ITV is producing another Sharpe tale starring Sean Bean scheduled to screen later in 2008. Sharpe’s Peril takes up where the 2006 two-parter, watched by seven million viewers, left off. Sharpe and Harper lead an East India Company train through enemy territory and face off the inevitable bandit attack. The adventure is part of a new raft of dramas scheduled by ITV for the autumn. Sean Bean to star in another Sharpe adventure
Day: January 27, 2008
Horsegirl writes: Olympic champion Event rider, Mark Todd (of New Zealand) has a new mount he’s going to try to go to this year’s Olympics with. The horse’s name is GANDALF! Fits, doesn’ it- being a New Zealand -bred horse. There’s an American rider who rides a horse called Frodo Baggins. And it goes on and on… [Mark Todd’s Olympic Profile]
UPDATE: It turns out that “Frodo Baggins” is a 13 year old black New Zealand bred Thoroughbred who actually starred as one of the Black Rider’s mounts in FOTR!! He even walked down the red carpet at the premiere of the film with Elijah Woods himself.
For more about “Frodo Baggins” and his rider Lainey Ashker, go here.
Thanks to Roheryn for doing a little more digging!
Kristin Thompson writes: New Line has now denied that rumor that circulated last week, the one about Time Warner possibly ousting Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne and absorbing its subsidiary into itself. I thought your readers might like a little more information about where that rumor came from. I try to put it in context on the Frodo Franchise blog.
Fans of ‘The Simpsons’ got a small LOTR reference in tonight’s episode according to TheOneRing.net message boarder, Draug the Unspeakably Violent. Marge is walking by during this college class *held in the mid-1990’s*, she overhears Comic Book Guy tell his students: “…And that is why “The Lord of the Rings” is unfilmable!”. The episode is ‘The 90’s Show’ and while the east coasters have missed out already, west coasters can still catch it live when it airs tonight. [The Simpsons Homepage]