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Featuring Captain America, Iron Man and Thor as The Powerpuff Girls, as well as some guest villains. And why not?

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Monday’s “Han Solo returns?, Sarah Michelle Gellar teams up with Robin Williams and Zero Hour bombs” news

18 February 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Missing Tenth Planet episode to be animated for DVD release
Reece Shearsmith to play Patrick Troughton in anniversary special

Film

Lobo movie ‘just went away’

Film casting

Matthew Modine to star in Ralph Bakshi’s Last Days of Coney Island
Jennifer Lawrence joins David O Russell’s American Bullshit
Jason Momoa to star in Guardians of the Galaxy?
Harrison Ford to return as Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode VII?

UK TV

Channel 4 greenlights: Matt Berry’s Toast Of London
Mayday to be stripped across five days

US TV

Valentine’s Day ratings: Zero Hour has worst ever ABC scripted TV debut, Community hits lowest ever ratings for its time slot, everyone else down
Friday ratings: Touch down 22%
Up All Night probably dead

US TV casting

Jack McBrayer to guest on The Middle

New US TV shows

TV Land greenlights: Kirstie’s New Show
Lifetime redlights: Cinnamon Girl
Lifetime developing Cleopatra mini-series
Amazon developing Press Start to Continue

New US TV show casting

Sarah Michelle Gellar to star with Robin Williams in CBS’s Crazy Ones
Ernie Hudson to co-star in ABC’s Reckless, Burn Gorman to star in AMC’s Turn, plus casting on CBS’s Hostages
Krysten Ritter to star in NBC’s Assistance
Kyle Chandler to star in Showtime’s Vatican
Felicity Huffman to star in Fox’s Boomerang
Tom Everett Scott joins NBC’s Bloodline
Miranda Cosgrove to star in NBC’s Girlfriend in a Coma, Humphrey Ker joins NBC’s Holding Patterns
Jake McLaughlin to star in JJ Abram’s NBC pilot Believe
Peyton List to star in The CW’s The Tomorrow People, Matt Malloy to star in Amazon’s Alpha House
David Alan Grier to star in CBS’s Bad Teacher
Gage Golightly to star in The CW’s Company Town
Sean Patrick Thomas to star (again) in The CW’s The Selection
Corey Reynolds to co-star in Delirium

Friday’s “CBS says hello to Jason Isaacs, Netflix goes after Pablo Escabar and Jason Ritter is US Gavin, not Stacey” news

15 February 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Tidy.

Film

Chris Hemsworth to star in Michael Mann techno-thriller

Comics

Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman et al to write for Black Mask Studios

UK TV

ITV developing Cabbage and Pat

US TV casting

Ben Shenkman promoted to regular on Royal Pains
Home Improvement‘s Jonathan Taylor Tomas to guest on Last Man Standing

New US TV shows

Netflix to make Pablo Escabar drama [subscription required]
CBS unlikely to order many new shows for the fall
Virgin Produced developing The Whisky A Go Go

New US TV show casting

Jason Isaacs to star in CBS’s The Surgeon General
Minnie Driver to star in NBC’s About A Boy
CCH Pounder to co-star in CBS’s The Advocates
Jason Ritter to star Fox’s Gavin & Stacey remake Friends & Family
Dean Norris to star in CBS’s Under The Dome
Madeline Carroll to star in The CW’s Blink
Jake McLaughlin to star in NBC’s Believe
Mike O’Malley to star in NBC’s Welcome To The Family
Meegan Warner and Daniel Henshall join AMC’s Turn

Random Acts: Scarlett Johnasson as Janet Leigh

14 February 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Well, it’s pretty random to pretend to be Janet Leigh, given she’s in Hitchcock for all of about five minutes. Why go to all that effort?

Between Two Ferns: The Oscar Edition – Part 2

13 February 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

In case yesterday’s Between Two Ferns wasn’t weird enough, here’s part two, featuring Jessica Chastain, Sally Field and Bradley Cooper. I warn you – it’s going dark.

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