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  • TNT working on animated version of David Spade’s Joe Dirt
  • TBS picks up Glory Daze
  • Chuck‘s Tony Hale and Eli Stone‘s Matt Letscher join Danny Wallace’s Awkward Situations for Men, plus casting on Criminal Minds spin-off and 187 Detroit
  • Maria Bello teams up with Simon Beaufoy and Russell Crowe for HBO’s Emergency Sex
  • NBC picks up The Cape and Outsourced
  • HeroesLeonard Roberts joins Castle [spoilers]
  • Worst pilot season in a decade for women
  • Steve Carell wants to be Del Boy in US Only Fools and Horses?

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Wednesday’s “hello to Jason Isaacs” news

Film

  • Guy Ritchie pulling out of Lobo for Sherlock Holmes 2?

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Tuesday’s Repo Chick news

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March 2010 at the BFI

Time for our regular look at what TV’s on at the South Bank in London in March. The short answer is ‘not much’, bar a couple of iterations of Alice in Wonderland to coincide with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, although for film lovers, there is a ‘blondes’ season, at least – be still my beating heart.

  • 9th/13th: Alice in Wonderland

    Directed by Jonathan Miller, and starring Wilfred Brambell, Alan Bennett and Michael Gough.
  • 11th/15th: The Wednesday Play: Alice
    The template for what became Dreamchild, this Dennis Potter-scripted drama mixes biographical detail with fiction to explore the relationship between Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll. Stars George Baker, Rosalie Crutchley and Deborah Watling.

Champions’ priority booking by phone: 11.30am February 1
Members’ priority booking opens: 11.30am February 2
Public booking opens: 11.30am February 9

Prices
£7.60 (members)
£5.25 (member concs)
£9.00 (non-members)
£6.65 (non-members concs)
Under 16s £5.

All shows are £5 on Tuesdays. Conc prices are available to senior citizens, students, unwaged and disability visitors. Proof of eligibility may be required.

As always, visit the BFI web site for more details