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Now here’s something you don’t see every day: it’s Tom Hiddleston doing a pretty good impression of Owen Wilson if he’d been asked to deliver Loki’s dialogue in The Avengers. Why he has this talent, I don’t know, but it’s a talent nonetheless.

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Full season and a returning agent for SHIELD, and Richard Belzer leaves L&O:SVU

11 October 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Daily News will return on Wednesday. Or Thursday. It depends how tired I am

Doctor Who

Nine missing episodes recovered, now available on iTunes

Film casting

Kristin Chenoweth and Katrina Bowden joins Hard Sell
Sophie Turner joins Barely Lethal
Elizabeth Peña joins David Mamet’s Blackbird

Trailers

Trailer for Ambushed with Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones and Randy Couture

Canadian TV

Sci-fi show Echoes in development
Trailer for Bitten

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC2’s autumn/winter dramas

US TV

Agents of SHIELD gets a full season
The Originals, The Tomorrow People and Reign gets orders for more scripts
Wednesday ratings: Super Fun Night and Ironside drop, The Tomorrow People starts okay
Wednesday cable ratings

US TV casting

Richard Belzer leaving Law & Order: SVU
Lots more guest stars for Community
Titus Welliver to reprise Agent Blake for Agents of SHIELD
Chris Elliott to guest on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

NBC acquires: time travel dramas Lighthouse and Timeless…
…is developing: Justin Long comedy and Bert Kreischer comedy
ABC developing: Bright Young Things
CBS acquires: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s More Time With Family
A&E red lights Occult, Comedy Central red lights Schlub Life and Bad Advice
Fox adapting: Turkish drama The End

New US TV show casting

Natalie Zea to star in Amazon’s Outlaws, Peter Jacobson to recur on Lifetime’s HR
Ray Liotta and Mamie Gummer join HBO’s The Money

There need to be more adverts featuring Ron Burgundy

8 October 2013 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

If only he were doing them for other products, not just Dodge Durangos. 25mpg, though? That sucks.

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