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Doctor Who

All 11 Doctors to reunite for Comic Relief??

Film

Trailer for The Last Airbender

French TV

French TV dominated by US programmes

British TV

Top Gear gets 7.1m viewers
Andy Duncan to stay at Channel 4 for another three years?
ITV to make Irish policeman drama Single-Handed

US TV

Ashley Jensen may return to Ugly Betty
Merlin gets rubbish ratings
Don’t say I didn’t warn you: Bryan Fuller leaves Heroes
Royal Pains‘ ratings continue to rise

The Stig revealed – sort of

22 June 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

At last! Top Gear‘s Stig takes off his helmet to reveal his true identity. Maybe.

I’ve posted the vid after the jump to avoid spoilers, from, erm, the title of the vid.

Continue reading “The Stig revealed – sort of”

Monday’s Welsh titans news

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Film

Steven Soderberg’s Moneyball dropped
Clash of the Titans to shoot scenes in Wales
Richard Matheson’s Button, Button to be adapted
Images from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland

British TV

Demons cancelled
Lucy Lumsden leaves the Beeb to become Sky’s head of comedy

Canadian TV

Super Channel files for credit protection

US TV

No location shooting for CSI: Miami because of budget issues
Meg Ryan to guest on Curb Your Enthusiasm
Scrubs to shift to med school
Trailer for Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
Trailer for HBO’s Bored to Death

Friday’s Sally Gecko news

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Film

Carey Mulligan to play Gordon Gecko‘s daughter?
Trailer for 2012

British TV

Sir Alan isn’t fired from The Apprentice

US TV

Linda Hunt joins NCIS:LA
Seth MacFarlane to recur on FlashForward
Greg Beeman gets a job on Melrose Place

Thursday’s reasonably-sized occupation news

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Film

Bride of Frankenstein being remade
Reese Witherspoon to star in Pharm Girl
Danielle Panabaker to co-star in John Carpenter’s The Ward
JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise to produce MI:4

Theatre

David Hare’s The Power of Yes to open at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton space

British TV

Occupation gets 4.4m viewers

US TV

Ratings for Hawthorne ‘okay’
Another Lost star returning?
Brian Austin Green to guest in Smallville

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