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Wednesday’s “Trailer for The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Maison close to close, and The Last Ship to sail” news

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Film

Warner Bros acquires Dungeons & Dragons film rights
The exciting world of Avengers salary negotiation
Shane Black to direct Doc Savage

Film casting

John Travolta to star in The Forger
Andrew Garfield to star in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
Maggie Smith to star in My Old Lady
James Franco to star in Wim Wenders’ Everything Will Be Fine

Trailers

Trailer for Lee Daniels’ The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda and Forrest Whitaker
Trailer for Ender’s Game with Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley et al

French TV

Maison close cancelled

UK TV

BBC4 chief leaves for ITV
Casting on By Any Means, Give Out Girls and Strike Back
Monday ratings: Vicious and Job Lot drop

US TV

US TV casting

Annet Mahendru and Alison Wright promoted to regulars on The Americans
Ioan Gruffudd and Raphael Sbarge to guest on Necessary Roughness

New US TV shows

CBS green lights: Mom
TNT green lights: The Last Ship

Wednesday’s “Trailer for The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Maison close to close, and The Last Ship to sail” news

8 May 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Warner Bros acquires Dungeons & Dragons film rights
The exciting world of Avengers salary negotiation
Shane Black to direct Doc Savage

Film casting

John Travolta to star in The Forger
Andrew Garfield to star in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
Maggie Smith to star in My Old Lady
James Franco to star in Wim Wenders’ Everything Will Be Fine

Trailers

Trailer for Lee Daniels’ The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda and Forrest Whitaker
Trailer for Ender’s Game with Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley et al

French TV

Maison close cancelled

UK TV

BBC4 chief leaves for ITV
Casting on By Any Means, Give Out Girls and Strike Back
Monday ratings: Vicious and Job Lot drop

US TV

US TV casting

Annet Mahendru and Alison Wright promoted to regulars on The Americans
Ioan Gruffudd and Raphael Sbarge to guest on Necessary Roughness

New US TV shows

CBS green lights: Mom
TNT green lights: The Last Ship

Mini-review: Doctor Who – 7×11 – The Crimson Horror

7 May 2013 Rob Buckley 15 Comments

In the UK: Saturday, 6.15pm, 4th May 2013, BBC1/BBC1 HD. Available on the iPlayer

In the US: Saturday, 8pm/7c, 4th May 2013, BBC America

Not worth a full review, more a mini-review this, I think, since despite the presence of Diana Rigg (and daughter) in the cast, a reference to Tegan and a nice joke about Tom Tom (the sat nav, not the fourth Doctor), this was a pretty meh episode. It started off well enough, going for northern comedy and Victoriana, which are writer Mark Gatiss’s real strengths. Rigg was good, everyone was acting fine, and despite being Doctor-and-Clara-lite, it was engrossing, right down to Murray Gold’s Sherlock-riffs in the soundtrack.

But then it just sort of carried on, progressively becoming thinner, more predictable and less interesting as it tried to deport itself not as merely a comedy, but as a proper Doctor Who story, complete with evil, incredibly shit-looking beastie (we’re talking Invisible Enemy shit, here). Not even an Avengers joke, more references to Clara’s significance and a certain Sontaran getting to shoot people for a change could lift it from the “When’s this going to end, again?” Which is a shame, because as a comedy, it would have been a really good episode, I reckon.

Oh well, it’s Neil Gaiman doing Cybermen next week, albeit with the addition of a couple of kids to the companion line-up. Fingers crossed, it should be better.

Tuesday’s “Luke Evans is The Crow, an Ice Station Zebra remake and Sophia Myles transforms” news

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Film

Christopher McQuarrie remaking Ice Station Zebra

Film casting

Luke Evans to star in The Crow
Tom Cruise to star in Mission: Impossible 5
Sophia Myles joins Transformers 4
Katherine Heigl and Clive Owen to star in Survivor
Ewan McGregor joins Jane Got a Gun

UK TV

Casting on Page Eight sequels, including Christopher Walken and Winona Ryder
Casting on The Guilty, The 7.39 and Stella
Friday ratings: The Ice Cream Girls finishes with 4.23m viewers
Sunday ratings: Endeavour concludes with 4.89m viewers

US TV

Teaser for True Blood, season 6
Trailer for The Newsroom, season 2
Friday ratings: Happy Endings up
Sunday ratings: Mentalist down, Red Widow up

New US TV show casting

Mark Duplass to star in HBO’s Togetherness

Friday’s “More Orphan Black, lots of Syrup, and UKTV to launch Drama channel” news

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The Daily News will return on Tuesday

Film

Steven Spielberg to shoot American Sniper
David Slade to direct The Widow

Film casting

Kristen Connolly joins adaptation of Good Marriage
Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs to star in Life Partners
Sarah Gadon to star in Dracula
Max Greenfield joins Veronica Mars

Trailers

Trailer for Kristen Wiig’s Girl Most Likely
Teaser for Ender’s Game
Clip 1 and Clip 2 from Syrup

Canadian TV

Space renews: Orphan Black
Vincent Walsh to star in CTV’s Played
Ratings for the week of April 15

UK TV

Sky Living green lights: sitcom Give Out Girls
BBC developing: dating dramedy Seeks Similar
UKTV to launch Drama
Damian Molony to guest on Ripper Street
Hannibal, Trollied, Borgias to debut on demand before TV
Sky subscribers up 30,000 thanks to Now TV [subscription required]

US TV

Trailer for Necessary Roughness
Teaser for season two of Magic City
Wednesday ratings: Family Tools starts soft

New US TV show casting

The Rock to star in HBO dramedy

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Wednesday’s “Trailer for The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Maison close to close, and The Last Ship to sail” news

Wednesday’s “Trailer for The Butler with Oprah Winfrey, Maison close to close, and The Last Ship to sail” news

Mini-review: Doctor Who – 7×11 – The Crimson Horror

Tuesday’s “Luke Evans is The Crow, an Ice Station Zebra remake and Sophia Myles transforms” news

Friday’s “More Orphan Black, lots of Syrup, and UKTV to launch Drama channel” news

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