An archive of articles about US television programmes and production.
X-Files 2 trailer
Looks a bit arse, but you never know.
US TV
Monday’s villainous news
Doctor Who
- Pipes’ return covered up by “bin girl”
- Catherine Tate to star in Under The Blue Sky
- The Doctor (and Chuck from Pushing Daisies) voted sexiest TV characters
- Church leaders watch Doctor Who for advice
- Big Finish: the companions in the Companion Chronicles, the Wirrn and Key To Time return, as do the Krotons
Film
- Steven Spielberg working on Lincoln biopic with Liam Neeson
- Bruce Willis as Hannibal in The A-Team and Brad Pitt as Thor?
- Donnie Darko sequel on the way
- Natalie Portman leaving Wuthering Heights
- Witchblade movie planned
- Buck Rogers rights picked up
Theatre
- Peter Kay to star in stage version of Porridge?
- Dirty Dancing nearly made Joanna Page give up acting
British TV
- BBC forgets to hand money over to charity
- Gordon Ramsay to quit Kitchen Nightmares?
- Red Dragon buying Tinopolis
- Gavin & Stacey boost Barry tourism
- Simon Nye making multicultural sitcom pilot
US TV
- David Eick to help The Philanthropist?
- Even more Britney for How I Met Your Mother?
- Back to You and New Amsterdam cancelled
- Eric Stoltz to invent cylons
- McSpaced not picked up by Fox but other shows are luckier, including Dollhouse
- Life on Mars remake to get pick-up
iTunes or Virgin 1?
So my wife’s getting into Chuck on Virgin 1. It’s also available on iTunes. However, neither is entirely satisfactory.
Virgin 1: 4:3, not widescreen; edits for violence; ad breaks
iTunes: fuzzier picture; £1.89 an episode
So should we go with iTunes for widescreen, all the content and greater convenience or Virgin 1, with a better picture and lower price?
iTunes or Virgin 1?
So my wife’s getting into Chuck on Virgin 1. It’s also available on iTunes. However, neither is entirely satisfactory.
Virgin 1: 4:3, not widescreen; edits for violence; ad breaks
iTunes: fuzzier picture; £1.89 an episode
So should we go with iTunes for widescreen, all the content and greater convenience or Virgin 1, with a better picture and lower price?
Thursday’s super-scarecrow news
Film
- Mission Impossible 4?
- Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in 500 Days of Summer
British TV
- New series of Lead Balloon commissioned
- No more Davina for BB?
- Beeb drops Out of the Blue after six episodes [free registration required]
US TV
- Bruce Boxleitner to appear in Heroes
- Private Eye spin-off from House planned?
- Knight Rider TV series will be different from the TV movie
- Breaking Bad gets a second season
- Stephen Root to play lonely vampie in HBO’s True Blood
- Gossip Girl to get extended second season