George Takei reads 50 Shades of Grey. Go on, watch. You know you want to.
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Year: 2012
Thursday’s “New, new, new Twilight Zone, Roger Corman’s new movies and more new Psych” news
Film
- Roger Corman to remake eight Edgar Allan Poe stories
- Fox adapting Top Cow’s Theory of Everything
Film casting
- Ben Affleck out of Focus
- Ricky Gervais to star in Muppets movie
- Zac Efron and Marcia Gay Harden to star in ParkLand
Trailers
- New trailer for The Great Gatsby
- Trailer for Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain, with Mark Wahlberg and The Rock
- Trailer for Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder, with Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem
- New trailer for The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
Books
- ‘Lost’ Bram Stoker stories reprinted
UK TV
- Press pack for Channel 4’s Utopia
- Gerald Scarfe’s new Yes, Prime Minister illustrations
US TV
- Psych gets an eighth season
- Tuesday’s ratings
US TV casting
- Rose McGowan to play young Cora in Once Upon A Time
- Bradley Whitford to guest on Go On
- Jason Schwartzman to guest on Parks and Recreation
- Mark Consuelos and John Stamos to guest on The New Normal
- Terry Kinney to guest on Elementary
- Sendhil Ramamurthy to recur on Beauty and the Beast
New US TV shows
- Bryan Singer developing a Twilight Zone reboot
New US TV show casting
- Wendell Pierce joins Michael J Fox’s NBC comedy series
- Sean Hayes to star in NBC father-daughter comedy
- Kathleen Rose Perkins et al join The Gates
- Chloe Bennet joins SHIELD
- Casting on When The Women Come Out To Dance
- Toni Trucks to recur on Do No Harm
The Weekly Play
The Wednesday Play: Nuts In May (1976)
To end this year and my current season of Wednesday Plays, I’m going to leave you with what is arguably the best of all the plays that have ever aired on British TV (discuss): Mike Leigh’s 1976 Play For Today Nuts in May. Starring Alison Steadman and Roger Sloman as the eccentric married couple Candice Marie and Keith, it sees the nature-loving duo going on a camping holiday and putting vast amounts of work into ensuring that they have the perfect vacation. But when less high-minded campers arrive, things get a little… strained.
Voted the 49th greatest British TV programme by the BFI, the play has influenced everyone from Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer through to Ben Wheatley, the director of the recent Sightseers*. So put your feet up and enjoy the hilarious and near to the bone Nuts In May. As always, if you like it, buy it to support those nice people who made it in the first place.
* Although he hadn’t seen it before he was about to make the movie, so ended up removing bits to make Sightseers less like Nuts In May
The cast of The Hobbit compete to name all the dwarves the quickest
Even Peter Jackson gives it a go. Who do you reckon will win?
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Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in From Russia With Guns
Ah, if only. It’s just a poster by Olly Moss. Not sure which of these it falls under: “Cancelled projects, alternate directions, abandoned sketches and bad ideas.” Definitely not the last one.
Intriguingly, Joss Whedon has just revealed that Scarlett Johansson might not have been available for (The) Avengers (Assemble) so there was a draft that featured The Wasp instead.