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The highest paid comedy actor in the world is…
$350,000 per episode for Two and a Half Men.
Doesn’t that make you feel good about your life?
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Horrible Who rumours of our time: number 73
Last year, DT and BP were so busy, there was an almost an entire episode of Doctor Who they didn’t have time to appear in. So RTD improvised and wrote a story that hardly featured either the Doctor or Rose: Love and Monsters.
The question is, what’s happening this year? The same?
So how are they going to write out DT and FA this time?
Let’s put together today’s news that Mark Gatiss is going to appear as a scientist in one episode, with a rumour put around that in one of the stories, a scientist is going to invent a cure for ageing.
Surely we arrive at the following inevitable conclusion:
There’s going to be an episode where DT and FA are replaced by children.
Just a rumour my friends. Just a rumour. But it’s true. Except it isn’t. Or is it?
Three Moons Over Milford has been cancelled
Or at least it’s not been renewed for a second season. One for my “Really very good but cancelled” section?
No.
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More Sarah Jane Adventures stuff
My old pal Joe Nazzaro has got some more info about The Sarah Jane Adventures, over on SciFi Wire. Of note:
- The series proper starts filming in April
- Sarah Jane’s sidekick is going to be her 13-year-old niece, not her neighbour
- RTD loves the Big Finish Sarah Jane stories, and although he won’t acknowledge them in the TV series, he won’t contradict them either
Still not sure if K9’s going to be in the one-off special that will launch the series, thanks to contradictory reports, but it’s pretty clear he won’t be in the series itself. Instead, he’s going to be in K9 Adventures (scroll down to find the plot).
Another Doctor Who movie, but with Billie Piper?
More a talking point really since the news comes from the Daily Lies (sorry Daily Star), but the Lies has it that there’s now a Doctor Who movie being planned that will feature Billie Piper. Since the Star web site is arse, here’s the story, loving copied and pasted from somewhere else:
WHO THE MOVIE
Sexy Billie in back for Doctor blockbusterSmash telly hit Dr Who is set to become a megabucks movie…and bring back sexy sidekick Billie Piper. Insiders say the flick will reunite assistant Rose Tyler with hunky time traveller David Tennant.
Producers came up with the idea after the BBC admitted the £10 million budget doesn’t stretch to lavish sets for alien planets or even distant destinations on earth.
But after flogging the series to America they’d be able to raise hundreds of millions to make an all action film.
And the first star they want on board is Billie, 24, as feisty Rose – heart-breakingly seperated from 35 year old David in the last series and trapped in a parallel universe.
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