It’s been 10 years since The Office, but now David Brent is back. He was on Comic Relief to, erm, not much acclaim, but he’s going to carry on on YouTube as well. Yay?
Month: March 2013
Doctor Who’s coming back soon – and here are the trailers
I can’t post the Doctor Who/Call The Midwife sketch from Friday’s Comic Relief (although you can buy it on iTunes), but I can give you not one but two trailers for the new series of Doctor Who, which is coming to both the US and the UK on March 30th. Aren’t I kind?
Monday’s “Alan Partridge trailer, Stephen Fry’s a superhero’s butler and BBC4 acquires more foreign shows” news
Film casting
- Josh Lawson and Greg Kinnear join Anchorman 2
- Theo James to star in Divergent with Kate Winslet, Aaron Eckhart, Ray Stevenson and Miles Teller
- Max Irons to star in Posh
Trailers
- Trailer for Alan Partridge movie Alpha Papa
UK TV
- Lost first ever ‘gay TV play’ South recovered
- Sky 1 orders Tommy Tiernan comedy [subscription required]
- BBC4 acquires Arne Dahl and Inspector De Luca
US TV
- CBS offers full episodes via new app
- New trailer for season 3 of Game of Thrones
- Teaser for season 2 of Banshee
- Thursday ratings: Community et al hit series lows, 1600 Penn and Parks & Rec up
- Friday ratings: Touch down again, Cult up
US TV casting
- Jack Coleman and Stephen Martines to recur on Burn Notice
- Dallas Roberts joins Unforgettable, James Laio and Tawny Cypress to recur
- Gregg Henry joins The Killing
- Cara Buono to guest on The Good Wife
New US TV shows
- Lauren Iungerich leaves Hot Mess
- Trailer for Da Vinci’s Demons
New US TV show casting
- Stephen Fry joins CBS’s Super Clyde
- Rainn Wilson to star in CBS’s Backstrom
- Mike Castle to star in NBC’s Greg Daniels comedy
- Amber Tamblyn to star CBS’s Anatomy of Violence
- Tom Berenger off Fox’s Gang Related
- Amanda Peet to star in HBO’s Togetherness
- Alex Kapp Horner to star in Fox’s I Suck At Girls, Joshua Erenberg joins Rand Ravich drama…
- …as do Michael Beach and James Lafferty, while Josh Zuckerman joins NBC’s I Am Victor
- John Cho to guest on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow
- Mike Colter joins CBS’s Surgeon General, James Earl and Rene Gube join TBS’s Ground Floor
- Bruno Ganz to play the Pope in Showtime’s The Vatican
US TV
Look! It’s that Breaking Bad terrarium you’ve always wanted
Where are you going to put it?
Friday’s “Damian Lewis in Vicar of Dibley, Veronica Mars movie gets go-ahead and Martin Clunes joins Strike Back” news
Film
- Veronica Mars film raises $2m on Kickstarter, gets go-ahead for 2014 release
Film casting
- Vincent D’Onofrio joins The Judge
UK TV
- Domino’s funding online football-themed sitcom [subscription required]
- Damian Lewis to appear in Comic Relief Vicar of Dibley sketch
- Martin Clunes, Robson Green, Dougray Scott and Milauna Jackson join Strike Back
- Netflix acquires third season of The Killing (US)
US TV
New US TV shows
- New trailer for NBC’s Hannibal [US only]
New US TV show casting
- Sean Astin to co-star in CBS’s Surgeon General
- Al Madrigal joins NBC’s About A Boy, Rossif Sutherland to play Nostradamus on The CW’s Reign, Brenda Koo joins Fox’s Delirium
- Christopher Meloni joins Fox’s I Suck At Girls
- Kathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs to star in TNT’s Murder In The First
- Adam Rodriguez joins CBS’s Reckless…
- …as does Gregory Harrison, plus casting on ABC’s Westside and NBC’s Undateable
- Mandy Moore joins CBS’s The Advocates
- Fox’s The List swaps roles, Hilarie Burton joins
- Ginger Gonzaga replaces Mercedes Masohn on ABC’s Mixology
- Casting on NBC’s The Blacklist and AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire
- Casting on Fox’s Boomerang, and The CW’s The Selection and Company Town