Film
Monday’s double cancellation news
Film
US TV
- Ryan Phillippe joins Damages
- Alan Dale to guest on Person of Interest
- Roswell‘s Jason Behr to guest on Breakout Kings
- Rescue Me‘s Peter Tolan’s firefighter comedy picked up ABC
- Fox buys 1980s Shonda Rhimes pilot
- Charlie’s Angels cancelled…
- … despite a slight increase in the ratings on Thursday
- Friday night ratings: Blue Bloods down, A Gifted Man up
- Being Erica/The Killing‘s Brandon Jay McLaren to recur on Falling Skies
- Covert Affairs‘ Eion Bailey to recur on Once Upon A Time
- TNT cancels Memphis Beat
Sitting Tennant
Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 37, 2011)
Clearly David regretted cycling to work that day. Have a nice weekend!
- Hebbie: 270
- Sister Chastity: 255
- Erin C: 130
- Rullsenberg: 55
- Janice: 20
- esgaril: 10
- theriverlady, Toby: 5
Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition!
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.
The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.
You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.
News
Friday’s “Buffy reunion” news
Film
- Trailer for This Means War with Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy
- Robert Downey Jr joins The Accidental Genius
- Gerard Butler joins Hunter Killer
- Trailer for American Pie sequel American Reunion
- Patty Jenkins to direct Thor 2
- Matthew Rhys and Eileen Atkins to star in The Scapegoat
British TV
- Jason Isaacs’s Case Histories to return in 2012 for two feature-length stories
- Downton Abbey could go on forever
US TV
- Fred Durst to star in CBS comedy
- HBO teams with Dick Wolf for period think tank drama
- Netflix to stream The CW shows for four years
- NBC buys Ryan Murphy comedy
- Wednesday ratings: American Horror Story drops 14%, Psych up to 3m…
- …Happy Endings get best ever ratings…
- …prompting ABC to give it more episodes, give full seasons to Revenge and Suburgatory
- The Killing‘s Eric Ladin to guest on Castle
- HBO developing The Kids Are All Right as a pilot
- Steve Bochco and David Milch reunite for NBC legal drama
- The Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi to star in CBS comedy
- Fox picks up Confessions of a Contractor
- Cable’s USA Network beating sister network NBC in the ratings
US TV
Review: American Horror Story 1×1-1×2
In the US: Wednesdays, 10pm, FX
In the UK: Mondays, 10pm, FX UK. Starts November 7th
A new horror show from the creators of Glee!
Yes, Glee. Psyched now? Of course, not.
But then, when Glee was announced as a charming new show from the creators of Nip/Tuck about a High School glee club, there was a similar reaction, so let’s just say “a new horror show from the creators of Nip/Tuck” and take it from there.
Anyway, American Horror Story is something of a misnomer in that it’s not just one horror story, it’s actually every single American horror story ever, more or less, particularly the ones from the movies: there’s The Amityville Horror, Psycho, The Shining, Don’t Look Now, Rosemary’s Baby and more, all rolled up into one big story in which Dylan McDermott (The Practice, Dark Blue) and Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights) move into a spectacularly haunted house in LA with their teenage daughter and have to deal with everything from a two-faced maid, ghosts and a weird melted man who murdered his family to a gimp and a boy who might also be a demon.
And the theme of this big story? What do the creators of Nip/Tuck and Glee think is the ultimate ‘American Horror Story’? Family – and sex, apparently, and plenty of it.
Here’s a trailer: