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Thursday’s “Ming Na joins SHIELD, Conan O’Brien on Arrested Development, Vikings fight Scots and Syndicate casting” news

25 October 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Rhys Ifans joins Madame Bovary

Trailers

Trailer for Evil Dead [NSFW]

UK TV

Sky Arts buys ‘Spanish Downton Abbey‘ Grand Hotel [subscription required]
Alison Steadman, Mark Addy, Siobhan Finneran, Natalie Gavin confirmed for series two of The Syndicate

US TV

Garcelle Beauvais out of Franklin & Bash
Tuesday ratings: Happy Endings down 39%, Vegas down 25%, Emily Owens down 40%

US TV casting

Alphas‘ Ryan Cartwright to guest on Big Bang Theory
Freda Foh Shen to play Lucy Liu’s mum on Elementary
Dallas Roberts and Anika Noni Rose returning to The Good Wife
Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter to guest on Arrested Development

New US TV shows

NBC acquires Greg Daniels romcom
Zach Braff sells comedy to ABC
Oprah Winfrey developing family drama for HBO
Charlize Theron developing medieval Vikings-Scots drama The Clan for ABC

New US TV show casting

Ming Na joins SHIELD
The Daily Show‘s Jason Jones to star in Fox comedy

Wednesday’s “Elementary and Vegas full seasons, The CW’s teenage Mary Queen of Scots & more Guys With Kids” news

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Film

Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner and Julianne Moore to star in Imagine

Trailers

TV spot for The Hobbit
Trailer for Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

Canadian TV

Maria Doyle Kennedy et al join Orphan Black

UK TV

Bruce Greenwood, Brian Dennehy, Kevin McNally join Challenger disaster docudrama
ITV orders wartime crime drama Murder on the Home Front
Virgin gets record number of subscribers

US TV

Full seasons for Elementary and Vegas
NBC orders five more Guys With Kids
Monday ratings: NBC and ABC win

US TV casting

Barry Sloane to be a regular on Revenge
Rescue Me‘s Larenz Tate to recur on House of Lies
24‘s Annie Wesching to recur on Dallas

New US TV shows

HBO buys family mystery drama The Return of Daniel Shepherd
The CW developing teenage Mary Queen of Scots drama
ABC acquires Mixology
NBC picks up Jennifer Garner-produced comedy
CBS buys modern Sense and Sensibility, Fox buys Paradise Falls, from Margaret Nagle

New US TV show casting

The Ghost Whisperer‘s David Conrad to star in The Secret Lives of Wives
Casting on Christopher Guest’s Family Tree
Jane Fonda to star in ABC comedy Now What?
Kyle XY‘s Matt Dallas joins Baby Daddy
Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa joins Sirens remake

Blimey! Iron Man 3 looks a bit dark, doesn’t it?

23 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Okay, so it’s reputedly based on Warren Ellis’s Extremis, so it was always going to be a bit dark, but it looks like they’ve really gone for it. At the very least, it should be better than Iron Man 2, despite the absence of Scarlett Johansson, but could that lack of trademark Marvel fun be a really killer at the box office, despite The Avengers‘ recent success? What do you think?

Tuesday’s “Homeland’s 3rd season, Arrow’s full season and Stephen Colbert’s Hobbit cameo” news

23 October 2012 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Film

Hugh Grant to star in a romcom [is this news?]
Stephen Colbert to cameo on The Hobbit
Emmy Rossum joins You’re Not You

Trailers

Another Iron Man 3 trailer teaser

Canadian TV

Family Ties‘ Michael Gross to recur on Call Me Fitz

UK TV

Doc Martin back for eight episodes

US TV

Beauty and the Beast and Emily Owens, MD gets three more episodes
Homeland gets a third season after delivering most watched episode so far
New Girl and Raising Hope get two more episodes
Arrow gets a full season
Sunday ratings: 666 Park Avenue up 20%, The Good Wife up 12%, Once Upon A Time up 10%

US TV casting

Michael J Fox to return to The Good Wife
Mark-Paul Gosselaar to guest on Happy Endings
Kuno Becker joins Dallas
Breaking Bad‘s Betsy Brandt to guest on Parenthood

New US TV shows

CBS developing comedy Smells Like Teen Spirit
Fox buys comedy The Commuters…
…and The B Team from New Girl‘s Jake Johnson
A clip from Mockingbird Lane

New US TV show casting

Mark Consuelos to star in half-hour ABC comedy
Bret Harrison to co-write and star in Married With Roommates for ABC
Adam Baldwin replaces Titus Welliver on Last Ship
Laurie Metcalf to recur on The Goodwin Games

Monday’s “Private Practice cancelled, Ripper Street and Iron Man 3 trailers, and more episodes of ABC shows” news

22 October 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Andy Serkis to direct The Bone Season and Animal Farm

Trailer

Teaser for Iron Man 3 trailer
Trailer for Holy Motors, with Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue

International TV

The Transporter flags on German TV

UK TV

Time Team cancelled after 18 years
Thursday ratings: Hebburn does well on BBC2…
…Red Dwarf X still above 1m on Dave
Friday ratings

US TV

Jennifer Esposito temporarily out of Blue Blood, annoyed
Private Practice cancelled
Two new scripts ordered for Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue
…The Mindy Project…
…Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, The Middle, one more of Castle
NBC surprised to be doing well
AMC back on Dish Network
Thursday ratings: Beauty and the Beast down 42%, Elementary down 8%, The Last Resort up 6%, Up All Night up 27%
Friday ratings: Nikita back very low, Grimm down 13%

US TV casting

Mark-Paul Gosselaar to guest on Men At Work
Carl Weathers returning to Arrested Development
Wyclef Jean to recur on Nashville
Charmed‘s James Read to recur on CSI:NY

New US TV shows

NBC acquires Spinsters, CBS acquires Darkness Falls…
…buys supernatural New Orleans show The Big Easy…
…comedy from Rules of Engagement‘s Tom Hertz
Trailer for Ripper Street [US only]
HBO considering another WW2 mini

New US TV show casting

The Office‘s Craig Robinson to star in NBC comedy

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Thursday’s “Ming Na joins SHIELD, Conan O’Brien on Arrested Development, Vikings fight Scots and Syndicate casting” news

Wednesday’s “Elementary and Vegas full seasons, The CW’s teenage Mary Queen of Scots & more Guys With Kids” news

Blimey! Iron Man 3 looks a bit dark, doesn’t it?

Tuesday’s “Homeland’s 3rd season, Arrow’s full season and Stephen Colbert’s Hobbit cameo” news

Monday’s “Private Practice cancelled, Ripper Street and Iron Man 3 trailers, and more episodes of ABC shows” news

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