An archive of blog entries about films and film production.
Film
Wednesday’s rubbish robot dog news
Doctor Who
- Photo of new K9
Film
- Paradox picks up rights to Chariots of the Gods
- Jeff Goldblum joins Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman in The Baster
- No Lethal Weapon 5 after all
- Clips and TV spot for Dragonball Evolution
Canadian TV
- CBC ready to pick up comedy 18 to Life, despite ABC dropping out
British TV
- Law and Order ratings pick up again
- Fitness TV channel to launch on BSkyB
US TV
- Casting begins on live action Star Wars TV show
- Picture from Absolutely Fabulous pilot
- Fox picks up broadcast rights to Mental
Tuesday’s skinny companion? news
Doctor Who
- Skins‘ Hannah Murray is the new companion?
Film
- Jay Roach to make narrative version of The Complete History of My Sexual Failures
- New Regency to make David Ayer action movie Last Man
- Sean Penn to star in Cartel?
- Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle join Robin Hood‘s merry men
- Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester to star in Roommate?
- Fantastic Four getting a reboot
Theatre
- Avenue Q moving to the Gielgud
- Shakespeare’s first theatre found
British TV
- Channel 4’s Andy Duncan to take a pay cut
- BFI and BBC to open access to each other’s archives
- BSkyB suggests C4 should run pay channels with it
US TV
- Rebecca Romijn to play third witch on Eastwick
- Breaking Bad gets good ratings
- Matt Barr joins Gossip Girl spin-off
- Jeremy Northam, Missy Pyle and Saffron Burrows among those joining pilots
- Anil Kapoor to appear in 24?
- Danny Glover to appear on How I Met Your Mother
- Melissa Leo joins David Simon’s Treme
Friday’s reunited Seinfeld cast news
Film
- Clip from The Thick of It spin-off In the Loop
- New Harry Potter trailer
- New Star Trek trailer
- Chuck Norris’s MIA being remade
Theatre
- Most powerful women in theatre named
British TV
- Five to lose a quarter of its staff
- Minder ratings drop to 1.17m
- TV won’t bounce back for years, reckons C4’s Andy Duncan
- UKTV joins the Sky Player
US TV
- Heroes to get a fourth season
- Seinfeld cast to reunite on Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Andrew McCarthy to star in Gossip Girl spin-off
- Watch the start of Nathan Fillion’s Castle online [US only]
- Julianna Margulies joins Good Wife
- Madchen Amick and Stuart Townsend find pilots
- Jackie Earle Haley to co-star in Human Target
Thursday’s so many pilots news
Doctor Who
- More specials casting, including Peter O’Brien
- Second special to air at Christmas
- Lots of David Tennant RT covers printed
Film
- WW2 novel Resistance optioned for British movie
- Catalonia wants movies subtitled not dubbed
- MGM buys Shrek-like Once Upon a Time…
- Amber Heard and Odette Yustman to star in And Soon The Darkness remake
- Steve Carell’s Carousel to produce the very masculine Hi-T
- Six clips from Race to Witch Mountain
- Trailer for Wolverine
- Trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies
Theatre
- Joseph to close early
British TV
- ITV to lay off 600 as profits fall…
- …but commissions new comedy and new drama
- Birds of a Feather to come back?
US TV
- Ex-Heroes join pilots…
- …and more pilot casting…
- …although Anna Friel won’t be in any of them…
- …but Indira Varma will star in one, and Gina Torres will appear in another…
- …and Kristin Chenoweth and Victor Garber will star in another…
- …and there’s one called This Little Piggy planned, too
- Sarah Silverman gets a third season
- Want to see everything that happens in Sarah Connor this season?
- Prison Break getting a Gretchen spin-off?