Film
- Uma Thurman and Pierce Brosnan to voice Greek gods for Percy Jackson
- The new Three Stooges are (probably)… wait for it… Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio del Toro. Bet you were guessing that already, weren't you?
- Nicole Kidman joins new Woody Allen movie
- Universal adapting The Strange Adventures of HP Lovecraft
- Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz to star in Wichita and Trouble Man?
Theater
- David Mamet to make Broadway directing debut with Race
Canadian TV
- CBC to lay off 800 staff
French TV
- Sundance Channel coming to VoD and other channels
British TV
- Channel 4 unveils its spring/summer season
- Tracy Beaker returning as an adult
- Juliet Walters to play Mo Mowlam
- Charlie Brooker's You Have Been Watching picked up for series
- Parent company says Five needs to merge
- Tonightly cancelled but team working on new show
- Trailer for new series of Primeval
US TV
- 24 creator Joel Surnow trying to make mini-series about the Kennedys
- In Treatment's Josh Charles joins Good Wife
- Sarah Connor's Stephanie Jacobson joins Melrose Place
- Lost's Ian Somerhalder joins Vampire Diaries
- Donald Sutherland joins Eastmans
- NBC streaming on the rise
- Heroes ratings at all time low
- British TV shows joining Hulu
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March 26, 2009 | Reply
Very happy to hear that Hulu will be carrying British shows, especially 'Kingdom'. I only caught one episode of that on a local PBS station, and it was the last one of Season One. And then they dropped it.
I like quirky small town series (Hooterville, Fernwood, Cicely, Clatterford, etc.), and this seemed to fall into that category....
March 26, 2009 | Reply
Oh GOD!!! Tracey Beaker's coming back?? I don't think I can bear it. I think we have seen every episode of that bloody programme at least three times. I found Dani Harmer's version of Tracey much more bolshy then she is in the book, and it is really very hard explaining to a six year old that it is not acceptable to talk to your mother the way Tracy talks to grown ups. They do not understand the concept that it's reaction to circumstances. They just think it's cool and the way you should speak. God alone know what a grown up Tracy will teach them(-:
Having said that I do look JW, but in the main prefer the books which are a little less in your face. Though they could differentiate the covers to make the books for older readers more obvious - one of mine brought back Dustin Baby aged 7 and it begins with imagining a fourteen year old getting drunk at a party and having unprotected sex. Wasn't quite the way I'd been planing to introduce the birds and the bees!