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Doctor Who

David Tennant and TARDIS in one of the Beeb’s Christmas idents
BBC America scheduling of the specials

Film

Johnny Depp to play Pancho Villa?
More details of Steven Spielberg’s Tintin
Spielberg pulls out of Harvey
Jeff Bridges talks Tron: Legacy
Chris Morris’s Four Lions shortlisted for competition at Sundance

British TV

Five to put programmes on YouTube
Big Top gets 3.3m
Channel 4 to show HBO’s animated version of Ricky Gervais’s podcast
Shameless gets an eighth series
InBetweeners‘ Simon Bird joins C4 comedy pilot Friday Night Dinner

US TV

Comcast buys 51% of NBC Universal
Jaime Pressly to guest on Rules of Engagement
FlashForward to return in March
More casting on Tough Trade
Entourage: the movie?
Joss Whedon on where Dollhouse went wrong

Thursday’s not-Scientology news

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Film

InBetweeners movie being worked on
Harold Perrineau joins Nicolas Cage and January Jones in Hungry Rabbit Jumps
Philip Seymour Hoffman to star as ‘L Ron Hubbard’ alike in The Master
Gwyneth Paltrow, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester to star in Love Don’t Let Me Down
Martin Campbell off The Birds

British TV

Room at the Top, The Rainbow and Women in Love to be adapted by BBC4
BT Vision to offer NBC shows on-demand
Stephen K Amos gets his own BBC2 show
BBC1 commissions a new series of Merlin
Victoria Wood Christmas press pack
BBCW to expand

US TV

Tuesday ratings messed up by Obama speech
Teaser trailer for web Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
HBO working on thriller Honest
Sons of Anarchy gets a third season
Casting on True Blood

January 2010 at the BFI

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Time for our regular look at what TV’s on at the South Bank in London in January. Highlights include a David Renwick season, Bernard Cribbins in conversation, a preview of the new series of Skins and Missing Believed Wiped, which offers a chance to see some newly returned episodes of Till Death Us Do Part and Top of the Pops.

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Question of the week: what’s your favourite Christmas movie?

2 December 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

It’s Advent time now, so prepare for lots of Christmas questions. This week:

What’s your favourite Christmas movie?

The definition of ‘Christmas movie’ is obviously quite loose and can incorporate movies set at Christmas as well as movies that get shown a lot at Christmas. Scrooged, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Great Escape? What’s your favourite?

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

Wednesday’s The Shield reunion news

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Film

Harlan Ellison volunteers for Star Trek 2
Office duo writing The Low Self Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie

Australian TV

Underbelly 4 to star Eric Bana?

British TV

FlashForward down to 2m viewers

US TV

NBC developing Tommy Supreme based on real Supreme Court lawyer
Cold Case gets two season pick-up in syndication
Heroes ratings up 9%
Lie To Me to reunite most of the cast of The Shield
Lauren Graham in promo for Parenthood
James Remar and Kelly Hu to guest on Vampire Diaries

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