An archive of blog entries about films and film production.
Friday’s “The Day Britain Stopped, Laurence Fishburne is Hannibal’s Jack Crawford and Billy Zane is Barabbas” news
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Film
- Ridley Scott planning to adapt The Day Britain Stopped
- Doug Liman to adapt Time And Again
Trailers
- Trailer for Chasing Mavericks with Gerard Butler
- Six-minute trailer for Cloud Atlas with Tom Hanks et al
Canadian TV
- CTV orders new seasons of Saving Hope and The Listener
- CBC cuts three scripted jobs
UK TV
- ITV reveals plans for pay version of ITV Player…
- …reports 8% fall in pre-tax profits to £167m…
- …while BSkyB profits are up 17%
- BBC2 commissions 1920s gangster drama from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire co-creator [subscription required]
- Sky content to air on Talk Talk YouView [subscription required]
- E4 acquires The New Normal
- Richard E Grant joins The Fear
US TV
- Virginia Madsen to recur on Hell On Wheels, David Julian Hirsh to recur on Weeds and Mido Hamada to recur on Homeland
- Promo for Childrens Hospital
- Pitch season starts slowly at NBC and ABC as networks scale back on development
- Eric Dane leaving Grey’s Anatomy
- Pretty Little Liars‘ Julian Morris to play Prince Philip on Once Upon A Time…
- …Teen Wolf‘s Sinqua Walls to play Sir Lancelot
- The Playboy Club‘s Jenna Dewan and Maroon 5’s Adam Levine to appear in American Horror Story
- Josh Gad to guest on New Girl
- True Blood‘s Carrie Preston to guest on Royal Pains
- Ivan Sergei to recur on The Mentalist
- Touch’s Catherine Dent to guest on Leverage
New US TV shows
- Billy Zane to play Barabbas, Treme‘s Jon Seda to recur on Chicago Fire…
- …Meghann Fahy to recur on Chicago Fire
- Laurence Fishburne to recur as Jack Crawford on Hannibal
- Wes Brown to replace Neil Jackson on Infamous
- The CW to turn Battle Royale into a TV series?
