US TV

Peter Capaldi among stars in Tony Jordan’s The Nativity
Kevin Lygo leaves Channel 4 for ITV Studios
Mentalist Mark Thompson dresses down Janice Hadlow over BBC2 direction [subscription required]
Beeb poaches Mad Men exec Vlad Wolynetz
The Prisoner ratings plummet

French TV

Watch the first part of season 3 of Engrenages (Spiral) for free [no subtitles, of course]

US TV

Spike unveils its development slate
Justified gets a second season
NBC picks up JJ Abrams’ Undercovers
Party Down ratings double
Miami Medical ratings improving
Oliver Stone working on drama for Epix
Sarah Wayne Callies joins Walking Dead
Zoe Kravitz joins Californication
Ghost Whisperer and New Adventures of Old Christine moving to ABC?
One in eight Americans to quit cable over costs?
Castle co-showrunner Rene Echevarria leaving

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30 April 2010 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Neil Gaiman finally completes his script
John Barrowman to continue in unwatchable show, Desperate Housewives

Film

Glee‘s very hot Dianna Agron to star in I am Number 4
The excellent Doug Liman to direct Gambit remake
Paramount passes on Anchorman 2. Smart…
Stephen King’s Dark Tower to be turned into film trilogy and TV series
Supervillain goes into witness protection for Incognito

Radio

Old Morecambe and Wise tapes to air on Radio 4

British TV

25% of Sky customers now have HD [subscription required]
ITV to make Obama mini-series. That’ll be good then
Shameless cast member to leave [spoilers]
Pajama Men working on UK show
ITV to adapt “awful, awful” Philippa Gregory novel The Little House with Tim Piggott-Smith and Francesca Annis
Hulu abandons stupid UK plans

US TV

10 Things I Hate About You unsurprisingly cancelled
Treme‘s ratings dropping
Absolutely no one watching the useless, unfunny Party Down
Happy Town premiere doesn’t do well. Losers

Review: Gravity 1×1

29 April 2010 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

In the US : Thursdays/Fridays, 10pm/10.30pm/11.30pm, Starz/Starz Cinema/Starz Edge

And so Starz’s relentless quest to become the new “edgy but low-budget” channel continues. In the wake of Party Down, Crash, Spartacus: Blood and Sand comes Gravity, featuring the likes of Ving Rhames and Rachel Hunter.

Now, I have to admit, I had no idea what this was about before I decided to watch it, so for a good five to ten minutes, I was sitting there puzzled. Was this a supernatural show, in which a bunch of people die and come back as ghosts? A comedy? Some kind of hate crime against gay men?

If only I’d known the working title for the show was Suicide for Dummies.

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