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Articles by Rob Buckley
The sizzle reel for Rainn Wilson’s failed CBS pilot Backstrom
Nordic Noir may have grabbed the attention of British viewers, but despite its best efforts – The Bridge (US) and The Killing – it’s really not taken off in the US. Backstrom, a CBS adaptation of a series of Swedish books by Leif GW Persson, didn’t even get past the pilot stage this year. However, its star Rainn Wilson has now posted the ‘sizzle reel’ – aka all the good bits – to YouTube so you can see if they made the right decision. I actually think this looks better and more interesting than the bulk of CBS shows, and Dennis Haysbert is in it, too, which is always a bonus, but YMMV.
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How do you make a Game of Thrones dragon?
With geese, eagles, bats and a tennis ball, obviously.
News
Tuesday’s “Ellen Page in Queen and Country?, Amber Heard in London Fields, Watch’s Legion, and Dead Boss remake” news
Film
- Sharon Horgan to direct Meet Me In Ten Years
- More Agent Carter shorts for Marvel Blu-rays?
Film casting
- Ellen Page to star in adaptation of Greg Rucka’s Queen and Country?
- Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Theo James…
- …and Jaimie Alexander to star in adaptation of Martin Amis’s London Fields
- Bruce Willis to star in The Prince
- Lea Thompson joins Left Behind
- Eric McCormack to star in The Architect, Dawn Olivieri to star in To Whom It May Concern
French TV
- Carole Bouquet to replace Nathalie Baye on Les Hommes de l’Ombre
International TV
- Australia’s ABC, HBO and BBC3 green light: Ja’mie: Private School Girl
UK TV
- Lovefilm acquires: BBC America’s Copper
New UK TV shows
- Watch green lights: Tony Jordan’s Legion
US TV casting
- Paul Adelstein to recur on ABC’s Scandal
New US TV shows
- Fox green lights: remake of BBC3’s Dead Boss
- NBC orders: Katherine Heigl CIA drama pilot
New US TV show casting
- Rory Kinnear, Harry Treadaway and Reeve Carney join Showtime’s Penny Dreadful
- DB Sweeney to recur on ABC’s Betrayal
- Stephen Rider to recur on ABC’s Lucky 7
ITV does a mash-up for its Where Drama Lives trailer
A+ for effort, even if some of the CGI is a bit wonky, this trailer from ITV shows off some of the best of its current as well as older dramas. See how many you can recognise.
You may notice, incidentally, that ITV can apparently only do crime and period drama well.