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Film

Sarah Paulson joins Frank Millar’s The Spirit
Dominic West and others just The Punisher 2
Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn and Helen Mirren join State of Play
Rachel Weisz v Chloe Sevigny for Terminator 4 role?
X-Files 2 starts shooting in December
Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon contemplating rugby movie

Art

Unknown Modigliani painting found in Serbia

British TV

BBC4 announces new programmes, including the acquisition of Mad Men
A recap of The Prisoner remake problems

US TV

Kidnapped‘s Timothy Hutton to star in TNT pilot Leverage
Stargate: Atlantis star sued by agency
Nashville pulled in favour of K-Ville
John From Cincinnati moves to Friday Night Lights

Tuesday’s eruptive news

25 September 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

David Tennant and Catherine Tate take Peter Capaldi, Tracey Childs and Phil Davis over to Rome for a week’s filming for the new series [spoilers]

Film

Jessica Biel to be the Justice League‘s Wonder Woman?
The Rock to play either hero or villain in Shazam!
Die Hard director John McTiernan sent to prison for four months for lying to the Feds

British TV

To The Manor Born gets a Christmas reunion

US TV

Michael Shanks to guest star in Eureka
Nana Visitor to guest on Battlestar Galactica
James Garner to play David Boreanaz’s granddad on Bones?
A teaser trailer for the new season of The Wire
NBC orders up an anthology horror series
HBO to make drama based on 2000’s Florida recount

Monday’s sexy city news

24 September 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Film

Jason Bateman takes James McAvoy’s role in State of Play
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost writing movie together
Ben Kingsley to play Shakespeare
Tony Scott and Denzel Washington remaking Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3
Giovanni Ribisi joins James Cameron’s Avatar
Sex and the City goes back in time

British TV

Catherine Tate should have a won a comedy award in 2005 instead of Ant and Dec
Danny Wallace to do a weekly Prison Break podcast for Sky One
Spooks will be a 10-part serial, not series, when it comes back this autumn

US TV

Only one GLBT character planned for this year’s new shows
Eli Roth to make a Heroes: Origins episode
ABC picks up geeks show from former Microsoft employee
Sex and the City writer to create romcom anthology series for NBC
Barry Sonnenfeld talks about Pushing Daisies and Notes From the Underbelly
New cast members for Sarah Connor, Life, et al

Friday’s Dave – sorry, news (I rebranded)

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Film

John Cusack’s Stopping Power is back on track
Brett Ratner and Christ Tucker take on Frank Sinatra – and his valet
Katherine Heigl picks up the rights to Lost & Found, so she can make it with her mum
Isla Fisher to star in Confessions of a Shopaholic adaptation
Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green join futuristic London-set thriller Franklyn
Brad Pitt to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter
Wild Geese to be remade
Resident Evil 4 to focus on Ali Larter?
Warner not best pleased with JJ Abrams

Australian TV

First look at Matt Lucas in Kath & Kim

British TV

It sounds like a joke, but UKTV G2 is taking over UKTV Bright Ideas’ slot on Freeview and renaming itself – as Dave. Yes, Dave
Win a walk-on part in Shameless
Five to get a Spring refresh?
Living unveils its 2008 line-up, including Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle and Viva Laughlin
Blue Peter‘s cat-naming poll was fixed

US TV

Brit actors Gina McKee and Sienna Guillory join the cast of The Oaks
FX making a modern day Parallax View called Paranoid, from the screenwriter of Fight Club
The Wire‘s writers come up with a spoof final scene
Fall series might have to drop their budgets
A Lost character rises from the dead (spoiler)

Who’s your favourite fictional journalist?

20 September 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Occasional contributor Linda Jones is asking over on her blog who our favourite fictional journalists are. My somewhat incoherent reply:

Ooh, tricky. So many good ones to choose from. Tin Tin? Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who, etc? There’s Kevin McKidd in Journeyman to look forward to. I was always kind of partial to David Warner in Hold the Back Page. And Julia Sawalha in Press Gang. Danny in The West Wing? John Simm in State of Play?
I’d probably go for Darren McGavin in Kolchak: The Night Stalker though.
Who says I watch too much television?

But how about you guys? Answer here, answer there, answer in your own blog: the meme is on.

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