Doctor Who
- Penultimate episode title and synopsis revealed [spoilers + thanks to Stu_N]
- Christopher Eccleston joins Hilary Swank in Amelia
Film
- Amanda Peet to star in 2012
- Leonardo DiCaprio for Captain America?
- Punisher: War Zone trailer
Art
- U2 selling a Basquiat
- Picassos stolen in Brazil
Books
- Russell Brand signs $3m publishing deal
British TV
- Adrian Lester returning for fifth series of Hustle
- BBC1 to screen Peter Moffat's Criminal Justice over five nights
- Kelly Reilly to star in possible Lynda La Plante franchise for ITV1
- Rob Brydon launches his own indie [free registration required]
- Final episode of The Apprentice got more than 10 million viewers
- UKTV to launch new channel, rebrand old [free registration required]
- Justin Lee Collins to front Crystal Maze successor [free registration required]
- Into The Labyrinth coming to DVD
US TV
- Details of the The Office spin-off
- Jon Voight to be evil mastermind in 24
- Jean-Christophe Novelli getting a series on Bravo
- Jericho fans buy a TV ad
- Will McCormack and Eric Christian Olsen to recur on Brothers & Sisters
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June 13, 2008 | Reply
That's fantastic news about Adrian Lester returning to the role of Mickey on 'Hustle'. The show lost something when he was gone, and as much as I like Marc Warren, I never could buy into the others accepting him as the new leader.
It's a shame we're going to lose Warren and Jaime, but Mickey as the leader was more important for bringing the show back up to speed.
Lester's also on my short list for a new incarnation of the Master; he might also be interesting as the Doctor (but that's a much longer list)!
June 13, 2008 | Reply
Adrian Lester's great, although not always (I'm thinking of Primary Colors here, but that was a pretty poor movie anyway). I'm hoping he's going to return for the series of Being Human, given that he was so good in the pilot as the head vampire.
June 13, 2008 | Reply
Bleeps. That video's not available over here.....
June 13, 2008 | Reply
[Rob, I'm obviously insane since I disagree with you, but…] I've seen Primary Colours several times. The first time I saw it was the eve of the 2000 US election. When it became evident that no one would know who was president until the next day, the Canadian channel I was watching put on Primary Colours, which, given what was going on, was a rather surreal choice. Fabulous cast, particularly Emma Thompson and Kathy Bates. I thought it was a hoot. The book is rather interesting too.
June 13, 2008 | Reply
I read the book first. It was interesting in exposing some of Clinton's excesses, more interesting in terms of trying to work out who the author was. But the film was a pale shadow of the book, particularly since it was revealed that Joe Klein was the author by then, and we could barely make our way through it - I think we watched half of it then had to take it back to the shop before the deadline.