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Midnight written for Lesley Sharp
Agyness Deyn to appear in Christmas special? Hmm…

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Monet painting only seen once before to go in display in London

Theatre

Steve Guttenberg to appear in panto in Bromley

Film

Michael Sheen playing Brian Clough in The Damned United
Christian Bale to play Robin Hood?
Josh Brolin to star in Escape from New York?
Universal to make Groundhog Day-esque wedding rom com Repeat After Me
Kevin Bacon to star opposite Renée Zellweger and Chris Noth in My One And Only
Schwarzenegger and Stallone to appear in Incredible Love?

British TV

Nigel Harman to replace Max Beesley in Hotel Babylon

US TV

In Treatment gets a second season
Jack Bauer will be 52 when 24 returns
ABC accidentally shows wrong Men in Trees ending online
Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke gets two year deal at Warner Bros TV
The OC’s John Stephens to exec Gossip Girl and Madchen Amick to guest
Alfre Woodard to co-star in Christian Slater’s My Own Worst Enemy
Eric Soltz and Clancy Brown to star in TNT amnesia micro-series Blank Slate

Monday’s “silly season starts today” news

23 June 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Midnight written for Lesley Sharp
Agyness Deyn to appear in Christmas special? Hmm…

Art

Monet painting only seen once before to go in display in London

Theatre

Steve Guttenberg to appear in panto in Bromley

Film

Michael Sheen playing Brian Clough in The Damned United
Christian Bale to play Robin Hood?
Josh Brolin to star in Escape from New York?
Universal to make Groundhog Day-esque wedding rom com Repeat After Me
Kevin Bacon to star opposite Renée Zellweger and Chris Noth in My One And Only
Schwarzenegger and Stallone to appear in Incredible Love?

British TV

Nigel Harman to replace Max Beesley in Hotel Babylon

US TV

In Treatment gets a second season
Jack Bauer will be 52 when 24 returns
ABC accidentally shows wrong Men in Trees ending online
Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke gets two year deal at Warner Bros TV
The OC’s John Stephens to exec Gossip Girl and Madchen Amick to guest
Alfre Woodard to co-star in Christian Slater’s My Own Worst Enemy
Eric Soltz and Clancy Brown to star in TNT amnesia micro-series Blank Slate

Review: Doctor Who – 4×11 – Turn Left

22 June 2008 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

The 1970s. A lot of people get all nostalgic about them, forgetting the constant strikes, power cuts, massive inflation and white dog poo that came with the era.

One good reason to get nostalgic is the TV. Ignore fluffy stuff like The Good Life or jaw-dropping programmes like The Black and White Minstrels Show – the essence of 70s TV was bleak, miserable and pessimistic despair, whether it was in sci-fi like Doomwatch, The Survivors, Blake’s 7 or The Changes or dramas like Callan, The Sandbaggers, Special Branch or Law and Order.

Fan-bloody-tastic TV, in other words. This is what we want.

And praise the Lord, Rusty gave us misery in spades with tonight’s episode.

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Your nominations for the British Dharma (or Greg)?

20 June 2008 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

As you may recall from yesterday’s news, ITV is going to remake US sitcom Dharma & Greg. In case you never watched it, it was about a straight-laced lawyer with rich parents, and a happy-go-lucky yoga instructor with hippies for parents who meet, marry on their first date then try to forge a life together.

Now clearly it would be hard to do a direct translation of the show: there aren’t that many hippies left in Britain for starters. So they’re going to have to do some script work.

So today’s memic questions are: how do you think they’re going to convert it to a British sit-com? Why have they chosen Dharma & Greg to convert? And since ultimately Dharma (as played by the highly kooky Jenna Elfman) was the star of the US sitcom, not Greg, who do you think will be – or should be – the British Dharma?

Over to you my friends, although I feel all the questions can be answered quickly and easily if you remember ITV are doing this – and the Beeb still haven’t confirmed for a third series of Gavin & Stacey…

PS Please remember that all my conspiracy theories are always wrong.

Here’s the start of the first episode, just as an aide memoire:

Friday’s Inseparable news

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Film

Bond girl featurette for Quantum of Solace
Universal picks up Family Bond for Marc Platt and Millar and Gough to produce

Theater

David Hyde Pierce to star in Broadway revival of Accent on Youth

British TV

Justin Lee Collins to get his own chat show on ITV2?
Major character to exit Robin Hood next series? [spoilers]
ITVP developing identity-theft drama [free registration required]
Australians upset by Gordon Ramsay’s swearing
BBC and HBO team up for plays starring Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, Tom Wilkinson and Rhys Ifans

US TV

Dexter, Eureka and Big Love get new recurring roles
Lloyd Owen replaces Toby Stephens in Inseparable pilot
Jim Carrey to exec produce comedy club drama
Newcomer picked to star in Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva

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Monday’s “silly season starts today” news

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Review: Doctor Who – 4×11 – Turn Left

Your nominations for the British Dharma (or Greg)?

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