News

News

Film

Two minutes of Iron Man on YouTube
Gisele Bundchen to be female lead of new Austin Powers movie?

Music

ITN to do music news on YouTube

British TV

Primeval‘s third series to have new cast members, including Jason Flemyng, and 10 episodes [spoilers]
Charlie Brooker to write zombie show for E4
BBC News 24 and BBC World to be renamed
iPlayer supremo Ashley Highfield to head up joint BBC/ITV/C4 VoD development
ITV skipping second episode of Pushing Daisies despite strong start

US TV

Albert Brooks to appear in Weeds
Gary Dourdan to leave CSI
Rob Thomas quits 90210 spin-off

Monday’s political impersonations news

14 April 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

The latest news, plus a few things that happened while I was on holiday last week. Apologies if I left anything important out!

Doctor Who

John Barrowman says Ecclescake was grumpy
A picture from the Christmas special [spoilers]

Film

Script review of Day The Earth Stood Still remake
Warner to offer DVDs and VoD of movies on the same day in UK
Natalie Portman to star in Wuthering Heights
Thandie Newton to star as Condie Rice and Ioan Gruffudd as Tony Blair in Oliver Stone George Bush biopic

British TV

Mitchell and Webb get a third series
Lindsay Duncan to play Margaret Thatcher
£15m remake of Ben Hur planned [free registration required]
Wombles to save kids TV? [free registration required]
Marc Warren, Alexander Armstrong and Keeley Hawes in comedy drama

US TV

Fox picks up Ronald D Moore’s Virtuality movie pilot
Tricia Helfer has secret Fox drama planned?
Lost exec to be showrunner on JJ Abrams’ Fringe
Scrubs’ Sarah Chalke might be back for another HIMYM
Two of Patricia Cornwell’s novels to be adapted for Lifetime
Oprah to be Tina Fey’s best friend on 30 Rock?
George Clooney returning for final ER?
Lost and Grey’s Anatomy to have extra hour for finales

Friday’s news

4 April 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

News will be taking a week’s break but will be back on Monday 14th April

Doctor Who

Behind the scenes at The Mill [spoilers]

Film

Mila Kunis talks Max Payne plot
24‘s Mary Lynn Rajskub joins Julie and Julia
Brendan Fraser and The Rock join GI Joe

British TV

Freeview HD to launch next year
Hotel Babylon gets another series

US TV

Gough and Millar leave Smallville after seven seasons. Promotions for everyone else!
NBC learning from Bionic Woman failure to improve Knight Rider
Olivia Williams to run Dollhouse
ABC trying to poach New Adventures of Old Christine from CBS?
King of the Hill gets another season
As does Brothers and Sisters?

Thursday’s “Bill and Ted… not!” news

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Doctor Who

Time slot will change to 7pm around episode five or six
Move to HD would require TARDIS rebuild

Film

David and Jennifer Lynch unite for Surveillance
Matthew McConaughey to play Magnum?
Wargames 2 trailer
Another Bill and Ted sequel, but without Keanu or Alex Winter

British TV

The Jacksons to have a reality show set in Devon?

US TV

ABC unveils new sitcoms, including Molly Ringwald vehicle Brenda Hampton and Roman’s Empire/Never Better remakes
NBC unveils Fall schedule, including Lipstick Jungle, Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock, a spin-off from The Office and the last season of ER
CSI/Two and a Half Men writers swap will lead to Cybill parody?
Britney to return to HIMYM?
A long interview with Ronald D Moore about BSG season four et al
Ridley and Tony Scott to adapt Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth thanks to Oprah

Wednesday’s dimensionally transcendental news

2 April 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

A review of the fourth series press conference and first two episodes [spoilers]
Skins‘ Joe Dempsie to appear in an episode
John Barrowman fights back at Kevin Spacey
Pics and clip of Sarah Lancashire from episode one
Pics of DT and CT
No love between Donna and Doctor
Badly formatted guide to the new episodes [spoilers]

Film

Dark Knight viral fun
Stan Lee has three projects at Disney
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to do road movie
Ben Stiller to be King Doug

British TV

Michelle Ryan to star in ITV’s Mr Eleven
More Lily Allen and Friends to come

US TV

Kristin Bell to star in Rob Thomas’s Outrageous Fortune pilot
Barry Sonnenfeld’s The Kingdom being re-written after lack of pick-up
TNT greenlights Truth in Advertising series
Preview of the Caprica pilot
Fast and the Furious writer to be Knight Rider exec and showrunner

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