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Thursday’s potted news

22 February 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Morning has broken. Yey.

Doctor Who

  • Russell T Davies says, “We’d love to have Hugh.”

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British TV

  • The National Film and Television Archive is to be opened up to the public for free.

US TV

  • Claudia Black will be guest starring on The Dresden Files.
  • Stewie Griffin and Brian the dog from Family Guy are to become talk-show hosts
  • Video interviews with the stars of Heroes.
  • Jericho star Lennie James fesses up to being British and gives some pretty interesting insights.
  • Nigel Lythgoe’s handling the Emmys this year.
  • There’s a Grey’s Anatomy spin-off in the works.
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Wednesday’s news and catching up

21 February 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Hugh Grant in The Curse of Fatal Death

Doctor Who

  • Hugh Grant is in talks to appear as a baddie. Plus he claims he could have been the Doctor, too.

Film

  • Lots of Transformers pics.

Theatre

British TV

  • Marco Pierre White comes out of retirement to replace Gordon Ramsay in Hell’s Kitchen. You should read what Gordon has to say about him in his biography. [free registration required]
  • Actors appearing in the new Blake’s 7 audio plays will get royalties [subscription required].
  • Heroes gives the SciFi channel its best ratings ever. That’s a 4.4% share or less than half a mill, by the way.
  • Big Brother partworks? De Agostini may be after Endemol.

US TV

  • I previewed it a very long time ago, but The Black Donnellys is nearly here now and you can see that first episode (yes, you, too, UK viewers) for free over on Yahoo! TV.
  • George Takei strikes back against homophobic basketball players in a slightly unexpected way.
  • Pioneering new levels of tastelessness in reality TV, Spike now wants amateur detectives to solve real-life murder cases in just 48 hours. But it’s for charity, so that’s all right then, isn’t it?
  • The last (?) episode of Studio 60 gets really bad ratings.
  • Ausiello talks to David Eick about Battlestar Galactica and reveals that the movie now has the green light, spoilers about the last four episodes of the season and spoilers about the next season.
  • Also from Ausiello: Nancy Cartwright (aka Bart Simpson) will be appearing in 24 and lots of Lost spoilers.
  • Jewel Staite from Firefly is joining Stargate: Atlantis, as are Stargate regulars Amanda Tapping, as we know, and Christopher Judge (although only for one episode). Torri Higginson (Dr Weir) has been demoted to recurring character status. Plus thoughts from exec producer Joseph Mallozzi. Looks, judging from the comments, like fans aren’t happy about any of it…
  • Heroes spoilers over on Kristin’s E! blog
  • Pilots, pilots, pilots. Notably Linus Roache is in a pilot with Juliana Margulies and Beau Bridges is a comedy bigamist.

Tuesday’s post-Presidents Day news

20 February 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Who knew it was so big? Apart from Americans, of course.

Doctor Who

  • Lots of spoilers from David Tennant, including confirmation of series four. He also talks about Recovery. Girls Aloud were going to be in Doctor Who? Hmm…

Film

  • Seriously? We needed a Saw 4?
  • Maggie Grace joins Liam Neeson and Holly Valance for Taken.

Music

  • The Jam to reform without Paul Weller? Sacrilege!

British TV

  • John Simm talks to The Times about Life on Mars. “That Doctor Who Rumour” is mentioned in passing, but nothing is added.
  • ITV has cancelled CD:UK‘s replacement because it couldn’t find a sponsor.

US TV

  • An interview with Joss Whedon about directing The Office.
  • Former Lostie Michelle Rodriguez gives her side of the DUI story, if you can decipher it.
  • A long interview with Henry Ian Cusick – Desmond from Lost. He wears high heels and puts on women’s clothing? He’ll be cutting down trees next.
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Monday

19 February 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Lighting Flame

Sorry, fell asleep during the headline. Must get more sleep.

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End the week with news

16 February 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Carusobot

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British TV

US TV

  • You can view the blooper reels for Lost, seasons one and two, on YouTube
  • Talking of Lost bloopers, its ratings dropped again on Wednesday to a new low.
  • Friday Night Lights as good as The Wire?
  • Keith Olbermann gets his contract renewed by MSNBC.
  • Fed up with the liberal Daily Show? Now Fox has its own show for conservatives. Clips on YouTube already.
  • There’s going to be less torture on 24, because it’s becoming a cliché.
  • More behind-the-scenes fun at 24: among other things, there’s a log of all the characters from previous seasons who aren’t dead and could return to the show. Yes, even Behrooz.
  • Big Pierce Brosnan fan? You’d have to be to buy Remington Steele on DVD, out in the UK on the 12th of March.
  • Zooey Deschanel will be Dorothy in Tin Man.
  • Matthew Lillard (Shaggy in the Scooby Doo films) joins the cast of the pilot Area 52
  • The Carusobot makes fun of CSI: Miami one-liners and sunglasses. Spoilers for the last two episodes. He seems… animated.
  • Jim from Neighbours – aka Alan Dale – explains why he’s just so popular in Hollywood. Why didn’t they pick up that pilot with Dale as a gay English butler to rapper Bow Wow, I wonder?