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Wednesday’s US Have I Got news

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Doctor Who

Tenth Doctor to fight aliens from… in final specials [spoiler?]

Film

Salma Hayek joins Adam Sandler’s latest comedy

Books

Macmillan to publish ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’ series written by Who/Torchwood novelist Andrew Lane

Theatre

Johnathan Pryce to star in The Caretaker

British TV

The Apprentice candidates revealed
Stewart Lee gets fewer than £1 million viewers
Trouble to be replaced with another version of Living (to be rebanded later in the year)
Sir Alan working on ‘Junior Apprentice‘

US TV

Moonlight‘s Alex O’Loughlin to star in Three Rivers
Lots of pilot casting
NBC adapting Have I Got News For You?

Tuesday’s not quite number one detective agency news

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Film

Paramount acquires Le Carré’s The Night Manager
Karl Urban joins And Soon The Darkness remake
JJ Abrams to make movie based on unpublished Wired story about a diamond heist
Zac Efron to play Jonny Quest?
Chow Yun-Fat to play Confucius

Theatre

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia to be revived at the Duke of York with Neil Pearson

Canadian TV

CBC criticised for showing too much US programming

British TV

No 1 Ladies Detective Agency beaten by Dancing on Ice
Campaigners worried S4C not Welsh enough
Will Young to cameo in Horne & Corden
Waterloo Road gets a fifth series
Third series of Gavin & Stacey to be the last

US TV

Terminator and Dollhouse ratings going up
Henry Rollins joins Sons of Anarchy for six episodes
Sopranos creator David Chase returns to HBO for mini-series
Pliots for Sam Neill, Michael Rosenbaum, Oded Fehr and Noah Gray-Cabey

Monday’s “it’s about money, not principle” news

16 March 2009 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Doctor Who

Freema will return… some day
Specials to have an arc

Film

MacGyver: the movie
Trailer for In the Loop

British TV

Horne & Corden gun sketch pulled
Comic Relief gets 12.8 million viewers…
…causing Moving Wallpaper’s ratings to drop to 1.4m

US TV

Harlan Ellison suing Paramount over Star Trek
Jordana Brewster returning to Chuck [spoilers]
Chevy Chase joins NBC’s Community
Spike’s Blue Mountain gets a series
Richard Dreyfuss joins Jason Biggs in Happiness Isn’t Everything
Lots and lots of pilot casting, including Peep Show‘s Sophie Winkleman in 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne and Paul Campbell in No Heroics
Samantha Who?‘s Jennifer Esposito appearing in Burn Notice
SciFi channel rebranding itself as… SyFy

Friday’s Wife Swap opera news

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Doctor Who

More K9 details

Film

Rhys Ifans joins Ben Stiller’s Greenberg
Stephen King’s It to be adapted
Sequel to Taken planned

Theatre

Heathers: The Musical

British TV

BBC2 to finally show The Wire, stripped across the week
Episode guide and pics for the new Red Dwarf episodes
ITV and BBC to work together on regional news
James May to stage stunts with toys for new series
Matt Lucas planning to write Jewish sitcom
S4C bids to produce English language news for ITV Wales
Stewart Lee writing Wife Swap: The Opera?

US TV

NBC announces summer line-up, including Merlin and The Listener
Scrubs‘s Donald Faison joins Cedric the Entertainer in The Law, plus other casting
Mischa Barton to star in A Beautiful Life

Thursday’s Glee-full news

12 March 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Behind the scenes photos from the Easter special
John Barrowman to guest on My Family

Commercials

Burger King to shoot ads on Star Trek sets

Film

Scarlet Johansson back on Iron Man 2?
Charisma Carpenter and Stone Cold Steve Austin join Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables

Theatre

Roger Allam and Philip Quast to star in La Cage Aux Folles

British TV

The Comic Relief celebrity Apprentice line-up
Rob Brydon to take over as host of Would I Lie To You?
Horne and Corden gets highest-rating comedy debut for BBC3
Virgin Media working on HD
Product placement still banned
Sophie Okonedo to play Winne Mandela in BBC4 drama
Disabled actors to star in Channel 4’s Cast Offs

US TV

Coupling‘s Richard Coyle, Bruce Greenwood and Billy Zane among those joining pilots…
…including Friday Night Lights‘ Minka Kelly and Moonlight‘s Jason Dohring…
…and Jericho‘s Skeet Ulrich
Casting on True Blood, 24 and Army Wives
How I Met Your Mother likely to be renewed
Promo for Fox’s Glee
Shannen Doherty returning to 90210

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Thursday’s Glee-full news

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