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A fun game in which Zachary Quinto and Billy Eichner run around New York, trying to find people who care that the man who plays Spock in the Star Trek movies is right there in front of them.

Friday’s “Roseanne’s Nuts, Superman Unbound and The Americans starts well” news

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Film casting

Julia Stiles to play Frances Marion in The First
Jeremy Renner to star in Kill The Messenger
Mark Duplass joins Mercy and Parkland
Frank Langella joins Reykjavik

Trailers

Trailer for World War Z, with Brad Pitt
Trailer for Somebody Up There Likes Me, with Nick Offerman
Trailer for Superman Unbound

UK TV

SyFy acquires Defiance
S4C to adapt Theatr Genedlaethol dramas
Wednesday ratings: 1.4m watch Derek

US TV

Hulu acquires more Prisoners of War
Wednesday ratings: comedies hit series lows
Wednesday cable ratings: The Americans gets 3.22m viewers

US TV casting

Roseanne Barr to recur on The Office
Michaela McManus and David Cassidy to guest on CSI
Lily Rabe for American Horror Story – season 3

New US TV shows

Lifetime greenlights: Witches of East End
ABC greenlights: Syndicate adaptation Lucky 7
Teaser for A&E’s Bates Motel
Roseanne Barr developing Roseanne’s Nuts for NBC
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner developing All Dressed Up and Everywhere To Go for HBO

New US TV casting

Ellen Muth to guest on Hannibal

New US TV show casting

John Goodman to star in Amazon’s Alpha House
Brenda Song to star in Fox’s Seth MacFarlane comedy

Thursday’s “Duncan Jones’ World of Warcraft, a final season for HIMYM and an ABC Sharon Horgan show” news

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Film

Duncan Jones to direct World of Warcraft

Film casting

Jessica Chastain joins Miss Julie
Tom Welling joins Parkland
Sam Worthington to star in Phillip Noyce’s For The Dogs

Trailers

Teaser for Iron Man 3 Superbowl trailer
Trailer for Alex Winter’s Downloaded

Theatre

National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations

UK TV

Two Christmas Mrs Brown’s Boys
S4C funding agreed

US TV

ABC acquires CTV’s Motive
A whole load of mini-series for ReelzChannel
How I Met Your Mother gets ninth, final season
Tuesday ratings: Fox up, NBC way down

US TV casting

Gerald McRaney to recur on Southland [minor spoilers]
Melinda Clarke to guest on Vegas [spoilers]
Kate Micucci to recur on The Big Bang Theory
Michael Urie to guest on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

ABC greenlights: Middle Age Rage, Crazy Gene and Sharon Horgan’s Bad Management
Fox greenlights: Gang Related and Graham Yost’s Wild Blue

New US TV show casting

TJ Miller and Thomas Middleditch cast in Silicon Valley
Merlin‘s Katie McGrath joins Dracula
Vincent Laresca to recur on Graceland

Tuesday’s “Wonder Woman gets rolled, ITV acquires The Americans, and The Tomorrow People remake gets the green light” news

29 January 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Pierre Morel to direct Sean Penn in Prone Gunman?

Trailers

Ad for Oz The Great and the Powerful

Theatre

Jennifer Ellison joins Singin’ In The Rain

French TV

France Télévisions puts the first episode of Tiger Lily online

UK TV

ITV acquires The Americans, Fox acquires Low Winter Sun
Casting on The Wrong Mans
Press pack for Channel 4’s Complicit
Friday’s ratings
Saturday’s ratings

US TV

One more episode for Chicago Fire
E! acquires Ben Stiller’s Burning Love, starring Ken Marino
Friday ratings: Spartacus returns strong
Sunday ratings

US TV casting

Elias Koteas to co-star in The Killing
Ben Falcone to guest on Go On
Annie Wersching joins Revolution

New US TV shows

Trailer for House of Cards
NBC greenlights: Hatfields & McCoys
CBS greenlights: The Surgeon General
The CW greenlights: The Tomorrow People and Blink
…and rolls back Amazon
Disney greenlights: Girl Meets World

New US TV show casting

Rob Corddry to star in Spy
Jeff Garlin to star in How The Hell Am I Normal
Allison Janney to star in Mom
Larry Wilmore joins Joe, Joe and Jane
More Under The Dome casting

Question of the week: what films would you like to see do a crossover?

28 January 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Not so long ago (okay, a couple of years ago now), I asked you which TV shows you’d like to see do crossovers. Time has moved on, though. Now movie franchises do crossovers, at least if they’re owned by Marvel Studios.

To reflect this new paradigm, this week I’m asking:

Practicalities aside, which movies would you like to see do crossovers?

So ignore who owns what rights, who’s dead, etc and let us know which movie characters you’d like to see in each other’s movies? Captain Kirk on board the Millennium Falcon? Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Twilight? Carrie Bradshaw in Kes?

And if you’re feeling very creative, how about extending it to TV characters appearing in movies?

As always, please give your answers below or on your own blog.

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Tuesday’s “Wonder Woman gets rolled, ITV acquires The Americans, and The Tomorrow People remake gets the green light” news

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