Year: 2012

Wednesday’s “McKellen and Stewart return as X-Men, another Jeffrey Archer adaptation and Julian Fellowes goes US” news

28 November 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Films

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

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

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

Weekly Wonder Woman

Review: Wonder Woman #14/Justice League #14/Batwoman #14

27 November 2012 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Wonder Woman 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.

Justice League 14

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.

Batwoman 14

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Sitting Tennant

Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant (week 45, 2012)

27 November 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Well, there was quite a flurry of new pics this week, so making a decision was quite difficult. Unfortunately, Janice’s attempt was disqualified because although he is in a sitting position, his weight was unsupported by an object beneath his rear end, so he wasn’t technically sitting. But five points for trying anyway, Janice, and let’s publish it anyway.

Janice's Sitting Tennant

And while Toby did offer some top competition, I’m afraid it was Ms Rullsenberg who supplied the best picture of the week – a real winter warmer. So 10 points to her.

Rullsenberg's Sitting Tennant

See you on Friday!

  1. Toby, Hebbie: 20
  2. Janice: 15
  3. Sister Chastity, Rullsenberg: 10

Sitting Board of Winners 2012
January
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

February
Sister Chastity

March
Sister Chastity

April
Sister Chastity, Shilohforever

May
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

June
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

July
Hebbie

August/September
Toby, Sister Chastity

October
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

Each month, I’ll name the best picture provider and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!

Someone else who doesn’t like the TV shows he appears in: Angus T Jones

27 November 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Usually, you wait until you’ve left a franchise before you blast it to pieces in interviews. Okay, maybe not if you’re Megan Fox, but look what happened to her in the Transformers franchise. Alec Guinness waited until he was out of Star Wars and Robert Pattinson just about got away with it by being virtually irreplaceable in Twilight (although Rachelle Lefevre got the boot for no adequately explored reason between movies two and three).

But now Angus T Jones, the youngest star of Two and a Half Men (he’s the half), has decided to tell everyone to stop watching it because he doesn’t want to be in it any more.

If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I’m on Two and a Half Men, and I don’t want to be on it… Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth. Please.

Fair enough. I think I can manage that.

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