Thursday’s “US Braquo remake, Shatner’s World and new BBC dramas” news

12 January 2012 Rob Buckley French TV, News, Theatre, UK TV, US TV 1 Comment

Theater

British TV

  • Tuesday ratings: Body of Proof starts with 1.7m viewers on Channel 5
  • 61% of BBC shows are repeats
  • Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid to star in rom-com Antony and Cleopatra
  • Dennis Lawson joins New Tricks
  • Sean Bean to star in The Accused
  • BBC announces five new dramas including The Moonstone, Truckers, War of the Roses, Room on the Broom and The Secret of Crickley Hall, casts Hayley Atwell in Restless, renews Death in Paradise for a second series
  • Victoria Wood to write another 90-minute film for BBC1 [subscription required]
  • Channel 4 to launch a repeats channel? [subscription required]
  • BSkyB axes Current TV

US TV

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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