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Wednesday’s “Richard Coyle: suave KGB spy, David Tennant: suave British spy, and Emma Thompson: Gareth Peirce again?” news
Film
- Emma Thompson to return as Gareth Peirce for The Secret Evidence?
- Noomi Rapace, Colin Farrell and maybe Dominic Cooper to star in Dead Man Down
Trailers
- Trailer for Sparkle with Whitney Houston
- Trailer for Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love
- Trailer for Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise
UK TV
- BBC4 working on Kenny Everett biopic
- Nicholas Ferguson replaces James Murdoch at BSkyB
- David Tennant and Janet Montgomery cast in The Spies of Warsaw
US TV
- Richard Schiff to recur on NCIS
- Coupling‘s Richard Coyle to recur on Covert Affairs
- Emilie de Raven to return as Belle in Once Upon A Time
- Sunday ratings: Game of Thrones returns with 3.9m viewers
- Monday ratings: Bones up
US TV pilots
- Super Bad‘s Christopher Mintz-Plasse to star in Friend Me
Awake: the mental mystery deepens
One of the things I’ve been liking about NBC’s Awake, in which Jason Isaacs lives in two realities – one in which his wife is dead, the other, which he enters when he goes to sleep (and vice versa), in which his son is dead – is that it hasn’t been going for a sci-fi or supernatural explanation so far. In fact, it’s been coming at this from the point of view that this probably is a mental problem, the only issue being that we don’t know which reality is correct and which is the dream – and more to the point, do we really want to?
Looks like it’s going to be pushing that line of investigation even further on Thursday…
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Stephen Hawking guests on The Big Bang Theory
They’re just filling up with famous cameos this year, over on The Big Bang Theory, aren’t they? After Leonard Nimoy last week, now they’ve got Stephen Hawking himself. Who next? Brian Cox?
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Trailers for Weeds, Veep and Boardwalk Empire
As one lot of US cable shows wind down, so another load spin up, ready for their new seasons. And with new seasons come trailers. So after the jump, feel free to enjoy trailers for season eight of Weeds, season three of Boardwalk Empire and, best of all, Veep from Armando Iannucci of The Thick of It fame and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus of even greater Seinfeld fame and the vice-president of the United States of America.
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