An archive of blog entries about music and music production.
Music
Eurovision Balkans shift?
The Economist staff have more time on their hands than I thought. Come on guys: there’s a recession on! All hands to the pumps…
Music
Wednesday’s singing blonde news
Film
- Arnie willing to appear in Terminator film if he doesn’t have to do anything
- Angelina to star in adaptations of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta books
- Demetri Martin to appear in Moneyball
- Noel Clarke, Ray Winstone, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams and Toby Jones join Andy Serkis in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
- Jason Statham to star in remake of The Mechanic?
Radio
- Alex Zane quits XFM
Theatre
- Sheridan Smith and Duncan James to star in Legally Blonde: The Musical
British TV
- Ashes to Ashes back with 7m viewers
US TV
- BBC America acquires Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show and The Inbetweeners
- Samantha Who? yanked from schedules but may yet return
- ABC trying to acquire The New Adventures of Old Christine from CBS again
Zoeey Deschanel does Katy Perry
Don’t you love Zoeey Deschanel, the better Deschanel sister (the other, unforgivably, starring in Bones)? She was great in Elf and Frasier, for example, and was one of the few good things about the movie version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. She’s also a singer and for some reason the American cotton industry has hired her to promote their wares, which she’s done by pretending to be Katy Perry.
Spooky, isn’t it? [via]
Tuesday’s delightful box news
Doctor Who
- Someone else returning for the finale [great big spoilery spoiler]
Film
- Mike Newell adapting Box of Delights
- Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum sign up for Harrison Ford’s Morning Glory
- Keanu Reeves developing creepy sci-fi romance Passengers
- Terminator TV ads
- Terrence Howard to produce and star in tropical Macbeth
- Casting on It’s a Wonderful Afterlife
- Garry Shandling in Iron Man 2
Books
- Two Michael Crichton novels to be published posthumously
Music
- Spinal Tap announces its world tour date
British TV
- BBC has to rein in its commercial arm
- Armando Ianucci working on eight more episodes of The Thick of It
- ITV1 trying to poach Horne and Corden?
US TV
- Dollhouse/BSG‘s Tahmoh Penikett to star in Riverworld miniseries, Ryan Carnes to play The Phantom
- New cast member for Sanctuary
- CCH Pounder joins Brothers
- 30 Rock ratings on the up
Sitting Tennant: The anthem
A request was made. Your wish is my command, etc, so here is the whole of the Sitting Tennant gallery to the sound of James’ ‘Sit Down‘. Don’t spend too much time staring at it.
Credit, of course, to Persephone who came up with the idea.