Well, that didn’t take long. This is the cast of New Zealand soap Shortland Street. More TV Harlem Shaking back here.
Month: February 2013
Wednesday’s “Vic and Bob’s new sitcom, bye bye BBC HD, The Bates Motel trailer & much pilot casting” news
Film
- Clerks 3 to be a book first
Film casting
- Christian Bale to star in Everest
- Jason Clarke to star in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Canadian TV
- Motive gets 1.01m viewers
UK TV
- Vic and Bob to star in new BBC sitcom
- Gold commissions first studio sitcom, Us And Them
- BBC 2 HD to replace BBC HD on all platforms from 26 March
- Monday ratings: Black Mirror drops slightly
US TV
- Sunday ratings: Downton Abbey up 50% for finale…
- …Walking Dead gets 11m viewers
US TV casting
- Johnny Ray Gill to recur on The Killing
- Kristen Wiig joins Arrested Development [spoilers]
New US TV shows
- HBO redlights: James Gandolfini’s Criminal Justice
- Melissa Rosenberg to run ABC’s Big Thunder and Red Widow remake
- Full trailer for A&E’s Bates Motel
New US TV show casting
- Jason Lee to star in CBS’s Second Sight remake, Rachelle Lefevre to star in CBS’s Under The Dome
- Maya Kazan joins The CW’s Company Town, George Segal joins ABC’s How The Hell
- Kirk Ward to star in Amazon’s Zombieland
- Mandy Moore to star in ABC’s Pulling remake, Eloise Mumford to star in ABC’s Reckless
- Tate Donovan to co-star in CBS’s Hostages remake
- Josh Hamilton to star in Bravo’s Rita remake
- Greg Sulkin to co-star in Fox’s Delirium, Tricia Helfer to star in ABC’s Killer Women remake, Nestor Serrano to star in CBS’s The Ordained and Raza Jaffrey to star in ABC’s Gothica
- Catherine O’Hara to co-star in Fox’s To My Future Assistant
- Ari Graynor to star in CBS’s Bad Teacher adaptation
- Michael Peña to star in Fox’s The List
- Ramon Rodriguez to star in Fox’s Gang Related, John Ortiz to co-star in Fox’s Rake remake
- Geoff Stults to star in Fox’s Enlisted
Just in case you wanted to know what The Powerpuff Girls would be like with The Avengers
Featuring Captain America, Iron Man and Thor as The Powerpuff Girls, as well as some guest villains. And why not?
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Monday’s “Delia Derbyshire cast, more Mad Fat Diary and Jessica Hynes’ suffragette sitcom” news
Doctor Who
- Sarah Winter to play Delia Derbyshire in anniversary special
French TV
- Borgias showrunner working on new non-period series with Canal+ [in French]
UK TV
- My Mad Fat Diary gets a second series
- Jessica Hynes writing suffragette sitcom Up The Women for BBC4
- Andrew Davies adapting War and Peace for BBC1
- Sky launches 3D introductory pack [subscription required]
- Sunday ratings: Mr Selfridge beats Ripper Street
- Dallas ratings plummeting
New US TV show casting
- Thomas Lennon to co-star in NBC’s Sean Hayes comedy
French TV
Review: Engrenages (Spiral) 4×3-4×4 (France: Canal+; UK: BBC Four)
In France: Last autumn
In the UK: Saturday 16 February, 9pm, BBC Four
Very much a game of two halves, this Saturday’s episodes. After I waxed lyrical about the show last week, episode three decided to be all contrary and a bit of a disappointment, an unremarkable plot expander, redeemed by just a few twists and turns.
But then episode four turned up. Episode four, which contained not just a big helping of WTF, but topped it all off with a massive dose of OMG. No, I don’t know what French texteese is for Oh My God. I’m assuming not OMD.
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