An archive of blog entries about Canadian TV programmes and production
Thursday’s “Ben Browder on Doctor Who, no more Primeval and Aidan Quinn is Elementary’s Gregson” news
Doctor Who
- Gavin & Stacey‘s Adrian Scarborough to guest on Doctor Who…
- …as will Farscape and Stargate‘s Ben Broader
Film
- Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston to star in Get A Job
- Michael Clarke Duncan, S Epatha Merkerson and Smallville’s Justin Hartley join The Challenger
- Kristen Bell joins Writers
- Jake Gyllenhaal to replace Dominic Cooper on Motor City?
- Cloverfield‘s Jessica Lucas joins The Evil Dead
UK TV
- Skins to end after seventh series
- ITV has no plans to commission more Primeval [subscription required]
- Prisoners’ Wives finishes with 4.3m viewers
Canadian TV
- The Vampire Diaries‘ Sara Canning and Eureka‘s Niall Matter starring in Primeval: New World
US TV
- Tuesday’s ratings: Breaking In slightly up from where it was, Cougar Town gains a few viewers, The River flat
- The Forgotten‘s Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan to star in Mistresses
- Showtime adapting You Kill Me
- Happy Days‘ Marion Ross to guest on Up All Night [minor spoilers]
- Silk Stalkings‘ Eob Estes to guest on Necessary Roughness
US TV pilots
- Better Off Ted‘s Jay Harrington joins Guilty
- The Finder‘s Mercedes Masohn and One Tree Hill‘s Robert Buckley join 666 Park Avenue; Party Down‘s Ken Marino joins American Judy; ER‘s Anthony Edwards and Carmen Ejogo join Zero Hour
- Boss‘s Martin Donovan and Satisfaction‘s Peta Sergeant join The Selection
- Bedlam‘s Theo James to replace Ryan Phillippe on Golden Boy
- Aidan Quinn to play (Captain) Gregson in Elementary
- Bridesmaids‘ Wendi McLendon-Covey joins Only Fools And Horses
- A Gifted Man‘s Rhys Coiro joins Applebaum, Andrea Martin joins Melissa McCarthy project
- Keri Russell to play KGB spy in The Americans
- Colin Salmon joins Arrow
- Homeland‘s Brianna Brown joins Devious Maids
- The Tudors David Alpay joins Americana
- The Good Wife‘s Jeremy Strong joins LA Noir
- Greg Germann joins The Unprofessional