News

Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world

Thursday news

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Doctor Who

Books

Film

  • Barbarella is back
  • Brendan Fraser is back for The Mummy 3, but Rachel Weisz isn’t
  • Iron Man‘s suit revealed
  • Get Smart will be how smart? At least the cone of silence is back

British TV

US TV

  • Lewis Black gets a court show parody to accompany The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
  • Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Owen Wilson’s failed superhero pilot hits YouTube. Sounds an awful lot like Northstar in premise, mind.
  • Universal is planning a Simpsons ride in Florida
  • Jay Mohr gets the chance to escape from Ghost Whisperer with his own pilot
  • Katee Sackhoff gets a time-travelling TV movie
  • David Beckham gets a Prison Break tattoo
  • The producers of 24 have sent the South Park team a suitcase nuke

Mid-week news special

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Film

British TV

  • Cracking final episode of Life on Mars, wasn’t it? How’s Ashes to Ashes going to work then? Oh. I see. [spoilers]

US TV

Tuesday’s post-Easter news

10 April 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Everyone have a nice Easter? Not too many hot cross buns, I hope.

Doctor Who

  • The Shakespeare Code (which I still haven’t watched. Sorry) got ratings of 6.8 million, peaking at 8.1 million

Film

Radio

  • Lauren Laverne quits XFM [free registration required]

British TV

  • HBO and the BBC are teaming up to film plays, starting with Caryl Churchill’s A Number starring Tom Wilkinson and Rhys Ifans
  • Will Ferrell would love to be on Extras

US TV

  • Spoilers for the second season of Kyle XY
  • Brit Stephen Moyer’s found himself a new pilot, after losing Company Man
  • Drive is mostly green-screen work
  • Traveler is finally going to air on May 30
  • Why 30 Rock has been renewed and Studio 60 won’t be
  • A US version of British show Top Gear is being developed
  • Andy Barker PI has been cancelled

Thursday’s pre-Easter news

5 April 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

No more news until Tuesday, but there’ll probably be other stuff over the weekend, probably about my impending heart attack from over-work.

British TV

  • Sky’s ratings have dropped since cutting off Virgin Media
  • Russell Brand quits Big Brother’s Big Mouth
  • Channel 4’s finances look shaky
  • A clip from the next series of Peep Show

US TV

News

Wednesday’s less tired news

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Surprised

Doctor Who

Books

  • An unpublished 1979 interview with Douglas Adams resurfaces

Film

US TV

  • Marta Kauffman does reality TV with a programme about psychics for Fox. That’ll be rigourous then
  • Ruin the CSI finale for yourself with a load of spoilers
  • Set designing for 30 Rock isn’t easy, thanks to HD
  • FX has picked up Glenn Close’s pilot
  • The Wedding Bells, Six Degrees and Seventh Heaven all bite the dust