Following on from last week’s videos of the EW cast reunions for Gilmore Girls, Pretty in Pink, The West Wing, Alias, WIll and Grace and Back to the Future, here’s one for the cast of Roots:
Year: 2010
BFI events
Thursday’s “familiar supernatural” news
Film
- M Night Shyamalan working on One Thousand A.E.
- Johnny Depp working on Thin Man remake
- Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert win rights to Day of the Triffids remake
- Twilight Zone movie gets a writer
- Shawn Ryan to write adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
- BFI budget to be cut 15%
Radio
- iPlayer for radio to launch in December
British TV
- S4C budget to fall 24.4% over four years…
- …causing S4C to seek judicial review of merger with BBC
- DCMS budget cut by £300m
- First Men in the Moon gets 830k viewers
US TV
- CSI showrunner sells drama to CBS based on Jane Whitefield books
- The Daily Show least diverse late night show
- CBS dramas rise in ratings, Running Wilde falls again
- TBS picks up Hound Dogs and The Wedding Band
- Noah Bean joins Nikita plus casting on other shows
- American Pie‘s Chris Klein to guest on The Good Guys
- Ian Tracey joins Sanctuary as a recurring character
- ABC working on behind-the-scenes TV show comedy
- A trailer for Shameless
US TV
Question of the week: who’s your favourite comics-inspired TV or movie character?
Comics are just one of the many sources of characters that movies and TV shows have draw on for inspiration – and continue to draw on. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen TV show versions of both Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk mooted. Both of course were adapted for TV in the 70s, and Spiderman, Batman, The Green Hornet and others have all had TV shows. The movies have also adapted the likes of Watchmen, Green Lantern, Electra, Daredevil, Blade, the Fantastic Four et al.
So this week’s question is:
Who’s your favourite TV or movie comic book hero and why?
The advanced respondent can, of course, cheat by talking about characters in TV and movie who have ended up in comic books (eg Buffy, Angel, Chloe Sullivan, Doctor Who, The Thing from Another World, Heroes) if they so prefer it.
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog
News
Wednesday’s “one BBC fits all” news
Doctor Who
- New Daleks dumped?
- Trailer for SJA‘s Death of the Doctor – Part 1
Film
- Trailer for Scream 4
- John C Reilly joins God of Carnage
- Darren Aronofsky directing Wolverine 2
- Sixth Die Hard to be the last?
- Mark Wahlberg to star in The Crow remake?
British TV
- Licence fee frozen for six years, BBC to fund World Service, S4C, rural broadband, local TV and online services
- YouView gets Ofcom go-ahead
- Law & Order: UK gets 13 more episodes [subscription required]
- Two more Rock & Chips
- InBetweeners ends on record audience
US TV
- HBO working on Cold War spy series
- NBC picks up comedy from Old Christine creator
- Chase and Chuck get full seasons, Undercovers gets more scripts
- Robert Englund to guest on Supernatural
- David Morse and India Ennenga to be regulars on Treme
- Soapnet picks up third season of Being Erica