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Doctor Who

Fifth series press pack
An interview with Steven Moffat
Pictures and trailer for the fifth series

Film

Chris Evans to play Captain America
Two clips from Clash of the Titans

US TV

Torchwood‘s Chris Chibnall to write contemporary King Arthur story, Camelot
Pilot casting, include Tate Donovan on No Ordinary Family
Christian Slater gets another series
Leverage gets extra cash
Jennifer Ehle leaves Game of Thrones
FlashForward hits all-time low
Thomas Haden Church joins Episodes

Friday’s “new nu Who news” news

19 March 2010 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Sixth series and Christmas special confirmed
There almost certainly will be a Tom Baker Big Finish play
From the new series press launch, a video interview with Matt Smith…
…and a video interview with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, including a clip from the first episode

Film

Final Destination 5 a go
Jamie Foxx joins Bruce Willis on Kane and Lynch
Trailer for Predators
New trailer for Kick-Ass
Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher join Ivan Reitman’s Friends with Benefits
Film rights to Andy McNab’s Nick Stone series acquired
Tim Burton doing 3D stop-motion Addams Family movie

British TV

Lucy Gaskell joins Casualty
Adam Crozier to earn at least £1m a year at ITV [subscription required]
Justified acquired by Five USA
Wii and iPhone now responsible for 4% of iPlayer views each
John Pilger to make Afghanistan documentary for ITV1 [subscription required]

Canadian TV

Lots of money spent on US shows

US TV

Beau Bridges to co-star in The Rockford Files
Skeet Urich gets a pilot
Ashley Tisdale to star in Hellcats
Human Target‘s ratings hold up
BSG‘s Michael Trucco to recur on Castle
A returning True Blood character [spoilers]

Weird old title sequences: Monkey

18 March 2010 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

It had to happen. You don’t think I could continue this epic nostalgia-fest without mentioning cult kids’ TV show Monkey, do you?

For the uninitiated, Monkey (aka Monkey Magic) was a Japanese kids show that aired on BBC2 in the 80s, dubbed (with a couple of exceptions) by English actors such as Miriam Margolyes doing dodgy Japanese/Chinese accents.

It was based on a Chinese story about the Monkey king and his travels with a priest to recover some Buddhist scrolls, aided only by his natural cunning, a water monster and a pig-man and being a Japanese show it was completely mental: a combination of humour, surrealism, fight scenes and Buddhist philosophy.

For your delectation, the explanatory weird title sequence is below, but I’ve included a “best bits of” video as well. See if any of it makes sense to you.

Thursday’s “panic moon” news

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Doctor Who

Steven Moffat offers Steven Spielberg the chance to direct an episode
Karen Gillan reveals more about her character, as well as her inability to do anagrams [spoilers]

Films

Peter Mullan to star in The Lion Inside
Glee/Heroes‘ Jayma Mays to star in The Smurfs…
…with Hank Azaria playing Gargamel
Spooks‘ David Oyelowo to play Martin Luther King
Amanda Seyfried to star in McG’s The Girl Who Conned The Ivy League
Trailer for Jason Statham’s The Mechanic
Trailer for The Romantics
Reese Witherspoon signs up for blog-based The Pioneer Woman
A Tron: Legacy set visit or two (with pics) [spoilers]

British TV

Five to go HD on Sky
Five won’t help FlashForward if it’s cancelled

Canadian TV

CTV acquires The Borgias

US TV

Larry Charles creating Steve Jobs satire
Pilot casting
Brotherhood‘s Jason Clarke to star in Shawn Ryan’s Ride-Along
24‘s Howard Gordon to adapt Israeli format Prisoners of War
Justified FX’s second biggest debut ever
Daylight savings time continues to cause ratings drop
Robert Wisdom to appear in Burn Notice [spoilers]
James Marsters joins the Hawaii Five-O pilot
Jane Espenson to write for Game of Thrones

Wednesday’s poor Chuck news

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Films

Sigourney Weaver joins Vamps
Rose McGowan joins Conan

British TV

Virgin to offer HD for free [subscription required]

US TV

White Collar‘s Natalie Morales joins Parks and Recreation
Goran Visnjic to star with Katee Sackhoff in pilot, Dougray Scott and Molly Parker to star in another pilot + more casting
Tom Selleck to get a pilot?
The Pacific starts with 3.1m viewers
Trailer for David Simon’s Treme
Chuck gets all-time lowest ratings
Ashley Scott joins NCIS

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