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Don’t you love Zoeey Deschanel, the better Deschanel sister (the other, unforgivably, starring in Bones)? She was great in Elf and Frasier, for example, and was one of the few good things about the movie version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. She’s also a singer and for some reason the American cotton industry has hired her to promote their wares, which she’s done by pretending to be Katy Perry.

Spooky, isn’t it? [via]

Friday’s chariot racing news

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Doctor Who

Probing questions for producers from fans

Awards

Kenneth Branagh beats David Tennant to Best Actor at the Broadcasting Press Guild awards

Commercials

Orange signs up Danny Glover, Juliette Lewis, Sigourney Weaver and Emilio Estevez for its film ads

Film

Sam Raimi working on Evil Dead 4

Canadian TV

CBC to stop showing The Simpsons

British TV

Noel Edmonds looking for new network for Noel HQ
QFS: Lynda La Plante writing sequel to Above Suspicion
Horne & Corden ratings drop by half
The Ashes to Ashes series two press pack
Danny Dyer to star in lads mag sitcom

US TV

More non-American casting and American casting on pilots
ABC to show Ben Hur mini-series

Wednesday’s Animal Planet detective news

25 March 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Zac Efron in talks to star in The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud
Tom Hanks to star in Major Matt Mason toy adaptation
Warner Bros acquires Methuselah
Mad Men‘s Jon Hamm to star in Howl
Vanessa Redgrave joins Robin Hood cast
Robert Pattinson to star in Memoirs?
Stephen Chow may not play Kato in Green Hornet after all

Commercials

Kevin Spacey appearing in American Airlines ad directed by Michel Gondry
Wallace and Gromit in an nPower ad

British TV

A clip from The Apprentice

US TV

Kiefer confirms there will be an eighth season of 24
Pulling casting complete
Limelight lead cast
Michael Sheen, Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore to play Tony Blair and the Clintons in The Special Relationship for HBO
Pilot casting, including Michelle Trachtenberg on Mercy
USA close to picking up White Collar
More Bones ordered
Sharona returning for final episode of Monk
ABC only promising to air six of 11 Samantha Who? episodes remaining
Seven clips from Caprica
Sue Thomas FB Eye might get new episodes – on Animal Planet

More Comic Relief sketches – commercials, Outnumbered, Smithy and the England team, and David Tennant as one of The Proclaimers

13 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

US blogging pal Toby has been paying far more attention to Comic Relief than I have, it seems. I feel quite shamed. So this is me, being shamed into action.

First up, as pointed out by Tobes, here’s a selection of much-loved characters from British commercials – as well as Michael Winner – clubbing together to come up with an idea for Comic Relief. Can you recognise them all?

Outnumbered is also doing a sketch and here’s some footage that didn’t make it (thanks again Tobes!)

I can’t embed this one, so you’re going to have to go over to The Mirror‘s web site to see it, but James Corden does a turn as Smithy from Gavin & Stacey with the England football team, too.

And lastly, have you ever wondered what David Tennant would look like blond? Or as one of The Proclaimers?

Thursday’s Glee-full news

12 March 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Behind the scenes photos from the Easter special
John Barrowman to guest on My Family

Commercials

Burger King to shoot ads on Star Trek sets

Film

Scarlet Johansson back on Iron Man 2?
Charisma Carpenter and Stone Cold Steve Austin join Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables

Theatre

Roger Allam and Philip Quast to star in La Cage Aux Folles

British TV

The Comic Relief celebrity Apprentice line-up
Rob Brydon to take over as host of Would I Lie To You?
Horne and Corden gets highest-rating comedy debut for BBC3
Virgin Media working on HD
Product placement still banned
Sophie Okonedo to play Winne Mandela in BBC4 drama
Disabled actors to star in Channel 4’s Cast Offs

US TV

Coupling‘s Richard Coyle, Bruce Greenwood and Billy Zane among those joining pilots…
…including Friday Night Lights‘ Minka Kelly and Moonlight‘s Jason Dohring…
…and Jericho‘s Skeet Ulrich
Casting on True Blood, 24 and Army Wives
How I Met Your Mother likely to be renewed
Promo for Fox’s Glee
Shannen Doherty returning to 90210

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Friday’s chariot racing news

Wednesday’s Animal Planet detective news

More Comic Relief sketches – commercials, Outnumbered, Smithy and the England team, and David Tennant as one of The Proclaimers

Thursday’s Glee-full news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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