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Everyone loves Teen Wolf with Michael J Fox, right? Well here’s a trailer for the MTV remake, which looks an awful lot more like An American Werewolf in London in tone. Enjoy…?

Tuesday’s “Spanish Hulk” news

16 November 2010 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Christmas episode to be called A Christmas Carol [minor spoilers]

Film

Cameos in Muppets movie to include Alan Arkin, Jack Black, Billy Crystal, Zach Galifianakis and Jean-Claude Van Damme
Carey Mulligan to play Daisy in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby
Katherine Heigl off Adaline
Pic of John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven
New film studio opens in Bristol

British TV

Spooks gets the BBC into trouble in China
Jim Broadbent and John Simm to star in Exile by Paul Abbott
ITV3 and ITV4 go HD on Sky

Canadian TV

Lost Girl gets a second season

US TV

NBC unveils massive schedule change, 30 Rock renewal
Medium cancelled
Walking Dead ratings up
CSI: Miami falls to all-time low in ratings
BBC sells 50% stake back to Discovery channel
Guillermo Del Toro and David Eick to create the new Hulk TV series
Amanda Walsh cast in Danni Lowinski pilot for The CW
Jeff Gaspin leaving NBC
Nia Long joins Chase

Monday’s “Mommy, she wrote” news

15 November 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Fox 2000 to adapt revisionist Romeo & Juliet, Rosaline
Paul Giamatti and Bill Clinton to appear in The Hangover 2
Angela Lansbury to play Katherine Heigl’s daughter in Adaline
Community‘s Donald Glover and Danny Trejo join the new Muppets movie
Colin Farrell to star in Total Recall?

British TV

Red button should be axed for comedy and drama, says BBC Trust [subscription required]
David Tennant to star in drama about Manchester United plane crash

Spanish TV

Telecinco and Cuatro to merge

US TV

ESPN radio host sells life-story to CBS for sitcom
Teri Hatcher helps Smallville rise in the ratings
The Daily Show‘s Larry Wilmore sells sitcom to NBC
Lizzy Caplan to guest on Mr Sunshine
The Mentalist hits season low
Connie Britton to recur on The Event?
Fox working on Weekly World News sitcom
The Event to relaunch in January

Friday’s “Rubicon uncrossed” news

12 November 2010 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

Zoolander 2, Star Trek 2 a go
Trailer for Nicolas Cage in Season of the Witch
Phillip Noyce to direct time-travel movie Timeless?

British TV

Sky Living acquires Teen Wolf [subscription required]
Cast of BBC1’s daytime census drama
Virgin to offer Demand Five, BT Vision to offer iPlayer

US TV

Starz picks up Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Noir live action remake of Japanese anime spy series
Castle gets two more episodes
Rubicon cancelled
The Simpsons gets a 23rd season
Hawthorne gets a new showrunner
Courtney Ford joins True Blood
Rob Thomas working on Little in Common for Fox
Outnumbered remake gets a male lead
Wednesday ratings: Hellcats up, everyone else down
Bob Newhart to guest on NCIS
Hot in Cleveland second season guest stars to include Melanie Griffith, Illeana Douglas and Wayne Knight

Thursday’s “sexy bad girl” news

11 November 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Why Amy? Steven Moffat wanted a sexy bad girl in the TARDIS
New series to explain River Song’s true identity [minor spoilers]

Film

Elizabeth Banks to star in Welcome to People?
Warner Bros to pick up Brad Thor’s female Delta novel The Athena Project
Merlin in the modern day?

British TV

BBC Cymru Wales director Menna Richards to step down

US TV

Tuesday night ratings: Glee matches season low
TV Land orders pilot of Ex Men
Fox to pick up Christian Slater’s Breaking In to replace Running Wilde?
Ronald D Moore and Naren Shankar to remake The Wild Wild West
HBO passes on Miraculous Year

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Trailer for the new Teen Wolf

Tuesday’s “Spanish Hulk” news

Monday’s “Mommy, she wrote” news

Friday’s “Rubicon uncrossed” news

Thursday’s “sexy bad girl” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

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