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Doctor Who

Rusty defends TV and reveals the monster in the Pompeii episode [slight spoiler]

Film

Steve Norrington to direct Clash of the Titans
Callum Keith Rennie joins The X-Files 2
Next Bond film to be called 007?
Three minutes from I Am Legend
Clip from Cloverfield introduced by JJ Abrams
Trailer for 10,000BC
Trailer for Mamma Mia
John McTiernan to direct and Gerard Butler to star in Conan?

Film/US TV

The full Golden Globe nominations

British TV

iPlayer now works with Windows Vista, Macs and Linux
Robson Green to star in show by Cold Feet‘s creator [free registration required]
BBC working on pro version of Masterchef [free registration required]
BBC3 commissions its first drama, about four PAs [free registration required]
Hat Trick putting God on Trial [free registration required]

Friday’s “just realised Broadcast’s RSS feed has changed location” news

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Doctor Who

Sean Pertwee would love to be the Doctor
Corrie’s Grey O’Brien to appear in Voyage of the Damned

Film

John Cusack to star in psychological thriller
Casting on Justice League continues

Radio

Johnny Vaughan and Nick Hancock to star in Radio 4 drama

British TV

No more 4oD once ‘Kangaroo’ launches (free registration required)
Grange Hill being revamped – but getting original theme and titles back again (free registration required)
ITV3 acquires Life (free registration required)
Channel 4 to launch a clips web site (free registration required)
Cast announced for Monastic’s archaeology adventure series

US TV

Real-life issues around number of House doctors [spoilers]
All South Park episodes to go online for free
Casting for ABC’s buddy comedy pilot The More Things Change
SciFi’s Tin Man could become a series

Wednesday’s time-travelling déjà vu news

28 November 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

As mentioned by Anna and Stu_N yesterday, Billie’s back!

Film

Why the ending of The Golden Compass is different from the book’s
Horror writers exorcise Warner Bros
Heath Ledger as Joker pic leaked
Indiana Jones pics
Matthew Perry to become 17 again

British TV

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 announce their joint VoD service
Not Going Out gets a third series
Jason Isaacs to play Harry H Corbett in season of comedy-greats biopics for BBC4

US TV

Corbin Bernsen gets his own game show
New KITT to be a Ford Mustang?
No Jason Vorhees for Supernatural
Moonlight to provide more vampire mythology

Tuesday’s wide-ranging, multi-media news

27 November 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Doctor Who

Pipes to return as Sally Lockhart for The Shadow in the North
Tom Cruise (and others) to appear on Doctor Who???

Film

Photos from Watchmen

Art

Fifteen people fall down hole in the Tate Modern

Technology

Magnum PI game launching for mobile phones

British TV

Floella Benjamin launching a campaign to save kids TV
First picture from To The Manor Born special

US TV

Chuck and Life both get full season commitments
Journeyman creator discusses the future
Strike almost over?
Director sorted for next JJ Abrams series pilot
Gina Bellman joins TNT pilot Leverage‘s cast
What Katee said about Bionic Woman. Or didn’t

Wednesday’s “It’s better than that, he’s a New Zealander, Jim” news

17 October 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

Second season of The Sarah Jane Adventures being written
Pipes to reunite with David Tennant on stage?
Spoilers(?) for the Christmas special

Film

Karl Urban is to play Dr McCoy in Star Trek XI
Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo to write and direct Hellraiser remake
Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore and John Malkovich join Clint Eastwood’s Changeling

Comics

A preview of Alan Moore’s latest ‘LOEG’ story: Black Dossier

Theatre

Orlando Bloom backs New Marlowe Theatre campaign

Web TV

YouTube bringing in copyright protection technology
BBC’s iPlayer to offer Flash-based streaming, be Mac/Linux-compatible and embeddable in blogs by 2008

British TV

Dougal to get a girlfriend in Magic Roundabout
Little Misses and Mr Men have sex swaps

US TV

Fox to remake Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
Second season confirmed for Kitchen Nightmares
Sarah Connor Chronicles to begin on January 14th
Rescue Me‘s Andrea Roth joining Lost
New Amsterdam taking a breather after only eight episodes of production
Chuck and Heroes getting better ratings than last week
Benjamin Bratt gets lead in A&E pilot The Cleaner
The CW developing fashion drama

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