News

Maggies Gyllenhaal and Smith + Rhys Ifans to join Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee sequel
Kristen Bell to star in You Again
Elisabeth Moss, Sean Combs and Rose Byrne join Russell Brand in Get Him to the Greek
Brotherhood‘s Blake Masters to adapt 2 Guns
Michael Chabon to write John Carter of Mars
Trailer for Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist

Turkish TV

Golden Girls to be adapted for ATV

Canadian TV

Wild Roses cancelled?

British TV

Lucy Davis and Ralf Little to star in ITV1 rom-com Married, Single, Other
Red Dwarf gets record audience for Dave
Bravo acquires Sons of Anarchy
Horne and Corden finishes with 434k viewers
Cast for afternoon plays Moving On announced
Dervla Kirwan and Lenora Crichlow to star in Material Girl
Dead Ringers axed

US TV

What’s happening in season eight of 24
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles cancelled?
Amanda Tapping to guest on Stargate Universe
Jennifer Jason Leigh to recur on Weeds
Julie White to star in HBO’s Women’s Studies

Tuesday’s American dinosaurs news

14 April 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Daily News will be back on Thursday

Doctor Who

Lee Evans spin-off series? Plus info on the next specials [spoilers]
Set pictures from the final special [spoilers]
Easter special gets 8.7m viewers

Film

William Hurt joins Robin Hood
Ralph Fiennes to star in Ricky Gervais’s Cemetery Junction
Trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies
Trailer for Gerard Butler/Katherine Heigl’s The Ugly Truth

British TV

Keith Allen quits Robin Hood
Noddy gets a digital makeover

US TV

Ed Quinn joins True Blood
Adam Scott and Zak Orth join Sarah Michelle Gellar’s The Wonderful Maladys
The Tudors gets fourth, final season
Diane Farr joins Parenthood, Andrea Anders joins Big D and other pilot casting
Trust Me cancelled
Showtime picks up zero pilots
Primeval to become US TV show and movie
Christmas special and fourth series planned for IT Crowd
Donal Logue joins HBO’s 1%
Heroes and 24 among the biggest TV money-makers

Thursday’s tiny dictator news

9 April 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

The Daily News will return on Tuesday 14th April.

Doctor Who

DT cried when he read final script

Film

Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes to play Zeus and Hades in Clash of the Titans
Al Pacino to play Napoleon
Brittany Murphy joins Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables

Canadian TV

Cabinet considering $150m fund for private broadcasters

British TV

Robbie Coltrane to star in ITV1’s Murderland
House of Lords encourages C4/BBC Worldwide cooperation
C4 would rather cut output than merge with Five
Jonny Lee Miller to play Mr Knightley in BBC1’s Emma

US TV

Leonard Nimoy to have important role in Fringe season finale and beyond (spoiler alert)
Xander Berkeley to star in Day One and Inside the Box
Eastbound & Down gets a second season
NBC to ditch L&O:SVU stars?

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