Doctor Who

• Matt Smith appearing in Moses Jones tonight
• More details of K9
• And the villains of the Easter special will be…

Film

• Next Rambo to be set in the US?
• Race to Witch Mountain Superbowl spot
• Dev Patel joins The Last Airbender
• Star Trek XI Superbowl spot
• Columbia trying to pick up rights to Eat, Pray, Love
• Mickey Rourke to star in Broken Horses?
• Land of the Lost Superbowl spot
• Martin Scorsese to direct Silence, with Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro?
• Cloud Atlas to be adapted by the Wachowskis?
• GI Joe Superbowl spot

Theatre

• William Friedkin pulls out of directing An Inconvenient Truth
• Penelope Wilton and Kevin R McNally join Jude Law in Hamlet

British TV

• Bill Oddie quits Springwatch
• Red Dwarf crew arrive on Coronation Street

US TV

• ABC greenlights three more pilots
• ABC Family picks up three new series, renews Lincoln Heights, cancels Kyle XY
• Either Bryan Fuller's mollified Ali and she's staying on for season four or it's Hayden who wants out of Heroes [for full transcript, then press replay]

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In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, ABC Family
In the UK: Trouble, BBC2, Living in that order, at some point this year and next

Since Kyle XY first started, it's gone through something of a mutation. At first a sci-fi mystery series - Who is Kyle and why doesn't he have a belly button? - along the lines of John Doe crossed with Dawson's Creek, it slowly became something of a Roswell - teen angst set against a backdrop of weird sci-fi-ness. Revealed as a cloning experiment designed to unleash the full potential of the human mind and body, Kyle has slowly accumulated more - and occasionally better - superpowers than Peter Petrelli. However, much of the mystery has disappeared, replaced by the thrills of conspiracies and shadowy organisations.

When we left Kyle at the end of last season, his girlfriend had been abducted by one of the aforementioned shadowy organisations; Jessi XX, his slightly demented, equally super-powered friend, was just about to run out of town with clone mum Ali Sheedy; and everyone else was worrying about whether to shag their partners after the prom or not. So far, so complicated.

With the return of the show for its third season, it looks like Heroes is going to have a run for its money this year.

Continue reading "Review: Kyle XY 3x1"

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Film

• Jimmy Hayward to direct Jonah Hex

Music

• Spandau Ballet to make a comeback?

French TV

• Primetime ads banned on state TV

British TV

• Above Suspicion gets 6.7m viewers

US TV

• John Wells to work up US version of Shameless for HBO
• USA Network picks up Royal Pains starring Mark Feuerstein
• (Almost) all the latest BSG webisodes
• In Treatment series two details
• Watch the premiere episode of Kyle XY season three
• Trailer for The Beast, starring Patrick Swayze

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Film

• Warner Bros decrees: no more female leads?
• Jake Gyllenhaal flying to the moon with Doug Liman
• Paz Vega and Jaime King get into The Spirit
• Kevin McKidd to play Loki instead of Thor?
• Michael C Hall joins Game
• Pixar plans three John Carter of Mars movies
• Neil Gaiman wants Terry Gilliam to direct Sandman

Audio plays

• Andy Serkis and David Warner to appear in adaptation of The Brightonomicon

Web TV

• ITN launches a movie show on Joost

British TV

• ITV1 doing pushy mums comedy, May Contain Nuts
• BBC2 picks up terrestrial rights to Kyle XY
• Robin Hood opens with 5.9m viewers
• But Top Gear returns with 6m viewers

US TV

• Popular/Dirt's Carly Pope to appear on 24
• CSI: NY's Gary Sinise gets a payrise until 2011
• Moonlight has surprisingly good ratings
• Explanations and cast reactions to a certain recent Prison Break event [spoilers!]
• Disappearing product placements in Heroes explained
• Heroes' Sendhil Ramamurthy nearly quit acting for business school
• Damages to get a second season

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Doctor Who

• He must have seen Moonlight: David Tennant breaks up with Sophia Myles?
• Rose, Sarah Jane, Jack, K9 et al unite for final episodes? [spoilers?]

Film

• Peter Jackson could be involved with The Hobbit after all

Theatre

• Kelsey Grammer to cross-dress for West End

British TV

• Roly Keating controller of BBC1 until successor for Peter Fincham found
• Natasha Kaplinksy joins Five News
• BBC2's Thursday comedy gets okay ratings

US TV

• Two stories per episode for cautionary Heroes: Origins
• ABC plans drama about small town Olympic bid
• Clips from Wizard of Oz update Tin Man
• Forest Whitaker to exec produce FX drama series
• Two versions of Knight Rider planned
• USA Network developing Thank You for Smoking
• ABC greenlights JJ Abrams sci-fi drama Fringe
• Ever Carradine joins 24
• Jericho shoots alternate ending
• Kyle XY renewed for third season
• Outsourced being developed into a comedy for NBC

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Doctor Who

• Billie Piper to be in Doctor Who movie, not series?

Film

• Val Kilmer to be a felon
• Serenity 2?
• Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell to star in global warming mini-series
• Stephen Fry and Lily Allen to star in Jane Austen spoof?

Web TV

• Two new wildlife channels for Joost

British TV

• Sooty's up for sale
• Reunion planned for Grange Hill's 30th anniversary
• Ofcom launches public consultation on Sky's plans for not-FreeView
• Jericho's Lennie James joins C4 knife drama
• ITV to save The Prisoner remake
• Jonas Armstrong's been down the gym, apparently
• Peter Serafinowicz talks about his new show
• Dragon's Den is back on the 15th
• Tribute acts to vie for Las Vegas contract

US TV

• Studio 60's Steven Weber joins Brothers and Sisters
• FX commissions pilot for Tim Robbins' Possible Side Effects
• Ally Sheedy joins Kyle XY. Nice casting!
• More star cameos for 30 Rock
• Jericho's second season is completed
• The Daily Show's Lewis Black gets his own show
• Pushing Daisies gets good ratings

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Available from Amazon.com

Once a time, Babylon 5 was the bee's knees of sci-fi television. With a five-year arc full of surprises and effects entirely created using CGI for the first time, it was geared towards an adult audience from the outset. Even when Deep Space Nine upped its game, Babylon 5 still got the geek love.

Then things went wrong. Its five-year arc got compressed down to four years when it looked like the show wasn't going to be renewed. Then the show got renewed and a fifth year had to be grafted on. That season wasn't at all good and the love began to ebb away. The sequel show, Babylon 5: Crusade, got cancelled before the end of the first season and the follow-up pilot didn't even get commissioned for a series.

Ten years on, it's back as a straight-to-DVD movie, Voices in the Dark, which could be the first of many stories featuring the surviving members of the original cast. Can it recapture what it once had or has it finally had its day?

Continue reading "Review: Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales: Voices in the Dark"

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In the US: ABC Family, Mondays, 8/7c
In the UK: Trouble TV at some point

Characters re-cast: 0
Major characters gotten rid of: Several
Major new characters: 2
Format change percentage: 25%

Ah, the Aspy propaganda show returns. Yes, the good-looking genius with poor social skills, muted emotional reactions, monotone voice, obsessive interests and an affinity for computers is once again back and boosting ABC Family's ratings through its (not especially high) roof.

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Doctor Who

• It's like crack: here, have a cheap sampler DVD to get you addicted to the old show

Film

• Babylon 5 creator JMS to write Silver Surfer movie; Layer Cake's Matthew Vaughn to direct Thor?
• A World War II sequel for The Invisible Man
• Neil Gaiman talks about Stardust
• Kevin Spacey not interested in film any more
• And Captain America's next

British TV

• Steven Moffat would like to bring back Press Gang
• Channel 4 has bought CBS's forthcoming Big Bang Theory
• An online ratings system is getting closer

US TV

• More details about Flash Gordon
• Four actors no longer regulars in Boston Legal but there are some new arrivals
• James Burrows to exec produce Kelsey Grammer's Back to You
• BSG stars spill more secrets (video)
• Kyle XY's premiere gets good ratings
• Lost execs talk about the series' conclusion

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Bit luvvie, that.

Film

• Two made-for-TV Star Wars movies to come?
• May the biggest wuss win: Tim Roth will face off against Edward Norton in The Incredible Hulk
• Looks like there are more Terminator things on the way
• The Rock as Captain Marvel?

Music

• New Order have broken up

British TV

• ITV wants Moira Stuart

US TV

• At least one character will survive the finale of Heroes [spoilers]
• Assuming it lasts that long, given its ratings are falling
• ABC Family has commissioned 10 more episodes of Kyle XY
• Supernatural's chances of renewal are improving
• Tom Selleck has signed up for Las Vegas

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