US TV

News

Film

McG to direct Bradley Cooper and Reese Witherspoon in This Means War?
Casting excitement on Burke & Hare as Jessica Hynes, Bill Bailey, Reece Shearsmith, Tim Curry, Sir Christopher Lee et al sign up
Trailer for Kevin Smith’s Cop Out with Bruce Willis and 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan

British TV

Channel 4 reuniting Last King of Scotland makers for human trafficking drama
Surreal comedy This is Jinsy gets a pilot on BBC3
ITV and RTÉ recommission Single-Handed

US TV

The Middleman‘s Brit Morgan joins True Blood
Casting, including Reaper‘s Bret Harrison on Adam Goldberg’s comedy
HBO to make Hollywood blogging drama
ABC picks up Wright vs Wrong
SyFy to show Merlin
Emily Rose to star in Haven
Human Target ratings drop in new time period

The Simpsons does an iPhone couch joke

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It’s probably funnier if you have an iPhone.

Thursday’s doubly enchanted news

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Doctor Who

Titles for the first three episodes of the next series

Film

Kathy Bates and Whoopi Goldberg join Earthbound
Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko to star in Terrence Malick pic
A sequel for Enchanted?

British TV

Caprica starts with poor ratings

US TV

Lost ratings go up for the first time
Gary Cole to star in Uncle Nigel
Big Love gets a fifth season
CBS picks up Rob Riggle comedy pilot
Sarah Chalke to star in Freshmen
Caprica ratings down, Spartacus ratings up
Rob Lowe to join Criminal Minds spin-off?
Lost’s Cynthia Watros joins House as… [spoilers]

Review: Lost 6×1-6×2

3 February 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, ABC
In the UK: Fridays, 9pm, Sky 1/Sky 1 HD. Starts February 5th

There’s something to be said for the “DVD box set” approach to viewing TV series. Why watch episodes live when you can wait until a season has finished and watch all the episodes in one go?

I’ll tell you why I’m suddenly thinking this is a great idea – I’ve seen the first two episodes of the new season of Lost. Where’s the next one, huh? Next week: that’s where. What use to me is that?

Discussion and spoilers after the jump.

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Wednesday’s “a cup of hot water, please” news

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Film

MacGyver creator threatens to sue MacGruber
Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones to star in Dragon Fire
Hugh Jackman joins Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Asterix in Britain to be adapted

Theatre

Billy Bragg to star in a stage show

British TV

Getting On gets a second series
Scarlet TV goes into administration [subscription required]
Trevor Eve highest paid TV actor

US TV

Russell Mulcahy to direct Teen Wolf pilot
Zooey Deschanel to star in HBO pilot I’m With The Band
Entourage team developing political drama for HBO
Heroes ratings up a bit again
More pilot casting
Virginia Madsen to star in ABC’s Scoundrels
The CW picks up three pilots, including shows produced by Tom Welling and Hayden Panettierre

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