The actor who voices Gollum in the forthcoming Lord of the Rings sequel The Two Towers was forced to drink honey and lemon so he could carry off the character’s painful lines. [More]
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This post from Xenu’s Sister from usenet group rec.arts.books.tolkien may be very useful for people in the USA – it’s a near comprehensive listing of all tolkien/lotr-related TV shows for the next two weeks. It may not be complete, but there’s a lot of stuff here …
The shows aren’t in any specific order.
ALL MY TIMES ARE CENTRAL STANDARD.
CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS.
SYNDICATED means that the program airs at different times on local
stations. Check your local listings.
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NEW
Syndicated – Charlie Rose
The Two Towers
Tuesday December 3 11:00pm (Channel 11 Chicago)
Wednesday December 4 12:00am (Channel 20 Chicago)
“Movie ‘Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’; director Peter Jackson; Elijah
Wood; Viggo Mortensen.”
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Syndicated – Entertainment Tonight
The Two Towers
December 4 12:37am
Tivo blurb just says “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers cast”.
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Syndicated – Entertainment Tonight
The Two Towers
December 6 6:30pm
December 10 12:37am
Tivo blurb just says “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”
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Syndicated – Access Hollywood
The Two Towers
Friday December 6 6:30pm
“Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers premiere”
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WB – The Lord of the Rings: Return to Middle-Earth
The Two Towers
December 4 – 8:00pm
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NBC – Today
Peter Jackson
December 4 – 7:00am
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NBC – Today
Elijah Wood
December 12 – 7:00am
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Ch 9 – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Return to Middle Earth
The Two Towers
December 4 7:00pm
I don’t know if this is local to Chicago, or national, or what. My Tivo
picked it up. The blurb says “Michael Rosenbaum previews the feature film
and chronicles the life-altering adventures shared by its stars in New
Zealand during the three-film shoot.”
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BBCAmerica – French & Saunders
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
December 5 7:00pm
December 6 2:00am
The blurb says “The duo spoofs the movie blockbuster.”
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Bravo – From Page to Screen
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
December 9 – 7:00pm
December 9 – 10:00pm
December 10 – 3:00pm
December 13 – 11:00m
December 15 – 11:00am
New show about adapting published works for the screen.
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Bravo – Bravo Profiles
Cate Blanchett
December 8 – 6:00pm
December 9 – 12:00am
December 14 – 12:00am
A repeat, but was filmed after the LOTR: FOTR shoot.
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Bravo – James Lipton’s Inside the Actors Studio
Ian McKellen
December 8 – 7:00pm
December 8 – 11:00pm
December 15 – 10:00am
It’s listed as a premiere, so it’s new.
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MTV – Movie House
The Two Towers
December 9 – 8:00pm
December 10 – 2:00pm
December 11 – 10:00pm
December 12 – 5:00pm
December 13 – 3:30pm
“Making the second of the Tolkien trilogy.”
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MTV – Making the Video Game: Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
December 9 – 8:30pm
December 10 – 1:30pm
December 11 – 10:30pm
December 12 – 5:30pm
December 13 – 4:00pm
“The creation of a video game based on the movie.”
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Starz – On the Set
The Two Towers
December 11 – 10:45pm
December 12 – 1:45am
December 13 – 10:40pm
December 14 – 6:40am
December 14 – 2:40pm
December 14 – 5:00pm
December 14 – 8:00pm
December 14 – 10:40pm
December 15 – 1:15am
December 15 – 4:15am
December 15 – 6:40am
December 15 – 12:05pm
December 15 – 2:40pm
December 15 – 3:05pm
Amazing that there are so many of these so close together. Starz! is weird.
Starz! is also showing the movie LOTR: FOTR this month. They’ve been having
beautiful preview sequences between movies.
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NEW
? – Regis & Kelly
Elijah Wood
December 13th – ? (Check local listings)
This isn’t in my Tivo yet, I just heard about it.
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Vardia writes: Here’s a scan from “The Australian”. Its about the set of Hobbiton being opened to the public. [More]
Jess and Mike in South Africa wrote to let fans there know that FOTR will be shown on Mnet during December on Sunday 15th at 20.00 (South African Time), Thursday 19th at 23.20, and Saturday 28th at 22.35. The ‘Return to Middle Earth’ special will be shown on Tuesday the 17th at 19.30.
Nice review, spoiler free, courtesy of Nerdanel, who saw it in LA last night. [More]
Nerdanel writes: “I saw TTT last night at a screening for the Los Angeles Film Critics (of whom my spouse is one). As I pretty much agree with every word of both of Sarumann’s reviews, I write to add only a few additional comments.
“TTT is a remarkable achievement in two very different ways. The first has already been commented on extensively–the battle scenes are spectacularly done. I’m no fan of war movies, but the Battle of Helms Deep is well paced, suspenseful, and remarkably easy to follow–I must admit that I’ve never been entirely sure what exactly was going on in that part of the book, or where the Glittering Caves might be relative to the Deep, but the film made all that quite clear. At the same time, we get caught up in the fortunes of Gimli, Aragorn, Legolas, Eowyn,Theoden and others and are able to follow these separate threads as they weave through the larger tapestry of the battle.
“The second great feature of TTT is the way many of the characters from the book are actually deepened and humanized in the movie. Eowyn, to take one example, already the closest thing to a breathing female anywhere in LotR, is really brought to life by Miranda Otto in her scenes with Aragorn and Gimli, and leads me to have high hopes for her role in RotK. Aragorn, too, continues the complex character development begun in FotR but largely missing from the books–his interaction with Eowyn is both sympathetic and subtle and provides a fine counterpoint to the unfolding and (to me) still not entirely convincing Aragorn/Arwen story. I also join the crowd completely blown away by Gollum–not just a great effect but a truly great performance, probably the best in the film. (Can a CGI effect be awarded best supporting actor?) Elijah Wood’s portrayal of Frodo benefits considerably from juxtaposition with this richly detailed rendering of Gollum, which makes it clear both to Frodo and to the audience what Frodo is in real danger of becoming.”
Oh, by the way, I loved it. Can’t believe I have to wait over 2 weeks to see it again.