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Baddie returning for Christmas special? (spoiler alert)

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Michael Cera to star in Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim adaptation
Clint Eastwood to star and direct in Gran Torino
Anton Yelchin to play Kyle Reese in new Terminator movie
Beau Bridges joins Max Payne
Sam Raimi and Paramount to revive Jack Ryan?

British TV

Channel 4 adds shows to iTunes
The Fixer‘s ratings drop for episode two [free registration required]
Sky One commits millions to HD dramas
Five to review drama and comedy following flops
ITV1 defies Ofcom to cut children’s TV by a third
BBC3’s pilot, The Things I Haven’t Told You, does poorly

US TV

SciFi greenlights pilots for BSG prequel Caprica and Rosario Dawson’s True Believer
Clips from Thursday’s Lost
Trailer for The Andromeda Strain remake
Geena Davis to star in CBS’s Exit 19
Returning sitcoms get best ratings of the season
John Corbett joins Toni Collette in United States of Tara
Fox greenlights The Inn
Robin Williams to guest star in Law & Order: SVU
BSG not heading for the big screen

David Tennant or Boris Johnson?

18 March 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

At a Labour party fundraiser last night, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, having been introduced by David Tennant, said,

"When I heard I was going to be introduced by someone who was eccentric and from another planet, I thought I was going to be introduced by Boris Johnson."

True story. Honest. Not sure how interesting it is, though.

Tuesday’s “How I met your Britney” news

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Film

John Fusco to update Seven Samurai
Who’s on board for the new Dune film?
Warner Bros acquires rights to Alexis Nolent’s Cyclops
Pixar to do live action John Carter from Mars?
Christian Bale up for third Batman
Wachowskis working on fantasy ninja film

Technology

EU settles on DVB-H for mobile TV

British TV

Corrie’s Sally Lindsay to voice Wallace and Gromit love interest
Gavin and Stacey gets 1.7m for start of second series
ITV to revamp its iPlayer rival

US TV

David Caruso a bully?!
David Simon talks journalism
HBO passes on Lily Tomlin’s 12 Miles of Bad Road
Kurtwood Smith joins Worst Week and The CW greenlights Erin Brockovich-esque Wrecking Ball
Sci Fi adapting The Stranded
Pushing Daisies to become more aggressive

Sean Maguire: something in the tap water at Grange Hill?

17 March 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Sean Maguire seems to be a bit popular these days. In fact, the post where I realised that the young Aidan from Grange Hill was in fact the gay guy in The Class (now on E4 on repeated loop) is the third most popular of the blog (via Google Image Search, unsurprisingly).

While wandering around St Anns shopping mall in Harrow on the Hill the other day, I couldn’t help noticing his name on the poster for Meet the Spartans, the new ‘comedy’ starring Carmen Electra and Kevin ‘Hercules‘ Sorbo, among others. Does anyone else think that perhaps there’s something in the tap water at Grange Hill that produced a certain physical change? Or maybe that’s a stunt chest.

Monday’s aero hunk news

17 March 2008 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Doctor Who

Billie get your gun [spoilers]

Film

Ed Norton unhappy with Hulk?
Rupert Friend to romance Michelle Pfeiffer in Stephen Frears’ Cheri

British TV

Basil Brush racist?
Gemma Arterton to play Tess of the D’Urbervilles
RPJ leaving Spooks to be replaced by Guy of Gisburne

US TV

Christian Slater to do “The Bourne Identity meets Jekyll and Hyde”
Jason Lewis to appear on House
More Fox pilots
Spaced remake script review and Jessica’s Hynes’ response to the idea
24 TV movie to be all-new material
24 shorts to start again today
Clone Wars to be like Thunderbirds
Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris to star in Joss Whedon Internet series

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