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Film

Thomas Felton joins Attachment
Chloë Grace Moretz and Rupert Grint join Beach Boys biopic

Audio plays

Servalan coming to Blake’s 7 audios

UK TV

Top Gear admits to staging scene
BBC confirms pay TV download service plans [subscription required]
Netflix and LoveFilm to be investigated as part of pay-TV probe

US TV

CBS renews (deep breath) NCIS, Person of Interest, 2 Broke Girls, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-0, NCIS: LA, Criminal Minds, CSI, The Mentalist, How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory but not (yet) CSI: NY, CSI: Miami, Rules of Engagement, A Gifted Man, Unforgettable, Rob and Two and A Half Men
Portlandia gets a third season
Luck cancelled after horse deaths
FNL‘s Gaius Charles to recur on NCIS
NYPD Blue‘s Sharon Lawrence to guest on Rizzoli & Isles [minor spoilers]
Scrubs‘ John C McGinley to guest on Burn Notice [minor spoilers]
Ulrich Thomsen joins Alan Ball’s Banshee
Tuesday ratings: New Girl and Cougar Town hit series low

US TV pilots

Spartacus‘s Erin Cummings joins Baby Big Shot
Ringer‘s Andrea Roth joins Revolution
V‘s Scott Wolf joins Joey Dakota
The Playboy Club’s Laura Benanti joins Go On, Jenna Elfman joins 1600 Penn

Review: Netflix (UK)

29 February 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Netflix in the US is a massive force. Kind of like Lovefilm, it has a TV and film DVD rental service as well as an online streaming service, but it makes so much money, it can now afford to make its own programmes, including a remake of House of Cards with Kevin Spacey.

Now it’s come to the UK. Available on your laptop, your Apple TV, your iPad, your iPhone, your PlayStation, your Wii and probably your cooker as well, Netflix is simple to use, integrates well with social networks, and delivers a true multi-platform experience, all for £5.99 a month.

It’s just a shame there’s bugger all to watch on it.

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Thursday’s “Ali Larter is The Asset, Black Canary cast, Valentine’s ratings disasters and Archbiship Desmond Tutu” news

16 February 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Forest Whitaker to play Desmond Tutu
Michael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan to star in Joss Whedon’s In Your Eyes
Meryl Streep to play Julia Roberts’ mother in August: Osage County

British TV

Coup adds Gina McKee, Charles Dance, Rupert Graves and Sylvestra Le Touzel to cast
More Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

Canadian TV

Ratings for the week of the 6th

US TV

Netflix working on Orange Is The New Black
Michaela Watkins joins Prairie Dogs…
…as does House‘s Kal Penn
Rescue Me‘s Steve Pasquale joins Do No Harm
Terry O’Quinn to star in 666 Park Avenue
Zeus be praised! Ali Larter to star in The Asset
Katie Cassidy to play Black Canary on Arrow…
…to be joined by Susanna Thompson and Willa Holland
Heroes‘ Dania Ramirez to star in Devious Maids
Valentine’s ratings: Cougar Town returns to all-time low, Ringer drops 40% to series low, The River drops 29%
HBO buys 44th Street
Paget Brewster leaving Criminal Minds again
Shameless‘s Zach McGowan promoted to series regular
Mimi Kennedy joins Judy Greer comedy pilot

Tuesday’s “Garrow’s Law, Being Erica cancelled, Bunheads ordered, and Sendhil Ramamurthy goes to The Office” news

7 February 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

British TV

Garrow’s Law cancelled
Threesome gets a second series
Being Human gets 1.12m viewers

Canadian TV

Being Erica cancelled [spoilers]

US TV

Robert Forster and Frankie Muniz to guest on Last Man Standing
Sendhil Ramamurthy to guest on The Office
Sean Astin to guest on NCIS
ABC Family orders Bunheads pilot, passes on Intercept and Village People
L&O:LA‘s Corey Stoll joins Netflix’s House of Cards
Chi McBride joins Golden Boy

Monday’s “Borgen 2, Lilyhammer 1, musical Back to the Future, How To Live With Your Parents and the Columbine massacre” news

6 February 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Extended The Avengers trailer

Theater

Back To The Future – the musical?

Film

Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo join Can A Song Save Your Life?

British TV

Hustle gets 4.8m viewers
Gillian Anderson to star in The Fall
BBC Four acquires Borgen 2
BBC4 acquires Lilyhammer

US TV

Thursday ratings: 30 Rock, The Firm hit series low, The Finder down 14%, Person of Interest hits series high
Friday ratings: Fringe hits series low, Grimm down to 4.7m
Ernie Hudson joins Beautiful People
Fox orders comedy pilots Reboundling, Must Hire and Let It Go
Terry O’Quinn joins Falling Skies
JoAnna Garcia to star in CBS comedy pilot
Andre Braugher to star in Shawn Ryan’s Last Resort
HBO developing political thriller with Training Day writer David Ayer
Sarah Chalke to star in How To Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life
Lifetime developing miniseries based on Columbine massacre
Sons of Anarchy gets two more seasons
Bobby Cannavale joins Boardwalk Empire
Shawnee Smith and Selma Blair join Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management
ABC orders pilot of Ellen DeGeneres’ The Smart One, starring Portia De Rossi
Netflix acquires Lilyhammer

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Thursday’s “CBS renews 18 shows, Luck runs out, more Portlandia and Servalan returns” news

Review: Netflix (UK)

Thursday’s “Ali Larter is The Asset, Black Canary cast, Valentine’s ratings disasters and Archbiship Desmond Tutu” news

Tuesday’s “Garrow’s Law, Being Erica cancelled, Bunheads ordered, and Sendhil Ramamurthy goes to The Office” news

Monday’s “Borgen 2, Lilyhammer 1, musical Back to the Future, How To Live With Your Parents and the Columbine massacre” news

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