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Doctor Who

Sheridan Smith leaving eighth Doctor stories?

Film

Wentworth Miller joins Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter on Resident Evil: Afterlife
Brad Pitt to play Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes sequel?
John Malkovich to join Secretariat
Columbia picks up screen rights to Enron
Walden picks up Gene, a modern genie story
Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart join Dylan’s Wake
Darren Aronofsky to direct Heist

Music

Last original Sugababe quits

Comics

Jack Kirby’s estate serves copyright notice on Marvel

British TV

ITV1 to screen new version of Bouquet of Barbed Wire
ITV1 misleading advertisers?
BBC to show Heroes late this year or early next year
Press pack for Emma
Richard Eyre slams BBC for drama dereliction of duty

US TV

Heroes webisodes to focus on Lydia the tattooed lady
Fox picks up Glee
Charlie Sheen leaving Two and a Half Men?
Betty White to cameo on 30 Rock

Review: Community 1×1

21 September 2009 Rob Buckley 20 Comments

In the US: Thursdays, 9.30/8.30c, NBC

Smart comedies are hard to do. So hail to those who try their best to do smart comedies. Even bigger hails to those who manage to achieve it.

But sometimes you need to borrow an old formula to do it. There’s no shame in this if you can make it your own, though, which is what the creators of Community have done.

The name of that formula? Bill Murray.

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Monday’s Emmy-winning news

21 September 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

John Barrowman talks about meeting Matt Smith

Awards

The results of the Emmys

Film

Fox picks up vigilante angels drama Fallen
Matt Damon to star as Liberace’s lover
Trailer for Michael Caine’s Harry Brown
Disney Studios head Dick Cook stands down

British TV

Reggie Perrin likely to get second series
Launch of ITV1+1 delayed
Star says Demons axed because “it wasn’t good enough“
Brian Cox and Lindsay Duncan to star in The Sinking of the Laconia
Indies to shoulder the burden of

Czech TV

Prima TV to remake Cold Feet

US TV

Desmond Harrington returning to Gossip Girl
Andrew Connolly joins Heroes

Friday’s “unconvincing Vinnie Jones quote” news

18 September 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

The Sarah Jane Adventures to air twice-weekly from October 15th
Girl Number 9 to star Tracy-Ann Oberman and Gareth David-Lloyd

Film

Christopher Plummer, Brad Dourif, and Madchen Amick join Priest
Paul Giamatti and James Purefoy to star in medieval Magnificent Seven, Ironclad
Matt Damon and Clint Eastwood team up for Hereafter
X-Men: First Class to start filming next year?
Trailer for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Scott Glenn joins Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch
Noel Clarke starts shooting 4.3.2.1
Trailer for Jonathan Rhys Meyers’/John Travolta’s From Paris With Love

British TV

STV planning its own 6pm news
Beeb cuts My Family budget, orders two new series
C4 looking for more NI programming
Season three of Gossip Girl to start on ITV2 next month

US TV

The Tudors to be succeeded by The Borgias?
John McNamara to take over as showrunner on In Plain Sight
Penn and Teller to star as ‘Penn and Teller’: magician-detectives for ABC
Vinnie Jones to guest star on Chuck, star in comic book series (not convinced Vinnie came up with the quote in the article…)
Heroes websides and TV show to crossover

Thursday’s bunny spinning news

17 September 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

Josh Lucas joins Life as We Know It
Gael Garcia Bernal to join Kate Hudson in Earthbound?

British TV

Phil Redmond says merge C4 and BBC to save kids TV
Victoria Wood making one-hour Christmas special
Andy Duncan to leave Channel 4 by mutual agreement
Freesat sales rise to 600,000
The Fixer gets 3.2m viewers

US TV

Sissy Spacek joins Big Love
MTV greenlights spin-off from Greg the Bunny
Saffron Burrows to join Law & Order: CI?
Spike Lee and Robert de Niro working on drama series

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