Buffy, Michael Sheen & MacGuffins
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And I'm Richard Osman. Hello, Marina.
Hello, Richard. How are you?
I'm not too bad at all. Can I start with any other business? Please. After our Oscars chat and my main contribution was working out if more people from... Casualty had been nominated for an Oscar, then from The Bill. Stuart Ian Burns has written in and said, thank you so much for crunching the numbers. I'm The Bill and Casualty's Oscar alumni. I love crunching. I really, genuinely love crunching numbers.
But people loved it. But I love crunching numbers. It's actually, that's what people...
Stuart has crunched the numbers of his own. Can I point you in the direction of another BBC stalwart, Doctor Who, which has 15 acting nominations.
Oh, my gosh.
Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Kaluuya again, who has been in all three of these. The centre of our van. He is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Eric Roberts. I was thinking, and of course he was, he was nominated for Runaway Train, wasn't he? Way back when, Best Supporting Actor. Felicity Jones, Ian McKellen, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, John Cleese, John Hurt, Olivia Colman, Pauline Collins, Richard E. Grant, Sophie Okonedo and Mare Winningham, all nominated for Oscars. I will say this, Stuart Ian Burns, if I may call you that... Some of those people were in Doctor Who after they were Oscar nominated because Doctor Who was a very, very big franchise and nothing against casualty in the bill, but it's harder for them to get Oscar nominated actors in them.
So absolutely, it takes the crown, but I think it has a little asterisk next to that crown.
Agreed. I think it has to be the stepping stone. Yes, but anyone... And actually, I don't want to denigrate the shows at all, but it has to be an early part of the CV.
Because it's about the skill of a casting director, which is spotting... It's like if you go back and watch Prime Suspect, and every kind of minor character, you're like... Oh, my God. Yeah, I know. I was watching one the other day, and there's a 14-year-old Danny Dyer in it. Just every time, it's someone where you go, like a young Peter Capaldi, stuff like that. So it's about the skill of the casting director. But, Stuart, thank you for crunching numbers as well and keeping me company. And anyone out there, whoever wants to crunch any numbers and send me any sort of list, I will, honestly, that is grist to my mill. Shall we start with a question about...
There's so many questions about Buffy. Yes.
So Jen is asking this. I saw that Hulu has decided not to take up the highly anticipated Buffy reboot. It seems a strange decision given the appetite from the fandom and with both Sarah Michelle Gellar and Chloe Zhao involved. How did they arrive at this decision?
It is genuinely remarkable this because it got so far. This is the beloved series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, which ran for seven seasons between I think 97 and 2003.
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