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Doctor Who

Beeb gearing up to offer David Tennant lots of money

Film

Bloody hell. The Watchmen trailer is here
Who’s replacing Arnie in Terminator Salvation
Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies
Don Cheadle to star in and produce film about British drug trafficker

Theatre

Full cast of Old Vic’s The Norman Conquests revealed

British TV

ITV commissions car crash television
Five launches its catch-up service Demand Five
Alan Bleasdale returns to the Beeb after 22 years
Silly sitcoms coming back
ITV2 making radio-based sitcom starring Chris O’Dowd and Nina Sosanya
Ofcom ready to relax ITV’s public service requirements
Another 10 channels join Freesat
British TV still too white

US TV

Another Heroes trailer
David James Elliott to star as a knight in Mirabilis mini-series
Jeffrey Dean Morgan returning to Grey’s Anatomy

Thursday’s British-German crossover news

17 July 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

Journey’s End most watched TV programme of the week
Catherine Tate injures ankle, cancelling first night of Under the Blue Sky

Film

Will Ferrell to play split-personality racist in Two Face
Terminator Salvation teaser trailer
Wanted 2 will happen

Radio

Ruth Jones to get a BBC Wales radio show

British TV

The Bill teaming up with Germany cop show SOKO Leipzig for a special
Hayley Atwell joins cast of The Prisoner
Top Gear audience waiting list now 21 years long
Bone Kickers ratings drop 1.6 million for second episode
Shooting Stars back for a Christmas special

Canadian TV

CBC has hopes for new pilots

US TV

Katie Holmes to guest star on Eli Stone. Yes, she will sing. And she may return
ABC’s fall schedule
Burn Notice‘s ratings up a third on last year
No more Babylon 5 ever?
Kurt Russell or Laurence Fishburne to replace William Petersen on CSI?
Big changes are afoot at Life on Mars, with only one original cast member remaining
HBO Films developing post-Vietnam spy flick Irreparable Harm
Scrubs might last more than a season at ABC
Office spin-off dead?

Review: The Quar’an

16 July 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

In the UK: Monday 14th July, Channel 4, 8pm

Well, blimey. Would you look at that. A proper documentary. A proper, old-school documentary, two hours long, on Channel 4 at primetime. WTF?

As you might guess from the title, The Qur’an was all about the Qur’an (aka the Koran). In it, award-winning documentary maker Antony Thomas went around the world asking Muslims about the Qur’an, what it says and what they believe.

Not only did he gain access to everyone from the Grand Ayatollah of Iran and the Grand Iman of Egypt to lowly peasants in Afghanistan, he did this without special effects, celebrities, computer graphics or once stepping on to camera to talk about his feelings on the subject or the difficulties he faced making the documentary.

It was old-school and it was brilliant.

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Wednesday’s “effing Safari” news

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Doctor Who

Police boxes to make a come-back in Bournemouth?

Film

Justin Theroux to write Iron Man 2?
Joel Silver and the Wachowskis to make Plastic Man with Keanu?

Theatre

West End Art Theatre to close five months early

British TV

Patrick Baladi and Nicholas Burns join cast of No Heroics

US TV

Now Chris is back too: Life on Mars hires October Road‘s Jonathan Murphy
Jerry Seinfeld endorsed Letters from a Nut to be adapted again
Amy Poehler to star in Office-like series?
Ted Danson‘s back in Damages
Nip/Tuck to end in 2011
William Petersen leaving CSI full-time

Tuesday’s possibly incomplete news

15 July 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

Trailer for The Spirit

British TV

ITV2 commissions drama Trinity…
…and cancels Jordan’s chat show

Australian TV

Big Brother cancelled

US TV

Fringe episodes will be 50 minutes long
The first of the Heroes webisodes [video, US only]
Christina Ricci joining Saving Grace for three episodes
Crash won’t be depressing or about race much
Christopher Gorham leaving Ugly Betty
Casting for Valentine Inc, plus Dexter and The Unit

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