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Thursday’s news of variety

23 August 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

But not Variety for once

Film

Art

Comics

  • Preview of Battlestar Galactica Season Zero

Theatre

British TV

US TV

“Only five minutes to write this article” news for Thursday

22 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

What can it all mean?

Doctor Who

  • Review of the first two episodes of the new series by OTT. Plus did you know sweet FA once went to a Star Trek convention dressed as Dax?
  • Review of the launch party
  • Clips available from the Weakest Link‘s Doctor Who special
  • And there’s more to come

Film

  • John Carpenter discusses the new Escape from New York prequel (it turns out)
  • Russell Crowe is making his directorial debut in features with a drama about surfers
  • Gordon Brown hits the evil film industry where it hurts, again
  • Batman will be in the Justice League movie
  • The Nancy Drew movie gets a sequel

Art

  • Rescued Francis Bacon art is up for auction

Theatre

  • Aaron Sorkin is creating a musical based on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”

British TV

  • The Apprentice will get re-packaged as a podcast [subscription required]

US TV

Thursday’s bright and sunny news

15 March 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

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  • ITV Play may have been replaced by ITV2+1 (that’s not ITV3, BTW), but a movie channel may be the long-term replacement [subscription required]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

Monday’s March news

5 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Video footage of the possible last scene for John Barrowman in the next series of Doctor Who. No sound to spoil things
  • David Tennant’s video diary is on YouTube, now the Beeb has done a deal with Google

Film

Art



British TV

  • Neil Gaiman gets bewildered by the UK release of Neverwhere

US TV

  • Sort of spoilers for Tuesday’s House. And for The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. Yey?
  • Chris Showerman (what did his ancestors do?) has been cast as Flash Gordon
  • Spoilers for Heroes. And more spoilers. And more!
  • Sarah Connor Chronicles talk. Yes, Summer Glau is an evil female terminator
  • Joss Whedon talks about Buffy, Firefly, Wonder Woman and the Buffiverse movies that never happened
  • How Lost got a VW camper van onto the island
  • Spoilers for BSG
  • Pamela Anderson has a new TV show in the works
  • Amber Tamblyn is to star in the disturbing Babylon Fields pilot
  • 24 spoilers