An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.
A bit of A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Do you like light metal?
Brace yourself for the sounds of The Bishop and the Warlord.
UK TV
Wednesday’s “on your marks, get set, Hobbit!” news
Doctor Who
- Worlds in Time playable in early preview
Film
- Trailer for 21 Jump Street
- Trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Hank Azaria, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick join Lovelace
British TV
- Trailer for Mad Dogs series 2
- Another Misfits star is off [spoilers]
- Sky Arts acquires original Israeli version of In Treatment, BeTipul
- Netflix secures BBC content for 2012 UK launch
- The top-rated TV shows of 2011
Canadian TV
- CTV acquires The River
US TV
- NBC buys family comedy from Twitter personality Kelly Oxford
- HBO renews Enlightened, cancels Hung, Bored to Death and How To Make It In America
Competitions
Review and competition: Top Gear at the Movies
Time for another shiny Christmas competition, courtesy of those lovely people at the BBC Shop. Go buy something from them sometime. They’re quite cheap.
At first, Top Gear At The Movies sounds like it could be quite a fun but cheap idea: clips of all the great car chase movies.
But you’d be wrong. That’s not what this is.
This is Top Gear‘s homage to the car chase and cars in movies, in all its various forms, all done in a very Top Gear style. Let Richard Hammond and James May explain it all to you.
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Competitions
And the winner of the Doctor Who competition is…
Last Tuesday, I gave you all the chance to win series six of Doctor Who on DVD. Well, the deadline’s up and I can proudly announce that the winner is…
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Tuesday’s “WTF? John Cleese to guest on Whitney?” news
Film
- German trailer for The Avengers with extra footage
- Trailer for Salmon Fishing In The Yemen with Ewan McGregor
- Trailer for The Dark Knight Rises
- Trailer for Wrath of the Titans
- Trailer for the trailer for Prometheus
British TV
- Black Mirror ends on 870k viewers
- Someone’s leaving Misfits [spoilers]
Canadian TV
- Canada to scrap local TV fund?
US TV
- WTF? John Cleese to guest on Whitney
- Edwin Hodge to recur on Cougar Town [minor spoilers]
- Download all of Pan Am from iTunes for free
- The Playboy Club‘s Naturi Naughton joins The Client List
- Extended preview of Smash
- Sunday cable ratings: Homeland finale sets record, Dexter ends on a high