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Ian McShane to play a dwarf in Snow White
Penn Badgley to play Jeff Buckley in Greetings from Tim Buckley
Andrea Riseborough to co-star in Welcome to the Punch
Sarah Shahi to play Sylvester Stallone’s daughter

British TV

BBC4 to dramatise Life of Brian row
3D TV set to struggle in UK
ITV Player comes to Android phones [subscription required]

US TV

BBC Worldwide reveals US projects, including New York Criminal Justice [subscription required]
Lucy Punch joins Powers
The Killing ends well [minor spoilers]
Dennis Leary to adapt Channel 4’s Sirens for USA Network
Full trailer for Breaking Bad season four
Falling Skies gets 5.9m viewers
Showtime to adapt 100 Bullets
Trailer for season 7 of Weeds

Monday’s “new jobs for Lost cast” news

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Winners of the Daytime Emmys

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Trailer for Conan the Barbarian
Kirstie Alley and Brittany Snow join Syrup
Trailer for 30 Minutes or Less
Evangeline Lilly and Barry Humphries join The Hobbit
Anton Corbijn to direct adaptation of John Le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man

British TV

Stephen Fry and Victoria Wood to star in The Borrowers
Bill Gallagher to adapt Emile Zola’s The Ladies’ Paradise
Jenny Agutter, Miranda Hart and Pam Ferris to star in Call the Midwife
Timothy Spall, Naveen Andrews and Sophie Okonedo join Sinbad
A sixth season for Skins
The Shadow Line ends with 1.9m

Friday’s unknown sailor news

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Doctor Who

Pictures of the Torchwood cast looking uncomfortable with guns

Film

Nia Vardalos to star in American Girl movie
Kate Winslet to star in Labor Day
Benedict Cumberbatch to voice Smaug in The Hobbit, Luke Evans to play Bard
Zoe Saldana and Mark Ruffalo to star in Infinitely Polar Bear
A teaser for the Muppet movie

British TV

Ralf Little and Craig Cash to make Sky1 sitcom
Unknown picked to star in Sky1’s Sinbad

US TV

Darren Aronofsky to direct pilot for Hobgoblin
Marti Noxon, Allison Adler to write for Glee
James Frain to guest on Burn Notice
Trailer for Necessary Roughness
Teaser for Dexter

Thursday’s “Happy Endings” news

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Film

James Mangold to direct The Wolverine
Simon West to direct The Expendables 2
Russell Crowe to play Jor-El in Man of Steel?
Robert de Niro joins Sean Penn’s The Comedian
A returning character for The Dark Knight Rises [spoilers]

British TV

Nurse Jackie acquired by Sky Atlantic, E4 acquires Happy Endings
BBC4 acquires Danish show Government

Canadian TV

CTV options two crime novels and develops a third TV crime drama
Movie Central and The Movie Network pick up The Transporter and The Crimson Petal and the White

US TV

Off The Map‘s Caroline Dhavernas joins Over/Under
Patty Duke joins The Protector as Ally Walker’s mother
Goldie Hawn to star in Darren Star’s The Viagra Diaries for HBO
Elizabeth Rodriguez joins Prime Suspect

Question of the week: who’s your favourite TV or film composer?

15 June 2011 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Music’s an often-overlooked aspect of film and TV production. It can create a mood or it can destroy it – indeed sometimes one composer can do both (cf Murray Gold). So today’s quick question is:

Who’s your favourite TV or film composer?

Mine is Clint Mansell, who composed the music from Requiem for a Dream (aka "the music from the Lord of the Rings trailers"), Black Swan and Moon amongst other things. In fact, I don’t know of any time he’s ever produced anything that was less than excellent. But how about you?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog

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