An archive of blog entries about plays and theatre production.
Theatre
Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen in bowler hats, with Elmo
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Theatre
Thursday’s “Breaking Bad spin-off a go, Endemol to remake Spiral for the US and John Oliver returns to Community” news
Film casting
- Jessica Brown Findlay to star in Frankenstein
- Jim Broadbent joins Samuel L Jackson’s Big Game
- Djimon Hounsou joins Fast & Furious 7
Trailers
- Trailer for Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom with Idris Elba
Theatre
- Maxine Peake to play Hamlet
French TV
- Exports up 10% [subscription required]
UK TV
- SyFy acquires: The CW’s The Originals
- Press pack for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
US TV
- Promo for season 9 of Supernatural
- Promo for season 5 of White Collar
- Tuesday ratings
US TV casting
- Kim Raver returns for 24: Live Another Day
- Steve Kazee to guest on Elementary [spoilers]
- John Oliver returns to Community
New US TV shows
- AMC green lights: Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul
- Endemol to remake Engrenages/Spiral for the US
- NBC developing: alien drama
- Fox developing: Far From The Tree
- ABC developing: Princess, Stuck and Women & Girls
New US TV show casting
- Carly Pope to recur on The CW’s The Tomorrow People
- Annie Wersching to guest on CBS’s Intelligence
- Julia Goldani Telles joins Showtime’s The Affair
- Catriona Balfe to star in Starz’s Outlander
Wednesday’s “Heroes returns, disappearing Castle, more Ray Donovan and five new BBC HD channels” news
Film casting
- Reese Witherspoon to star in Nick Hornby’s Wild
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Robbins et al join Welcome To Me
- John Lithgow joins Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
Trailers
- Trailer for The Fifth Estate, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange
- Trailer for Red Wing with Bill Paxton
Comics
- Heroes to return as a comic
Theatre
- Simon Callow and Felicity Kendal to star in Chin-Chin
UK TV
- BBC to launch five new HD channels
- Monday ratings: Run starts low
US TV
- Showtime renews: Ray Donovan
- Castle shut down because of lack of Nathan Fillion
- Monday ratings: Under The Dome steady
US TV show casting
- Tom Arnold to guest on Psych
- James Franco to recur on The Mindy Project
- Martin Donovan and Shaun Toub join Homeland
New US TV show casting
- Toby Jones joins Wayward Pines
Monday’s “Catherine Tate’s superhero movie, a Bruce Lee TV show and The Bridge (US) disappears in the UK” news
Film casting
- Catherine Tate to star in Superbob
- Jennifer Ehle joins Black and White
- Andrea Estella replaces Leighton Meester on Veronica Mars
Theater
- 20th Century Fox developing musicals based on movies
Film
- Alice in Wonderland 2 in development
UK TV
- Fox acquires (and decides not transmit): The Bridge (US)
- Saturday ratings: Top of the Lake gets 1.93m
New UK TV show casting
- Jeff Rawle joins Gold’s Us and Them
US TV
- Breaking Bad teaser promos
- Thursday ratings
US TV casting
- Henry Ian Cusick to guest on Hawaii Five-0
- Giancarlo Esposito returning to Once Upon A Time
- Justin Hartley joins Revenge, Raul Esparza to be a regular on Law & Order: SVU
New US TV shows
- Bruce Lee TV project in development
New US TV show casting
- Greg Grunberg and Diane Farr to star in USA’s Divide and Conquer
- Virginia Madsen to recur on Lifetime’s Witches of East End
Friday’s “The RSC’s Wolf Hall, Sky to acquire less US drama and casting on Legacy” news
Film casting
- Danny Dyer to star in Assassin
Theatre
- Ben Miles, Lucy Briers and Nathaniel Parker to star in the RSC’s Wolf Hall
UK TV
- Sky to acquire fewer US dramas
- BBC1 acquires: The Doctor Blake Mysteries
- Lifetime acquires: The Client List and Damages
- Andrew Scott, Simon Russell Beale and Olivia Grant join BBC2’s Legacy
US TV
- Netflix acquires: The Bletchley Circle
- Wednesday ratings