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Derren BrownDerren Brown, the British mind magician and all around annoying show off, has wowed the slackjawed public with his latest special, Hero at 30,000 feet, in which he takes a bad actor an average guy and turns him into a hero… at 30,000 feet (this is achieved with a plane in case you haven’t yet realised it).

Now, I’m not one to nit-pick (not true, I really am), but I had a bone to pick with this show. Most people will tell you that it was all staged and that it was done with split screen technology or something equally annoying, but that wasn’t the problem.

The problem was… Derren Brown appears to have just made a mockumentary version of Donnie Darko. Read More >>>

Will & Grace sitcom pilot David Kohan Max MutchnickIf you're anything like us, you've spent every day since the last Will & Grace episode slamming your head into a pile of shattered glass and shouting the word 'why' into the sky a lot.

Because, let's face it, without Will & Grace on TV, there's nobody to give third-rate, painfully unfunny walk-on parts to Madonna any more.

However, all's not lost because the creators of Will & GraceDavid Kohan and Max Mutchnick – are making a new sitcom pilot about a gay person who's friends with a straight person. We can only marvel at where Kohan and Mutchnick – a gay person and a straight person who are friends and had a successful long-running sitcom about a friendship between a gay person and a straight person – got this wickedly original new idea for a TV show from.

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