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[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Monday’s “Last Resort, Partners, 666 Park Avenue cancelled, Web Therapy renewed and ITV1 becomes ITV again” news

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Doctor Who

Details of the Christmas special
David Tennant back for anniversary special?

Film

Vincent D’Onofrio and Anton Yelchin to star in Broken Horses

Trailers

Trailer for The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
Trailer for Beautiful Creatures, with Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson et al
Trailer for Now You See Me with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson et al
Trailer for Admission with Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen et al

Canadian TV

Five more episodes for Saving Hope

UK TV

ITV in major rebranding exercise, including renaming of ITV1 back to ITV
S4C now available throughout the UK on Virgin
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV

Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue cancelled
Partners cancelled
Showtime renews Web Therapy for third season
Elementary gets two more episodes, Vegas cut by one
Guys With Kids gets four more episodes
Hot in Cleveland to have a live episode
Thursday ratings: The CW down, Elementary up
Friday ratings: Malibu Country down 41% on first episode

US TV casting

True Blood‘s Janina Gavankar to recur on Arrow
Mykelti Williamson to recur on Touch
Rebecca Mader to guest on 30 Rock

New US TV shows

MTV acquires Blackwood series of books
Lifetime developing Paranormal Housewives

New US TV show casting

Eddie Izzard to guest on Hannibal

Tuesday’s “Saw’s James Wan to direct MacGyver, new seasons for Redfern Now and Girls, & Matthew Lillard joins US The Bridge” news

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The Daily News will return on Friday

Film

Saw co-creator James Wan to direct MacGyver
Fox working on 10 new Marvel comic-book movies

Film casting

Ali Larter et al join You’re Not You
Anne Hathaway joins Robopocalypse
Sean Penn to star in Prone Gunman

International TV

Australia’s Redfern Now gets a second season

UK TV

Filming begins on S4C’s Mathias, starring Richard Harrington
Trailer for A Young Doctor’s Notebook with Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe
John Bishop to write and star in Panto!, with Sheridan Smith and Chesney Hawkes

US TV

A third season for Girls
A full season for Nashville
Malibu Country and Last Man Standing get more scripts
Hawaii Five-0 to remake Hawaii Five-O episode
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time down 23% to series low

US TV casting

Ernie Hudson to recur on The Last Resort
Lorraine Toussaint to recur on Body of Proof
The Partridge Family‘s Shirley Jones to guest on Cougar Town

New US TV shows

The CW working on Jane Whitefield, based on Vanishing Act books
One fewer episode for Do No Harm
Kesem Al Yam Kineret to be adapted as TV series

New US TV show casting

Mena Suvari and Henry Simmons joins Stalkers
Matthew Lillard joins The Bridge

Friday’s “Rutger Hauer in True Blood, S4C’s bilingual cop and Rob Brydon goes to LA” news

5 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Matt Smith and David Tennant: together at last

Film

Trey Songz and Taye Diggs join Baggage Claim

Trailers

Trailer for A Good Day To Die Hard with Bruce Willis
Trailer for Broken City with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe

UK TV

BBC1 orders who series of Lapland
S4C doing bilingual detective series co-production Mathias
Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran, Darren Boyd and Rebecca Front join Little Crackers
Sheridan Smith and Johnny Vegas joins BBC1’s Mr Stink, now in 3D

US TV

Pretty Little Liars gets a fourth season
Childrens Hospital and NTSF:SD:SUV get extra seasons
Trailers for Cougar Town
Wednesday ratings: Supernatural steady, NBC comedies up, ABC comedies down

US TV casting

LeVar Burton and Wil Wheaton return to The Big Bang Theory for Star Trek special
Jill Scott to guest on Fringe
Ivan Sergei to guest on Body of Proof
Vanessa Marcil and Tom Arnold to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Rutger Hauer joins True Blood

New US TV shows

Gordon Ramsay’s production company moves into drama [subscription required]
CW picks up post-apocalyptic show The Hundred
CBS orders pilot of Anatomy of Violence
Kate Walsh sells comedy to NBC
NBC buys Leisure Club and family show…
…and a music dramedy…
…and a marriage comedy from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay
The X-Files‘ Chris Carter working on The After
Sofia Vergara adapting Mujeres Asesinas
Rob Brydon working on The Valleys for HBO

US TV show casting

Martin Henderson to star in The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
Avan Jorgia joins Socio

Thursday’s “BFI online player, Strike Back renewed and M Night Shyamalan’s TV show” news

4 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

BFI to launch online player of 10,000 archive films
Hilary Swank leaves, Gael Garcia Bernal joins The Dallas Buyer’s Club

Trailers

Trailer for Movie 43 with so many people, I can’t list them all
Trailer for The Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp
Trailer for Parker with Jason Statham, Michael Chiklis and Jennifer Lopez

Theatre

Lucy Benjamin joins Hairspray, Mel Giedroyc joins Cinderella

UK TV

Jimmy McGovern writing Common for BBC1
Strike Back gets a fourth series
Channel 4 HD to broadcast in Wales once S4C HD Clirlun stops

US TV

Strike Back gets a third season
SyFy and Hulu acquire Primeval: New World
Trailer for season 2 of American Horror Story
Tuesday ratings: CBS dominates, New Girl steady, everything else down

US TV casting

Alex Kingston to guest on NCIS
Ally Sheedy to return to Psych
Colin O’Donoghue becomes a regular on Once Upon A Time
Californication‘s Pamela Adlon to guest on Parenthood

New US TV shows

Smurfs writers developing comedy for CBS
NBC acquires Lost Horizon from M Night Shyamalan and John Glenn
CBS developing drama about the Surgeon General
Julia Roberts developing Taming of the Shrew for ABC

New US TV show casting

Jodi Lyn O’Keefe joins Stalkers
Ellen Greene to recur on Hannibal

Thursday’s “S4C HD to close, Fantastic Four and Daredevil to be rebooted and Failling Skies’ 3rd season” news

12 July 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Chuck‘s Zachary Levi confirmed for Thor 2
Joe Cornish to direct Rust
Fox to reboot Fantastic Four and Daredevil
Alex Proyas and Mike Mignola to adapt Joe Golem and the Drowning City
Richard Armitage and Sarah Wayne to star in Category 6
Tobey Maguire joins Jason Reitman’s Labor Day
Olivia Wilde, Ron Livingston and Jake M Johnson join Drinking Buddies

UK TV

Lennie James and Jaime Winstone join Run
S4C to close its HD channel to save money [subscription required]

US TV

Falling Skies renewed for a third season
Devon Sawa promoted to regular on Nikita
Amanda Peet to recur on The Good Wife
Entire cast of NCIS to return for 10th season
Pearlena Igbokwe rejoins Bob Greenblatt at NBC to become head of drama development
TNT and TBS revamp their original programming unit
Microsoft leaves MSNBC

New US TV shows

Ike Barinholtz to recur on The Mindy Project
Spartacus producers working on sci-fi show Incursion and Vlad Dracula with J Michael Straczynski

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Monday’s “Last Resort, Partners, 666 Park Avenue cancelled, Web Therapy renewed and ITV1 becomes ITV again” news

Tuesday’s “Saw’s James Wan to direct MacGyver, new seasons for Redfern Now and Girls, & Matthew Lillard joins US The Bridge” news

Friday’s “Rutger Hauer in True Blood, S4C’s bilingual cop and Rob Brydon goes to LA” news

Thursday’s “BFI online player, Strike Back renewed and M Night Shyamalan’s TV show” news

Thursday’s “S4C HD to close, Fantastic Four and Daredevil to be rebooted and Failling Skies’ 3rd season” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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