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Tuesday’s “don’t you point that thing at me” news

26 June 2007 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Doctor Who

Which Radio Times will you buy?
Sarah Jane comes to DVD in October
Freema Agyeman saves the world from Christmas spoilers
It’s Doctor Who weekend on UKTVDrama soon, and you can vote for your favourite Doctor online

Film

Anika Noni Rose and Lucian Msamati are to star in the The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Trailer for The Hitman online
More cast members, including Idris Elba, for Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla
Iron Man to film in Vegas
Stills and a trailer from John Rambo

British TV

Preston from BB and The Ordinary Boys is doing a documentary about voodoo. Okay…
Jason Donovan to star in ITV1’s new soap
Suburban Shootout gets a second series

US TV

New Transformers cartoon on the way
Missy Peregrym joins The Reaper
Preview of David Duchovny’s Californication
Will Michael be back in Lost and other spoilers

Monday morning’s funtastic news

25 June 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Phil Collinson leaving for Corrie?
Watch out: Doctor Who starts early on Saturday and it’s preceded by that rubbish Weakest Link special
The Sound of Drums got 6.9 million viewers
Need to embroider a picture of David Tennant on anything? Soon, you’ll know how

Film

An Incredibles sequel being worked on
Morgan Freeman to play Nelson Mandela
An Iron Man cast photo

British TV

George Michael up for Extras cameo?
Top Gear guilty of health and safety failures
Fiona Bruce to host Antiques Roadshow

Australian TV

Apologies to the Mexican government over Big Brother‘s slime-filled Mexican night

US TV

Spoilers for The Sarah Connor Chronicles
No more Creature Comforts
Traveler‘s creator pops up on IMDB to raise support

Friday’s news blast

22 June 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

Some nice trailers for tomorrow’s episode. The first features some very special people

Film

Picture of Harrison Ford in Indy 4
Star Trek XI cameos cause Shatner to blow his top. Maybe
The Scarecrow back in Dark Knight?
Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD, in Iron Man?
Blade Runner: The Final Cut ad

US TV

ABC remaking the UK’s Mile High for Lifetime. Plus they seem to want to do something with Channel 4’s classic Ultraviolet
Peter MacNicol back as a regular on Numb3rs next season
A female president for 24?
Who’s back in Heroes next year after their world tour. Plus Heroes: Origins will start in April

Bloggy birthday news

21 June 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Happy birthday, blog!

Doctor Who

David Tennant has been bombarding RTD with texts because The Master has (spoiler: highlight to reveal) a bigger, flashier sonic screwdriver, which Tennant complains is an “outrageous” snub to the time lord, according to the Daily Star which is too pikey to have a proper web site I can link to
Guess which pop stars will make cameo appearances soon
Russell confesses to having lied when he said he wasn’t going to bring back the Master

Books

Do hackers know how Harry Potter ends?

Film

Clips from Die Hard 4
Amy Whitehouse to write the next Bond theme?
Martin Scorsese and Robert de Niro to re-team
Jim Broadbent to appear in Indy 4
Naveen Andrews and Buffy’s Mark Blucas join cast of Animals
Choose your own adventure: the movie

British TV

Digital TV now in 80% of homes

US TV

Photos from Flash Gordon
The Dresden Files is in limbo
Gordon Ramsay sued because Kitchen Nightmares is “a fake”
More underlings for House. Maybe.

Review: Meadowlands 1×1

20 June 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

In the US: Sundays, Showtime, 10pm ET/PT

In the UK: Coming soon to Channel 4

Now here’s curious. We have a co-production between UK network Channel 4 and US cable network Showtime. It’s made by British production company Ecosse Films. It’s filmed in Britain. It’s set in Britain. It’s cast is almost entirely British.

But it’s airing in the US first.

How’s that work then?

More to the point, it’s also very British – very Channel 4, in fact – which makes me wonder what Showtime sees in it. We have a family, headed by David Morrissey, who have to enter the witness protection programme. They wind up in Kent in a strange little town called Meadowlands populated by strange little people. And it’s all very, very bleak – and very very strange.

Continue reading “Review: Meadowlands 1×1”

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Review: Meadowlands 1×1

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