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Chris Carter secretly filming Fencewalker
New Bourne movie ‘coming soon‘

British TV

Promo video for the new-look iPlayer

Australian TV

BBC Worldwide buys up UKTV and launches new services
Pamela Anderson entering the Big Brother house
iTunes starts offering TV shows

US TV

Teaser trailer for Joss Whedon’s Dr Horrible
Nicole RIchie to guest star on Chuck
Timothy Olyphant joins Damages
John Schneider to star independent twentysixmiles
Aidan Quinn and Rutger Hauer joins ABC’s Hamlet-esque Prince of Motor City
Lara Logan gets a promotion at CBS
Heroes to answer ‘deep questions’ next season

Wednesday’s American Stig news

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Film

Spielberg acquires screen rights to The 39 Clues
PIerce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage to star in Roman Polanski’s The Ghost

British TV

BBC calls off sale of BBC Resources’ post-production arm [free registration required]
Fremantle launches three web shows [free registration required]
ITV3 and ITV4 to be used to test programmes for ITV1
Performance Channel to close after 23 years

US TV

Tricia Helfer joins Inseparable; Michaela McManus joins L&O:SVU
Yes, there will be a US Stig (and more) on Top Gear
Three more years of Steve Carell on The Office
Mary-Kate Olsen to appear on Samantha Who?

Why is Five bringing back Superstars?

24 June 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Anyone know why Five is bringing back classic 70s sports show Superstars?

Not only has BBC1 tried it and failed – perhaps because they had Johnny Vaughn as the main host and he’s best at armchair comedy – they’re bringing it back and messing around with the format. This time it’s going to be teams (three men and one woman in each).

Anyone going to watch it? Anyone got any ideas about why they’re bringing it back?

Tuesday’s cake availability news

24 June 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Matthew Rhys to head off to Patagonia

Commercials

Heinz gay kiss ad gets complaints

British TV

ITV1 orders third series of Benidorm
Jonathan Pryce to star in BBC cloning comedy
S4C launches its own pre-school channel

US TV

New Amsterdam‘s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to star in Fox’s Virtuality
HBO options I Was Told There’d Be Cake
Journeyman‘s Kevin Falls to adapt Argentina’s Lalola womaniser-body swap drama for Fox
George Clooney’s Fall of Bob gets script go-ahead from Showtime
Anne Archer joins Privileged (aka Surviving the Filthy Rich)
Laurie Metcalf joining Easy Money
Abandon all hope, Moonlight fans – it’s gone for good now

Look who it is in Doctor Who on Saturday

23 June 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Looks like Monday is going to be official Doctor Who day at TMINE from now on, judging by today’s posts. Here then is a new trailer for Saturday’s episode. It does contain a great big juicy FO spoiler, but you’ll have to avoid watching BBC1 for the rest of the week to avoid missing it, so you might as well watch anyway. Warning: may not be playable in the US.

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