The Medium is Not Enough TV blog

Thursday's "how I met your smurfs" news

Rob Buckley — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:33:45 +0000

Film

Rachel McAdams joins new Woody Allen movie
Robert de Niro joins Dark Fields
Neil Patrick Harris joins The Smurfs
Hugh Jackman to star in Lee Daniels' Selma

Music

Mutya Buena wants to own the Sugababes name

British TV

ITV returns to profit
Warner to launch VoD service with mobile phone company 3 [subscription required]
Five Days gets 6.8m for second episode
Discovery to launch TLC in the UK next year [subscription required]
Ofcom to probe STV

US TV

Disney Channel to have animated spin-off show from Tron: Legacy
Pilot roles for Ana Ortiz, Alicia Witt, Will Yun Lee and Nicole Steinwedell
Ryan Devlin joins Shit My Dad Says
Debra Messing to star in Wright vs Wrong
FNL's Scott Porter to star in Nomads
Dana Delany to star in Body of Evidence?
Blair Underwood to star as US president in The Event
Southland off to modest start on TNT with 2.5m viewers
Parenthood gets off to okay start with 8.1m viewers
Rob Lowe joins Parks and Recreation
9.2m tune in for Lost
Firefly's Jewel Staite to guest on Warehouse 13
Returning characters for the Ugly Betty finale [spoilers]
Trailer for final season of The Tudors

John Barrowman sings 'The Doctor and I'

Rob Buckley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:31:48 +0000

John Barrowman sings 'The Doctor and I' - it's on his latest album.

I won't say a word.

The Doctor & I - 1'30'' by lucidonline

[via]

John Barrowman - Single Ladies

Rob Buckley — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:34:30 +0000

Look! It's John Barrowman from TV's Torchwood dancing to Beyoncé's 'Single Ladies'. I hope your retinas don't get scarred by this.

Friday's charging Hulu news

Rob Buckley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:59:56 +0000

Film

DreamWorks to adapt Ghost in the Shell
Wicked novels to be adapted into a series
Iain M Banks' Culture to be filmed

Music

Bon Jovi to take up residency in the O2 from 2010

British TV

NCIS: LA premiere gets 505k viewers
News at Ten to lose Big Ben

US TV

In Treatment to get a third season?
Wednesday's ratings
NBC orders three comedies, one starring Adam Carolla
Hulu to start charging
Angie Harmon to star in TNT's Rizzoli
Two regulars fired from Melrose Place
Kristen Bell and Jane Lynch to return to Party Down

Wednesday's "suit, counter-suit" news

Rob Buckley — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:57:21 +0000

Doctor Who

David Tennant to guest host on Absolute Radio

Film

Stephenie Meyer's adult novel The Host acquired
The Rock, Samuel L Jackson and Steve Coogan join The Other Guys
Fast and Furious's Justin Lin to direct Highlander remake
Dennis Hopper, Scott Caan, Tricia Helfer and JK Simmons join A Beginner's Guide to Endings
Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore join Thor
Bryan Singer to direct Jack the Giant Killer

Music

Chas and Dave split up

British TV

ITV sues STV; STV to sue ITV
BBC to boost children's and BBC2 drama budgets
Top Gear to go HD from November
ITV appoints an acquisitions chief

US TV

Heroes gets disappointing ratings
Campbell Scott and Martin Short to join Damages
Fox working on half-hour medical comedy
Cast changes at Southland
Three Rivers' replacement pilot replaced
Heather Locklear to appear on Melrose Place

Tuesday's "bye bye suga" news

Rob Buckley — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:24:35 +0000

Doctor Who

Sheridan Smith leaving eighth Doctor stories?

Film

Wentworth Miller joins Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter on Resident Evil: Afterlife
Brad Pitt to play Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes sequel?
John Malkovich to join Secretariat
Columbia picks up screen rights to Enron
Walden picks up Gene, a modern genie story
Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart join Dylan's Wake
Darren Aronofsky to direct Heist

Music

Last original Sugababe quits

Comics

Jack Kirby's estate serves copyright notice on Marvel

British TV

ITV1 to screen new version of Bouquet of Barbed Wire
ITV1 misleading advertisers?
BBC to show Heroes late this year or early next year
Press pack for Emma
Richard Eyre slams BBC for drama dereliction of duty

US TV

Heroes webisodes to focus on Lydia the tattooed lady
Fox picks up Glee
Charlie Sheen leaving Two and a Half Men?
Betty White to cameo on 30 Rock

True Blood stars do a Depeche Mode video

Rob Buckley — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:13:27 +0000

Look, it's all the stars of HBO's vampire show True Blood in a video for the always cheery Depeche Mode's song 'Corrupt'

[via]

Tuesday's "dead as a dinosaur" news

Rob Buckley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:19:07 +0000

Doctor Who

Awe-inspiringly spoilery pictures from the finale

Film

Producers having difficulty with Birds remake

Comics

Captain America coming back

Music

The Nolans are reforming

British TV

Travel Channel's Pat Younge to head up BBC Vision Productions
ITV drops Primeval
Reece Shearsmith talks about Psychoville
Digital Britain report to cut £130m from BBC's share of licence fee
It's the Torchwood press pack
BBC2 and BBC4 to run Modern Beauty season

US TV

Fox's fall shows to start the same time as everyone else's
Sendil Ramamurthy to guest on Psych
Steven Spielberg wants Noah Wyle to star in his alien invasion pilot for TNT

Eurovision Balkans shift?

Rob Buckley — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:48:13 +0000

The Economist staff have more time on their hands than I thought. Come on guys: there's a recession on! All hands to the pumps…

Wednesday's singing blonde news

Rob Buckley — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:46:22 +0000

Film

Arnie willing to appear in Terminator film if he doesn't have to do anything
Angelina to star in adaptations of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books
Demetri Martin to appear in Moneyball
Noel Clarke, Ray Winstone, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams and Toby Jones join Andy Serkis in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Jason Statham to star in remake of The Mechanic?

Radio

Alex Zane quits XFM

Theatre

Sheridan Smith and Duncan James to star in Legally Blonde: The Musical

British TV

Ashes to Ashes back with 7m viewers

US TV

BBC America acquires Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and The Inbetweeners
Samantha Who? yanked from schedules but may yet return
ABC trying to acquire The New Adventures of Old Christine from CBS again

Zoeey Deschanel does Katy Perry

Rob Buckley — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:21:47 +0000

Don't you love Zoeey Deschanel, the better Deschanel sister (the other, unforgivably, starring in Bones)? She was great in Elf and Frasier, for example, and was one of the few good things about the movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. She's also a singer and for some reason the American cotton industry has hired her to promote their wares, which she's done by pretending to be Katy Perry.

Spooky, isn't it? [via]

Tuesday's delightful box news

Rob Buckley — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:17:14 +0000

Doctor Who

Someone else returning for the finale [great big spoilery spoiler]

Film

Mike Newell adapting Box of Delights
Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum sign up for Harrison Ford's Morning Glory
Keanu Reeves developing creepy sci-fi romance Passengers
Terminator TV ads
Terrence Howard to produce and star in tropical Macbeth
Casting on It's a Wonderful Afterlife
Garry Shandling in Iron Man 2

Books

Two Michael Crichton novels to be published posthumously

Music

Spinal Tap announces its world tour date

British TV

BBC has to rein in its commercial arm
Armando Ianucci working on eight more episodes of The Thick of It
ITV1 trying to poach Horne and Corden?

US TV

Dollhouse/BSG's Tahmoh Penikett to star in Riverworld miniseries, Ryan Carnes to play The Phantom
New cast member for Sanctuary
CCH Pounder joins Brothers
30 Rock ratings on the up

Sitting Tennant: The anthem

Rob Buckley — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:41:55 +0000

A request was made. Your wish is my command, etc, so here is the whole of the Sitting Tennant gallery to the sound of James' 'Sit Down'. Don't spend too much time staring at it.

Credit, of course, to Persephone who came up with the idea.

Gary Barlow sings a birthday song for Chris Moyles

Rob Buckley — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:36:34 +0000

I'm not really a big fan of Chris Moyles (translation: I find him irritating), but Gary Barlow recently did a birthday song for him, based on a famous Take That hit, that's quite funny and has a nice video to go with it. So here it is.

[via lovely wife]

Today's Joanna Page: Top of the Pops

Rob Buckley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:08:55 +0000

Next week, more rampant (implied) Joanna Page nudity in Ready When Your Are, Mr McGill, which ITV thoughtfully decided to repeat last week. Until then, you're just going to have to cope with her and most of the cast of Gavin & Stacey as backing singers on Comic Relief's revival of Top of the Pops last Friday. It's Tom Jones, Ness and Bryn singing 'Islands in the Stream', which went to number one this week – can you believe that Sir Tom actually complained to Ruth Jones that Stacey's accent was too Swansea?

Anyway, enjoy!