It’s a Karate Kid reunion of sorts
Articles by Rob Buckley
News
News from over the weekend
Let the third series publicity machine grind into action.
Doctor Who
- Freema Agyeman talks to The Star and The Sun and others without web links
- RTD talks to The Observer and The Independent
- The death of C’rizz? We can only hope. That and other Big Finish news.
- Billie Piper talks Who and Austen
Comics
- Stan Lee Media sues Marvel. Stan Lee condemns the move. Confused?
Film
- A sequel to 300?
- The next Bond movie will be a direct sequel to Casino Royale
- Erk. Here comes Pirates of the Caribbean 3‘s trailer
British TV
- A new Chris Morris show on the way about suicide bombers?
- Simon Cowell’s moving into drama
US TV
- 24 spoilers
- Richard Dean Anderson will be in the second Stargate movie
- Fox picks up part-reality, part-scripted comedy Anchorwoman for six episodes
- Lots of casting news: in particular, Kathy Baker joins Babylon Fields and Victoria Pratt joins Dirty, Sexy Money
- Heroes is getting sued for stealing ideas. I’ll preserve the surprise by letting you guess which part is allegedly unoriginal
- Stanley Tucci joins ER
- An interview with The Wire‘s Felicia Pearson
- MTV does an autism reality TV show
- Cynthia Watros from Lost gets a pilot
- 30 Rock looks likely to get a second season
Events
Glorious Friday’s glorious news
Doctor Who
- Stephen Fry didn’t have the time to finish his Doctor Who episode
- David Tennant drops in on Pipes at the theatre
- Doctor Who and Torchwood have turned Cardiff into one of the top 10 tourist destinations in the UK. You mean it wasn’t before?
Film
- Cate Blanchett is in Indiana Jones 4
- More Watchmen info. The ‘girls’ are going to be sexier apparently
- Jackie Chan says Brett Ratner doesn’t know much about directing action
- There’s a script for Trainspotting 2
Commercials
- A Tivo-proof ad? [free registration required]
- Victoria Wood and Paul Whitehouse the new faces of Asda? [free registration required]
British TV
- Stephen Fry’s Kingdom gets a second series before the first has even aired.
- Not got digital yet? If you live in Whitehaven, you’re screwed
US TV
- Eek. Time to be star struck. Dennis Haysbert is coming to town. Dare I interview him?
- Jericho will have at least one big revelation by season’s end. Plus how they’ve researched it
- Yey! Bob Newhart’s signed a development deal with TBS
- Yunjin Kim talks about Lost
- Veronica Mars cancelled or not? Here’s the possible fourth season masterplan
Thursday’s bright and sunny news
Doctor Who
- A little bit too much time on your hands? How about building a replica TARDIS with working arcade game inside it then? Full instructions await!
- Billy Piper’s Belle de Jour is happening. No one will notice though because it’s on ITV2 [free registration required]
Film
- A sequel to Superman Returns has been pushed back since Bryan Singer’s decided to direct something else in the interim
- Jake Gyllenhaal is rumoured to be playing Captain Marvel in Shazam! No word on whether he’s going to pass himself off as a 13-year-old kid
- Images and scene descriptions from Transformers
- Mad Max 4 is on, but without Mad Mel
Art
- Tutankhamun’s treasures will be on display in Britain for the first time in 30 years in The O2 in November
British TV
- ITV Play may have been replaced by ITV2+1 (that’s not ITV3, BTW), but a movie channel may be the long-term replacement [subscription required]
- Saturday Live: series one is coming to DVD on 16th April
- Gareth Hunt has died [free registration required]
US TV
- Get NBC shows on demand on your cell phone
- Raquel Welch is joining Jeffrey Tambor’s pilot
- Dean Cain’s working his way back on to proper television with a pilot. Plus other casting news
- The Saint is being remade by TNT
- Prison Break‘s creator promises season three will be brutal. Yey?
- David Duchovny’s show has been given the go-ahead by Showtime
- CBS has picked up Jason Biggs’ pilot I’m In Hell
- Zooey Deschanel talks about Tin Man
- That big gay ST:TNG episode is finally to be made as part of the New Voyages
- All the actors from The Nine appear to have found jobs
Wednesday morning news
Doctor Who
- Murray Gold gets interviewed about making music, surprisingly
- Freema gets all SAS
- SFX interviews RTD
Comics
- Captain America not dead, as predicted?
Film
- Hayley Atwell is the new Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
- John Waters is making a kids’ film
- The inevitable (and partially justified) nitpicks of 300 by historians begins
There’s going to be a Transporter 3
British TV
- ITV Play is getting the chop
US TV
- Interviews with the Heroes cast by Kristin
- Bravo has bought Television Without Pity
- Dr Evil aka Viacom has finally sued YouTube/Google for $1 billion
- Michael Shanks is guest starring on 24
- Lost, Scrubs, Smallville and CSI: Miami spoilers on Ask Ausiello