Lots of clips of what’s on BBC1 this Christmas, including lots of bits of Doctor Who. Don’t watch it if you want to avoid any spoilers whatsoever, obviously.
Month: November 2012
Glenn Beck’s a very odd man who likes urine
Here, he’s making art from some faux urine and a doll of Barack Obama. You can buy it for $25,000 if you want.
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Random Acts
Random Acts: Scarlett Johansson fulfils a life-long ambition to be a weather forecaster
NBC’s weather forecaster Al Roker had laryngitis yesterday, so naturally the best replacement for him was Scarlett Johansson, who claimed to have always wanted to be a weather forecaster. That’s random.
Wednesday’s “McKellen and Stewart return as X-Men, another Jeffrey Archer adaptation and Julian Fellowes goes US” news
Films
- Joe Carnahan to adapt vampire graphic novel Undying Love
- Misfits movie in the works, possibly with returning old characters
Film casting
- Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult all returning for next X-Men movie
- Guy Pearce, Rosamund Pike and Bryan Brown join Violet Town
- Cate Blanchett to play stepmother in Cinderella
Commercials
- Damian Lewis, Shannyn Sossamon and Jordi Molla to star in Ridley Scott’s Jaguar short film Desire
Canadian TV
- Jeffrey Archer’s The Prodigal Daughter being developed as a TV series
UK TV
- The Beeb’s and Sky’s Christmas schedules [subscription required]
- British Museum launches a BT Vision VoD channel [subscription required]
US TV
- Necessary Roughness gets a third season
- Monday ratings: Revolution up, CBS shows up, Fox shows up
US TV casting
- DB Sweeney to recur on Touch
- Travis Van Winkle joins Hart of Dixie
- David Anders to guest on Arrow
- Audra McDonald returning for Private Practice finale
- Keenen Ivory Wayans to guest on Happily Divorced
New US TV shows
- Julian Fellowes to write period drama The Gilded Cage for NBC
- AMC orders period spy drama Turn and 1980s computer drama Halt & Catch Fire
New US TV show casting
- Taryn Manning to recur on Orange is the New Black
- Brett Dalton joins SHIELD
- Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein and Niecy Nash join HBO’s remake of the BBC’s Getting On
Weekly Wonder Woman
Review: Wonder Woman #14/Justice League #14/Batwoman #14
It’s another wonderful month over in DC. Kind of. Ignore the fact it’s still Tony Akins doing the illustrations on Wonder Woman, since we have fights, innovation, ruses, New Gods and old gods to deal with. And I’m proved wrong – oops!
Meanwhile, over in Justice League, Aquaman does something useful for a change, we have some nifty Wonder Woman continuity references, Wonder Woman and Superman go on a date – and Batman is revealed to be a stalker, but we could have figured that out ourselves.
And then in Batwoman, Wondy and Batwoman talk a lot, we go off the reservation when it comes to Greek myth, before heading back to Gotham, and we learn that absolutely, definitely for sure, DC’s editors don’t talk to one another.
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