Film

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News

Monday morning o’news

26 February 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Tennant, Barrowman and Agyeman outside the Millennium Centre in Cardiff

Top O’The Morning to you, future Black Donnelly viewers. Begorra.

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • Virgin Media has acquired the on-demand rights to Lost‘s first three seasons. Episodes from season three start in August.
  • Two Primeval stars have shacked up together.

US TV

  • Kiefer Sutherland is bemused that the US army would be influenced by 24
  • Missi Pyle’s a regular on new series Wedding Bells
  • Christopher Guest is to direct the pilot for the US version of The Thick of It
  • The SciFi Channel and Richard Branson unite to fight crime together. Or to make money.
  • Back from the dead, Six Degrees returns on March 23rd
  • Alyssa Milano has a new pilot with Mary Steenburgen.
  • An interview with an ex-Hero
  • Jericho‘s back but its ratings aren’t so hot now it’s up against American Idol
  • Sylar from Heroes (aka Zachary Quinto) talks to Kristin
News

It’s the Friday “I’m in a hurry” news

23 February 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Tennant and Barrowman on location

Thanks to Time Elements for the pic

Film

  • Vinnie Jones is to star with Bradley Cooper in a Clive Barker story.
  • And Gazza trying to get in on this acting lark, too
  • Interviews with Ioan Gruffudd. He’s Welsh you know.
  • Jason Bateman and Allison Janney join loads of other thesps for Juno

British TV

  • Friday Night Lights does badly on ITV4
  • Sky’s pulling its channels from Virgin Media

US TV

  • Ving Rhames is to appear in Football Wives
  • More Lost spoilers with Kristin
  • Taye Diggs is to star in that Grey’s Anatomy spin-off
  • Clips and pics from Monday’s Heroes episode.
  • The Wire gets burgled.
  • Texas really wants to keep Friday Night Lights
  • Fox’s Summer line-up announced. The Loop‘s back. Yey!

Thursday’s potted news

22 February 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Morning has broken. Yey.

Doctor Who

  • Russell T Davies says, “We’d love to have Hugh.”

Film

British TV

  • The National Film and Television Archive is to be opened up to the public for free.

US TV

  • Claudia Black will be guest starring on The Dresden Files.
  • Stewie Griffin and Brian the dog from Family Guy are to become talk-show hosts
  • Video interviews with the stars of Heroes.
  • Jericho star Lennie James fesses up to being British and gives some pretty interesting insights.
  • Nigel Lythgoe’s handling the Emmys this year.
  • There’s a Grey’s Anatomy spin-off in the works.
News

Wednesday’s news and catching up

21 February 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Hugh Grant in The Curse of Fatal Death

Doctor Who

  • Hugh Grant is in talks to appear as a baddie. Plus he claims he could have been the Doctor, too.

Film

  • Lots of Transformers pics.

Theatre

British TV

  • Marco Pierre White comes out of retirement to replace Gordon Ramsay in Hell’s Kitchen. You should read what Gordon has to say about him in his biography. [free registration required]
  • Actors appearing in the new Blake’s 7 audio plays will get royalties [subscription required].
  • Heroes gives the SciFi channel its best ratings ever. That’s a 4.4% share or less than half a mill, by the way.
  • Big Brother partworks? De Agostini may be after Endemol.

US TV

  • I previewed it a very long time ago, but The Black Donnellys is nearly here now and you can see that first episode (yes, you, too, UK viewers) for free over on Yahoo! TV.
  • George Takei strikes back against homophobic basketball players in a slightly unexpected way.
  • Pioneering new levels of tastelessness in reality TV, Spike now wants amateur detectives to solve real-life murder cases in just 48 hours. But it’s for charity, so that’s all right then, isn’t it?
  • The last (?) episode of Studio 60 gets really bad ratings.
  • Ausiello talks to David Eick about Battlestar Galactica and reveals that the movie now has the green light, spoilers about the last four episodes of the season and spoilers about the next season.
  • Also from Ausiello: Nancy Cartwright (aka Bart Simpson) will be appearing in 24 and lots of Lost spoilers.
  • Jewel Staite from Firefly is joining Stargate: Atlantis, as are Stargate regulars Amanda Tapping, as we know, and Christopher Judge (although only for one episode). Torri Higginson (Dr Weir) has been demoted to recurring character status. Plus thoughts from exec producer Joseph Mallozzi. Looks, judging from the comments, like fans aren’t happy about any of it…
  • Heroes spoilers over on Kristin’s E! blog
  • Pilots, pilots, pilots. Notably Linus Roache is in a pilot with Juliana Margulies and Beau Bridges is a comedy bigamist.

Tuesday’s post-Presidents Day news

20 February 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Who knew it was so big? Apart from Americans, of course.

Doctor Who

  • Lots of spoilers from David Tennant, including confirmation of series four. He also talks about Recovery. Girls Aloud were going to be in Doctor Who? Hmm…

Film

  • Seriously? We needed a Saw 4?
  • Maggie Grace joins Liam Neeson and Holly Valance for Taken.

Music

  • The Jam to reform without Paul Weller? Sacrilege!

British TV

  • John Simm talks to The Times about Life on Mars. “That Doctor Who Rumour” is mentioned in passing, but nothing is added.
  • ITV has cancelled CD:UK‘s replacement because it couldn’t find a sponsor.

US TV

  • An interview with Joss Whedon about directing The Office.
  • Former Lostie Michelle Rodriguez gives her side of the DUI story, if you can decipher it.
  • A long interview with Henry Ian Cusick – Desmond from Lost. He wears high heels and puts on women’s clothing? He’ll be cutting down trees next.