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Monday’s replacements news

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Film

How the two Hobbit films will work

Theatre

Dominic West to star in Life is a Dream at the Donmar Warehouse

British TV

Rob Kazinsky to replace Jonas Armstrong in Robin Hood?
Ashes to Ashes, series two, sounding slightly more promising

US TV

SciFi to make psychic detective pilot Unfinished Business
Monica Potter replaces Diane Farr on Parenthood
Big Bang‘s Kaley Cuoco to appear in Grey’s Anatomy finale
How Prison Break is winding everything up

What have you been watching this week (w/e 17th April)?

17 April 2009 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

Time once again for your television recommendations/discommendations of the week? Anything good been on? Anything bad make you want to wash your eyeballs?

Been a little bit too busy to watch much TV this week, and I’ve a bit of a backlog to work my way through, but I would say they’d better be kidding about the ending of this week’s 24 in a double/treble-bluff sort of way or else the best season of the show so far has just gone to pants. And wasn’t the ending of House this week… odd?

PS No spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please? Ta!

Friday’s time travel FAQ news

17 April 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Winnie the Pooh writer to write Wanted sequel
Details of Ghostbusters 3 plot
Harry Potter 6 trailer
Catherine Keener to play demi-god’s mum in Percy Jackson
Clip from Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
Thomas Dekker joins Nightmare on Elm Street
Fox acquires Nice for Reese Witherspoon
New Line buys What Was I Thinking? for Leslie Mann and Elizabeth Banks
Felicity Jones to star in Ricky Gervais’s The Men at the Pru

Theatre

Patrick Stewart to star as God in outdoor mystery play

British TV

Aiden Gillen and Keeley Hawes to star in ITV1’s Identity

US/Canadian TV

NBC looking to Canada for TV ideas

Playing catch up: iPlayer on the Wii

16 April 2009 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

I’ve only had a Wii for five months* and the option’s been there for a year, apparently, but it’s news to me that you can watch the BBC’s iPlayer on the Wii, so I thought I’d belatedly pass the word.

I haven’t tested it yet, and it’s not as good quality as you can get on a PC, since the Wii has an old version of Flash, but all the same, much better to be able to watch it on your TV than huddled round a computer.

* Bought at my wife’s insistence, I would point out, since games consoles and working from home don’t mix unless you’re a games journalist/professional games player

Tuesday’s American dinosaurs news

14 April 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Daily News will be back on Thursday

Doctor Who

Lee Evans spin-off series? Plus info on the next specials [spoilers]
Set pictures from the final special [spoilers]
Easter special gets 8.7m viewers

Film

William Hurt joins Robin Hood
Ralph Fiennes to star in Ricky Gervais’s Cemetery Junction
Trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies
Trailer for Gerard Butler/Katherine Heigl’s The Ugly Truth

British TV

Keith Allen quits Robin Hood
Noddy gets a digital makeover

US TV

Ed Quinn joins True Blood
Adam Scott and Zak Orth join Sarah Michelle Gellar’s The Wonderful Maladys
The Tudors gets fourth, final season
Diane Farr joins Parenthood, Andrea Anders joins Big D and other pilot casting
Trust Me cancelled
Showtime picks up zero pilots
Primeval to become US TV show and movie
Christmas special and fourth series planned for IT Crowd
Donal Logue joins HBO’s 1%
Heroes and 24 among the biggest TV money-makers

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Monday’s replacements news

What have you been watching this week (w/e 17th April)?

Friday’s time travel FAQ news

Playing catch up: iPlayer on the Wii

Tuesday’s American dinosaurs news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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