Thursday’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Monster, Arte’s Odysseus and Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing” news

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  • Trailer for Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing

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  • Nat Faxon to star in Andrew Gurland’s comedy pilot

Wednesday’s “Thor 2 trailer, Bomb Girls cancelled and Bluestone 42 gets a 2nd series” news

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  • Trailer for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring with Emma Watson
  • Trailer for Thor: The Dark World

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Charley says: beware of water

Inspired by Scarfolk, the English town that still lives in the 1970s, we’re continuing with this ‘ere blog’s latest feature: Charley says.

The 1970s was a terrible time, of course, where the risks to people from everything from electricity cables to water to other people could not be overstated. It was horrifying. Particularly the rabies.

To save the public from these threats – and themselves – the British government authorised a series of public information films designed to scare the living daylights out of anyone who watched them. And each week, I intend to scare the living daylights out of you with a public information film or two – watch them, as they might just save your life.

This week: water. If you aren’t terrified of water, you should be, you raving loon. What’s the matter with you?

Tuesday’s “More Vera, Broadchurch and Dodgeball, Futurama cancelled and Spartacus meets Hercules” news

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  • FX developing adaptation of James Ellroy’s Shakedown
  • E! developing scripted dramas

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