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Lots and lots and lots and lots of Torchwood filming photos

Film

Daredevil reboot being planned
Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt to star in Every Day
300 sequel to take place before Battle of Plataea
Yogi Bear – the movie

Commercials

Monster Munch ads featuring Timmy Mallett and Geoffrey Hayes

Theatre

Eddie Izzard to return to the West End for stand-up

German TV

Touch Me, I’m Karen Taylor to be remade as Ich Bin Boes

British TV

Pulling pulled
Heroes gets 3.1m viewers
BSkyB could be forced to share content
Beeb looking for Hollyoaks rival
Five revives Going For Gold – without foreigners
QI moves to BBC1

US TV

The Life on Mars starter kit
James L Martin to co-star on The Philanthropist
AMC plans adaptation of Red Mars
Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sex Money and Private Practice all return to bad ratings
TheWB.com launching three new series
Frasier‘s dad to play Michael Westen’s dad on Burn Notice?
Heroes‘ budget not high enough?

Thursday’s female point of view news

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Film

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro to work on mafia movie I Heard You Paint Houses
Hayden Christensen signs three-picture deal with Screen Gems

Theatre

Lenny Henry to play Othello

Music

Dirty Pretty Things to split

British TV

Janice Hadlow to be the new controller of BBC2
Female Peep Show spin-off planned
Five picks up rights to The Mentalist

US TV

Dexter premiere gets 1.2m viewers
Fox picks up Fringe for a full season
Partridge Family to be remade by NBC
Chuck and Life ratings awful

Review: The Sarah Jane Adventures 2×1

30 September 2008 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

In the UK: Mondays, 4.35pm, BBC1
In the US: The SciFi Channel again, probably

Last series of The Sarah Jane Adventures posed something of a dilemma. Obviously, being a spin-off of Doctor Who featuring a former Doctor Who companion, comparisons with the mother ship were inevitable. Thing was, the comparison invariably became "Don’t you think The Sarah Jane Adventures is more entertaining, more adult and more consistently higher quality than Doctor Who?" – even though ostensibly it was aimed at six year olds.

Now it’s back, packed with action, continuity references and Sarah Jane fun. So again we have to ask, which one’s better? We also have to ask, can we bear the shame of watching CBBC at our ages?

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Tuesday’s Norwegian detective news

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Doctor Who

Patrick Stewart wants to be in Doctor Who with DT?

Film

Trailer for Sam Mendes’ adaptation of Revolutionary Road
Thomas Dekker to star in Fame
Kirsten Dunst back for Spiderman 4
A Blade Runner sequel?
Green Lantern gets the green light

British TV

BSkyB ordered to cut ITV stake
Sky Movies secures the rights to Star Wars: The Clone Wars

US TV

Robert Duvall to produce a Pony Express series for AMC?
Orlando Jones, Michael Weaver and Ivana Milicevic to play Norwegian detectives in Pushing Daisies
Pic of Katie Holmes in Eli Stone
Casting for more TNT dramas

Series finale: Lost in Austen 1×4

29 September 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Not so much a review proper, as a few random thoughts about the series as a whole. Join me after the jump to avoid spoiling those who haven’t watched it yet (although the pic’s a bit of a spoiler and a half, I grant you, but I couldn’t resist).

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