Time for our regular look at what TV’s on at the South Bank in London in January. Highlights include a David Renwick season, Bernard Cribbins in conversation, a preview of the new series of Skins and Missing Believed Wiped, which offers a chance to see some newly returned episodes of Till Death Us Do Part and Top of the Pops.
Month: December 2009
US TV
Review: Heroes 4×12 – The Fifth Stage
In the US: Monday 30th December 2009, 8pm, NBC
In the UK: Oh, you know, some time round March or April. Or May
This is the last episode of Heroes before it goes away for its Christmas break, and comes back in its old time slot, 9pm. It’s another Tim Kring effort, and he only tends to write episodes where something big happens.
Spoilers ahoy…
Question of the week: what’s your favourite Christmas movie?
It’s Advent time now, so prepare for lots of Christmas questions. This week:
What’s your favourite Christmas movie?
The definition of ‘Christmas movie’ is obviously quite loose and can incorporate movies set at Christmas as well as movies that get shown a lot at Christmas. Scrooged, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Great Escape? What’s your favourite?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
Wednesday’s The Shield reunion news
Film
- Harlan Ellison volunteers for Star Trek 2
- Office duo writing The Low Self Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie
Australian TV
- Underbelly 4 to star Eric Bana?
British TV
- FlashForward down to 2m viewers
US TV
- NBC developing Tommy Supreme based on real Supreme Court lawyer
- Cold Case gets two season pick-up in syndication
- Heroes ratings up 9%
- Lie To Me to reunite most of the cast of The Shield
- Lauren Graham in promo for Parenthood
- James Remar and Kelly Hu to guest on Vampire Diaries
Tuesday’s cancellations and remakes news
Doctor Who
- Fourth series of Torchwood to be 13 episodes
Film
- John Madden to direct My Fair Lady remake?
- I Spit on Your Grave to be remade?
- Paul Greengrass quits Bourne 4
- Tron: Legacy team to remake Black Hole?
Theater
- Kelsey Grammer to star in Broadway version of La Cage aux Folles
Books
- Jonathan Littell wins the Bad Sex in Fiction award
British TV
- Casting on BBC1’s Five Daughters
Canadian TV
- Canada looking for more sitcoms
- Molly Parker joins Shattered
German TV
- ProSievenSat. 1 to sell N24 news channel?
US TV
- Barry Sonnenfeld to direct pilot for ABC’s Funny in Farsi
- SyFy to make a series based (loosely) on Stephen King’s Colorado Kid
- Nicole Richie getting a comedy on ABC
- Raising the Bar and Three Rivers cancelled
- Heroes‘ Sendhil Ramamurthy and Jane Curtin join Rex is Not Your Lawyer
- Prison Break‘s Marshall Allman to join True Blood