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Friday’s Wife Swap opera news

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Doctor Who

More K9 details

Film

Rhys Ifans joins Ben Stiller’s Greenberg
Stephen King’s It to be adapted
Sequel to Taken planned

Theatre

Heathers: The Musical

British TV

BBC2 to finally show The Wire, stripped across the week
Episode guide and pics for the new Red Dwarf episodes
ITV and BBC to work together on regional news
James May to stage stunts with toys for new series
Matt Lucas planning to write Jewish sitcom
S4C bids to produce English language news for ITV Wales
Stewart Lee writing Wife Swap: The Opera?

US TV

NBC announces summer line-up, including Merlin and The Listener
Scrubs‘s Donald Faison joins Cedric the Entertainer in The Law, plus other casting
Mischa Barton to star in A Beautiful Life

Thursday’s Glee-full news

12 March 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Behind the scenes photos from the Easter special
John Barrowman to guest on My Family

Commercials

Burger King to shoot ads on Star Trek sets

Film

Scarlet Johansson back on Iron Man 2?
Charisma Carpenter and Stone Cold Steve Austin join Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables

Theatre

Roger Allam and Philip Quast to star in La Cage Aux Folles

British TV

The Comic Relief celebrity Apprentice line-up
Rob Brydon to take over as host of Would I Lie To You?
Horne and Corden gets highest-rating comedy debut for BBC3
Virgin Media working on HD
Product placement still banned
Sophie Okonedo to play Winne Mandela in BBC4 drama
Disabled actors to star in Channel 4’s Cast Offs

US TV

Coupling‘s Richard Coyle, Bruce Greenwood and Billy Zane among those joining pilots…
…including Friday Night Lights‘ Minka Kelly and Moonlight‘s Jason Dohring…
…and Jericho‘s Skeet Ulrich
Casting on True Blood, 24 and Army Wives
How I Met Your Mother likely to be renewed
Promo for Fox’s Glee
Shannen Doherty returning to 90210

Tuesday’s skinny companion? news

10 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Skins‘ Hannah Murray is the new companion?

Film

Jay Roach to make narrative version of The Complete History of My Sexual Failures
New Regency to make David Ayer action movie Last Man
Sean Penn to star in Cartel?
Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle join Robin Hood‘s merry men
Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester to star in Roommate?
Fantastic Four getting a reboot

Theatre

Avenue Q moving to the Gielgud
Shakespeare’s first theatre found

British TV

Channel 4’s Andy Duncan to take a pay cut
BFI and BBC to open access to each other’s archives
BSkyB suggests C4 should run pay channels with it

US TV

Rebecca Romijn to play third witch on Eastwick
Breaking Bad gets good ratings
Matt Barr joins Gossip Girl spin-off
Jeremy Northam, Missy Pyle and Saffron Burrows among those joining pilots
Anil Kapoor to appear in 24?
Danny Glover to appear on How I Met Your Mother
Melissa Leo joins David Simon’s Treme

Friday’s reunited Seinfeld cast news

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Film

Clip from The Thick of It spin-off In the Loop
New Harry Potter trailer
New Star Trek trailer
Chuck Norris’s MIA being remade

Theatre

Most powerful women in theatre named

British TV

Five to lose a quarter of its staff
Minder ratings drop to 1.17m
TV won’t bounce back for years, reckons C4’s Andy Duncan
UKTV joins the Sky Player

US TV

Heroes to get a fourth season
Seinfeld cast to reunite on Curb Your Enthusiasm
Andrew McCarthy to star in Gossip Girl spin-off
Watch the start of Nathan Fillion’s Castle online [US only]
Julianna Margulies joins Good Wife
Madchen Amick and Stuart Townsend find pilots
Jackie Earle Haley to co-star in Human Target

Thursday’s so many pilots news

5 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

More specials casting, including Peter O’Brien
Second special to air at Christmas
Lots of David Tennant RT covers printed

Film

WW2 novel Resistance optioned for British movie
Catalonia wants movies subtitled not dubbed
MGM buys Shrek-like Once Upon a Time…
Amber Heard and Odette Yustman to star in And Soon The Darkness remake
Steve Carell’s Carousel to produce the very masculine Hi-T
Six clips from Race to Witch Mountain
Trailer for Wolverine
Trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies

Theatre

Joseph to close early

British TV

ITV to lay off 600 as profits fall…
…but commissions new comedy and new drama
Birds of a Feather to come back?

US TV

Ex-Heroes join pilots…
…and more pilot casting…
…although Anna Friel won’t be in any of them…
…but Indira Varma will star in one, and Gina Torres will appear in another…
…and Kristin Chenoweth and Victor Garber will star in another…
…and there’s one called This Little Piggy planned, too
Sarah Silverman gets a third season
Want to see everything that happens in Sarah Connor this season?
Prison Break getting a Gretchen spin-off?

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