Well, John Barrowman and Alex Kingston, anyway. No idea if they’ll actually have some screen time together on Arrow, since Kingston might only show up in flashback, but they managed to meet behind the scenes, anyway.
US TV
Month: February 2013
Between Two Ferns: The Oscar edition
Zach Galifianakis interviews Jennifer Lawrence, Naomi Watts, Christoph Waltz, Anne Hathaway and Amy Adams in his own inimitable style. Truth be told, it’ll be the weirdest thing you’ll watch today.
Tuesday’s “3D Who, nine new BBC shows, Life’s Too Short’s life is short, SyFy’s The Man in The High Castle, and Arrow et al renewed” news
Doctor Who
- 50th anniversary special to be shot in 3D, shown in cinemas
- A returning classic monster [spoilers]
Film
- Jesse Armstrong to write feature version of his Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You for Robert Downey Jr
Comics
- Geoff Johns leaves Green Lantern after 10 years
Internet TV
- Ratings for House of Cards
UK TV
- BBC1 commissions Atlantis, Death Comes to Pemberley, Breakdown, The Interceptor, Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, recommissions Call The Midwife and Death in Paradise; BBC2 commissions Turks and Caicos and Salting The Battlefield; BBC4 commissions Burton and Taylor
- Life’s Too Short to finish with one-hour special featuring Val Kilmer
- YouTube to launch on Freesat
- Trailer for ITV’s Lightfields
- Sunday ratings: Mr Selfridge beats the Baftas
US TV
- The CW renews Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries and Arrow
- G4 to rebrand as The Esquire Network
- Sunday ratings
- Sunday cable ratings: The Walking Dead returns to record-breaking series high
US TV casting
- Lisa Edelstein to guest on Scandal
New US TV shows
- Frank Spotnitz to adapt The Man In The High Castle for SyFy
- Warner to Game of Thrones the Wizard of Oz with Red Brick Road
- Trailer for Ray Donovan with Liev Schreiber
New US TV show casting
- Casting on Chuck Lorre’s CBS pilot Mom
- Andre Braugher to co-star in Fox’s Andy Samberg comedy
- Thomas Kretschmann and Oliver Jackson-Cohen join NBC’s Dracula
- Maggie Lawson to star in ABC’s Cullen Brothers comedy
- Josh Holloway to star in CBS’s Intelligence
Question of the week: is there too much good television on at the moment?
If you’ve been reading my blog since the start of the year – you happy few – you’ll have noticed that I’ve been struggling to watch all the TV that’s been airing. Even putting to one side the rubbish TV that I’ve been contractually obligated to watch because of the blog, it’s still a bit of a struggle to watch just the good stuff. Why, over the weekend alone, there was two hours of Spiral, an hour of Mr Selfridge, an hour of Shameless (US) and, yes, an hour of Top Gear. And I don’t think that’s just because it was the weekend or BBC4’s stupid transmission schedule. Netflix has just pumped out 13 episodes of House of Cards in one go and practically every night of the week has a good couple of hours somewhere.
Now, admittedly I’m an outlier, since I do scour the planet’s TV schedules, looking for stuff to watch. So to work out whether I’m just unrepresentative or not, today’s question is a simple one:
Is there too much good television on at the moment?
As always, answers below or on your own blog?
Monday “NBC’s disasters, returning Alan Partridge favourites, James Lipton’s Arrested Development plus more Mr Selfridge” news
Film
- The return of familiar Alan Partridge characters for the movie
- Tarantino planning Django/Basterds trrilogy
Film casting
- Saoirse Ronan joins How To Catch A Monster
- Ralph Fiennes to star in Sands
- Jessica Alba to star in Weightless
Trailers
- Trailer for Hours, starring Paul Walker
UK TV
- A second series for Mr Selfridge
- Up to 40 hours of content to premiere on the iPlayer this year
- TCM acquires Longmire
- William Gaminara leaves Silent Witness
- Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb reunited for Love And Marriage
- Dougray Scott joins The Wrong Mans
- Thursday ratings
US TV
- NBC’s Do No Harm cancelled…
- …Christina Applegate leaves NBC’s Up All Night…
- …NBC pulls 1600 Penn for a week
- Thursday ratings: Do No Harm drops 22%, Community up
- Friday ratings: Touch down
US TV casting
- Chin Han joins Arrow
- Max Fowler joins The Killing
- Once Upon A Time character returning [spoilers]
- James Lipton returning to Arrested Development
New US TV shows
- NBC’s Wonderland pushed off-cycle
- HBO greenlights: Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers
- Showtime greenlights: The Affair
New US TV show casting
- Kim Raver, Scott Grimes and Gillian Alexy to star in CBS’s NCIS: LA spin-off
- Christina Ricci to star in NBC’s Girlfriend in a Coma, Parker Posey to star in DJ Nash project
- Neighbours‘ Adelaide Kane to star as Mary Queen of Scots in The CW’s Reign
- Aimee Teegarden to star in The CW’s Oxygen
- Jonathan Banks joins NBC’s Bloodline
- Jonathan Groff to star in HBO gay friends comedy
- Rose McIver to recur on Showtime’s Masters of Sex
- Casting on HBO’s Silicon Valley