Wednesday’s “A returning Doctor Who monster, no more Misfits, but more Game of Thrones” news

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Film

  • Tim Burton to direct Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams in Big Eyes

Film casting

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • BET green lights: Being Mary Jane
  • FX developing Conquistadors based on Last Day of the Incas

New US TV show casting

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Review: Doctor Who – 7×7 – The Bells of Saint John

In the UK: Saturday, 6.15pm, 30th March 2013, BBC1/BBC1 HD. Available on the iPlayer
In the US: Saturday, 8pm/7C, 30th March 2013, BBC America

It’s back! Look at that, would you. A new episode of Doctor Who. Ooh, I haven’t seen one of those since Christmas. That’s because we are now entering part two of series seven, which started last autumn, and is set to finish this November, right around when a new series should have been starting (but isn’t, because Steven Moffat’s been slowing down a bit). 

Despite the slight paucity of new Who in this, the show’s 50th year (my how time flies), we do have multiple treats to look forward to. As well as new companion Clara, who’s been introduced and died twice already in different guises, we’ve Neil Gaiman writing a Cyberman story, a returning enemy, a returning Doctor, and a whole lot more that if I wrote them down now, a lot of people would end up killing me over. So I won’t. Just watch the series and enjoy it.

But for this opening episode, The Bells of Saint John, which our Stevie has had simply ages to work on, we had a sort of hybrid story – half-Rusty, half-Blink – that riffed not only on the history of Doctor Who itself, but both Russell T Davies’s greatest hits as well as Stevie’s own, including Silence in The Library. And it was really rather good.

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News

Tuesday’s “David Tennant & Billie Piper return to Doctor Who, Joanna Page to guest, and a trailer for The Saint” news

Joanna Page, David Tennant, Matt Smith and Jenna Louise Coleman

Doctor Who

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for This Is The End with Seth Rogen et al [NSFW]
  • Trailer for Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Canadian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Matthew Broderick joins CBS’s Tad Quill comedy
  • Bess Rous joins TNT’s Murder In The First, Christopher Thornton joins CBS’s The Surgeon General, Matt Long replaces Luke Hemsworth on Lucky 7
Weekly Wonder Woman

Review: Wonder Woman #18/Justice League #18/Superman #18/Injustice: Gods Among us #8-11

Wonder Woman #18

It’s time, once again, for our monthly round-up of all things Wonder Woman in comics. And what a month, because despite the end of the H’El on Earth storyline in Superman/Supergirl/Superboy and the crossover in Batwoman, it’s been… well, maybe not momentous, but whatever it’s been, I’m not sure I have enough hands for the facepalms required to deal with it all.

Wonder Woman #18 sees the end of the hunt for Zola’s baby (finally); Justice League #18 mostly has Wonder Woman alternating between standing around a lot and hitting things; Superman #18 is Wonder Woman-free yet has referenced our heroine rather a lot thanks to the arrival of Orion; and in Injustice: Gods Among Us, it’s all out war between the superheroes and everyone else, including each other, with Wondy standing by her man.

Which ones required the most facepalms? I’ll give you a clue: it’s fortunately the only one where Wonder Woman is literally flirting with Superman over Lois Lane’s dead body.

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