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Ben Bova’s Immortality Factor to be adapted
Liam Neeson to play Hannibal, Bradley Cooper to play Face in The A-Team?
Kirsten Dunst back for Spiderman 4

East European TV

In Treatment to be remade in Romanian, Hungarian, Czech and Polish

British TV

Channel 4 closing down download version of 4oD and putting all back catalogue up for streaming
Primeval ends with 4.3m viewers
Ashes to Ashes gets final series
Press pack for moon season, which includes lots of James May
Sir Alan wanted to hire both Kate and Yasmina but the producers wouldn’t let him
£25m fund needed to safeguard ITV Wales

Canadian/German TV

Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland to star in Pillars of the Earth

US TV

Kathy Bates, Tim Curry and Colm Meaney to star in updating of Alice in Wonderland
BSG‘s Katee Sackhoff to be a regular on 24
My Name is Earl to continue on TBS?

Wednesday’s “Brian Blessed is a god” news

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Doctor Who

Lawry Lewin gets role in Christmas specials

Film

Jack Nicholson to play Paul Rudd’s dad instead of Bill Murray?
Stretch Armstrong: the movie
Kurt Wimmer to write Total Recall remake script
Emile Hirsch to star in modern day version of Hamlet
Paul Haggis to remake Pour Elle as The Next Three Days
Robert Luketic to direct Barbarella remake?
Brian Blessed joining cast of Thor?

Theatre

Sanaa Lathan joins James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad and Adrian Lester in all-black cast of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

British TV

jPod coming to Virgin Media
BBC1 boss rules out US acquisitions
Government to fund a food show
Welsh language actors to get pay cut?
BBC pissed with S4C after Ofcom submissions

Canadian TV

CTV picks up Vampire Diaries
CBC to be sold off?

US TV

Tim Kring lets everyone know the set-up for Heroes next season [lots of minor spoilers]
Californication‘s Madeline Zima joins Heroes
Gregg Henry joins Hung, Courtney Ford joins Dexter
USA to pick up pilot for spy thriller Covert Affairs?
Hannah Montana gets a fourth season
Images from Virtuality
Important Things with Demitri Martin gets a second season
Zac Efron cameos in Entourage

Meeting Erica at CBC’s open doors event

27 May 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

What an interesting idea. Over in Canada, CBC has an annual ‘open doors’ event in which you can tour the network’s facilities and meet the stars. Look, here’s Erin Karpluk of Being Erica being told she’s the next Carrie Bradshaw.

I wonder if the Beeb could do something similar. What do you think?

Tuesday’s Whedon-free Buffy news

26 May 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Details of DT’s appearance in The Sarah Jane Adventures [minor spoilers]
New animated Who on the way, featuring DT and Georgia Moffett
Regeneration will be complicated [minor spoilers]

Film

Disney to remake Flight of the Navigator
Three clips from Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Buffy remake planned without Joss Whedon
Daredevil reboot planned?
Alan Partridge: the movie?

British TV

Five acquires Breaking Bad
Charles Dance and Adrian Lester among guest stars for season two of Merlin
Five goes poaching commissioners from Sky
Paul Darrow joins Emmerdale

Canadian TV

What Canadian networks have acquired at the upfronts

US TV

Fox wins the 18-49 demographic fifth season running
USA’s Lindsay Sloane takes over drama development at Fox

CBS shows coming in Fall 2009

22 May 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

CBS isn’t the sexiest of networks, but with its constant diet of cop procedurals, Chuck Lorre comedies and adult-skewed programming, it’s about the only one that’s done better this year than it did last. Apparently convinced that slow and steady – and unsexy – shows with bad scripts but good casts will win the race, CBS has two more cop procedurals, two medical procedurals and a law procedural – oh, and a comedy about a pregnant movie critic, starring someone who used to be in a Chuck Lorre comedy. They always like to throw a wildcard into the mix, don’t they?

So, after the jump, plot run-downs and videos from Accidentally On Purpose, The Good Wife, NCIS: Los Angeles, Three Rivers, The Bridge and Miami Trauma.

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