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Doctor Who

An interview with Matt Smith

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Sean Bean joins Luke Goss in Death Race 2
Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Nicole Kidman to star in The Wedding Doctor?

British TV

Being Human finale gets 1m viewers

US TV

Pilot casting, including Julie Benz on No Ordinary Family and Alexandra Breckenridge on Traffic Light
Dustin Hoffman to star in Luck – his first TV show in 40 years
TV Land orders 10 episodes of Hot in Cleveland
American Idol‘s Katharine McPhee to star in The Pink House
Matt Frewer to guest on Supernatural [spoilers]

John Barrowman on QVC

1 March 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

You might have missed him if you weren’t following me on Twitter and didn’t get my heads-up, but John Barrowman was on QVC on Friday. Look, here are the pictures: he seems in his natural element almost, doesn’t he?

Monday’s “improbable neice” news

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Film

Elizabeth Banks joins Dark Fields
Catherine Keener, Allison Janney and Adam Brody up for Hugh Laurie’s Oranges
Johnny Depp and Venessa Paradis to star in My American Lover

Radio

BBC Cymru Wales to double network radio drama output

British TV

Beeb to make drama and documentary about destruction of Atlantis – aka the eruption of the volcano on Santorini
Inquiry into STV “cash for programmes” row

US TV

Yet more pilot casting, including Dylan Walsh and Joely Richardson
Dermot Mulroney to play Jim Rockford in Rockford Files remake
Grace Park to join Hawaii Five-O as Daniel Dae Kim’s niece, plus Tricia Helfer joins Dark Blue as a regular
My Boys‘ Jordana Spiro joins Love Bites
Janeane Garofalo joins John Wells’ medical drama
James Callis joins FlashForward

Possibly the best thing Five has ever done – a CSI, CSI:NY, FlashForward, CSI:Miami, The Mentalist, NCIS crossover

26 February 2010 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Whatever you think about UK network Five (eg has no real identity, only shows imports, all its home-made shows are cheap and tacky, etc), this is probably the best thing they’ve ever done. It’s a trailer and pre-programme countdown that features the stars of all the top US imports (CSI, CSI:NY, FlashForward, CSI:Miami, The Mentalist, NCIS). But rather than just use stock footage, with one exception they actually went on all the sets and filmed the stars in-character.

So feast yourself on Simon Baker, Laurence Fishburne, Joseph Fiennes, David Caruso, Gary Sinise, Mark Harmon, Marg Helgenberger et al ganging up together – it’s much better than that CSI crossover they did last year, at least.

Friday’s “Bridget Jones everywhere?” news

26 February 2010 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

BBC America to show new series starting April 17th [spoilers]

Film

Christina Applegate and Alyssa Milano join Hall Pass
Odeon U-turns over Alice in Wonderland boycott
Nicole Kidman to cameo in Adam Sandler’s Just Go With It?
Trailer for A Nightmare on Elm Street remake
Bree Larson and Lucy Liu join Michael C Hall in East Fifth Bliss
Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester to star with Hugh Laurie in The Oranges
Bradley Cooper drops out of This Means War
An Iron Man 2 featurette
TV spot for The Losers with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans and Idris Elba

British TV

BBC to cut radio stations including 6 Music, “halve web pages”, reduce US imports?
STV threatens third lawsuit against ITV over X-Factor
Five signs VoD agreement for shows including Neighbours and Home and Away
Bridget Jones: The TV series?

Canadian TV

Bridget Jones: The TV series?

French TV

Bridget Jones: The TV series?

US TV

Three ER actors wind up in pilots
Past Life‘s Ravi Patel ends up Nirvana, and another Better Off Ted actor gets a pilot
Dennis Farina and John Ortiz join Michael Mann’s Luck
Spike’s Blue Mountain State gets a second season
Starz CEO discusses plans, including cancelling Crash
Neil Patrick Harris to guest on Glee
Malcolm McDowell to guest on The Mentalist
Bridget Jones: The TV series?

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