News

News

Film

Stephen King’s Rose Madder to be adapted
Clive Owen to star in Recall
Trailer for Goon with Seann William Scott
Rufus Sewell joins Paradise Lost
Helen McCrory join Bond 23 aka Skyfall

British TV

ABC pulls out Top of the Lake because of American casting
Timothy Spall joins The Syndicate

US TV

Jennie Garth to star in ABC Family’s Village People
The CW buys Israeli time-travelling musical, Danny Hollywood
Full trailer for Spartacus: Vengeance…
…which gets a third season
HBO passes on Spring/Fall
Hell on Wheels starts with 4.4m
NBC acquires Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal Lecter series
FX orders more episodes of Sons of Anarchy

New Twitter feed

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If you’re on Twitter and want to know whenever there’s anything new on this blog and want up-to-date TV news as well, I’ve now set up a feed especially for you: @RobTMINE. I’ll phase out TMINE tweets on my personal account, @robbuckley, over the next few weeks, but feel free to follow me on that as well, for regular chat on other subjects as well.

Monday’s Piano reunion news

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Film

Ridley Scott working on Blade Runner sequel

British TV

Holly Hunter reunites with Jane Campion for Top of the Lake
Royle Family Christmas special cancelled – because there’s no script
BBC hopes to attract rivals to Cardiff [subscription required]
Top Boy finishes with 1 million viewers
Joanna Page to star in BBC1’s The Syndicate

US TV

Thursday night ratings: Bones and Community up 22%,
Friday night ratings: Fringe up, Grimm down, Chuck at all-time low
Jenna Elfman to guest on Shameless
John Schneider to guest on Glee
Gary Busey to guest as himself on Two and a Half Men
Megan Mullally joins Breaking In

Friday’s “mad piano” news

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Film

Garrett Hedlund to star in Akira
Trailer for Wanderlust with Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd
Trailer for Safe House with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds
Andy Serkis signs up for Rise of the Apes sequel
Bond 23 to be called Skyfall

Theatre

National Theatre of Scotland to stage The Wicker Man

British TV

Casting on Channel 4’s Hacks
More4 to switch to popular factual
Channel 4 Christmas press pack
Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss to star in Jane Campion/BBC2’s Top of the Lake
TCM acquires Hell on Wheels
Downton Abbey gets a third series
Channel 5+1 is coming

US TV

Full season orders for Once Upon A Time, Last Man Standing and Happy Endings; five more scripts for Pan Am
ABC Studios developing Nia Vardalos vehicle

Thursday’s “vampire Marian” news

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Film

Leslie Bibb, Amy Smart and Ryan Kawnten to star in 7500
Titans will clash again… again
Trailer for Underworld: Awakening
Jason Statham to star in Hummingbird
Trailer for 21 Jump Street
Alice Eve joins Decoding Annie Parker

Radio

Women under-represented in UK radio

Canadian TV

Ratings for the week of the 24th
12 episodes of Saving Hope with Erica Durance and Michael Shanks ordered

US TV

Charisma Carpenter to recur on The Lying Game
NBC working on Major Crimes
Andrew Dice Clay to return to Raising Hope
Mary Steenburgen to recur on 30 Rock [spoilers]
Ana Gasteyer promoted to regular on Suburgatory
Robin Hood‘s Lucy Griffiths to be a regular on True Blood
The Black Donnellys‘s Jonathan Tucker to recur on Parenthood…
…and Michael Rispoli to co-star on The Manzanis
The Corrections gets the go-ahead for a pilot
Alcatraz pauses for reshoots

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