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Year: 2012
US TV
Your first look at Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries, including Doctor Who’s Freema Agyeman
Well, brace yourselves, because in January, The CW plans to unleash on the world The Carrie Diaries, a prequel to Sex and the City set in 1984 and based on Candace Bushnell’s own books. Now, I was expecting a certain level of dreadful to this, simply because at the very least it was going to look bad compared to the original, particularly since The CW isn’t exactly going to offer the same latitudes as HBO.
But OMG, this looks worse than I could possibly have imagined. It doesn’t help that Doctor Who‘s own Freema Agyeman appears to have completely lost the ability to act. If she had it once, it’s gone now. Oh dear.
Monday’s “BBC3’s zombie casting, Torchwood limbo and Mira Sorvino is a trooper” news
Doctor Who
- Torchwood not cancelled, just in limbo
Film
- Undercovers‘ Boris Kodjoe to star in Addicted
Trailers
- Trailer for Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, with Maggie Smith et al
Canadian TV
- Ratings for the week of October 15-21
UK TV
- Hayley Atwell to star in ITV’s Life of Crime
- Kenneth Cranham and Ricky Tomlinson join BBC3 zombie drama In The Flesh
US TV
- Thursday’s ratings: The Last Resort down 24%, Elementary down 10%, Scandal up 5%
- Friday’s ratings: Mockingbird Lane okay, Grimm up 27%
US TV casting
- Kathleen Quinlan to recur on Chicago Fire
- Seth Green to reunite with Alyson Hannigan on How I Met Your Mother
- Jack Wagner to guest on Castle
New US TV shows
- ABC developing My Korean Deli…
- …compliKATEd with Ben Stiller and Bonnie Hunt…
- …and buys City Hall
- Fox working on All Grown Up with makers of BBC’s Misery Bear
- FX buys military academy comedy from Jack Black
- David Marshall working on comedy at HBO, dramas at CBS, CW
New US TV show casting
- Bradley Whitford joins Trophy Wife
- Joe Flanigan joins The Secret Lives of Wives
- Eoin Macken joins After Hours
- Mira Sorvino to star in TNT’s Trooper…
- …Rebecca Romijn to star as Maxwell in King and Maxwell
- Kyle Harris to recur on The Carrie Diaries
It’s Hammer Time!: Quatermass II (1957)
Well, Hammer have taken me a little bit by surprise this week by uploading some more movies, so in a change of plans, here’s the wonderful Quatermass II for you to enjoy. The sequel to The Quatermass Experiment, it needs no introduction, but in case I’m wrong on that, not only can you read that previous entry where I do introduce it, Hammer historian Marcus Hearn will tell you more about it first when you click on ‘Play’.
Personally, I think it’s the better of the three Hammer Quatermass movies: Quatermass comes across as less of a dick, it’s got Sid James and William Franklyn in the cast, and it’s faster paced.
You don’t need to have seen the first to know whats’ going on so enjoy!
You probably didn’t realise this, but The Exorcist was actually a 1980s sitcom
No, really, it was. See?