Monday’s “The return of The Saint, a new-look TARDIS and Pan’s Labyrinth musical” news

Doctor Who

Films

Film casting

Trailers

Theater

Comics

Canadian TV

  • Andrew Gower and Thomas Howes guesting on Murdoch Mysteries

UK TV

  • Andrew Davies to write Dylan Thomas biopic for BBC
  • Sky 1 commissions two new dramas
  • Sky Arts launches location-specific culture app
  • Guest stars for second series of This Is Jinsy
  • Dave orders pilot of Undercover
  • BBC3 2013 trailer
  • A second series of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • ABC’s Only Fools and Horses remake not going ahead
  • Trailers for Masters of Sex and Ray Donovan
  • USA orders World War 2 sci-fi pilot from Gale Anne Hurd
  • Bravo working on series of Death Becomes Her
  • ABC developing cop comedy with Hannibal Buress

New US TV show casting

TMINE

Introducing The Hawkeye Initiative

Hawkeye, but not

Comics’ depictions of women – particularly superheroines – is something of a thorny issue. For a lot of people, both male and female, the hypersexualisation of female characters is off-putting at the very least. Those who want to investigate this angle further can read this fine essay at Comics Alliance or this one at Comic Book Resources.

There are some, however, who argue that both genders are treated fairly: the depictions of superheroes aren’t exactly realistic portrayals of men and their bulging muscles are equally hypersexualising. That, in fact, superheroes and superheroines are treated equally (badly).

To disprove this theory, a little project has been gathering steam this week. The Hawkeye Initiative (NSFW, which should tell you something) has a simple premise: take a given picture of a superheroine and put Hawkeye (the character played by Jeremy Renner in The Avengers) in the exact same pose and the exact same costume. If he doesn’t look like a tool and you can argue that what he’s wearing is actually a really good outfit for fighting (or doing anything) in, then that pose isn’t hypersexualising. And women from all over the Internet have been sending in their ‘compare and contrast’ drawings.

Compare and contrast

My favourite, though, is this one:

Batman fantasy

Thursday’s “Jonathan Creek returns, ABC orders Weird Desk and an Office reunion” news

The Daily News will return on Monday

Film casting

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

Wednesday’s “A new Ironside, greenlight for The Joneses TV series and Sean Bean replaces Brendan Fraser” news

Film casting

Canadian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • TNT developing Hit from Jamie Foxx and Robert Port
  • Bravo greenlights The Joneses and Rita
  • NBC developing new version of Ironside

New US TV show casting