Blue Mandy
Mandy Patinkin is set to provide the voice for Papa Smurf – one of the few people in showbusiness who boasts a more impressive beard than he does – in the new Smurfs movie.
Good vibrations
Even as we’re still digesting his 1,000-song YouTube playlist, Dan Snaith has released a live album from his psych supergroup, Caribou Vibration Ensemble. Listen here.
Bad medicine
“I saw a guy with no legs, so I prescribed him three drops of doodly doodle-oo and his legs grew back!” Rob Delaney skewers homeopathy in Catastrophe.
Giorgio Minoguer
So far, Giorgio Moroder’s comeback has sounded pretty iffy. But his Kylie collab, Right Here, Right Now – resurrecting the classic Disco Kyl of Spinning Around – could be a winner.
Just a flesh wound
After Ripper Street, In The Flesh might be the next show to receive an online reprieve, with a petition for Netflix to renew the recently cancelled zombie drama, receiving 12,000 signatures in two days.
Plumbing the depths
A group of German research scientists have taught Super Mario to be self-aware, enabling the plumber to feel sadness, hunger and fear.
Some might say…
Actors who fancy themselves as musicians are “sickening” – says erstwhile Oasis and Aerosmith guest shredder Johnny Depp.
