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Sarah Jane’s Doctor Who reference count: number three

16 October 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Turns out that as predicted there weren’t many references to Doctor Who in part one of Eye of the Gorgon, other than to those lovely Sontarans. Was part two any different? Let us know of any refs you might have spotted in the comments section below!

Tuesday’s travelling news

16 October 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

More rumours about a new Dune movie

British TV

BBC to dramatise Anne Frank’s Diary
Stephen Fry to make a travelogue visiting every US state (maybe not Hawaii and Alaska though)

US TV

Ronnie Wood turned down a part in CSI, he claims
Christopher Eccleston talks about Heroes and tea
CSI:Miami producer hopes to bring back Rory Cochrane ‘occasionally’
ABC greenlights a workplace comedy pilot
NBC greenlights a Conan O’Brien comedy about a womaniser who helps women
Traveler star joins NBC’s Blue Blood
Spoilers and an interview with the creator of Mad Men
A promo for Battlestar Galactica ‘s fourth season

Monday’s dirty beast news

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Because you need it

Doctor Who

Torchwood goes filming in the Rhondda
Peter Davison “too tubby” to wear his original costume for Comic Relief
Mackenzie Crook willing to take over from David Tennant if asked

Film

Nicolas Cage to become The Wrestler
Two more Transformers movies on the way
Screen tests for Justice League under way

Invasive intrusions into people’s personal lives

Rose McGowan engaged to Robert Rodriguez
Dirty Sexy Money star in rehab

British TV

Miller and Armstrong reunite for The Armstrong & Miller Show on BBC1. Casual nudity anyone?
Anna Maxwell Martin to star in Channel 4 adaptation of Poppy Shakespeare
BBC works out what to cut
Celebrity Apprentice returns for Sports Relief

US TV

Lipstick Jungle recasts: Paul Blackthorne now Brooke Shields’ husband
David Simon to make HBO series about musicians in New Orleans
Old people ejected from Jericho
Al Gough discusses things coming up on Smallville [spoilers]
First ep of Women’s Murder Club does well in the ratings
George Lucas looking for writers for Star Wars TV series
TV Land to stream Andy Griffith, Gunsmoke and Leave It To Beaver
Parker Posey’s new show cut from 13 to seven episodes
Patrick Swayze to star in A&E pilot, The Beast, about unorthodox FBI vet. No, not that sort
Will Smith turning Hitch into a sitcom

Friday’s beamed up news

12 October 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Film

Simon Pegg to play Scotty! John Cho to play Sulu! Budget is £150 million!
Frank Langella to co-star with Cameron Diaz in Richard Kelly’s The Box
Full length Golden Compass trailer
300 team reunites for Last Photograph

Comics

Quelle surprise. Captain America’s coming back

Theater

No more sing-along-a-Buffy?

British TV

Suchet to play Poirot again
Pinky and Perky are back again, too

US TV

On the set of The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Fisher Stevens to join Lost as a recurring character
Alias‘ Kevin Weisman to guest in Chuck
Seth Green to guest star on Grey’s Anatomy
Monica Potter joins Truth In Advertising
SciFi developing 90-minute Third Rock… knock-off, Earthlings
NBC planning multi-generational family comedy

Thursday’s double news

11 October 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Yesterday’s and today’s, all in one

Doctor Who

Sarah Lancashire to appear in the first episode of series four

Film

Eric Bana as Trek villain. Chris Pine as Kirk? And an interview with a co-writer
Halcyon signs up all Philip K Dick rights for next three years
Armando Ianucci to direct his first movie
Land of the Lost comedy from Will Ferrell greenlit
Terminator series re-booted from 2009
Jerry O’Flaherty to direct Thundercats
UK’s Cineworld cinemas to have 3D projectors installed

British TV

Laura Solon‘s failed BBC3 pilot picked up by ITV2
EastEnders producer admits Dirty Den return was a mistake
Norman Wisdom documentary to feature his last stage appearance
Pictures from Ashes to Ashes
BBC cutting 2,800 jobs

US TV

Gossip Girl first show of the Fall to get a full-season pick-up
Roswell creator now in charge of Bionic Woman
Additional scripts ordered for Chuck, Bionic Woman, Life, Journeyman and Cane
NBC buys Oxygen
Daivd Milch has a 1970s cop drama planned
Chevy Chase to guest on Brothers and Sisters
Fox picks up “man who invents his own religion” comedy pilot Church of Reggie
FX and HBO both develop dramas about biker gangs
Friends‘ Greg Malins developing comedy about famous friends for ABC
HBO to make spy-workplace comedy Intelligence
ABC to make The Middleman based on Lost writer’s graphic novel

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Sarah Jane’s Doctor Who reference count: number three

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