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[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Monday’s “More House of Cards and Benidorm, Hannibal rises and Keeley Hawes rejoins the police” news

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Film casting

Ashley Judd joins Divergent
Joel McHale joining Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore in rom-com

Trailers

Trailer for Hunger Games 2
Trailer for Romeo and Juliet

Theatre

Paul Michael Glaser to star in Fiddler on the Roof
Alex Kingston joins Ken Branagh’s Macbeth

UK TV

Keeley Hawes, Robert Lindsay, join Line of Duty
Trailer for BBC2’s The Politician’s Husband, with David Tennant
Benidorm gets a sixth and seventh series
Thursday ratings

US TV

Season 2 of House of Cards to start shooting soon
Footage from season 8 of Dexter
Thursday ratings: Hannibal up
Friday ratings: Happy Endings and Vegas down, Nikita up

US TV casting

Patricia Arquette to recur on Boardwalk Empire
Alfre Woodard joins Copper
Patty Duke and Meredith Baxter join Glee

New US TV show casting

Kristin Chenoweth to play Matthew Broderick’s sister on CBS’s Tad Quill sitcom

Thursday’s “Cult cancelled, new BBC1 dramas and a Ringworld mini-series” news

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The Daily News will return on Monday

Film

Michael Mann working on Sino-US anti-hacking movie

Film casting

Noah Emmerich to star with Natalie Portman in Jane Got A Gun
Erica Bana, Olivia Mann and Edgar Ramirez to star in Beware The Night
Carrie-Anne Moss joins Pompeii
Anne Hathaway joins Interstellar

Trailers

Trailer for Elysium with Jodie Foster and Matt Damon
Trailer for Syrup with Amber Heard, Shiloh Fernandez and Kellan Lutz

Theater

Mary-Louise Parker to star in The Snow Geese
Bonnie Langford returns to Spamalot
Nicholas Hytner to step down from the National in March 2015

Canadian TV

Greg Bryk, Greyston Holt and Paul Greene join Bitten
Trailer for season 2 of Continuum

UK TV

A second series for A Young Doctor’s Notebook
Vicious (aka Old Queens) gets a Christmas special [subscription required]
BBC orders Jimm McGovern Australian origins story and Tony Jordan’s The Great War
Kris Marshall to replace Ben Miller on Death in Paradise
Channel 5 acquires Love/Hate
Casting on Atlantis, Misfits and Whitechapel
Tuesday ratings

US TV

Cult cancelled
Being Human gets a fourth season
Will Ferrell to feature in The Office web series
Sunday cable ratings
Tuesday ratings
Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Natalie Dormer to recur as someone special on Elementary [spoilers]
Michael Imperioli joins Californication
Yvonne Strahovski to return to Dexter
John Barrowman to guest on Scandal
Mark Hamill to guest star on Criminal Minds
Sam Anderson to guest on Dallas
Colin Hanks to recur on NCIS

New US TV shows

SyFy green lights: miniseries for Ringworld and Childhood’s End…
…pilot of Bryan Fuller’s High Moon, developing Orion, Sojourn, Clandestine, Infinity, Silver Shields and Shelter
Jamie Foxx to write, direct and produce SyFy horror anthology series
HBO green lights: Ryan Murphy’s Open
AMC considering Breaking Bad spin-off
Starz developing Vietnam drama Airborne

New US TV show casting

Kelly Blatz, Tania Raymonde and Scott Eastwood, and Melissa Sagemiller to star in Chicago Fire spin-off
Briga Heelan to replace Aly Michalka on NBC’s Undateable
Adrien Brody to star in History’s Houdini mini-series

Monday’s “A 2nd series for Vikings, a new name for SHIELD and Hannibal starts okay” news

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Doctor Who

Rings of Akhaten gets 5.5m viewers

Film

James Roday to direct Gravy

Film casting

Bradley Cooper replaces Jude Law on Jane Got A Gun
Susan Sarandon and Topher Grace to star in The Calling
Sally Hawkins to star in Godzilla
Michael Pena joins David O Russell movie
Jessica Chastain joins Crimson Peak
Kellan Lutz to play Hercules in Hercules 3D
Dan Aykroyd and Allison Janney join Tammy

Theater

Rachel Wesz and Daniel Craig to star with Rafe Spall in Betrayal

Canadian TV

Ratings for week of March 25

UK TV

Lord Michael Dobbs and Borgen-creator Adam Price working on TV project
Not Going Out gets seventh series and Christmas specials
History Channel spin-off H2 to launch on May 4th
Trailer for ITV’s The Job Lot, with Russell Tovey and Sarah Hadland
Friday ratings

US TV

A second series for Vikings
Dexter season eight teaser
BBC America acquires In The Flesh
Trailer for new network FXX
Thursday ratings: Hannibal starts okay, Elementary, Community, Person of Interest all hit lows
Friday ratings: Happy Endings, Touch up, Vegas, Nikita down

US TV casting

Shannon Elizabeth and Marla Sokoloff to guest on Melissa & Joey
Richard E Grant to guest on Girls
Tim Matheson to recur on CSI
Julian Sands to recur on Banshee
Laura Benanti to recur on Royal Pains
Anna Camp to return to True Blood

New US TV show casting

J August Richards joins SHIELD, which might be becoming ABC’s Agents of SHIELD
Paul Reubens to voice the White Rabbit in ABC’s Once Upon A Time: Wonderland
Jessica Lu to guest on ABC’s Westside

The Wednesday Play: Hedda Gabler (1972)

3 April 2013 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Hedda Gabler is generally considered one of the great dramatic roles in theatre. The heroine (of sorts) of Ibsen’s eponymous play, she is a woman who has recently married, not out of love but because she thinks her years of youthful abandon are over. Into her life comes the writer and her former lover Eilert Lovborg, who throws both her and her new husband’s life into disarray.

Since its 1890 publication, Hedda Gabler has been performed many, many times all over the world. Indeed, Sheridan Smith did a superb job back in September at the Old Vic last year. However, back in October 1972, it was Janet Suzman’s turn to play Gabler in Waris Hussein’s production for BBC Play of the Month. Co-staring (Sir) Ian McKellen has Gabler’s husband, Tom Bell as Lovborg and Jane Asher as Lovborg’s lover Thea Elvsted, it’s generally considered to be one of the best adaptions ever recorded, with Suzman more or less perfect as Gabler.

So enjoy!

Thursday’s “An Avengers stage show, a Kick Ass 2 trailer, Kristin Davis returns to TV and other Doctor Who producer leaves” news

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Doctor Who

Caroline Skinner steps down as exec producer

Film casting

Jared Harris joins Pompeii
Leslie Mann joins The Other Woman

Trailers

Trailer for Kick Ass 2 [NSFW]

Theater

The Avengers: the stage show?

New US TV shows

Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Jonathan Del Arco promoted on Major Crimes, Colton Haynes promoted on Arrow
John Stamos to recur on Necessary Roughness
Ken Jeong to guest star on Sullivan and Son
Dylan O’Brien to guest on New Girl

New US TV shows

Comedy Central green lights: Broad City

New US TV show casting

Kristin Davis joins CBS’s Bad Teacher
Ewen Bremner joins Showtime’s The Vatican
Jane Kaczmarek to play Gavin’s mum in Fox’s Gavin & Stacey remake Friends & Family + other pilot casting
Adam Goldberg joins ABC’s Divorce: A Love Story, Diego Klattenhoff joins NBC’s The Blacklist + other pilot casting
Dermot Mulroney joins NBC spy drama
Majandro Delfino moves from ABC’s Keep Calm and Karey On to CBS’s Friends With Better Lives, Nicky Whelan joins TBS’s Do It Yourself
Daija Owens joins NBC’s Brenda Forever
Casting on ABC’s Westside and Fox’s Two Wrongs
Casting on ABC’s Bad Management

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Monday’s “More House of Cards and Benidorm, Hannibal rises and Keeley Hawes rejoins the police” news

Thursday’s “Cult cancelled, new BBC1 dramas and a Ringworld mini-series” news

Monday’s “A 2nd series for Vikings, a new name for SHIELD and Hannibal starts okay” news

The Wednesday Play: Hedda Gabler (1972)

Thursday’s “An Avengers stage show, a Kick Ass 2 trailer, Kristin Davis returns to TV and other Doctor Who producer leaves” news

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