US TV

News

Doctor Who

Paterson Joseph: maybe…
…or even definitely
Big Finish’s The Three Companions to feature Polly and Jo – and a crap one

Film

Eddie Izzard making film version of The Riches
Arrested Development movie gets closer
Trailer for Coraline
Universal buys Jason Bourne character rights plus Ludlum first look deal
Mila Kunis joins The Book of Eli

British TV

BBC One and BBC Two to stream live from next week

US TV

The CW takes back Sundays from MRC’s Easy Money and Valentine
ABC not picking up any more Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies or Dirty Sexy Money
Four more eps for Life On Mars

Flight of the Conchords promo

20 November 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Since I knows a lot of you loves them, I thought I’d embed this ‘ere promo for the second season of Flight of the Conchords for you. Enjoy!

Thursday’s Greek and Roman news

20 November 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Film

Clip from Transporter 3
Trailer for Frank Miller’s The Spirit
Gale Anne Hurd gets rights to produce Gearhead adaptation
Justin Chadwick to direct Ironbow: The Legend of William Tell

British TV

Dani Behr trying to revive The Word?
Best ever ratings for Screen Wipe
ITV Local and S4C team to produce Welsh-language portal

Theatre

Shakespeare’s Globe to run season of Greek drama

US TV

Trailer for Cupid, starring Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson
Cast for 10 Things I Hate About You
Heroes to stop being a serial?
24: Redemption to be dry run for a movie
Thomas Schlamme and Paul Scheuring working on second American revolution

Wednesday’s “you’re just guessing now” news

19 November 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Next Doctor will be black – or Vanessa Redgrave
But not John Simm, who’s not allowed to say if he’ll be back

Film

Narnia writers to write Captain America
Gore Verbinski to remake The Host
Josh Schwartz to write younger X-Men movie
Kung Fu Panda director to helm He-Man

British TV

After You’ve Gone cancelled
Harley Street cancelled
BSkyB to raise $600m for acquisitions

US TV

Rashida Jones joins not-Office spin-off
South Park to end with another movie
Patricia Heaton pilot green lit
Little Britain USA re-commissioned

Tuesday’s “Phoo? Phooey” news

18 November 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Film

Trailer for Race to Witch Mountain
Star Trek trailer in high def
Aaron Eckhart to star in Battle: Los Angeles
Disney buys script for The World’s Most Annoying Man
Warner Bros acquires script for Control-Alt-Delete
The Nutty Professor may return

British TV

George Gently coming back
Phoo Action cancelled before it even airs

US TV

Seth Rogen to produce porn-shop sitcom for Showtime
Sacha Baron Cohen sneaks onto set of Medium
The Middleman‘s future is in limbo
Lipstick Jungle might not be cancelled after all

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Flight of the Conchords promo

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