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Thursday’s “Multi Doctor Who anniversary story, trailers for Rogue and Hemlock Grove, & too much Anger Management” news

10 January 2013 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Big Finish to release multi-Doctor, multi-companion 50th anniversary play

Film

Dan Trachtenberg to direct Y The Last Man

Trailers

Trailer for The Last Exorcism Part 2

UK TV

Anne-Marie Duff, Jody Latham and Elliott Tittensor to return for Shameless finale
Misfits gets a fifth season
Tuesday ratings: Death in Paradise gets its largest ever audience

US TV

45 episodes a year of Anger Management
Friday cable ratings: Portlandia up 30%
Tuesday ratings: NBC sitcoms plummet
Tuesday cable ratings: Cougar Town starts okay on TBS

US TV casting

Lots of returning guest stars for 30 Rock‘s finale [spoilers]
Zoey Deutch to guest on Switched At Birth
Rena Sofer to play Snow White’s mum on Once Upon A Time
Terry O’Quinn to return to Hawaii Five-0

New US TV shows

FX to launch two new dramas, three new comedies in 2013
ABC orders pilot of Mixology
Trailer for The Audience Network’s Rogue, with Thandie Newton
Trailer for Netflix’s Hemlock Grove

Rachel Dratch as the original Jenna on 30 Rock

9 January 2013 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Hard though it is now to imagine anyone except Jane Krakowski playing Jenna on 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s fellow SNL cast member Rachel Dratch originally played her in the pilot episode. Having a hard time imagining that? Well, here’s how the show would have looked with Dratch.

Of course, Dratch went on to appear in the show anyway in a number of roles, including this rather good one:

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The Cougar Town cast swear and drink like troopers

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That’s cable for you.

Wednesday’s “More Bones, Seth Rogen’s Mindy Project and M Night Shyamalan TV” news

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Film casting

Josh Brolin, Chris Meloni join Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Will Forte and Tim Robbins join Jackie Brown prequel The Switch

Canadian TV

Dave Foley to star in Spun Out

UK TV

Monday ratings

US TV

A ninth season for Bones
Trailer for season two of Magic City
Monday ratings: Deception starts okay

US TV casting

Seth Rogen to guest on The Mindy Project
Sarah Shahi to recur to Person of Interest [minor spoilers]
Army Wives casting
Anthony Michael Hall and Nolan Funk join Awkward
Adam Shapiro joins Scandal [minor spoilers]

New US TV shows

In Living Color reboot cancelled
NBC orders pilot of Bloodline
M Night Shyamalan and Bruce McKenna developing shows for Fox
Trailer for Da Vinci’s Demons
New trailer for SyFy’s Defiance

The only man who’ll make you feel sympathetic towards Piers Morgan

8 January 2013 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Piers looks good in comparison.

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Thursday’s “Multi Doctor Who anniversary story, trailers for Rogue and Hemlock Grove, & too much Anger Management” news

Rachel Dratch as the original Jenna on 30 Rock

The Cougar Town cast swear and drink like troopers

Wednesday’s “More Bones, Seth Rogen’s Mindy Project and M Night Shyamalan TV” news

The only man who’ll make you feel sympathetic towards Piers Morgan

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