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Doctor Who

Photo of new K9

Film

Paradox picks up rights to Chariots of the Gods
Jeff Goldblum joins Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman in The Baster
No Lethal Weapon 5 after all
Clips and TV spot for Dragonball Evolution

Canadian TV

CBC ready to pick up comedy 18 to Life, despite ABC dropping out

British TV

Law and Order ratings pick up again
Fitness TV channel to launch on BSkyB

US TV

Casting begins on live action Star Wars TV show
Picture from Absolutely Fabulous pilot
Fox picks up broadcast rights to Mental

Tuesday’s skinny companion? news

10 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Skins‘ Hannah Murray is the new companion?

Film

Jay Roach to make narrative version of The Complete History of My Sexual Failures
New Regency to make David Ayer action movie Last Man
Sean Penn to star in Cartel?
Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle join Robin Hood‘s merry men
Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester to star in Roommate?
Fantastic Four getting a reboot

Theatre

Avenue Q moving to the Gielgud
Shakespeare’s first theatre found

British TV

Channel 4’s Andy Duncan to take a pay cut
BFI and BBC to open access to each other’s archives
BSkyB suggests C4 should run pay channels with it

US TV

Rebecca Romijn to play third witch on Eastwick
Breaking Bad gets good ratings
Matt Barr joins Gossip Girl spin-off
Jeremy Northam, Missy Pyle and Saffron Burrows among those joining pilots
Anil Kapoor to appear in 24?
Danny Glover to appear on How I Met Your Mother
Melissa Leo joins David Simon’s Treme

Monday’s musical Ghost news

9 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Smirk. It’s the Torchwood promo poster
David Tennant to appear in Taggart?

Awards

Full results of the Laurence Olivier Awards

Film

Tracy Morgan and Martin Lawrence among those joining Death at a Funeral
Julia Roberts to produce Jesus Henry Christ
Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss to star opposite SJP and Hugh Grant in Did Your Hear About The Morgans?
Nick Nolte and Jennifer Morrison to star in mixed martial arts film Warrior

Theatre

Ghost: The musical
Cynthia Nixon says no to Sex and the City Broadway adaptation
Carrie’s War to become a West End play

British TV

World Productions in danger of closing
Lark Rise to Candleford gets a third series
Playwrights get a BBC sitcom
No third series of Extras ever
Red Riding gets 2.6m viewers
Sky about to upgrade Sky+HD EPG

US TV

More casting on Gossip Girl spin-off
Spooks‘ Rupert Penry-Jones to star in Jerry Bruckheimer pilot, Firefly‘s Morena Baccarin to star in V and other casting, including No Heroics
Burn Notice now hottest cable show
ABC gives pilot order to adaptation of BBC3’s Pulling
Nate Corddry and Molly Parker join Sarah Michelle Gellar pilot
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz joins Melrose Place
CSI to get BSG visitation

Friday’s reunited Seinfeld cast news

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Film

Clip from The Thick of It spin-off In the Loop
New Harry Potter trailer
New Star Trek trailer
Chuck Norris’s MIA being remade

Theatre

Most powerful women in theatre named

British TV

Five to lose a quarter of its staff
Minder ratings drop to 1.17m
TV won’t bounce back for years, reckons C4’s Andy Duncan
UKTV joins the Sky Player

US TV

Heroes to get a fourth season
Seinfeld cast to reunite on Curb Your Enthusiasm
Andrew McCarthy to star in Gossip Girl spin-off
Watch the start of Nathan Fillion’s Castle online [US only]
Julianna Margulies joins Good Wife
Madchen Amick and Stuart Townsend find pilots
Jackie Earle Haley to co-star in Human Target

Thursday’s so many pilots news

5 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

More specials casting, including Peter O’Brien
Second special to air at Christmas
Lots of David Tennant RT covers printed

Film

WW2 novel Resistance optioned for British movie
Catalonia wants movies subtitled not dubbed
MGM buys Shrek-like Once Upon a Time…
Amber Heard and Odette Yustman to star in And Soon The Darkness remake
Steve Carell’s Carousel to produce the very masculine Hi-T
Six clips from Race to Witch Mountain
Trailer for Wolverine
Trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies

Theatre

Joseph to close early

British TV

ITV to lay off 600 as profits fall…
…but commissions new comedy and new drama
Birds of a Feather to come back?

US TV

Ex-Heroes join pilots…
…and more pilot casting…
…although Anna Friel won’t be in any of them…
…but Indira Varma will star in one, and Gina Torres will appear in another…
…and Kristin Chenoweth and Victor Garber will star in another…
…and there’s one called This Little Piggy planned, too
Sarah Silverman gets a third season
Want to see everything that happens in Sarah Connor this season?
Prison Break getting a Gretchen spin-off?

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