Film

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News

Wednesday’s less tired news

4 April 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Surprised

Doctor Who

Books

  • An unpublished 1979 interview with Douglas Adams resurfaces

Film

US TV

  • Marta Kauffman does reality TV with a programme about psychics for Fox. That’ll be rigourous then
  • Ruin the CSI finale for yourself with a load of spoilers
  • Set designing for 30 Rock isn’t easy, thanks to HD
  • FX has picked up Glenn Close’s pilot
  • The Wedding Bells, Six Degrees and Seventh Heaven all bite the dust
News

Wednesday’s less tired news

4 April 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Surprised

Doctor Who

Books

  • An unpublished 1979 interview with Douglas Adams resurfaces

Film

US TV

  • Marta Kauffman does reality TV with a programme about psychics for Fox. That’ll be rigourous then
  • Ruin the CSI finale for yourself with a load of spoilers
  • Set designing for 30 Rock isn’t easy, thanks to HD
  • FX has picked up Glenn Close’s pilot
  • The Wedding Bells, Six Degrees and Seventh Heaven all bite the dust

Tuesday’s ever-so-tired news

3 April 2007 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Feel sorry for the US: BBC America has just bought Torchwood
  • David Tennant back for series four

Film

  • Aardman’s signed with Sony now
  • Can anyone say ‘fix’? Serenity voted best sci-fi movie ever
  • Two John Cusack trailers

British TV

  • John Travolta will appear in the Christmas Extras
  • Virgin Media has launched a digital terrestrial service

US TV

  • Jennifer Love Hewitt’s mind is as thin as the rest of her: she thinks ghosts haunt the set of Ghost Whisperer
  • The Black Donnellys has been pulled
  • You can buy one of the original KITTs from Knight Rider

Monday morning news

2 April 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

  • Ratings for Smith and Jones were 8.2 million, peaking at 9.11 million
  • John Barrowman questioned about ‘fattie’ comments
  • David Tennant’s Doctor models himself on Jamie Oliver

Commercials

  • The official solution to that Virgin 74 bands puzzle

Film

  • First pics from Iron Man
  • Tarantino frightens cast with knowledge of their rubbish movies
  • A Dylan Thomas movie is on the way
  • The official site for Nicholas Cage’s Philip K Dick movie, Next, is up
  • Test-screening details of The Simpsons
  • Sigourney Weaver talks about Avatar
  • Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp may be in the sequel to Sin City
  • Luke Goss joins the cast of Hellboy 2
  • Two Transformers TV trailers

British TV

  • Living TV has the rights to Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer‘s second seasons

US TV

  • A promo for the next episode of Heroes
  • James Doohan has been fired into space
  • Sydney Pollack is directing a movie for HBO about the 2000 Florida recount
  • An interview with Dennis Haysbert about The Unit
  • The Sopranos in seven minutes

End of the week news for everyone

30 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Film

  • There’s a full length Ocean’s 13 trailer out
  • Uwe Boll damned by Kristanna Loken’s faint praise
  • What’s happening to Iron Fist?
  • Mark Wahlberg will star in M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening
  • Harry Potter 5 stills
  • Jason Statham might be in Paul W S Anderson’s remake, Death Race 3000

British TV

  • Some BBC channels are coming to mobile phones
  • Ronni Ancona has her own show. With friends.
  • The BBC is looking at the viability of another episode of EastEnders each week [subscription required]
  • Dermot O’Leary is the new X-Factor host [subscription required]

US TV