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Doctor Who

Torchwood series three details

Film

Rhys Ifans to star in The Boat That Rocked
Filming starts on Mighty Boosh‘s Bunny and the Bull
Tom Cruise working with Sam Raimi on adaptation of DC/Wildstorm’s Sleeper
Fox and Warner Bros to fight over Watchmen rights
Tyrese to appear in A-Team movie as BA?
Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?

British TV

Clips from BBC3’s Autumn season
Kelly Brook and Alan Dale to fight zombies in Moving Wallpaper‘s second series
BBC4 to celebrate Mills & Boon’s 100th anniversary
BSkyB launching a second arts channel

US TV

Laurence Fishburne to replace William Petersen on CSI
Seth Green to appear on Heroes?
The first two episodes of Rosario Dawson’s new web series for NBC (US only)
Mark Sheppard to appear in three episodes of Dollhouse
Master P launching Better Black Television network

Monday’s suddenly cold and wet post-holiday news

18 August 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

Deleted scene from Iron Man
Remake of Candy Man planned – without a black lead?!
Matthew Vaughn to direct Kick-Ass
Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts and Bojana Novakovic join Edge of Darkness
Mike Myers to appear in Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards
Steve Carell and Tina Fey to play couple in Date Night
Tom Cruise to star in remake of French movie The Tourist
Superbad‘s Greg Mottola to direct Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s road movie

Theatre

Porridge to become stage show

British TV

Griff Rhys Jones to host new It’ll be Alright on the Night
Props for The IT Crowd requested
YA phone vote fix

US TV

Banana Splits to return
Madchen Amick to star in My Own Worst Enemy, John Eisendrath to be showrunner
Moonlight‘s Alex O’Loughlin signs one year with CBS
Pictures of Gene Hunt and Annie from Life on Mars remake
Sigourney Weaver to play Eli Stone‘s therapist
Pics of Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth in 90210 spin-off
True Blood trailer

Friday’s final pre-holiday news

1 August 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

The Daily News will be back (if there is any news, of course, and I’m not too knackered) on Monday 18th August 2008

Doctor Who

More Moff talk, including Doctor as the “ultimate liberal”

Film

John Lasseter the force behind Tr2n
Colin Firth to star with Ben Barnes in Dorian Gray
Nicolas Cage teaming up with John Carpenter for Scared Straight
Trailer for De Niro comedy What Just Happened?
Angelina Jolie to be Catwoman in third Batman movie?
Columbia to turn Anabasis into an action film

British TV

Lex Shrapnel to be Minder‘s minder
Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby to captain ITV2’s “Have I Got New For You meets Heat” game show
QFS: Living is the channel that’s invited Jade Goody back on TV
Channel 4 and Five to carry extra ad break in movies
BSkyB to put £10m into entertainment programmes

US TV

Thomas Jane to star in Hung
NBC greenlights Dick Wolf’s Lost and Found pilot
Rory Cochrane joins 24
Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks to appear in two episodes of Life

Today’s Joanna Page: Very Annie Mary

31 July 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Today’s Joanna Page is Very Annie Mary, a little movie set in Wales that features just about every Welsh actor in existence. It stars Rachel Griffiths, an Australian actress who impressed everyone right up until she joined the cast of Brothers and Sisters, as Annie Mary, the frustrated (in every sense) daughter of Pavarotti-impersonating baker Jonathan Pryce.

She wants to help her best friend, the seriously ill 16-year-old Bethan Bevan, get to Disneyland and singing in a talent contest might be the only way to get the money. And despite being 22 at the time, Joanna Page played that sick teenager.

Continue reading “Today’s Joanna Page: Very Annie Mary”

Thursday’s best of Scottish TV news

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Doctor Who

20 years until Doctor’s daughter returns?

Film

Venom spin-off of Spiderman 3 planned
Austin Powers 4 to focus on Dr Evil and son
More Watchmen images

British TV

BBC fined £400,000 over unfair phone-ins – again
SMG wants to launch a “best of” television channel for Scotland
ITV online content to be boosted 60%
ITV2 getting a rebranding
Echo Beach to be axed – in Moving Wallpaper
Puffin murder results in complaints

US TV

Freddie Prinze Jr joining World Wrestling Entertainment
CSI‘s Josh Berman to develop James Patterson’s The CRU
TNT gives green light to Time Heals pilot
DirecTV’s looking for more shows to save, even if it couldn’t rescue The Riches
The Hoff is the first star in a reasonably priced car on Top Gear

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