An archive of blog entries about films and film production.
Friday’s “ABC smash puny ratings” news
Doctor Who
- Strictly‘s Laila Rouass to play UNIT soldier in The Sarah Jane Adventures
- More crossovers with SJA unlikely
Film
- Aasif Mandvi, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow and Selma Blair to star in Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse
- Christopher Lambert in talks to join Ghost Rider 2
- The first five minutes of Megamind
- Alec Baldwin, Sharlto Copley and Gemma Arterton in talks for Men in Black 3
- Tom Cruise for Top Gun 2?
- Noomi Rapace to star in The Last Voyage of Demeter about Dracula’s coffin
British TV
- BBC Daytime to air drama looking at legal system
- Ofcom to be shook up in quango reform [subscription required]
- S4C funding mechanism to be reformed…
- …S4C fights back
US TV
- ABC remaking The Incredible Hulk
- Tea Leoni to star in and produce Spring/Fall fashion comedy pilot for HBO
- ABC orders more scripts for No Ordinary Family, Off The Map, Brothers and Sisters
- The CW orders more Life Unexpected
- Law and Order: LA drops 21% in the ratings
- Helen Hunt to direct an episode of The Paul Reiser Show
- SyFy picks up Sinbad and the Minotaur
- Wayne Knight to guest on The Whole Truth