Congratulations to Duncan and the MOON team. Simply outstanding.

Wasn’t watching the BAFTAs. Too busy being kicked in the throat by Woody and Ben.

For all the award love its been getting I thought The Hurt Locker fell apart about half way through. The Messenger is the real deal.

Justice is served

JT of MZP has been busy with both Jeannie and Marti. Very, very cool.

Always nice to pull this stuff out in meetings…

UPDATE: Frank and GUN:

It came to my attention this morning that some of you may have not yet seen Na Hong-jin’s The Chaser. That’s ok – I have a back log of movies to catch up on myself and hey, we’re busy people. But it also came to my attention that some of you may be waiting for the inevitable American remake. This is unacceptable.

We don’t want a repeat of the incident  a few years ago where I was forced to drag some of you out of the theaters by the legs, hitting you over the head with the DVD of Infernal Affairs before the opening credits of The Departed had played.

Plus this time I have a claw hammer.

Catching up with friends. Looks like Laura has been busy:

Still some LA trip stuff to come, but let me talk a little about Amy Berg before she has her people in London kill me.

John Rogers had told me that Amy was someone I had to meet as she gives both good sci fi and can plan a complicated heist under pressure. He hadn’t quite prepared me for just how awesome she is. Drinking a mini bar dry while trading origin stories with @bergopolis was one of the most fun times I’ve ever had in America.

And she knows TV to a scary level. You really need to keep an eye on the next season of Eureka.

Plus you can pump her for Slingers spoilers:

She also lifted a sizzle prop from me in a move that would put the Leverage crew to shame.

Nicely played, Berg. Nicely played.

I’m not sure that I’ve made it quite clear just how grateful, flattered and completely blown away the whole Slingers team have been by the fan response to our little slice of science fiction. I’d hoped we’d find an audience once the show was on the air, but had never imagined we’d have so much support so very early on. Every day brings email or Twitter comments that knock me for six.

A couple of days ago I got a DM from Haruka asking me if I’d seen the “cute stuff” going on over on LiveJournal. I had not. So I’m sat on the bus listening to ‘Astronaut’ by Amanda Palmer suddenly looking at a set of Slingers LJ icons created by deepfishy.

Of course I missed my stop.

After I left a thank you comment over on Things Deep and Shallow deepfishy replied:

icons are a cornerstone of livejournal fandom, and it’s such a pretty trailer. I’m only sad the current clips of JUNIOR didn’t translate very well to 100×100 pixels.

Also, I think this is the earliest in a fandom’s life I’ve seen an lj community spring up (swinging_2263) – the only other one I can think of is Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which had the force of the Joss Whedon fanbase already.

Swinging 2263? How cool is that…

I’ll see what I can do about some better Junior images. Having been involved in social media for a while now I know how important fan access is and once we have everything green-lit I’ll be pushing for us to be as open as possible in every aspect of the show. Sleepydog and I have been talking about this for years now and luckily there are trailblazers like the Leverage and Eureka teams making some of our ideas going forward seem less insane.

Check out the Eureka Unscripted blog if you haven’t already. We’re so stealing that idea.

So again – THANK YOU for all the support. We’ll try and pay you back by blowing shit up in an interesting way.

This has already done the rounds elsewhere, but just embedding it here for completion’s sake. A few minutes I spent with Sean on the set of the Slingers sizzle.

He was also very happy to do a little extra voice over work for us a few weeks later. Professional and delightful, working with Sean was one of the highlights of last year. Go watch Dog Soldiers again – as Sean said, “It’s still got legs…”

I have a desktop folder called blog fodder that’s full of stuff I should really find time to write about. While I empty it and sift through check out a very generous scanned version of Ridley Scott’s Alien as realised by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson for Heavy Metal magazine.

It blew me out of the airlock while I was distracted by its underwear.