Bird thou never wert

I have done sod all this week, bar taking Draco for his walks, finding new woodland sculptures (there appear to be a lot of snakes in the trees along one path, and another lurking dragon), washing up, shopping, and netsurfing.

This has yielded some interesting stuff (at least to me).

I'd been watching this to see whether NBC decided to go ahead with Awake with Jason Isaacs. This is being described (in an effort to encourage the notoriously unadventurous US TV industry to handle a piece of fiction that encompasses only two alternative 'realities'), as 'Inception-like'. I would be willing to bet that, in the extremely unlikely event of it ever getting a terrestrial British release, that on this side of the Pond it will be described as 'in the tradition of Life on Mars. I await developments with interest.

Meanwhile, building on the success of Mad Men the 1960s-set The Playboy Club centres on the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago. The pilot from Chad Hodge raised eyebrows when the cast... was asked to agree to nudity clause — typically unheard of on broadcast TV. The nude scenes are expected to only be used (if at all) for DVD and international versions of the show. (I'd love to know whether other shows have violence and swearing clauses (somehow I doubt it). I look forward to Channel 4 picking up the unexpurgated version.

Grimm also sounds interesting, a dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist. Though if they wanted to go that route I would rather see a TV version of Fables.

And I'm really not sure that the world needs a US version of Prime Suspect - any more than it needed a UK version of Law and Order.

Yes, I know I'm supposed to be writing, not reading, but there's nothing like fanfic for prevaricating.

RocknRolla: pushdragon pointed me at agenttrojie's A touch of the green-eyed monster (2456 words of Handsome Bob/One Two slash). Really recreates the language and ambience of the film – as do her other fics in the canon (so very much 'Explicit').

Sherlock/Criminal Minds: It was the title that made me click on this – so perfect for both Sherlock and Reid: Etruscan Is Not Obscure Enough For Them (460 words of gen humour) by bessemerprocess

And finally:

Harry Potter: Very heavy on bandwidth, a photo/epistolary fic about the selection of a new Minister of Magic to replace Fudge. Still anon as it's from the springtime gen fest: Ministry Business - Official or Otherwise.