Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Wednesday’s “film of the board game” news
Film
- Martin Campbell to direct Nagasaki Deadline
- Uwe Boll loses lawsuit
- Ridley Scott to direct film based on Monopoly
- Pic of the new USS Enterprise
Theatre
- Who’s going to be in the Old Vic’s 24 hour plays
British TV
- Motive to make first TV comedy show shot on a mobile phone for MTV1
- Virgin to axe 2,200 jobs
- Live at the Apollo to fill Jonathan Ross’s slot
- Ashley Highfield quits Project Kangaroo for Microsoft
- Tranter warns drama budgets have been cut back to breaking point
- Jeff Stelling to host Countdown
US TV
- HBO orders pilot based on fantasy book Game of Thrones
- The Ex-List still filming episodes for DVDs and international sales
- Breaking Bad‘s Mark Johnson working on legal drama for AMC
- Fox to take first look at Living With Abandon
- Casting on Nurse Jackie and Defying Gravity
- HBO readying 80s magazine comedy
- Dexter’s Desmond Harrington to join Gossip Girl
- Kevin McKidd to join Grey’s Anatomy as regular