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Doctor Who

Joanna Page denies Who rumours

Film

Paul Greengrass leaves Fantastic Voyage
Never say bad things about the director: Megan Fox dumped from Transformers 3…
…Gemma Arterton to replace her?
Gerard Depardieu to play Rasputin
Alfred Molina joins Abduction
Drew Barrymore to direct Wizard of Oz sequel?

British TV

Lunch Monkeys starts work on second series
Lindsay Duncan, Imogen Poots, Toby Jones and Douglas Booth join Matt Smith in Christopher And His Kind
David Baddiel to star in online football sitcom for Dave [subscription required]
Watch to rebrand [subscription required]
Rusty and others ask Beeb to cut US imports to make more UK kids shows [subscription required]

US TV

TNT unveils 11 original series
MTV picks up Teen Wolf
Smallville to end next season…
…but a regular is leaving (sort of) [spoilers]
Someone’s taking a break from House [spoilers]
Eureka and Warehouse 13 to cross over [spoilers]
NBC’s Day One is dead

ABC Fall 2010 shows with clips

19 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

It’s time to look at ABC’s new shows for Fall 2010, including vids from Mr Sunshine (Matt Perry), Detroit 187 (Michael Imperioli), My Generation, The Whole Truth, Off the Map Body of Proof (Dana Delaney), Better Together and Happy Endings (Elisha Cuthbert). So, no clip of No Ordinary Family (Julie Benz, Michael Chiklis), but if you’re in the US, you can watch clips from all the new shows here.

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Wednesday’s news after all

19 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

An interview with Steven Moffat

Film

John Hurt joins Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia
Jemaine Clement to play the villain in Men in Black 3

British TV

Funny or Die UK to close [registration required]
David Jason going cockney again for tele movie
ITV considering remakes of Sapphire and Steel, Charlie’s Angels
Rab C Nesbitt gets a 10th series

US TV

Vanessa Williams joins Desperate Housewives
CBS cancels Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, Miami Medical, Accidentally on Purpose, The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried
The CW renews Life Unexpected and One Tree Hill, picks up Nikita and Hellcats…
…cancels Melrose Place
ABC’s Fall schedule
AMC orders historical western
Southland faces budget and cast cuts

Tuesday’s Ness and Stacey everywhere news

18 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Joanna Page to play long-lost relative of the Doctor?? [spoilers??]

Film

Warp Films picks up rights to Blood Oath
Armando Iannucci to make Out The Window with BBC Films
Ewan McGregor joins The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Dustin Hoffman joins Nightwork
Pics from the Immortals (aka War of the Gods)

British TV

Ruth Jones and Mark Heap to star in The Great Outdoors for BBC4…
…and Ruth Jones to play Hattie Jacques for BBC4 as well
S4C gives out £7m in contracts for kids’ TV [subscription required]
HBO programmes to be available on mobile network 3
25% of Brits now have HD TV

US TV

USA Network greenlights pilots for A Legal Mind and Necessary Roughness
CBS picks up Criminal Minds spin-off…
…as well as Hawaii Five-O remake, Blue Bloods with Tom Selleck and Defenders with Jim Belushi
Heroes‘ Greg Grunberg to be series regular on Love Bites…
…but isn’t sure about whether Heroes movie would happen
Linda Hamilton joins Weeds
Joely Richardson leaves The Whole Truth
Mark Verheiden joins Steven Spielberg’s TNT show
Why Law & Order was cancelled…
…and why it might be back

Clips and details of Fox’s new shows for Fall 2010

18 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Hot on the heels of NBC’s new shows for Fall 2010 come Fox’s. Follow me for some clips and details of Raising Hope (Garret Dilllahunt), Running Wilde (Will Arnett), Lonestar, Terra Nova, Ride-Along (Shawn Ryan), Mixed Signals (Kris Marshall and Alex Breckenridge: ooh!) and Bob’s Burgers.

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