Here you go then. Alpha Papa will be out in cinemas from August 7. You can see the previous one back here.
Month: June 2013
Thursday’s “Jo cancelled, a new Ghost Story for Christmas from Mark Gatiss and more Portlandia” news
Film
- Courteney Cox to make directorial debut with Hello I Must Be Going, Seann William Scott and Kate Walsh to star
Film casting
- Laura Dern joins Strings
- Eddie Redmayne to play Stephen Hawking in Theory of Everything
Trailers
- Trailer for Keanu Reeves’ Man of Tai Chi
- Another trailer for The Wolverine
- Trailer for In A World…
- Trailer for Diana with Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews
- Trailer for 300: Rise Of An Empire with Lena Headey, Eva Green et al
- Trailer for Snowpiercer with Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton
French TV
- Canal+ to create a new channel for French, European and American TV
- TF1 cancels Jo, but the series may go on without it
UK TV
- Up The Women moving to BBC2
- BBC2 greenlights: adaptation of MR James’ The Tractate Middoth from Mark Gatiss, + other shows
- Tuesday ratings
US TV
- Portlandia gets two more seasons
- Tuesday ratings
New US TV show casting
- Lauren Lee Smith to be a regular in The Strain, plus other pilot casting
Wednesday’s “Rogue renewed, Linus Roache is king and a trailer for Smaug” news
Film casting
- Krysten Ritter joins Tim Burton’s Big Eyes
Trailers
- Trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Canadian TV
- CBC and BET to adapt The Book of Negroes
International TV
- Greek government shuts down ERT
UK TV
- Smack The Pony to return?
- Blinkbox to offer third season of Game of Thrones first
- Monday ratings: The Fall hits series high
US TV
- Direct TV renews: Rogue
- Sunday cable ratings
- Monday cable ratings: King & Maxwell starts okay, Major Crimes dips
US TV casting
- Alexander Ludwig and Linus Roache join Vikings
- Roger Howarth to recur on Californication
- Kunal Nayyar to guest on Sullivan & Son
- Shirley Jones to guest on Hot In Cleveland live episode
New US TV shows
- BET and CBC to adapt The Book of Negroes
New US TV show casting
- Sarah Jane Morris joins A&E’s Occult
- Miguel Gomez joins FX’s The Strain
Audio and radio play reviews
Review: Hammer Chillers – The Box
So here’s something interesting and new. Bafflegab Productions, which recently launched the Vince Cosmos audio play series, has developed a new series of horror plays for Hammer, which feature the likes of Stephens Gallagher and Volk. Here’s a press release:
Hammer has announced a partnership with audio specialist Bafflegab Productions to launch ‘Hammer Chillers’, a series of original audio dramas, which will be available as six weekly downloadable episodes from June 2013.
Continuing Hammer’s expansion into the development of original content, the first series of the all-new material comes from a host of acclaimed writers including Stephen Volk (The Awakening), Stephen Gallagher (ITV’s Eleventh Hour), Doctor Who and young adult novelist Paul Magrs, stand-up comedian and writer Robin Ince and award-winning horror novelists Christopher Fowler and Mark Morris.
Episodes are available to pre-order now at www.hammerchillers.com ahead of the 7th June release and are priced at £2.99 per episode. From the end of July, fans can also download the entire series as a package and order the series on CD which will include bonus material.
Writer Stephen Volk said: “Hammer films have been a massive influence on my writing from the days when I sneaked into the White Palace cinema in my home town of Pontypridd to see the likes of The Devil Rides Out and The Vampire Lovers. Now to be writing an audio drama under the Hammer banner is a dream (or nightmare!) come true.”
Simon Oakes, CEO and President of Hammer Films and vice-chairman of Exclusive Media commented: “Hammer Chillers are a fantastic addition to the range of quality original content that we strive to produce and we’re excited to welcome such celebrated authors to the Hammer family.”
Bafflegab Productions Executive Producer Simon Barnard added: “Hammer Chillers will be every bit as terrifying as their celebrated cinematic counterparts. We are proud to partner with Hammer and hope that our tales take listeners on supernatural journeys that will make them afraid to turn off the lights afterwards.”
You may have noticed that because I’m operating at my normal speed, that means the first episode, The Box, is already available to download. Nevertheless, review after the jump
Weekly Wonder Woman
No more Wonder Woman reviews… for now
So normally, around this time, I’d review the latest DC comics that feature Wonder Woman. These usually include Wonder Woman and Justice League, and what with the new super-romance, Superman, as well as various other miscellaneous titles.
Now, reviewing them takes up much more time than it used to and with DC’s schedule all over the place, trying to recap them all each month has become harder and harder, particularly since my own work schedule has been all over the place and incompatible with DC’s.
More than that, my heart’s not really in it. The comics are largely fine (although problematic at times, particularly Injustice: Gods Among Us), but I’m just not loving them anymore and some egregious things have been done since the start of the new 52. So I’ve decided today that I’m going to stop reviewing them. I’ll keep reading them, though, and I might return at some point to reviewing them, since the web stats say this is actually one of the most popular features of the blog.
So let me know if you’d like me to continue, let me know below and if enough people ask, I’ll get back to reviewing them. If no one’s interested, then TTFN WW.
Ta,
Rob