News

News

Films

Sigourney Weaver joins Vamps
Rose McGowan joins Conan

British TV

Virgin to offer HD for free [subscription required]

US TV

White Collar‘s Natalie Morales joins Parks and Recreation
Goran Visnjic to star with Katee Sackhoff in pilot, Dougray Scott and Molly Parker to star in another pilot + more casting
Tom Selleck to get a pilot?
The Pacific starts with 3.1m viewers
Trailer for David Simon’s Treme
Chuck gets all-time lowest ratings
Ashley Scott joins NCIS

Tuesday’s “dawn of the dreadfuls” news

16 March 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Behind the scenes of the new series [spoilers]
An interview with Karen Gillan

Film

Orlando Bloom and Jonathan Rhys Meyers join Albert Nobbs
Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell join The Tourist

Books

Trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

British TV

BBC to launch second Freeview HD service because Five can’t?
BBC shouldn’t have bid on Harper’s Island [subscribers only]
Sci Fi HD coming to Virgin
ITV1 HD also coming to Sky

US TV

SyFy working on Three Inches, Alphas and another BSG spin-off
Mia Maestro to star in Cutthroat + more pilot casting
Actor leaving True Blood for The Good Wife?

Monday’s poisonous Italians news

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Film

Judy Greer, Robert Forster and Beau Bridges join George Clooney on The Descendants

Radio

Just under 8,000 complaints about 6Music closure

British TV

ITV to launch ITV1 HD on Virgin
Skins gets two more series and another new cast
BBC1 to make four-night siege drama
Sky to launch Hallmark Channel HD
Kevin Bishop Show returning?

Canadian TV

MovieTime goes HD

US TV

Casting on Lights Out and Hung, plus a departure on White Collar [spoilers]
Colm Feore to star on The Borgias
Sarah Shahi’s Facing Kate gets a series order
BSG‘s James Callis to join Eureka
Mary Steenburgen to star in Southern Mom, Xander Berkeley joins Nikita + more casting
Summer Glau joins The Cape
Annabeth Gish joins FlashForward
Paul Schneider leaving Parks & Recreation as a regular
Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood and Melissa Leo join Kate Winslet on Mildred Pierce
Julie Roberts to guest on Glee?

Friday’s Midland cowboy news

12 March 2010 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Wii game a go

Film

Hugo Weaving to play the Red Skull in Captain America?
Trailer for Shrek Forever After
Sam Worthington to play Dan Dare?
Leonardo Da Vinci – action hero?
Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman to star in Change Up

Radio

What the Beeb plans to do after closing 6Music and the Asian Network

British TV

Sky looking for 13-part dramas [subscription required]

US TV

Firefly/Dollhouse‘s Alan Tudyk to co-star on Rockford Files
Pilot casting, including Malcolm McDowell in Franklin & Bash
John Voight signs up for Fox’s Midland
Katherine Heigl to be released from Grey’s Anatomy
Michael Madsen to guest on 24
Grace Park and Moon Bloodgood to guest on Human Target
Nurse Jackie season two trailer

Thursday’s news for (criminal) dummys

11 March 2010 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Film

Gary Oldman, Malin Akerman, Harvey Keitel and Milo Ventimiglia to star in Criminal Empires for Dummys (sic)
Guy Ritchie working on King Arthur film

British TV

Lenora Crichlow cast in BBC3 comedy Dappers
Ashes to Ashes series three press pack
Living acquires Drop Dead Diva [subscription required]
196 of the 890 programmes put out by S4C are rated as having zero viewers

US TV

24‘s Elisha Cuthbert joins Happy Endings
Pilot casting, including The Wire‘s Sonja Sohn on Body of Evidence
Amy Acker to guest on Human Target

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