An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.
Thursday’s robot boxing news
Film
- Katherine Heigl to star in immortal love story Age of Adaline
- Universal Soldier IV to reunite Jean-Claude and Dolph, be shot in 3D
- Kurt Russell to star in Undying
- Jamie Foxx joins Horrible Bosses
- Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton join The Awakening
- Toni Collette reunites with PJ Hogan for Mental
- Trailer for Matt Damon/Emily Blunt in Philip K Dick’s The Adjustment Bureau
- Timothy Olyphant replaces Sharlto Copley on I Am Number Four
- Evangeline Lilly joins robot boxing drama Real Steel
- Luke Evans, Jessica Biel to star in Vivaldi biopic
- Hammer to make The Woman in Black in 3D
- Jason O’Mara to star in One for the Money
- Pixar cancels Newt
Theatre
- Richard Fleeshman to replace Duncan James on Legally Blonde
- Clarke Peters to star in Five Guys Named Moe revival
- Almeida to adapt Mamet’s House of Games, Stephen Dillane to star in The Master Builder
British TV
- ITV fails to change ad sale rules
- Stephen Fry to appear in two new ITV dramas
- Cilla Black and Katie Price to appear on Benidorm
- Jamie Bamber joins Outcasts
US TV
- HBO, Entourage producers working on female-oriented comedy
- Fox orders five new series, renews Lie To Me, Human Target
- The pilots Fox failed to pick up and which are now dead
- ABC picks up Michael Chiklis/Julie Benz superhero drama No Ordinary Family
- NBC picks up Perfect Couples
- FX orders pilot of Wilfred, based on Australian show
- V ratings improving
- Greg Grunberg to guest in NBC’s Love Bites
- Cost of this year’s upfronts: $9bn?
- Jimmy Smits to star in Law & Order: LA?
- No new season for Heroes, TV movie to wrap up show?
