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Thursday’s “BBC1 loses kids programmes, Chris Moyles is King Herod and new Cougar Town showrunners” news

17 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Won’t Back Down with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Rosie Perez and Lance Reddick
  • Trailer for Hit and Run, written by, co-directed by and starring Parenthood‘s Dax Shepard

Theatre

  • Mel C, Chris Moyles and Tim Minchin to star in Jesus Christ Superstar
  • 39 Steps creator to adapt Ben Hur

UK TV

  • BBC greenlights adaptation of Emile Zola’s Ladies’ Paradise
  • BBC to move kids TV to digital channels, cut BBC3 and BBC4 drama and factual budgets, shut BBC HD for BBC2 HD and launch regional BBC1 HD channels
  • Silk gets 5.6m viewers

US TV

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ABC’s upfronts 2012-3 – a rundown and clips from the new shows

16 May 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Following on from NBC and Fox, today we get to have a look at the shiny new shows that ABC has lined up for us for the 2012 to 2013 season.

Like NBC, there have been a fair few cancellations at ABC this year, so we’ve got a few new dramas and comedies to look at. Unlike NBC, we have a lot of remakes of foreign shows to look forward to, unless we happen to have seen those foreign shows in question already.

So after the jump, we have rundowns, trailers and the 2012-13 schedules for:

  • Last Resort from Shawn Ryan and starring Andre Braugher and Dichen Lachman
  • 666 Park Ave. with (ooh) Robert Buckley and Terry O’Quinn
  • A remake of BBC1’s Mistresses with Charmed‘s Alyssa Milano
  • A remake of BBC3’s White Van Man retitled The Family Tools with Kyle Bornheimer. JK Simmons and Leah Remini from King of Queens
  • How to Live With Your Parents For The Rest of Your Life with Scrubs‘ Sarah Chalke, Brad Garrett, Orlando Jones and Elizabeth Perkins
  • Malibu Country with Lily Tomlin, Rbea and Jai Rodriguez (yes, him from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
  • Nashville with Connie Britton, Powers Boothe, The Wire‘s Robert Wisdom and Heroes‘ Hayden Panettiere
  • The Neighbors with Jami Gerz
  • A remake of Dutch TV’s Penoza, Red Widow, starring Radha Mitchell and
  • Zero Hour, with Anthony Edwards

And a lot of them look very silly indeed.

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