Thursday’s “BBC1 loses kids programmes, Chris Moyles is King Herod and new Cougar Town showrunners” news

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Won’t Back Down with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Rosie Perez and Lance Reddick
  • Trailer for Hit and Run, written by, co-directed by and starring Parenthood‘s Dax Shepard

Theatre

  • Mel C, Chris Moyles and Tim Minchin to star in Jesus Christ Superstar
  • 39 Steps creator to adapt Ben Hur

UK TV

  • BBC greenlights adaptation of Emile Zola’s Ladies’ Paradise
  • BBC to move kids TV to digital channels, cut BBC3 and BBC4 drama and factual budgets, shut BBC HD for BBC2 HD and launch regional BBC1 HD channels
  • Silk gets 5.6m viewers

US TV

US TV pilots

Author

  • 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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