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Doctor Who

Finale gets 6.1m viewers

Film

Rubicon‘s James Badge Dale to join Flight
Second clip from The Thing

British TV

5* to air Alphas in October
Bleak Expectations remake The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff to feature Stephen Fry, Katherine Parkinson, David Mitchell and Robert Webb

US TV

ABC acquires comedy from Jim Breuer
NBC to give new shows time to build an audience
Trailer for season 2 of Portlandia
Arrested Development to get another season before the movie?
Thursday ratings: Charlie’s Angels, Whitney down, How To Be A Gentlemen starts okay
Friday ratings: A Gifted Man down 14%, most shows steady
A clip from American Horror Story
Misfits producer signs development deal with BBC America
Jason Lee to guest on Up All Night
Chuck and Grimm premieres pushed back a week
Danny Masterson to star in TBS pilot Men At Work

The best argument with a teenage girl ever

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It was quite a brief, but funny scene in Bridesmaids, but the extended version? Wow. If the entire movie had been like this, it should have won an Oscar.

Friday’s “ABC comedies good, NBC comedies bad” news

30 September 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Trailer for Contraband, with Kate Beckinsale and Mark Wahlberg
Malin Akerman joins Tyler Labine in Cottage Country

Comics

Now Marvel’s rebooting

British TV

Abigail Thaw joins Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour
Sky Arts acquires The Onion News Network [subscription required]

Canadian TV

InSecurity retooling from spy parody to workplace sitcom

International TV

John Hurt joins Holy Grail mini-series, Labyrinth

US TV

ESPN sells ABC a sports fan comedy…
…Lost‘s Carlton Cuse sells them a spiritual drama…
…and Barry Schindel sells them a lawyer jailhouse comedy
Stan Lee to guest star on Chuck
The X-Files‘ Chris Carter to write, produce and exec mystery drama for MRC
House‘s Michael Weston to guest on CSI:NY
Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jack McBrayer, Penny Marshall, Andy Samberg and Amber Tamblyn to guest on Portlandia
Melinda McGraw to guest on NCIS [minor spoilers]
Dean Cain, Eric Roberts and Kristanna Loken to appear on Burn Notice
Rescue Me‘s John Scurti to guest on House
Wednesday ratings: Happy Endings returns to series high, Revenge drops 18%, Up All Night down 12%, Free Agents down 23%, Suburgatory gets 9.8m
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci sell Wyatt Earp western to Fox, which also buys dating comedy The Good Life
Parenthood gets another two episodes

Thursday’s “more New Girl” news

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who Confidential cancelled

Film

Warner planning film based on the life of Moses
David Duchovny joins Phantom
Trailer for New Year’s Eve
Trailer for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close with Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock

British TV

TV Burp to end?

US TV

The CW begins work on Legal Aid
A new Walking Dead trailer
Tuesday ratings: New Girl does well…
…and gets picked up for a full season
Jennifer Tilly to guest on Modern Family
Dane Cook developing an NBC sitcom
Sonya Walger joins Common Law
Morena Baccarin to return to The Mentalist
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci sell female-driven drama to CBS
ABC picks up Anthony Zuiker’s Chameleon
Seven advertisers drop out of The Playboy Club

Wednesday’s “the end of Wallander” news

28 September 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

The final Sarah Jane Adventures press pack

Film

Studio Canal preparing sequels to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Mira Sorvino to star in The Class Project
Michelle Rodriguez is in Resident Evil 5, Wentworth Miller and Ali Larter aren’t
Disney developing new female detective movie about the descendant of a legendary detective
Harry’s Law‘s Brittany Snow joins Pitch Perfect

Books

Stephen King reads excerpts from his sequel to The Shining, Dr Sleep
Albert Uderzo retires from Asterix

British/Swedish TV

Third and final series of both English and Swedish Wallander go into production with three episodes and six episodes respectively

US TV

Richard Schiff to play Christina Applegate’s dad on Up All Night
NBC orders pilot of Save Me
ABC adapting BBC3’s White Van Man
Starz commissions second season of the Boss before the first one airs
Boardwalk Empire returns with 2.9m viewers
True Blood‘s Kristin Bauer to guest on Once Upon A Time
Monday ratings: Terra Nova starts okay, Two Broke Girls down 37%, Playboy Club drops 19%

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