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Tuesday’s spaced out news

30 October 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Film

No Wonder Woman movie for now
David Dobkin to direct The Flash

British TV

16 more hours of Trial and Retribution
Noel Fielding to replace Bill Bailey for three episodes of Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Sid Owen to return to EastEnders, too
Harry Hill to write and star in his own soap

US TV

Fox and McG to remake Spaced
BBC Worldwide to launch two VoD channels next year
Moonlight still doing surprisingly well in the ratings
Freaks and Geeks‘ John Francis Daley to be a Bones series regular

Monday’s news in a new home

29 October 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

Teresa Palmer as JLA‘s Wonder Woman?
Josh Lucas as Captain Pike in Star Trek XI?

Theater

Harvey Keitel to play Jerry Springer

British TV

Call for more English programmes on S4C
Value of Scots Gaelic channel questioned
BBC Worldwide to launch 30 international channels
FX strikes deal with 4oD. The Wire‘s not there yet, though
Patsy Palmer returning to EastEnders
Joanna Lumley quits Jam and Jerusalem
Louise Lombard and Danny Dyer to star in BBC’s Blood Rush

US TV

Battlestar Galactica: Razor to get theater showings
Zoe Bell joins Lost
Jerry Seinfeld gets a Fox talk show – for one evening
The CW hires a director for a Green Lantern pilot
William Petersen and Anthony LaPaglia discuss the CSI/Without A Trace crossover
AMC to make David Selzer‘s Cube-esque 99 Stories

Friday’s unsexy news

26 October 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Doctor Who

Who is Kylie Minogue really??? [spoilers?]
David Tennant says Learners will prove he’s not sexy
John Barrowman launching music career to make good music not money

Film

John Travolta to be a baddie in remake of The Taking of Pelham 123
Woody Harrelson and Oliver Stone reteam for Vietnam War drama Pinkville
Vue opens all-digital cinema in Hull
Underworld prequel launches

British TV

ITV to make show that tests celebrities’ DNA for life-threatening diseases. Honestly. I’m not making it up
And I’m not making up the Pauline Quirke Academy either
Vicar of Dibley to return?
Five acquires Fireman Sam
ITV to make 90-minute film about the first moon landing
BBC Three to build The Wall to find new talent

US TV

BSG season four won’t start until April
Sopranos wise guy Jason Cahill to be latest Bionic Woman showrunner
Reaper gets three more scripts and Aliens in America to stay in continuous production
And three new scripts for Dirty Sexy Money
Eureka gets a third season
Gordon Ramsay: the video game

Thursday’s news from the last few days

25 October 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

RTD picks fight with parents

Film

Guy Ritchie to direct Dirty Dozen remake
Anthony Hopkins to appear in The Wolfman
Michael Mann to reteam with Robert De Niro
John Rambo trailer
Rupert Evans as JLA Superman?
Angels and Demons being rushed through

British TV

Cheers‘ George Wendt and June Whitfield to appear in Green, Green Grass
Timothy Spall to play vengeful father for ITV1 drama
Disney to sponsor 4oD downloads of ABC shows
Dave a hit
Neil Gaiman wants to work with the Beeb again
BBC Natural History Unit to lose a third of its staff
RTD wants to do fortysomething gay drama

US TV

Britney Spears to appear on Sesame Street?
The CW’s ratings are down
Carrie-Anne Moss to co-star in FX’s transgender pilot
Steven Weber to star in another sitcom
David Duchovny bewildered by sanitising syndication reshoots of Californication
Moonlight gets four more scripts
Viva Laughlin cancelled
Carpoolers gets three more scripts while Samantha Who? gets six more
And the awful Back To You gets a full season
Fox to make female prison spin-off of Prison Break
Kurtwood Smith and Frankie Faison join Barry Sonnenfeld drama
Timothy Olyphant joining Samantha Who?
SciFi greenlights Warehouse 13
Stargate Atlantis renewed for fifth season
Pushing Daisies gets complete first season

Calling all Sapphire and Steel fans

19 October 2007 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Anna wants to know if Sapphire and Steel is worth watching. I’ve tried to help her out, but feel free to go over and offer your own advice. A little searching on YouTube reveals you can find some of the episodes on there now (mostly unembeddable unfortunately). But this one from the fourth “Assignment” is embeddable and is a fairly good sampler, particularly since PJ Hammond says he’s going to use elements from it in his next Torchwood episode.

Buy the complete series on DVD, my friends: you know it makes sense.

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