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Film

Disneyland launches a Finding Nemo submarine ride
Toy Story 3 might not be awful

Commercials

Channel 4 tries to reinvigorate ads with more awards
Bob Monkhouse is back in a cancer awareness ad

Radio/Books

Gervais sidekick Karl Pilkington has a new book out in October
BBC4’s doing a documentary series about the World Service

British TV

Channel 4 and HBO get Our Friends in the North writer to create a Civil War drama
Virgin to launch its own channel to rival Sky One
ITV1 has ordered up a sitcom about estate agents
Pirate Master gets rubbish ratings

US TV

A few details about Stargate Universe
Mirabilis Deus! Supergirl joins Smallville
David Chase talks about the ending of The Sopranos
Showtime reckons it can replace HBO, now The Sopranos has gone
Providing The Unit with homes can be lucrative

Monday morning news

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Doctor Who

John Barrowman is doing panto in Birmingham this year, with guest appearances by the Daleks
Blink got 6.1 million viewers
Thank God it’s only an audio play: Doctor Who returns to the web planet

Film

Peter Cullen credits fans for getting him the Optimus Prime gig again
A trailer for Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman’s Invasion
Pixar’s forthcoming projects

Commercial

Darth Vader makes beans on toast for Woolworths [free registration required]

British TV

Prince for Big Brother?
1,000 people say Emily shouldn’t have been chucked out of BB
Two new cast members for Primeval

US TV

Jericho‘s coming back, maybe as early as the end of the year if anything gets cancelled, with a lower budget and another cliffhanger. But don’t watch it on PVR, watch it as it airs if you want that tiny hamster to live
David Anders (Sark) from Alias might join Heroes next season
Bradley Whitford on the demise of Studio 60
Reactions to Fox’s forthcoming Anchorwoman from the town where it’s shot
Isaiah Washington’s a bit annoyed that he’s not in Grey’s Anatomy any more
David Eick would like a BSG movie

Wednesday’s perfectly acceptable news

6 June 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

Christopher Eccleston talks a bit about Doctor Who, his potential return to Heroes and The Dark is Rising

Film

Oh sweet merciful… Thundercats: the live action movie
WB acquires rights to Terry Brooks’ The Shannara series. Any good are they?
A fight long coming: Clive Owen v Paul Giamatti in Shoot ‘Em Up
Adam and Eve: the rom-com

Commercials

Heineken is back [free registration required, I think]

British TV

Simon Amstell is developing a sitcom based on his own life
Sky One nabs the rights to Prison Break from Five

US TV

All those nuts paid off: looks like Jericho‘s coming back for another eight episodes and maybe more
The Wire has started filming at the Washington Post
Trenton, Michigan celebrates 24‘s “Mary Lynn Rajskub day”
Them may live
Peter O’Toole is to play Pope Paul III in The Tudors

And then… sniff… he found out he wasn’t who he thought he was… sniff… but to save everyone he had to give up the woman he loved… sniff… and then he saw what his life would have been like with her… sniff…

Film

Lots of clips from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Eek. Optimus Prime v Bonecrusher
Pathe and the Beeb are making films about Mrs T and Lord Nelson among others
Tarantino says Italian film industry is depressing. Italian film industry says he is. So ner!
Video of Speed Racer‘s Mach 5 and cast, including Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon and Christina Ricci – you’ll have to watch an ad first
America’s version of Derren Brown, Criss Angel, is to appear in Mandrake, possibly as Mandrake

Commercials

Amy Winehouse’s mockney accent and ‘edgy’ image make Americans like her, not want to slap her [free registration required]

US TV

They’re looking for an extremely hot editor for the Daily Planet in Smallville
Spoilers for House, Lost, et al at Kristin. Plus they’d really like to get Christopher Eccleston back on Heroes

Wednesday’s news

2 May 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Film

Frank Miller’s Ronin gets optioned
Spiderman 4 looks like it’s going ahead
As does the adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk‘s Choke
John Cusack will star in a Jan de Bont action thriller
Young X-Men?
Rowan Atkinson is Mr Micawber in Peter Howitt’s David Copperfield
And Martin Freeman is Rembrandt in Peter Greenaway’s Nightwatching

Commercials

Mena Suvari is next up to face the ‘Orange film funding board’

Theatre

The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns to the West End from June 12

British TV

ITV1 revamps its web site and introduces all sorts of video on demand fun [free registration required]
No more SMS voting for Big Brother?
ITV is planning a drama ‘inspired‘ by The Wire [free registration required]
Channel 4 is going to decrease spending on US shows [free registration required]

US TV

A&E is now making that Andromeda Strain mini-series

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