An archive of blog entries about plays and theatre production.
Monday’s New Year news
Happy New Year everyone!
Doctor Who
- End of Time – Part 2 most loved by women and older men
- Murray Gold to write series five music and theme
- 10.4m people watch End of Time – Part 2
Film
- English language trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception
- Trailer for Shrek: How To Train Your Dragon
- James McAvoy to play Ian Fleming?
- The Thing prequel to begin shooting in March
- Trailer for Rhys Ifans’s Howard Marks biopic, Mr Nice
- Pics from The Eagle of the Ninth
Theatre
- Life on Mars (US)’s Jason O’Mara to star in Serenading Louie at the Donmar
British TV
- Jam and Jerusalem cancelled
- Top Gear most watched programme on the iPlayer
- Day of the Triffids gets 5.6m viewers
- New Year’s Eve ratings
- STV to start showing ITV1 dramas again
- BBC claims to generate £7.6bn for Britain
- Beeb in talks to bring back Gavin & Stacey next Christmas…
- …after 8.7m viewers watch the finale
- Hamlet only gets 896,000 viewers
US TV
- Julie Benz to join Desperate Housewives for at least three episodes [spoilers for Dexter]
- Year-end ratings for the cable networks: USA grows audience 15%
- Law & Order gets a 21st season
- Kevin Alejandro joins True Blood
- Casting on Retired at 35
- Catherine McCormack and Stacy Keach to co-star on FX’s Lights Out
- Luke Wilson and Diane Ladd to co-star in Laura Dern’s Enlightened
- Kim Raver joins Grey’s Anatomy full-time