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Wednesday’s “one BBC fits all” news

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Doctor Who

New Daleks dumped?
Trailer for SJA‘s Death of the Doctor – Part 1

Film

Trailer for Scream 4
John C Reilly joins God of Carnage
Darren Aronofsky directing Wolverine 2
Sixth Die Hard to be the last?
Mark Wahlberg to star in The Crow remake?

British TV

Licence fee frozen for six years, BBC to fund World Service, S4C, rural broadband, local TV and online services
YouView gets Ofcom go-ahead
Law & Order: UK gets 13 more episodes [subscription required]
Two more Rock & Chips
InBetweeners ends on record audience

US TV

HBO working on Cold War spy series
NBC picks up comedy from Old Christine creator
Chase and Chuck get full seasons, Undercovers gets more scripts
Robert Englund to guest on Supernatural
David Morse and India Ennenga to be regulars on Treme
Soapnet picks up third season of Being Erica

Another Dharma orientation film

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Lost may be gone, but that doesn’t mean the Dharma Initiative isn’t still producing orientation films…

Tuesday’s “the Mark Sheppard constant employment act” news

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Doctor Who

Mark Sheppard to guest in two-parter

Film

Numb3rs‘ David Krumholtz joins Mr Popper’s Penguins
Megan Fox joins John Hamm in Friends with Kids
Teaser trailer for Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Paul
Mel Gibson to cameo in The Hangover 2

British TV

Elisabeth Murdoch to sue Five over unpaid bills

US TV

The Event, Outsourced, L&O:LA get full seasons
V second season reduced to 10 episodes
Claire Van Der Bloom to play Danno’s wife on Hawaii Five-O
Cynthia Watros to guest on Desperate Houeswives
Jason Lee to guest on Raising Hope
Edward Norton working on adaptation of Undaunted Courage with HBO
Demetri Martin gets a CBS show
Denis Leary sells three shows to CBS and The CW, including Mind Games, Trigger and Cross Roads
ABC working on adaptation of The Spellman Files

Monday’s “summer squibs” news

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Film

McG working on 300-esque version of Columbus’s story
The Hobbit officially greenlit
Angelina Jolie and James Cameron working on 3D Cleopatra?
The new Pinhead

British TV

BBC3’s Danny Cohen to become BBC1 controller
S4C director of commissioning resigns
Steven Moffat teases Sherlock series two
Alibi acquires ABC’s Body of Proof [subscription required]

US TV

Ed Asner to star in CMT’s Working Class
Season high for 30 Rock live episode
Smallville‘s 200th episode wins in Friday ratings
How the Other Half Hamptons and Anthem being developed at Fox
Scoundrels and The Gates cancelled

30 Rock live – the differences between east and west coast versions

16 October 2010 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

So 30 Rock did a live episode on Thursday. What a weird experience that was: to go from a single-camera comedy show shot on film (or at least given a filmic look)…

…to a multi-camera sketch show comedy shot on video with a live studio audience?

Very disconcerting.

America’s quite a big place, you may have noticed. Live TV in the US means if you’re going to air an episode at the same time on both the East and West coast, that means you either record the first one and air it again later (thus defeating the whole point of a live show) or have the cast do two separate performances.

Option 2 was the route chosen for 30 Rock, and would you be surprised to hear that there were differences between the two versions? Of course not. So after the jump, so you can compare and contrast, vids of all the differences between the East and West Coast versions. No Matt Damon, but Julia-Louis Dreyfus is in a couple.

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