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Friday’s “Jeffrey Archer TV series, William Hurt to play Richard Feynman and Citizen Khan gets a 2nd series” news

28 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will be back on Tuesday

Film

Patrick Stewart back for X-Men
Mark Millar to look after Fox’s Marvel movies

Theater

Scrubs: the musical?

Canadian TV

Trailer for Primeval New World

International TV

Australia’s ABC buys Jimmy McGovern-developed Aboriginal drama Redfern Now

UK TV

William Hurt to play Richard Feynman in BBC Challenger docu-drama [subscription required]
Citizen Khan gets a second series [subscription required]
Harry Enfield and Bryan Elsley sell Dates to Channel 4
Wednesday ratings

US TV

Promo for season 7 of Dexter
Major Crimes gets a second season
Tuesday cable ratings: Sons of Anarchy comes second
Wednesday ratings: The Neighbors starts okay, NBC comedies down a lot

US TV casting

Olivia Munn to recur on New Girl
Lauren Graham to guest on Go On
Henry Ian Cusick to guest on The Mentalist

New US TV shows

ABC buys heist drama from 24‘s Evan Katz
NBC developing New Orleans marching band comedy The Swamp
Gale Anne Hurd developing adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s The Eleventh Commandment for NBC
NBC buys This Thing Called Love
Fox buys buddy-buddy-buddyette cop show from House and Rescue Me creators
CBS buys medical drama from Reaper creators
Medium’s Glenn Gordon Caron sells Motor City Shakedown and Near Dead to CBS

New US TV show casting

Kirstie Alley to star in Giant Baby
John Larroquette to recur on Infamous
Kate Mulgrew joins Orange Is The New Black

Friday’s “Dallas down 50%, The Secret Dude Society and Guillermo del Toro’s TV The Strain” news

21 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Ashley Walters to guest

Films

Kate Bosworth joins Jason Statham and James Franco in Homefront
Roman Polanski to direct Venus in Fur
Katee Sackhoff joins Oculus
Teri Polo and Cary Elwes join A Bit of Bad Luck

Trailers

Trailer for 42 with Harrison Ford
Trailer for remake of Gambit with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz
Trailer for Beautiful Creatures with Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons et al

Canadian TV

Outsourced‘s Rizwan Manji to star in The Khouris

UK TV

Sky1 acquires Last Man Standing
Dallas ratings down 50% since the first episode
Pappy’s to make The Secret Dude Society for BBC3
Lifetime to launch in 2013 [subscription required]
ITV working on two pay-TV channels [subscription required]
Danny Brocklehurst and Jim Poyser working on BBC crime drama [subscription required]
Sky fit to broadcast
Last episode of Bad Cop pulled

US TV casting

Buffy‘s Ken Lerner to guest on The Big Bang Theory
Stephen Colbert to visit The Office
Sherilyn Fenn joins Magic City

New US TV shows

Fox developing modern Hamlet set in DC
Guillermo del Toro adapting The Strain for FX with Carlton Cuse
FX buys thriller from Stephen Belber
CBS buys Melissa McCarthy-produced comedy
ABC buys Party Girls

New US TV show casting

Missi Pyle to guest on 1600 Penn
Diane Kruger to star in adaptation of The Bridge

Tuesday’s “Manimal movie, a second US Pulling and P Diddy goes to Philly” news

18 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

A Town Called Mercy gets best ratings for Doctor Who since 2010

Film

Sony working on Manimal movie
Dexter‘s Aimee Garcia joins Robocop

Trailers

Trailer for Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, with Helen Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes et al

Canadian TV

Kristin Lehman to star in Motive, New Kids on the Block’s Joel McIntyre to guest star
Tatiana Maslany to star in Orphan Black

UK TV

Sunday ratings: Downton Abbey starts with 8.6m viewers

US TV

P Diddy to guest star on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Sunday’s ratings: Boardwalk Empire starts with 2.9m viewers
Teaser trailer for season 2 of Girls
Teaser trailer for season 2 of Enlightened

New US TV shows

Howard Gordon sells Vigilant superhero show to Fox
Laura Prepon and Taylor Schilling to star in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black
ABC having another go at adapting Pulling
The CW adapting Embrace
ABC Family orders pilots of Terminals, Phys Ed and Continuing Fred
Annie Potts to star on Paging Dr. Freed

Thursday’s “US The Bridge, Heathers TV show, Krister Henriksson in the West End and a Donald Glover comedy” news

13 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Christian Slater joins Nymphomaniac
The Wire‘s Domenick Lombardozzi joins Luc Besson’s Malavita

Trailers

Trailer for The Oranges with Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney and Oliver Platt

Theatre

Wallander‘s Krister Henriksson to star in and co-direct West End production of Doktor Glas

Canadian TV

Blackstone gets a third season
CBC’s fall schedule

US TV

The Glades gets a fourth season
The Walking Dead‘s Emma Bell joins Dallas
Bill Maher to guest on The Good Wife
Breaking Bad‘s Jonathan Banks to guest on Parks and Recreation
Tuesday ratings: Sons of Anarchy returns with series highs, Go On does well and The New Normal does okay

New US TV shows

NBC acquires drama, and Donald Glover comedy
Lin-Manuel Miranda to recur on Do No Harm, Ryan Hansen to guest on 2 Broke Girls
Entourage‘s Perrey Reeves to star in The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
The CW working on monster high school drama
Bravo working on five dramas, including Heathers reboot
Gerardo Naranjo to direct US version of The Bridge
SHIELD to feature all new characters
Jason Biggs to star in Orange is the New Black

Question of the week: what’s the best (or worst) title sequence ever?

3 September 2012 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

So, every week I have a look at old TV shows and their title sequences in Nostalgia Corner and Weird Old Title Sequences. Just for a change, this week, I thought it might be interesting for you guys to nominate what you think my be the best title sequence ever (preferably with YouTube link). I nominated a few a while back: The Persuaders! and Touching Evil, among others but what’s yours? If you prefer, tell everyone what the worst title sequence ever is instead.

As always, leave your answers below or on your own blog

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Friday’s “Jeffrey Archer TV series, William Hurt to play Richard Feynman and Citizen Khan gets a 2nd series” news

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