Lovely stuff!

I’m copping this ASAFP.

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have teamed up for a new 6 part series on BBC2 called The Trip. They play versions of themselves reviewing restaurants of northern England for The Observer Magazine. It’s just plain funny.

Comedian and writer David Cross is back with THE INCREASINGLY POOR DECISIONS OF TODD MARAGARET on IFC. Todd is a temp who is mistakenly offered a job of leading the UK launch and marketing campaign of a dodgy energy drink from North Korea called Thunder Muscle. One lie covers another and the hilarity ensues. Peep the clip.

I’ll just leave it there.

The final episode of RUBICON season 1 aired last night. I’ve been watching every week since finding out about it from my good friend JD. The main character is Will Travers, an intelligence analyst at a firm called API (American Policy Institute) located  in a  clandestine building in lower Manhattan with only a plaque out front. Will is a team leader with a knack for recognizing patterns. He is drawn in over his head after his father-in-law, also an analyst at API, is killed under shady circumstances after discovering a pattern in the crosswords of several of the city’s newspapers one morning. The deeper Will digs, the more he discovers. The show is very understated and quick, so a lot of information is passed along with just a few words.

Veteran actors Miranda Richardson, Arliss Howard and Peter Gerety make RUBICON feel like you’re watching a really good film every week. I was glad to read that the show has been renewed for another season. It’s well worth a view.

The opening credits are also very impressive. See below.

Rubicon Main Titles from Jeremy Cox on Vimeo.

Produced by Imaginary Forces

Director: Karin Fong
Designers: Karin Fong, Theo Daley, Jeremy Cox
Animators: Jeremy Cox, JJ Johnstone, Andy Chung
Producer: Cara McKenney
Editors: Caleb Woods & Jordon Podos
Design Assistants: Daniel Farah & Leo Marthaler

http://imaginaryforces.com/featured/6/601

Doug Stanhope is the truth.