Melissa McCarthy of Bridesmaids, Mike and Molly and Samantha Who? had to read out the Emmy nominations yesterday. What might surprise you is the intense training Joel McHale of Community put her through to give her the strength and stamina to survive the process. Here’s a montage of her training practice. It’s very Community.
News
Friday’s trailer park news
Film
- Jaume Collet-Serra to direct Akira
- Julia Stiles and America Ferrera to star in It’s A Disaster
- Christina Hendricks, Dermot Mulroney and Sarah Hyland join Struck By Lightning
- Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
- Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion
- Trailer for The Thing
- Trailer for John Carter
- Trailer for Aardman’s The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists
Theatre
- Joanna Lumley and Robert Lindsay to star in The Lion
British TV
- The seven Channel 4 Comedy Showcase episodes
US TV
- Femme Fatales gets a second season
Thursday’s “Hail Caesar” news
Film
- Colin Mochrie joins Please Kill Mr. Know It All
- Gossip Girl team to adapt The Luxe
- Treme‘s Kim Dickens moves to Heartland
- New film about Julius Caesar in the works
- Alexander Skarsgard joins The Vanguard
- Nick Frost to play a dwarf in Snow White and the Huntsman
British TV
- Joanna Page to star in Sky1’s The Gates
- News Corp pulls out of BSkyB bid
- BBC HD boss quits, BBC2 HD to launch [subscription required]
- Channel 4 News launching free iOS app
US TV
- House‘s Kal Penn to recur on How I Met Your Mother
- Teen Wolf gets a second season
- 24‘s Penny Johnson Jerald joins Castle
- Jennifer Salke new president of NBC Entertainment
- Rebecca Mader to guest on Alphas
Wednesday’s “Cheers to CSI” news
Doctor Who
- Doctor Who episodes to be made available to rent via Facebook [subscription required]
Film
- Kristen Wiig to star in Imogene
- Ed Norton to play baddie in The Bourne Legacy?
- True Blood‘s Deborah Ann Woll joins He Loves Me
- Christopher Lloyd joins Dead Before Dawn
- Ruth Wilson to join Lone Ranger?
Radio
- BBC World Service loses 14m listeners [subscription required]
British TV
- BBC drama output fell by 630 hours in 2010/11
US TV
- Ted Danson joins CSI
- David Gallagher joins The Vampire Diaries
- Mark Valley joins Harry’s Law, Jean Smart to recur
- Matthew McConaughey, Will Ferrell return for Eastbound & Down season 3
- SGU‘s Brian Smith joins Gossip Girl
- Lauren German joins Hawaii Five-0
- The Closer starts with 7.2m viewers
- Alphas starts with 2m viewers
- Curb Your Enthusiasm gets 2.1m viewers
- HBO acquires The Sinking of the Laconia
- Juliette Lewis joins The Firm
Sitting Tennant
Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant (week 26, 2011)
It’s an interesting one again from Sister Chastity this week – look how close she is to Hebbie now! Ooh!
- Hebbie: 165
- Sister Chastity: 160
- Erin C: 80
- Rullsenberg: 55
- Janice: 20
- esgaril: 10
- theriverlady, Toby: 5
Ridiculously, all four contributors last week made me laugh but for very different reasons in each case, so they all got 10 points each. Well done everyone and good luck this week!
- Marie: 170
- Rullsenberg: 130
- Electric Dragon: 95
- SK, Toby: 85
- Lisa G: 45
- Jane Henry: 50
- theriverlady: 35
- Hebbie, Virpi: 20
- Joe B: 15
- whoficwriter: 10
- kallan, Jeri: 5
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.