Year: 2012

Wednesday’s “Sky acquires four US shows, The Newsroom down 20% in ratings and Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher” news

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Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Why Stop Now, with Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo and Tracy Morgan
  • Trailer for Jack Reacher, with Tom Cruise

Comics

UK TV

  • Sky 1 HD acquires Arrow; Sky Atlantic HD acquires The Following and Vegas; Sky Living acquires Elementary

US TV

French TV

Lots of news about Engrenages/Spiral season 4 as well as some teaser trailers

3 July 2012 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

The cast of Spiral at the press conference last month

Lots of news on the Engrenages/Spiral front. First up, it’s going to start airing on Canal+ in September – and yay for us – only a few weeks after on BBC4 in the UK.

Secondly, there’s going to be a web spin-off, Inside Engrenages, that will air seven days before the fourth season that will be from the viewpoint of a reporter embedded with the police.

Thirdly, for lovers of French television, there’s the news that Nicolas Briançon from Maison close is going to be in the new series. I have no idea who he is, mind, but here’s a picture of him:

Nicolas Briançon

Jérôme Huguet is also in it – he looks like this:

Jérôme Huguet

Also confirmed are Judith Chemla, Bruno Debrandt (Commissaire Brémont) and, as Chloe correctly pointed out, (spoiler alert) Samir Boitard aka Samy from season 2 is back.

Lastly, after the jump, you can watch a set of three teaser trailers for the fourth season. They’re in French, obviously. I’m not sure whether they’re supposed to tie into the embedded reporter thing or not, but they all seem to have the regular cast being a bit annoyed that we viewers are watching them.

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Tuesday’s “More Newsroom and True Blood, the Bates Motel series and US Sirens gets picked up” news

3 July 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

  • Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling to guest on Doctor Who

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Compliance with Dreama Walker
  • Trailer for The Tall Man, with Jessica Biel

US TV

New US TV shows

  • A&E orders Carlton Cuse’s Bates Motel to series
  • Trailer for Tom Hanks’ web series Electric City
  • Lili Taylor and Kandyse McClure to appear in Netflix’s Hemlock Grove
  • USA picks up Paging Dr Freed and Sirens
Weekly Wonder Woman

Review: Wonder Woman #10/Justice League #10/Ame-com #1-3

2 July 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Wonder Woman #10

Justice League slipped a week again, hence the late arrival of the review Wonder Woman review. Sorry – blame DC and Geoff Johns.

Anyway, where last we left Wonder Woman, she was down in the Land of Death, about to be hoist by her own petard – her golden lasso, in fact. What happened next?

Well, I was surprised, that’s what, since rather than what we might all have been expecting based on Brian Azzarello’s writing so far, we instead got an old-school Wonder Woman conclusion to this part of the story. Which is odd.

Meanwhile, back in Justice League #10, we find out that actually, yes, Geoff Johns has been reading Wonder Woman, since we get our first bit of continuity so far. And over in the new, weekly Ame-com – which is a digital-only series based on a series of statues (no, really) – Wonder Woman wears relatively few clothes and swears a bit too much for a title clearly aimed at young girls who like Disney princesses.

Follow me after the jump to find out more.

The cover of Justice League 10

Ame-com #1

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