He’s also going to be making a Sky One show about the experience.
Theatre
Articles by Rob Buckley
Wednesday’s “I’m crushing your head” news
Doctor Who
- All nu-Who to be available on iTunes from today
- Robert Carlyle would love to be the next Doctor
- Bill Bailey petition gets 1,000 signatures
Film
- Philip Noyce to remake Captain Blood
- Shia LaBeouf to play the lead in The Associate
- Zoolander 2 and Meet the Parents 3 in the works
- Johnny Depp to star in In The Hand of Dante adaptation
- Keanu to come back for Speed prequel?
Canadian TV
- Kids in the Hall returning to TV in League of Gentlemen-inspired mini-series
British TV
- Channel 4 to feature four three-minute dramas inspired by evolution
- Russell T Davies and Tony Jordan to oversee two dramas for BBC Wales
- Wallander gets 6.2m viewers
US TV
- Two minutes from the Lost season five premiere
- The first 17 minutes from 24‘s season seven premiere
- A clip of Courtney Cox on Scrubs…
- …and of Laurence Fishburne on CSI
- Neve Campbell to co-star in The Philanthropist?
- Craig T Nelson to do CSI: NY arc
- There will be no Lost movie
- Khandi Alexander to return to CSI: Miami for an episode
- Samantha Who? writer working on three projects, including a Flintstones musical
- CBS and ABC announce their mid-season schedules – and CBS its summer schedule
Tuesday’s apologetic news
Doctor Who
- John Barrowman apologises
Film
- Tr2n renamed TRZ, + plus plot synopsis
British TV
- BBC Resources to axe 210 jobs
- ITV poaches Strictly Come Dancing exec Elaine Bedell
US TV
- FunnyOrDie.com to show Flight of the Conchords‘ second season premiere on December 17
- Jack Davenport and Courtney B Vance cast in Flash Forward pilot
- Caprica given a green light to go to series
- CBS buys five more episodes of Eleventh Hour
- Zach Braff definitely quitting Scrubs
- Preview clips from Damages and 24
UK TV
Review: Wallander 1×1
In the UK: Sundays, 9pm, BBC1
As we all know, detectives need a gimmick. There’s Columbo, the working class detective; Inspector Morse, the crossword-puzzle-solving detective; Resnick, the sandwich-eating detective; Life, with the ex-con, Buddhist detective. And so on.
Wallander stars Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous Swedish detective.
Hold those words in your mind for a few seconds: Swedish detective. Think about it. Envision the stereotype.
Hey presto, you’re right. It’s Wallander the depressed detective who has so many life problems, it’s a wonder he hasn’t simply killed himself because it’s Tuesday.
BBC1 Christmas trailers
Trailers from BBC1 for its Christmas season have arrived on YouTube. Here’s the drama one, with lots and lots of clips from Doctor Who and the Jonathan Creek Christmas special, among other things.
And here’s the comedy one, featuring, among other things, clips from Gavin & Stacey, The Royle Family and that Blackadder documentary.
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