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Friday’s trailer park news

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Film

Jaume Collet-Serra to direct Akira
Julia Stiles and America Ferrera to star in It’s A Disaster
Christina Hendricks, Dermot Mulroney and Sarah Hyland join Struck By Lightning
Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion
Trailer for The Thing
Trailer for John Carter
Trailer for Aardman’s The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists

Theatre

Joanna Lumley and Robert Lindsay to star in The Lion

British TV

The seven Channel 4 Comedy Showcase episodes

US TV

Femme Fatales gets a second season

Thursday’s “Hail Caesar” news

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Film

Colin Mochrie joins Please Kill Mr. Know It All
Gossip Girl team to adapt The Luxe
Treme‘s Kim Dickens moves to Heartland
New film about Julius Caesar in the works
Alexander Skarsgard joins The Vanguard
Nick Frost to play a dwarf in Snow White and the Huntsman

British TV

Joanna Page to star in Sky1’s The Gates
News Corp pulls out of BSkyB bid
BBC HD boss quits, BBC2 HD to launch [subscription required]
Channel 4 News launching free iOS app

US TV

House‘s Kal Penn to recur on How I Met Your Mother
Teen Wolf gets a second season
24‘s Penny Johnson Jerald joins Castle
Jennifer Salke new president of NBC Entertainment
Rebecca Mader to guest on Alphas

Wednesday’s “Cheers to CSI” news

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who episodes to be made available to rent via Facebook [subscription required]

Film

Kristen Wiig to star in Imogene
Ed Norton to play baddie in The Bourne Legacy?
True Blood‘s Deborah Ann Woll joins He Loves Me
Christopher Lloyd joins Dead Before Dawn
Ruth Wilson to join Lone Ranger?

Radio

BBC World Service loses 14m listeners [subscription required]

British TV

BBC drama output fell by 630 hours in 2010/11

US TV

Ted Danson joins CSI
David Gallagher joins The Vampire Diaries
Mark Valley joins Harry’s Law, Jean Smart to recur
Matthew McConaughey, Will Ferrell return for Eastbound & Down season 3
SGU‘s Brian Smith joins Gossip Girl
Lauren German joins Hawaii Five-0
The Closer starts with 7.2m viewers
Alphas starts with 2m viewers
Curb Your Enthusiasm gets 2.1m viewers
HBO acquires The Sinking of the Laconia
Juliette Lewis joins The Firm

Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson’s best food moments

12 July 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

So I tried watching Parks and Recreation a while back and found it largely unfunny. There was, however, one bright ray of hope in it and that was Ron Swanson, regular American male. Here’s a collection of his best encounters with food and if the show consisted purely of Ron Swanson and moments like these, I’d be telling you all to watch it. But it doesn’t so don’t.

Tuesday’s news

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Doctor Who

Torchwood ratings on a par with Camelot‘s

Film

Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in The Last Stand
Chris Hemsworth to play James Hunt in Rush
Elizabeth Banks joins What To Expect When You’re Expecting
Michael Chiklis to be villain in Jason Statham’s Parker
Trailer for The Inbetweeners
Christian Slater and Adewale Akkinuoye-Agbaje join Bullet To The Head
New trailer for Tintin
Teaser trailer for Sherlock 2

Theatre

Theatres cutting back on actors and shows

British TV

Virgin launches smartphone app for TiVo customers
Trailer for Life’s Too Short

Canadian TV

Flashpoint returns to 1.4m viewers
Rookie Blue picked up for third season

US TV

Watch one minute of the new Dallas
ABC Family renews Melissa & Joey
Better With You‘s Jennifer Finnegan to guest on Psych
Christopher McDonald to be a regular on Harry’s Law
Dylan Baker to guest on White Collar
Callum Keith Rennie joins The Firm

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Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson’s best food moments

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