An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.
Jennifer Lumley plays Name That Box Set
The titles give the game away, but you can still watch Joanna Lumley act out a couple of famous American TV shows currently on Sky.
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UK TV
Missing Doctor Who episodes returned, Blacklist gets a full season, The Listener renewed, Lucky 7 cancelled
Doctor Who
- Missing Doctor Who episodes returned, to be available on iTunes on Wednesday
Trailers
- Trailer for The Invisible Woman, with Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas et al
- TV spot for Thor 2
- Trailer for I, Frankenstein, with Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighty, Yvonne Strahovski, et al
Canadian TV
- The Listener gets a fifth series
UK TV
- League of Gentlemen reunite for charity gig
- Teaser for series 5 of Misfits
- Saturday ratings
US TV
- A full season for The Blacklist
- ABC cancels: Lucky 7
- Fox orders more episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Thursday ratings
US TV casting
- Rhys Ifans to recur on Elementary
- Larenz Tate to guest on The Mindy Project
- William Devane joins 24: Live Another Day
- James DuMont to recur on American Horror Story
- Sharon Leal to recur on Grimm
New US TV shows
- NBC developing: The Money Pit…
- …The Bright Side and
- …orders pilot of Tin Man
- ABC developing: Raising Mom from Sofia Vegra…
- …When the Balls Drop from Brad Garrett
- CBS adapting James Patterson’s Zoo
- Fox developing: Prodigy with Diablo Cody and Gossip Girl creators…
- …and Winners
- Topher Grace and Sarah Silverman to star in HBO’s People in New Jersey
New US TV show casting
- Halle Berry to star in CBS’s Extant
- Peter Fonda joins HR and more casting
- Casting on ABC’s The Black Box
Nathan Fillion on Community, Avengers 2 casting, a Jack Ryan trailer and more Covert Affairs and Sleepy Hollow
You all know what day it is and this is the news, right?
Film casting
- Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Johnson join Avengers: Age of Ultron
Trailers
- Trailer for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
UK TV
- Watch acquires: NBC’s Believe
- Channel Five acquires: CTV’s Played
US TV
- Next 24 to film in London
- Sleepy Hollow gets a second season
- Covert Affairs gets a fifth season
- Wednesday ratings: Ironside tanks, Super Fun Night starts well, Revolution hits series low
US TV show casting
- Nathan Fillion to guest on Community
- Jason Priestley to guest on Hot In Cleveland
- Dennis Haysbert to guest on Trophy Wife
New US TV shows
- Hallmark green lights: Signed, Sealed & Delivered
- NBC green lights: The Pro with Rob Lowe
- ABC developing: Just Rewards
- NBC developing: The Mason Twins
New US TV show casting
- Jamie Kennedy, Adrian Pasdar, Aldis Hodge join Amazon’s The After
- Patrick Kennedy, Dominique McElligott and Laila Robins join HBO’s The Money
- Joel Gretsch to guest on Witches of East End
Thursday’s “David Tennant to star in Broadchurch (US), more Wilfred and SHIELD down” news
Film
- Ted 2 announced
Film casting
- Dorian Missick joins Annie
Trailers
- Trailer for Last Vegas, with Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, et al
Theatre
- Sir Tony Robinson to star in Wind in the Willows
UK TV
- Tuesday ratings: The Wrong Mans drop 900k
US TV
- FXX renews: Wilfred for final season
- Tuesday’s ratings: Agents of SHIELD down 33%, Lucky 7 down 46%
US TV casting
- Amber Tamblyn promoted to regular on Two and a Half Men
New US TV shows
- Tim Kring producing CW high school drama
- HBO developing: These Things Happen
- Fox rescues: John Mulaney comedy
New US TV show casting
- Andrea Riseborough joins HBO’s The Money, Freddie Stroma joins Lifetime’s Unreal
- Emily Rutherford to star in ABC Family’s Work Mom
- David Tennant to star in Fox’s Broadchurch remake
- Colin Hanks joins FX’s Fargo, Jim Piddock joins E!’s The Royals
The Weekly Play
The Wednesday Play:The Come-uppance of Captain Katt (1986)
A lot of the plays that have appeared in ‘The Wednesday Play’ have been serious and for adults. Yet, plays are for everyone and needn’t always be so ‘challenging’. We’ve already had one entry from ITV’s Dramarama series, but I think it’s about time we had a look at The Come-uppance of Captain Katt, the opener to the fourth season of the series starring Alfred Marks and written by Peter Grimwade. If that latter name is familiar, it’s probably because you’re a Doctor Who fan and while I’m not saying that this play about the making of a long-running science-fiction TV series and the politics involved has anything to do with Grimwade’s experiences of working on said show, you would be forgiven for thinking that perhaps it has…