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Jennifer Lawrence to star in East of Eden

International TV

Gaumont developing: Monsieur de Paris

UK TV

Peep Show cancelled
Trailer for the final episode of The IT Crowd
Tuesday ratings

US TV

ABC renews: Mistresses
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Bryan Cranston returning to How I Met Your Mother
Annabelle Stephenson to recur on Revenge

New US TV shows

CBS developing: Oasis…
…adapting Anne Rice’s Seraphim novels…
…orders Vince Gilligan and David Shore detective drama Battle Creek
ABC developing: Girls Without Boys
TNT developing acton/adventure show…
…comedy
HBO continuing Criminal Justice with Robert De Niro
NBC green lights: Odyssey pilot

New US TV show casting

Casting on ABC’s The Black Box, NBC’s Chicago PD and Showtime’s Trending Down
Emily Osment to star in ABC Family’s Young and Hungry
Nathan Lane to co-star in HBO’s The Money
Andy Mientus to recur on ABC Family’s Chasing Life
Rumer Willis joins E!’s Songbyrd

Wednesday’s “The Bridge (US) renewed, a Gotham TV series and Geoffrey Rush is Ra” news

25 September 2013 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Film casting

Geoffrey Rush and Gerard Butler (?) join Alex Proyas’s Gods of Egypt
Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje joins Annie

Trailers

Trailer for Not Another Happy Ending with Karen Gillan

UK TV

BBC1 autumn drama trailer
Sky Go adds E4 and Film4 live channels
The Sky At Night faces axe

New UK TV shows

BBC1 green lights: Abi Morgan’s River

New UK TV show casting

Russ Abbot and Stephanie Beacham join BBC1’s Grey Mates

US TV

The Bridge gets a second season
Lifetime cancels: Army Wives
HBO acquires: Sky Living’s Doll & Em
Monday ratings: The Blacklist starts well, Hostages okay

US TV show casting

Steven Pasquale to guest on White Collar
Joanne Kelly to recur on Hostages, Jack Coleman to recur on Scandal

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: Batman origin series Gotham
ABC adapting: The Good Thief’s Guide books
Fox green lights: Billy Ray pilot
Starz developing: Gringo
NBC green lights: Odyssey pilot
Trailer for ABC Family’s Ravenswood

New US TV show casting

Anthony Stewart Head et al join SyFy’s Dominion
Vanessa Redgrave to co-star in ABC’s The Black Box
America Olivo to recur on NBC’s Chicago PD
Zuleikha Robinson to recur on CBS’s Intelligence

Le Week-end: just how bad are the British at languages?

24 September 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

I’m really hoping the movie is just taking the piss out of how ‘franglais’ or British people’s language skills, because if we really need a subtitle to explain what Le Week-end means, we’re in trouble as a nation.

Tuesday’s “A New Orleans NCIS spin-off, a returning Tomorrow Person and a Mars western” news

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Trailers

Trailer for Dom Hemingway with Jude Law, Richard E Grant, Emilia Clark and Demian Bichir

UK TV

Sunday ratings: Highest ever premiere for Downton Abbey

US TV

Sunday cable ratings: Dexter finale highest-rated Showtime episode ever…
…series high for Devious Maids…
…and Breaking Bad

US TV casting

Kendra Wilkinson to guest on The Mindy Project

New US TV shows

The CW developing: Red from Bruno Heller
CBS green lights: NCIS New Orleans pilot

New US TV show casting

Nicholas Young to recur on The CW’s The Tomorrow People
Bethany Joy Lenz to star in E!’s Songbyrd, Maulik Pancholy joins Lifetime’s HR

It’s Hammer Time!: The Gorgon (1964)

23 September 2013 Natalia Romanova Post a comment

Obviously, with me and my love of Greek myth, it was only going to be a matter of time before ‘It’s Hammer Time!’ got round to The Gorgon, 1964’s divergence away from standard Hammer Horror fare into something even more eternal.

Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley and Richard Pasco, and directed by Terence Fisher, is oddly set, given its subject matter, in 1910 in the German village of Vandorf, where seven murders have been committed within the previousfive years. Each victim has been petrified, but rather than investigate it, the local authorities have dismissed the murders for fear of a local legend having come true. When a local girl becomes the latest victim and her suicidal lover made the scapegoat, the father of the condemned man decides to investigate and discovers that the cause of the petrifying deaths is a phantom – the last of the snake-haired Gorgon sisters haunts the local castle and turns victims to stone during the full moon…

Okay, so not 100% faithful to myth since only Medusa was snake-haired and here the other Gorgons are called Tisiphone and Megaera, who were both Erinyes (Furies). But what the hell, it’s Hammer, it’s Greek myth and it’s Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, so enjoy!

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