US TV

News

Doctor Who

A vaguely exciting Torchwood trailer
The Master definitely not coming back
An interview with the producers

Film

Is this the plot of Terminator 4?
Mad Men‘s Jon Hamm joins Keanu and co in The Day The Earth Stood Still

British TV

That Mitchell and Webb press pack

US TV

Bionic Woman not cancelled – yet
The 4400 and The Dead Zone cancelled

Wednesday’s sensibly priced news

19 December 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Doctor Who

David Tennant’s on Top Gear on Sunday (here’s another picture for you)…
…and denies he’s leaving the show next year…
…although Rhys Ifans (he’s Welsh you know) might be next in line apparently, assuming Jennifer Saunders doesn’t get the job
Sarah Jane‘s future in doubt
And there’s a new remix of the theme tune on the way

Film

Peter Jackson to produce a two-part Hobbit
Chow Yun-Fat joins the cast of Dragonball
Sean Penn (and Brad Pitt?) to star in Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life
Now Edward Norton is leaving State of Play and Ben Affleck might replace him

Audio plays

No more audio plays of The Tomorrow People

Technology

Jerry Bruckheimer signs a deal with MTV to produce video games

British TV

New series of Shameless to debut on MySpace

US TV

Monk and Psych to be re-run on NBC
Clips from volume 3 of Heroes

Tuesday’s advertising-tastic news

18 December 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

Blake’s Junction 7, Ant Muzak and World of Wrestling coming to DVD
No love scene for Mulder and Scully?
John Travolta leaving Dallas?
Jim Carrey falls in love with Ewan McGregor
Idris Elba to appear in Bone Deep
Gatchaman images and info
A-Team script review

Commercials

Puppies bad?

British TV

BBC launches iPlayer ads with Top Gear and Planet Earth presenters

US TV

Official Wire trailer
Longer Lost trailer
An interview (or two) with the Dexter producers

Monday’s itty bitty bits of news

17 December 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Doctor Who

Behind the scenes of Voyage of the Damned
Catherine Tate reckons the next series will be Tennant’s last
What’s happening in Torchwood series two? Nerys Hughes plus lots more!

Film

Writers would like Shatner to be in Star Trek movie, but Kirk’s death makes it difficult
A proper Dark Knight trailer

Commercials/Music

Joss Stone to be new Cadbury’s Flake girl

Books

Arthur C Clarke’s 90th birthday YouTube video

Radio

Radio 3’s winter drama season unveiled

British TV

Rupert Penry-Jones quits Spooks
David Walliams to play Frankie Howerd

Web TV

Max Headroom joins Joost line-up

US TV

Showtime acquires Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Friday’s trailing news

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Doctor Who

Rusty defends TV and reveals the monster in the Pompeii episode [slight spoiler]

Film

Steve Norrington to direct Clash of the Titans
Callum Keith Rennie joins The X-Files 2
Next Bond film to be called 007?
Three minutes from I Am Legend
Clip from Cloverfield introduced by JJ Abrams
Trailer for 10,000BC
Trailer for Mamma Mia
John McTiernan to direct and Gerard Butler to star in Conan?

Film/US TV

The full Golden Globe nominations

British TV

iPlayer now works with Windows Vista, Macs and Linux
Robson Green to star in show by Cold Feet‘s creator [free registration required]
BBC working on pro version of Masterchef [free registration required]
BBC3 commissions its first drama, about four PAs [free registration required]
Hat Trick putting God on Trial [free registration required]

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