Friday’s “ABC smash puny ratings” news

Doctor Who

  • Strictly‘s Laila Rouass to play UNIT soldier in The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • More crossovers with SJA unlikely

Film

British TV

US TV

  • ABC remaking The Incredible Hulk
  • Tea Leoni to star in and produce Spring/Fall fashion comedy pilot for HBO
  • ABC orders more scripts for No Ordinary Family, Off The Map, Brothers and Sisters
  • The CW orders more Life Unexpected
  • Law and Order: LA drops 21% in the ratings
  • Helen Hunt to direct an episode of The Paul Reiser Show
  • SyFy picks up Sinbad and the Minotaur
  • Wayne Knight to guest on The Whole Truth

Thursday’s “Chicks and Dicks” news

Film

British TV

US TV

Monday’s Bourne-free news

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

US TV

Welsh TV

Why there’s no Welsh language release of A Mind To Kill on DVD

A Mind To Kill

A little while ago, I reviewed the DVD release of the first series of Wales’ answer to Taggart, A Mind To Kill, starring Philip Madoc. Well, not only is all the series about to be released on DVD in a single set for the princely sum of £69.99 (that’s 2008 minutes of A Mind To Kill), but the pilot movie is being released as well.

However, despite being shown on S4C and made simultaneously in Welsh and English, the show is only being released in English. So I decided to ask Network DVD why.

Network DVD doesn't think there was a Welsh language version of the pilot

Oh dear.

So I point out that yes, there was.

Don't own the licence

So there you go. As always, it’s a rights problem. S4C: do you want to take it from here?

Thursday’s “another Smits flop” news

Theatre

British TV

  • Channel 4 picks up Camelot with Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green
  • Boris Johnson’s PR guy, Guto Harri, to run S4C?

US TV