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An archive of articles about US television programmes and production.

Monday’s utterly ridiculous film news

6 July 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Rupert Penry-Jones on (not being in) The Forgotten

3 July 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

Rupert Penry-Jones in The Forgotten

The Forgotten, a Jerry Bruckheimer show set to appear on ABC in the Fall, was going to be Rupert Penry-Jones’ stab at US stardom – sort of. He was to play the part of Alex, a former cop whose daughter was kidnapped and never found, and who now runs a network for identifying dead bodies. You can read all about it in my ABC fall preview.

However, Penry-Jones – and just about every foreign actor in every pilot – was dropped from the show, along with former 24-star Reiko Aylesworth. No reason’s been given but the general assumption is that to save cash, the networks hired cheaper actors from outside the US for the pilots, with the intent of dropping them in favour of bigger, more expensive names once the pilots had gone to series.

Anyway, our Rupe has been talking to Simon Mayo about being dropped from an unnamed US pilot (ie The Forgotten) and what he thought of it.

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Friday’s “bye bye hoodie” news

3 July 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Happy fourth of July weekend!

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  • HBO launches on iTunes

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What prize would you like to win in my competition?

2 July 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

I may be running a competition to win a prize on this ‘ere blog very soon.

Wow, that was vague, wasn’t it?

See, I haven’t decided on the prize. There’s a range of options, all of them DVDs or Blu-Ray disks, most of them Film4/Channel 4 content, but I’m not sure what y’all would like best. So I’m going to give you the options, you say which one you’d like to win best, and I’ll see if I can swing it with TPTB (no guarantees).

Right, here they are:

  • Stephen Tompkinson’s African Balloon Adventure
  • Close My Eyes
  • Gerry
  • Very Annie Mary
  • My Brother Tom
  • Gregory’s Two Girls
  • Late Night Shopping
  • Miranda
  • The Emperor’s New Clothes
  • Hear My Song
  • Gangster No.1
  • Star Stories Series 3 & Box Set 1-3
  • Motorcycle diaries – Blu-Ray
  • East is East – Blu-Ray
  • Sexy Beast – Blu-Ray
  • Touching the void – Blu-Ray
  • In the shadow of the moon – Blu-Ray
  • Supernatural 4.1
  • Shallow Grave – Blu-Ray
  • Trainspotting – Blu-Ray