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Doctor Who

David Tennant records trailers for BBC Wales
Did she or didn’t she? Who really should have won Catherine Tate’s comedy award?

Film

The latest Captain America news
Kung Fu Panda clip
Keira, Gwyneth and Sir Anthony Hopkins to star in King Lear

British TV

Beeb apologies over allegedly defamatory Waking the Dead episode
MPs attack home office for using £400,000 to fund Sky One’s Border Force [free registration required]
Nigel Tufnel to promote Stonehenge documentary
ITV fails its regional quota

US TV

Comedy Central renews Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil
Some mistake, surely? Sharon Osbourne to teach etiquette
Polly Walker joins Caprica
Gordon Ramsay nearly eats a Hell’s Kitchen contestant’s thumb

Wednesday’s “Gov” news

21 May 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Ray Winstone to play Regan in new movie of The Sweeney
Flash Gordon movie rights in negotiation
Jake Gyllenhaal to be Prince of Persia
Highlander to be remade
Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis approached for Hobbit
Christian Bale to make three Terminator movies
Will Smith to remake Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis
Spielberg and Peter Jackson to alternate Tin Tin direction

British TV

Banzai converted to webisodes for MySpace
Gavin & Stacey one of biggest iPlayer shows
Moving Wallpaper gets second series, but without Echo Beach
Friday Night Project moving to Sunday

US TV

Harper’s Island to undergo near-total recasting
Casting: Judy Greer for Suburban Shootout, Teri Polo for Finnegan
More casting: Craig Horner and Bridget Regan for Wizard’s First Rule
Burn Notice creator signs deal, works on law enforcement action-comedy
USA Network greenlights pilots of White Collar and Royal Pains

Steven Moffat finally replaces Rusty

20 May 2008 Rob Buckley 19 Comments

If you’d been reading the tea leaves, like Stu_n has, you’d have seen it coming. But the official announcement has just been made that top writer bloke, multiple award winner and future Tin Tin scribe Steven Moffat has just been appointed the new show runner on Doctor Who. He’ll replace Rusty Davies for the fifth series.

Feel free to discuss this amongst yourselves.

Tuesday’s “Primeval documentary” news

20 May 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Rusty was right: Who ratings jump in 7pm timeslot

Film

John Cusack signs on for Roland Emmerich disaster movie 2012
Trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s Australia
DreamWorks to do Blackbeard movie
St Trinian’s sequel planned

British TV

ITV3 to run a Primeval weekend in June, complete with behind-the-scenes documentary written and directed by Andrew Lee Potts [free registration required]
E4 to be the focus of Channel 4’s US acquisitions

US TV

Angel writer Jeffrey Bell to be showrunner for the forthcoming Harper’s Island
Katee Sackhoff joins Nip/Tuck, Saul Rubinek joins Warehouse 13
Kings gets a series order from NBC

Monday’s Omar Sharif news

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Doctor Who

DT nice to Joan Collins’ grandchildren
Catherine Tate wanted for Corden and Horne’s sketch show

Film

Tyrese Gibson to play BA Baracus in The A-Team?
Mummy 3 trailer
Red Dawn and Robocop remakes on the cards
Emmanuelle prequel planned
Joe Dante to direct Bat Out of Hell
Omar Sharif to do Arabic-language movies
Ron Bass to adapt Carrie Evan’s The Godmother
Matt Lucas and David Walliams planning two new films
Shia LaBeouf to star, Harrison Ford co-star in Indie sequels?
Trailer for Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona [via]

British TV

Waking the Dead and Silent Witness get new series
Jim Sheridan and Terry George reunite for Troubles drama
Barry council contemplating Gavin & Stacey trail

US TV

Three Battlestar Galactica TV movies to be made?
CBS learned from Jericho about how to treat Moonlight fans
The CW has a year left?
Supergirl MIA in next season of Smallville?
Michael Landes joins cast of Courtoom K
Joss Whedon talks Dollhouse

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