's a wonderful statement, but I can't imagine most real critics putting it in print.

And then this: "We think that Tom has already shown the brooding intensity you need to play Harry," countered Levin. "I mean, he's already got the dark hair. A pair of glasses and a little scar, and it'll be like Harry walked out of the book" is obviously too good to be true.

Although Alyssa Milano as Hermione. Umm, just went to a bad place.

SoddingNancyTribe | September 23, 00:30 CET

Alyssa Milano..hmmmn....Okay back to subject. Since I live in the States I'll probably never see this show unless it becomes extremly popular and is released on DVD here. When anyone else was looking at the website did they think that the picture of the Nephelim guy looked a lout like the cardassians form star trek deep space nine?

ShotgunWes | September 23, 00:49 CET

I like the fact that the actors don't look like they just stepped out of a magazine. Well, we'll see if there are any original ideas in this one - I hope so.

sasja | September 23, 10:27 CET

Ooh! The Head of Medenham is played by the same actor who was the lead inspector on Keen Eddie! I loved that show!

Sister Spooky | September 23, 17:54 CET

Looks intriguing to me from across the pond, if only because there's nothing that looks remotely like it in the States based on what I can see here. I hope it's the homegrown cult hit Brits have been needing to fill the recent genre entertainment vacuum. Then you can lord it over us Yanks. ;)

By the way, when is the new Who coming out?

Wiseblood | September 24, 09:16 CET

Clicky :) for all the latest on the new Who. I am pretty excited with Russell Davies, Steve Moffat, Chriss Eccleston, and Billie Piper (mreow!) onboard. That said I need a series five of Coupling ;)

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zeitgeist | September 24, 09:51 CET