Theatre

News

Happy fourth of July weekend!

Film

Nimrod Antal to direct Predators

Commercials

Dominic West, Greg Wise and Dan Stevens to read from novels for coffee ads

Theatre

Minimum wage will ‘destroy fringe theatre’

British TV

Robin Hood axed
Freeview to take on BSkyB over HD with Freeview+
History Channel to rebrand as AETN UK
No revival of Don’t Wait Up
SciFi picks up second season of Dollhouse
Bravo to try to woo female audiences
Martina Cole’s The Take gets 608,000 viewers
Press pack for BBC2 finance drama Freefall
Hulu to launch in September in the UK

Canadian TV

HBO launches on iTunes

US TV

Paula Abdul to guest on Drop Dead Diva

Thursday’s stupidest ever movie adaption news

2 July 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

BBC Films picks up rights to the forthcoming Ordinary Thunderstorms
Oh surely not. Universal wins movie rights to Atari’s ‘Asteroids’

Books

Catcher in the Rye ‘sequel’ blocked

Theatre

The Shawshank Redemption moves to the West End
Jude Law‘s Hamlet moves to Broadway

British TV

SciFi acquires Legend of the Seeker
ITV1 ratings slump to all-time low
CSI: Miami gets best ever ratings

US TV

Someone’s making a comeback in Supernatural [spoilers]
Hilary Duff joining Gossip Girl
A Moonlight movie?
Callum Keith Rennie joins 24
Christian Slater to replace Rupert Penry-Jones on The Forgotten?
Options kept on four pilots
Piper Perabo to star in USA’s Covert Affairs
Rocky Carroll to appear on both NCIS and NCIS: LA

Tuesday’s truthful news

30 June 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

John Barrowman annoyed by Torchwood episode cut

Film

What wasn’t in Star Trek
Amy Adams to star in The Fighter?
Trailer for Ricky Gervais’s The Invention of Lying
Unstoppable stopped?
Trailer for Gamer

Theatre

John Simm, Ian Hart and Kerry Fox to appear in Speaking in Tongues
Gareth Gates to star in touring Les Mis

US TV

Promos for season three of Mad Men
Showtime cancels Brotherhood
Mental‘s Chris Vance to appear in four episodes of Burn Notice [spoilers]
Virtuality gets rubbish ratings
Greg Garcia heads for Fox
Drea de Matteo joins Desperate Housewives

Monday’s touring Rain Man news

29 June 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Rusty talks about Torchwood and Doctor Who [spoilers]
Another Torchwood trailer

Film

An American Werewolf in London remake?
How Marvel’s The Avengers movie is going to work
Trailer for vampire movie Daybreakers
Trailer for Earhart biopic Amelia

Theatre

Rain Man to go on tour with Neil Morrissey
Alan Cumming to play the Green Goblin in Spiderman musical

British TV

Last of the Summer Wine back for six episodes
Ofcom report says Sky needs to offer its movie and sports channels to other providers
Mighty Boosh to split?

US TV

An extra episode for Lost
Bones to shoot more episodes in the UK
Supernatural finds its devil – on Lost
Heroes to get more complicated?
Missy Peregrym to co-star in Copper
TJ Ramini joins 24
What was the German’s/the triplets’ storyline originally on Heroes?

Monday’s disappearing husband news

15 June 2009 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Doctor Who/Torchwood

Spoilers for series five?
Series four of Torchwood ready to go?
Extended trailer for Torchwood series three

Film

Prepare to snivel. Trailer for The Time Traveler’s Wife
Casting for John Carter of Mars
Frost/Nixon writer to write next Bond movie
Rare British comedies returned to BFI

Theater

Bonnie Langford to make her Broadway comeback
Evan Rachel Wood back on as Mary Jane in Spiderman musical

British TV

Kröd gets 1.8m viewers
Big Brother averages 2.7m viewers
BBC Scotland to make three new comedy series

US TV

50 Cent to cameo in Entourage?
Nurses angry with Nurse Jackie?
Clips from Melrose Place, The Beautiful People and Vampire Diaries
What’s planned for the new Futurama
House most popular show in the world?
Mad Men not selling well
Chuck could return early and with more episodes

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