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[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Wednesday’s “The Bridge (US) goes to series, NBC hits ratings rock bottom and The Hour cancelled” news

13 February 2013 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film casting

Nicolas Cage to star in Tokarev

Trailers

Trailer for Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer with Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci et al
Trailer for The Numbers Station with John Cusack and Malin Ackerman
Clip from Dead Man Down, starring Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace

UK TV

The Hour cancelled
BBC Drama showreel, including clips from Doctor Who, Sherlock and Luther
Monday ratings: Black Mirror gets 1.6m viewers

US TV

Up All Night to do only one multi-camera episode
HBO GO to work with Apple TV and iPad AirPlay
NBC down to last place again in the ratings

US TV casting

Cara Buono to guest on Castle [spoilers]
Amy Seimetz to recur on The Killing

New US TV shows

FX greenlights: adaptation of The Bridge to series

New US TV show casting

Jennifer Beals to star in ABC’s Venice
Skyler Samuels to star in NBC’s Bloodline
Matthew Goode to star in Showtime’s Vatican, Virginia Madsen to star in NBC’s Hatfields & McCoys
Billy Campbell to co-star in Fox’s Delirium
Bojana Novakovic to star in Fox’s Rake
Tommy Dewey to star in Fox’s Dads
Nate Corddry to co-star in CBS’s Mom, Amanda Lund to star in NBC’s Craig Robinson comedy

The loveliest thing you’ll see today: Paperman

12 February 2013 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

In case you haven’t seen Wreck-It Ralph yet, there’s a lovely six minute animated, dialogue-less movie called Paperman that precedes it. And Disney has ever-so-nicely stuck it up on YouTube for you to enjoy. Well done Disney!

[via @scottm]

Between Two Ferns: The Oscar edition

12 February 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Zach Galifianakis interviews Jennifer Lawrence, Naomi Watts, Christoph Waltz, Anne Hathaway and Amy Adams in his own inimitable style. Truth be told, it’ll be the weirdest thing you’ll watch today.

Tuesday’s “3D Who, nine new BBC shows, Life’s Too Short’s life is short, SyFy’s The Man in The High Castle, and Arrow et al renewed” news

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Doctor Who

50th anniversary special to be shot in 3D, shown in cinemas
A returning classic monster [spoilers]

Film

Jesse Armstrong to write feature version of his Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You for Robert Downey Jr

Comics

Geoff Johns leaves Green Lantern after 10 years

Internet TV

Ratings for House of Cards

UK TV

BBC1 commissions Atlantis, Death Comes to Pemberley, Breakdown, The Interceptor, Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, recommissions Call The Midwife and Death in Paradise; BBC2 commissions Turks and Caicos and Salting The Battlefield; BBC4 commissions Burton and Taylor
Life’s Too Short to finish with one-hour special featuring Val Kilmer
YouTube to launch on Freesat
Trailer for ITV’s Lightfields
Sunday ratings: Mr Selfridge beats the Baftas

US TV

The CW renews Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries and Arrow
G4 to rebrand as The Esquire Network
Sunday ratings
Sunday cable ratings: The Walking Dead returns to record-breaking series high

US TV casting

Lisa Edelstein to guest on Scandal

New US TV shows

Frank Spotnitz to adapt The Man In The High Castle for SyFy
Warner to Game of Thrones the Wizard of Oz with Red Brick Road
Trailer for Ray Donovan with Liev Schreiber

New US TV show casting

Casting on Chuck Lorre’s CBS pilot Mom
Andre Braugher to co-star in Fox’s Andy Samberg comedy
Thomas Kretschmann and Oliver Jackson-Cohen join NBC’s Dracula
Maggie Lawson to star in ABC’s Cullen Brothers comedy
Josh Holloway to star in CBS’s Intelligence

Monday “NBC’s disasters, returning Alan Partridge favourites, James Lipton’s Arrested Development plus more Mr Selfridge” news

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Film

The return of familiar Alan Partridge characters for the movie
Tarantino planning Django/Basterds trrilogy

Film casting

Saoirse Ronan joins How To Catch A Monster
Ralph Fiennes to star in Sands
Jessica Alba to star in Weightless

Trailers

Trailer for Hours, starring Paul Walker

UK TV

A second series for Mr Selfridge
Up to 40 hours of content to premiere on the iPlayer this year
TCM acquires Longmire
William Gaminara leaves Silent Witness
Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb reunited for Love And Marriage
Dougray Scott joins The Wrong Mans
Thursday ratings

US TV

NBC’s Do No Harm cancelled…
…Christina Applegate leaves NBC’s Up All Night…
…NBC pulls 1600 Penn for a week
Thursday ratings: Do No Harm drops 22%, Community up
Friday ratings: Touch down

US TV casting

Chin Han joins Arrow
Max Fowler joins The Killing
Once Upon A Time character returning [spoilers]
James Lipton returning to Arrested Development

New US TV shows

NBC’s Wonderland pushed off-cycle
HBO greenlights: Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers
Showtime greenlights: The Affair

New US TV show casting

Kim Raver, Scott Grimes and Gillian Alexy to star in CBS’s NCIS: LA spin-off
Christina Ricci to star in NBC’s Girlfriend in a Coma, Parker Posey to star in DJ Nash project
Neighbours‘ Adelaide Kane to star as Mary Queen of Scots in The CW’s Reign
Aimee Teegarden to star in The CW’s Oxygen
Jonathan Banks joins NBC’s Bloodline
Jonathan Groff to star in HBO gay friends comedy
Rose McIver to recur on Showtime’s Masters of Sex
Casting on HBO’s Silicon Valley

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Wednesday’s “The Bridge (US) goes to series, NBC hits ratings rock bottom and The Hour cancelled” news

The loveliest thing you’ll see today: Paperman

Between Two Ferns: The Oscar edition

Tuesday’s “3D Who, nine new BBC shows, Life’s Too Short’s life is short, SyFy’s The Man in The High Castle, and Arrow et al renewed” news

Monday “NBC’s disasters, returning Alan Partridge favourites, James Lipton’s Arrested Development plus more Mr Selfridge” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

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