Film

News

Woah. Where did all the news go?

Film

Mike Myers as Walter Mitty?
100 pages of car chases for John McTiernan and Karl Urban
A $65 million film based on The Nutcracker?

British TV

BBC2 pays £400,000/episode for season two of Heroes

US TV

Interviews and more from Flash Gordon. Where’s Professor Zarkov?
Ask Ausiello spoils: Numb3rs twist not so game-changing, plus who’s leaving Smallville (vodcast)?

Tuesday’s less bleary news

22 May 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Robert Rodriguez will direct the Barbarella remake
Golden Compass trailer and web site
Karen Allen to be in Indy 4?
Anthony Michael Hall joins Dark Knight cast
Watchmen casting?
Vinny Jones has another British crimo film on the way

British TV

John Simm to appear in a five-year long drama [free registration required]
Sky will be dropping the £10/month Sky+ charge from July
The new Big Brother house in pictures

US TV

Bionic Woman creator upset by remake
Jericho fans are sending nuts to CBS
Sarah Connor YouTube trailers
There may be more of The Apprentice after all

Monday’s bleary eyed news

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Doctor Who

42 got 7.0 million viewers
Neil Gaiman explains his love of the show

Film

First footage from John Rambo
Fu Manchu’s back. Sort of
De Niro and Pacino reunite
Heath Ledger’s Joker finally revealed
Neuromancer is to be adapted

British TV

Neighbours is moving from the Beeb to Five [free registration required]. The Beeb explains why
ITV1 does quite nicely at the BAFTAs for once

US TV

Donald Trump jumps from The Apprentice before he’s pushed
New Fox show K-Ville may air early
Tom Selleck doesn’t want to do a Magnum movie
Mr. and Mrs Smith didn’t get picked up by ABC, but may end up on another network
CBS are going to wrap up Jericho. Somehow.

First and last news of the week

18 May 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Normal service resumes on Monday – barring accidents or faulty alarm clocks

Film

The Long Good Friday to be remade in Miami
Elijah Wood as Iggy Pop? Okay…
Production offices for The Watchmen are opening
Life on Mars‘ stars reunite for a heist

Music

Ozzy Osbourne is going to be the first star on Birmingham’s Walk of Stars

Radio

XFM is axing its daytime DJs. Does that include weekends? No more Jimmy Carr… [free registration required]

British TV

BBC1 has picked up two more series of The Apprentice [free registration required]
ITV’s still struggling

US TV

The CW has picked up Reaper
But it hasn’t renewed Veronica Mars
How will Katee Sackhoff manage to appear in both BSG and The Bionic Woman?
Jericho got the chop because of ratings
Clips from the finale of Heroes. I’m not watching. I’m fed up of spoiling myself

Friday’s pre-pilgrimage news

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I’ll tell you about it later

Film

Eddie Murphy’s going to star in a remake of Fantasy Island
Bruce Willis likes to stay up late and leave messages on movie discussion forums
Hammer movies get sold again
Johnny Depp talks merchandising

UK TV

Five Life is going to start showing old episodes of Home and Away

US TV

The next season of Battlestar Galactica will be its last
NBC’s launching a behind-the-scenes series about Heroes on the web
Not too many comedies picked up for next season
Friday Night Lights gets a second season

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