News

Film

• Trailer for David Cronenberg‘s Eastern Promises
• Finally! Robert de Niro and Al Pacino together wasn’t enough. What we were really waiting for was 50 Cent to join the cast of Righteous Kill…
• Laurence Fishburne to write and direct a movie based on Paul Coelho’s The Alchemist. Anyone read it?
• More Dark Knight casting, including Melina McGraw (Scully’s sister in The X-Files)

‘Music’

• The Spice Girls to reform?

British TV

• Channel 4 has bought the rights to Back To You, starring Kelsey Grammer
• The BBC’s iPlayer will launch on July 27. They’re already looking for extra content [free registration]
• ITV1 has pulled both Tycoon and Tough Gig
• One Man and His Dog is making a comeback on digital channel Horse & Country
• Oh no! Chantelle and Preston are splitting up! Did anyone see that coming?
• Ofcom having a good look at BSkyB’s pay-per-view on Freeview plans

US TV

• Victoria Beckham to appear in Ugly Betty?
• No bionic ears necessary to help the deaf hear. Just recast The Bionic Woman‘s sister
• An interview with Michael Hogan and Katee Sackoff from BSG