Quibble all you like about the meaning of the word ‘prequel’, this is a sort of introduction to Saturday’s ‘game-changing’ (according to Steven Moffat) season finale of Doctor Who. Can you work out who Clara is or what the Doctor’s name is? Or have you already been accidentally sent the whole thing on Blu-Ray so know the answer – in which case, don’t tell us.
Month: May 2013
A trailer for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
It’s just been picked up to series by ABC. Yes, someone has come back from the dead. Don’t ask how.
Monday’s “All the pick-ups for Fall 2013 and all the cancellations and renewals from this season” news
Film
- New Star Wars to shoot in the UK
Film casting
- Chloe Moertz to star in The Equalizer, Michael Sloan to write novels
- Sami Gayle, Cameron Manghan et al join Vampire Academy
UK TV
- David Tennant and Rosamund Pike to star in What We Did On Our Holiday
- Universal acquires CTV’s Motive
- Lovefilm acquires History’s Vikings
- Friday ratings: Life of Crime gets 3.9m viewers
US TV
- ABC renews: The Neighbors, The Middle, Last Man Standing, Modern Family, Once Upon A Time, Revenge, Suburgatory, Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, Castle and Nashville
- ABC cancels: Family Tools…
- …and How To Live With Your Parents, Body of Proof, Red Widow and Malibu Country
- NBC renews: Community
- NBC cancels: Smash, The New Normal and Go On
- CBS cancels: CSI: NY, Golden Boy, Vegas and Rules of Engagement
- TNT cancels: Monday Mornings and Southland
- USA cancels: Burn Notice
- SyFy renews: Defiance
- Thursday ratings: Scandal hits series high
- Friday ratings: Blue Bloods, Touch down
New US TV shows
- CBS green lights: Crazy Ones, Mom, Hostages, Intelligence, The Millers and We Are Men
- …Reckless…
- …and Friends With Better Lives
- CBS red lights: Advocates and Beverly Hills Cop
- ABC green lights: Once Upon A Time spin-off, Mixology, The Returned, Killer Women, Lucky 7, Betrayal, Trophy Wife, Influence, The Goldbergs, Super Fun Night, Cullen Brothers comedy and SHIELD
- NBC green lights: Blacklist, Night Shift, Welcome To The Family…
- …and Chicago PD, Ironside and Undateable
- TBS green lights: Ground Floor
- USA developing Matt Nix’s Complications
New US TV show casting
- Alex Kapp Horner off Fox’s Surviving Jack
- Lindsay Sloane off NBC’s Sean Saves The World
- Parker Posey off NBC’s The Family Guide
- Casting on TNT’s Murder In The First and ABC Family’s Ravenswood
Classic TV
Your handy guide to true religions on TV – Other religions
This entry is one of a series of articles covering religions depicted on TV as being true. For full details and a list of the other religions covered, go to the introduction.
Other religions
Religions outside of the previous categories are much rarer on TV. Although very occasionally Native American religions have featured on US TV, for example, AFAIK they’ve never been shown to be true except in shows like Star Trek: Voyager that later reveal that science is behind any truth they might have. Nevertheless, there have been one or two shows that depict religions other than the ones mentioned above.
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