News

Did you hear? It’s the weekend tomorrow.

Doctor Who

• A special Comic Relief comic BeanoMax will feature the Daleks and David Tennant, as well as Jonathan Ross and Jamie Oliver.

Film

• Capricorn One is up for a remake
• So is Spies Like Us
• Sony is turning Metal Gear Solid into a movie.
• Borat 2 is on the way

British TV

• There’s a German version of Life on Mars on the way. If you look carefully, there’s a spoiler in one of the article’s quotes that gives away the entire reason why Sam is in 1973. I don’t think he meant to say what he did…
• Sky is planning a new, free digital terrestrial TV service. Only problem: it doesn’t work with Freeview boxes. Sounds attractive, no?
• A preview of new ITV drama Instinct
• Steve Coogan is going to host a Classic Coogan weekend on UKTV G2
• There’s more Secret Millionaire on the way [subscription required]

US TV

• Lost‘s new time slot hasn’t helped it in the ratings
• Paul McCrane talks about being Jack Bauer’s brother (spoilers)
• A panel chat about Heroes by the show’s execs reveals attitudes to Lost plus future plans (spoilers)
• Someone else joins my quest to get Liev Schreiber a permanent job on CSI with William Petersen. (spoilers)
• Richard Schiff talks about the final season of The West Wing and where it went wrong
• Sarah Silverman’s new show got the highest ranking premiere of the last three years on Comedy Central