December 2009 – Page 7 – The Medium is Not Enough

News

Doctor Who

Pictures of David Tennant in the BBC’s Hamlet

Film

Trailer for Nicolas Cage in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Poster and pic from Tron: Legacy
A new Star Wars movie and TV series?
Dreamworks buys Wife vs Ninja
Dougray Scott to star in The Veil of Maya

British TV

Brian Cox to play Michael Martin in BBC4’s MPs’ expenses drama
E4 HD to launch on Sky next week
Ashes to Ashes to explain Life on Mars conclusion
Day of the Triffids press pack

US TV

Kristin Bauer to be a series regular on True Blood
BBC America buys the third series of Gavin & Stacey
Kate Micucci to star in Greg Garcia’s Keep Hope Alive
Alfre Woodward joins Delta Blues
The League gets a second season

Question of the week: what’s your favourite Christmas comedy?

9 December 2009 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Advent continues and so do the Christmas questions. This week, as per Jane’s suggestion last week:

What’s your favourite Christmas comedy?

This can include comedy movies (although we did movies last week), so let’s focus on Christmas specials and Christmas episodes of shows. So you could have The Next Doctor or The Feast of Steven if you like Doctor Who, for example, and there are plenty of Only Fools and Horses specials to be getting on with too.

What’s yours?

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

Michael Bay’s Victoria Secret ad

9 December 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Oh dear. Michael Bay, director of Transformers et al, has shot a Victoria Secret ad. Is there a point where one passes beyond self-parody into just pure insanity?

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Wednesday’s darker blue news

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Film

Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston to star in Pretend Wife?
Taylor Lautner to play Max Steel

British TV

The Beeb hires its first iPlayer scheduler [subscription required]

US TV

Tim Minear to be showrunner on Terriers
V and FlashForward get their episode counts cut by one
Emilie Ullerup and Allison Mack to guest on web series Riese
Dark Blue gets a second season
Sunday’s Dexter gets best ever ratings for Showtime in 10 years
Orla Brady to play Peter’s mother on Fringe
SyFy’s Alice does okay in the ratings

Tuesday’s Brad the Impaler news

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Doctor Who

Pictures from The End of Time

Film

Brad Pitt’s production company to produce action version of young Vlad the Impaler’s story
Tim Burton/Jonny Depp’s Dark Shadows starts filming next year
Frank Langella joins Unknown White Male
CBS Films acquires Vengeance from Taken writer
Zombieland writers to write X Men Origins: Deadpool?

Theatre

Toby Stephens to star in revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing

British TV

Freeview considering IPTV
Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver get a BBC2 comedy pilot
Second series of Horne & Corden cancelled

US TV

Elisha Cuthbert joins The Forgotten
Monk finale sets cable TV record
Anthony Michael Hall to guest on CSI: Miami
CSI creator Anthony Zuiker writing CBS a cyber crimes series
Elizabeth Banks to recur on 30 Rock

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Month: December 2009

Thursday’s “Wife vs Ninja” news

Question of the week: what’s your favourite Christmas comedy?

Michael Bay’s Victoria Secret ad

Wednesday’s darker blue news

Tuesday’s Brad the Impaler news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

Life and Beth and Night Sky

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Essex Serpent