This week, Ali Larter was unveiling the new Acura ZDX in LA, where she chose to wear a Brian Reyes digital print strapless dress – and to pose with (if you're the producers of Heroes) the next best thing after an Ali Larter: Elisabeth Röhm. Which is nice. Some photographer called Erik Madigan Heck was also there. Look:

That's less interesting though. But random.

Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we'll tell everyone about it in "Random Acts of Ali Larter"

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Doctor Who

• An interview with Matt Smith
• Bus with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan to tour the UK

Film

• Liam Hemsworth joins Arabian Nights
• Proper trailer for Tron: Legacy
• The Book of Genesis: 3D
• Trailer for American: The Bill Hicks Story

Theatre

• Laurence Fishburne's Riff Raff coming to the Arcola Theatre

British TV

• Bravo acquires Spartacus: Blood and Sand
• Film4 HD and E4 HD to launch only on Virgin [subscription required]
• Men outnumber women two to one on TV
• True Blood gets 206k
• Benidorm back for fourth series – one ep possibly live

Canadian TV

• Canadian viewers prefer really bad sitcoms to drama

US TV

• Brittany Snow and 24's Sarah Wynter join pilots
• Lennie James joins Hung + more
• Nick Nolte to join Lucky?
• Heroes' Sendhil Ramamurthy joins Covert Affairs
• Jean Smart joins Hawaii Five-O, Tom Cavanagh joins Edgar Floats
• Numb3rs' Rob Morrow joins The Whole Truth
• Coby Bell joins Burn Notice as a regular [spoilers]
• Brothers and Sisters gets a fifth season [spoilers for Lost]
• American Idol's Katherine McPhee turns down Trauma in favour of Community

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Doctor Who

• The Sarah Jane Adventures gets two more series
• Series five to be fairy-tale like

Film

• Police Academy to be revived
• Pet Sematary to be remade
• Rome movie moving forward
• Trailer for The Runaways with Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett

British TV

• MTV acquires The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Sweet Valley High [subscription required]
• Being Human creatives want to launch production company, have new idea for a show [subscription required]
• BBC4 to go back to its high-brow roots [subscription required]

US TV

• Casting, including Jeri Ryan on Body of Evidence, Robert Patrick on Edgar Floats and Nate Corddry on Our Show
• Scott Caan to play Danno on Hawaii Five-O
• Smallville gets a 10th season
• NBC's Angela Bromstad discusses the chances of Chuck and Heroes returning
• 24 on the bubble still

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This week, gentle reader, I ask you the following question:

Despite the title of this 'ere blog, is the medium enough? Are you satisfied merely to watch a TV programme or do you need more?

In this exciting age of "360° commissioning", in which mobile phone content, podcasts, YouTube channels, books, DVD extras, games and more aren't just add-ons but designed as part of the production company pitch to networks, is a lot of time being wasted? Do you not care to follow your favourite characters on Twitter? Is that Facebook page never going to be friended? Do you simply want to sit back, relax and watch the tele?

Or have you been going to the Heroes web site for the graphic novels, games and webisodes? Did you download the TARDIS mobisodes? Have you already ordered all the Being Human original novels?

And does your answer depend on whether a show has finished or not? Is the Buffy comic vital reading now? Are the Big Finish Doctor Who, Dark Shadows and Stargate SG-1 plays on subscription in your house, because that's the only way to get more new content these days?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
 

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Film

• Neighbours/Scrubs' Nicky Whelan joins Hall Pass
• Scrubs' Donald Faison and 24/Buffy's Eric Balfour join Skyline
• Andy Fickman to direct adaptation of The Undomestic Goddess?
• Freida Pinto to play Phaedra, Henry Cavill to play Theseus in YA Greek myth movie, War of the Gods
• Another trailer for The Karate Kid
• Anna Faris and Jennifer Garner to star in The Batchelorette Party
• Hailee Steinfeld joins the Coen Brothers' True Grit

British TV

• Bravo and Living join the Sky Player [subscription required]
• Lost ratings drop to 559k
• Married, Single, Other gets 6.22m  

US TV

• A Blues Brothers TV series?
• ABC picks up Southern Discomfort
• Pilots for Kurtwood Smith, Swoosie Kurtz, 24's Carlos Bernard and Past Life's Kelli Giddish
• Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol to debut on The Secret Life of The American Teenager
• Heroes/Alias/24's David Anders joins Vampire Diaries [spoilers]
• Trailer for the next lot of Chuck episodes
• Len Wiseman to direct Hawaii Five-O pilot?
• Women deserting Lifetime

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Doctor Who

• David Tennant to star in Single Father
• Doctor Who to get a 3D trailer

Film

• Amanda Seyfried to star in The Girl in the Red Riding Hood?
• Laurence Fishburne joins Contagion
• Ben Stiller to star in Brett Ratner's Tower Heist
• Ethan Hawke and Kristen Scott Thomas to star in The Woman in the Fifth
• Trailer for Wall Street 2
• Matt Damon and Ben Affleck up for wife swapping
• Julian McMahon to star with Milla Jovovich in Faces in the Crowd

• Yes, Prime Minster: the play

British TV

• Another series of Taggart commissioned
• Rufus Sewell to star as Aurelio Zen for BBC
• BBC Worldwide looking to create drama franchises like 24 and Heroes [subscription required]
• Alibi acquires Castle [subscription required]

US TV

• Maggie Q to star in La Femme Nikita, Roselyn Sanchez in Cutthroat
• Rita Moreno and Allison Janney to guest on In Plain Sight
• The Deep End/Life on Mars's Rachelle Lefevre joins John Wells' new medical drama
• Lost's Harold Perrineau to guest on CSI:NY
• Smallville/The Dukes of Hazzard's John Schneider to star in Back Nine for Spike
• Heroes does well in DVR ratings

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Film

• Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins The Unblinking Eye
• Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen join Michael Winterbottom's The Promised Land
• Another Riddick film
• Kevin Costner to star in A Little War of Our Own
• The Three Musketeers to get the Sherlock Holmes treatment
• Trailer for Russell Brand's Get Him To The Greek
• Alicia Silverstone and Amy Heckerling reunite for Vamps
• Full Toy Story 3 trailer  

British TV

• Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter to star in Channel 4 comedy
• Nickelodeon UK to rebrand
• S4C cutting jobs

US TV

• The chances of survival for various shows in danger of cancellation, including Heroes, 24, and FlashForward…
• …and for Smallville, Supernatural, Fringe, The Forgotten, Chuck and Human Target
• More pilot casting including Kate Mara on Danny Boyle's 127 Hours
• Dennis Pennis's Paul Kaye to star in Larry Charles comedy for CBS
• HBO picks up Kate Winslet mini-series
• Season highs for The Middle and Modern Family
• Marsha Thomason to return to White Collar as a series regular [spoilers]
• Hulu to work on iPad/iPhone?

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Doctor Who

• Matthew Graham to write for series six?

Film

• Tom Cruise commits to Mission: Impossible 4
• Christopher Nolan to 'mentor' new Superman movie
• Penelope Cruz to star in Lars von Trier's Melancholia

British TV

• Neil Dudgeon to replace John Nettles on Midsomer Murders
• Hustle beats Law & Order UK in the ratings
• BBC spent £229m on talent last year [subscription required]
• Product placement to be allowed on TV
• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle gets a second series
• Behind the scenes of Russell Tovey's Young, Unemployed and Lazy

Canadian TV

• FreeHD Canada cleared for launch
• CBS picks up Men With Brooms

• TBS picks up two more comedy pilots
• Casting on ABC's The Gates
• Andrea Anders to star opposite Matt Perry in Mr Sunshine + other casting
• NBC ready to order Paul Reiser pilot
• FlashForward episodes cut?
• Heroes finale ratings up slightly
• Melrose Place not coming back?
• New arrivals on Brothers & Sisters

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…someone came up with (alleged) minute-by-minute timings on how much each character appeared in season four of Heroes. They're after the jump if you're interested.

Continue reading "Talking of people with too much time on their hands…"

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The Superbowl over in the US this weekend proved to be one of the most watched TV shows ever. This year it was on CBS, but last year it was on NBC and as you might recall there was a tie-in commercial to promote Heroes. If you don't, here it is:

However, as you also may recall, despite turning up to film the commercial…

…Ali Larter was edited out, even if you can still see her in it if you look hard.

So, my memory prompted by this year's Superbowl, I asked someone who works behind the scenes if they knew why she'd been chopped out. Their response:

No… we were shocked too when we saw it air and she was out.

The mystery deepens. Solution by next Superbowl?

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