Doctor Who
- Rusty wants lottery money for kids' TV
- Who's going to be in DT's final story? [spoilers?]
Film
- Star Trek's Chris Pine to play Green Lantern?
- Pete Segal to direct Little Fockers?
- Michael C Hall, Rainn Wilson and Sarah SIlverman to star in Peep World?
- The Wire's Ricko Otto to star in Point Break sequel
British TV
- BBC has to cut £400m from its budget
- Arrested Development's David Cross writing a sitcom pilot for Channel 4
US TV
- Jennifer Esposito drops out of Burn Notice, replaced by Moon Bloodgood
- Brett Ratner to direct and exec Fox's Cop House
- Elle Macpherson and other casting on Beautiful People pilot
- It's the crossover we've all been waiting for: Bones and Family Guy
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March 20, 2009 | Reply
I'm with Rusty on the lottery money thing. I think kids TV is a special case and it is in danger of getting squeezed out altogether so we're left with only American imports and cartoons. CITV was never as good as CBBC but it through up some interesting stuff occasionally. I loved Don't Eat the Neighbours and My Parents are Aliens. Without Central TV's collaboration with Ragdoll we'd also not have had the preschool classics Rosie and Jim/Tots TV - and then subsequently not Teletubbies either because the Beeb wouldn't have been interested. There's a lot of good crossover stuff that goes on between my industry and children's tv, which would be a shame to lose. There's such a frustratingly shortsighted view in some quarters, that if it's for kids it doesn't matter. Well it does if you want to create adult viewers/readers for the future.
March 20, 2009 | Reply
Moon Bloodgood? Is she a Bond girl? Don't tell me she isn't, I like it better this way.
March 20, 2009 | Reply
"Moon Bloodgood? Is she a Bond girl? Don't tell me she isn't, I like it better this way."
Okay! BTW, think I fixed the log-in thing: there was a space in the original blog code where there shouldn't have been. I've taken it out and now everything seems to be working perfectly. How weird.