Michael Kenneth Williams stars alongside Sonja Sohn, Larry Gillard Jr., Andre Royo & Felicia “Snoop” Pearson from The Wire in The Wire: The Musical where they will allow you to experience America’s failing drug war through the magic of song.
Year: 2012
Wednesday’s “Mads Mikkelsen is Hannibal Lecter, Spartacus and King cancelled and David Tennant’s cop show” news
Film
- House of Lies‘ Ben Schwartz joins Runner, Runner
- Garret Dillahunt joins 12 Years A Slave
- Big Bang Theory‘s Johnny Galecki joins CBGB movie
Comics
- Trailer for Before Watchmen + five preview pages
Theater
- Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon to star in Grace
Canadian TV
- King cancelled
UK TV
- SNL‘s Andy Samberg joins BBC3’s Cuckoo
- David Tennant gets a cop show
- Alan Partridge preview trailers
- Sunday ratings: The Apprentice finishes with 7m viewers
US TV
- L&O:SVU‘s Diane Neal to guest on Suits
- Rumer Willis to guest on Workaholics
- Catherine Tate to become a regular on The Office
- Longmire most-watched A&E scripted series debut ever
- Spartacus cancelled
New US TV shows
- Trailer for BBC America’s Copper
- Scream TV series in development at MTV
- Vanessa Redgrave to guest star on Political Animals
- Jerry O’Connell to play Herman Munster
- Mads Mikkelsen to play Hannibal Lecter
- Lara Pulver joins Da Vinci’s Demons, Clifton Collins Jr joins Red Widow
Sitting Tennant
Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 22, 2012)
Find out what David’s up to for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee after the jump…
Events
What TV’s on at the BFI in July 2012
Time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of July 2012. There’s a surprising amount on offer, mainly as the result of an Aristocracy season that includes one of Richard Burton’s few TV plays, but also because there’s something of a BSkyB theme to the month, with a preview of Sinbad , which features that nice Naveen Andrews from Lost, a lot of comedy from Sky, including Moone Boy with The IT Crowd‘s Chris O’Dowd and Parents with Smack the Pony‘s Sally Phillips, as well as a panel discussion about comedy featuring Sky’s head of comedy Lucy Lumsden.
And is that weren’t enough, there are previews of BBC2’s Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, featuring lots of nice people including Jeremy Irons and that nice Tom Hiddleston from The Avengers, as well as an old version of Hamlet made for schools back in the 60s.
A new Bourne Legacy trailer
I’m not seeing anything too excitingly new and there’s a touch of silliness in there, too, but Jeremy Renner looks good and it’s nice to see some of the regular cast from the rest of the Bourne series in there, as well as a few head-nods to those movies. What’s up with Ed Norton’s hair, though?