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Doctor Who

RTD comes down on Stargate
Pipes talks Smith

Film

Emily Blunt to play Black Widow in Iron Man 2?
Gore Verbinski to direct savings swindle drama
Jim Sheridan to direct Black Mass
Paramount developing techno-thriller Daemon
Clips from Push
Johnny Depp working on Fear and Loathing sequel?

British TV

24 gets good ratings

Theatre

National to premiere Alan Bennett, Terry Pratchett and Hanif Kureishi plays in 2009…
…and beam performances into cinemas

US TV

1980s Gossip Girl prequel planned
Idris Elba to appear in six episodes of The Office
James Marsters to appear on Numb3rs
Chevy Chase to guest star on Chuck for three episodes
Watch out Merlin: Tudors to end at season four, to be followed by young Arthur and Merlin in Camelot?
Jericho movie in development
Swingtown cancelled
Jack Bauer to die in movie after season eight?

Review: 24 – 7×1-7×4

14 January 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, Fox
In the UK: Mondays, 9pm, Sky One

Sometimes a year off can be a boon. Like a gap year or backpacking round Europe, it can give you new perspectives and distance on things you used to take for granted.

24‘s been stuck on the TGV of TV for over a year now, its last season cancelled by the writers’ strike, with only an anaemic and turgid TV movie to keep us going since then. But as this four-episode, two-night intro to the new season shows, it’s come back a whole lot more vigorous than when it left and it’s brought a bunch of old friends with it.

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Wednesday’s Bad Nemo news

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Doctor Who

Easter special to be ‘fresh’

Film

Jackie Chan to play Miyagi role in Karate Kid remake?
Samuel L Jackson won’t play Nick Fury in The Avengers?
Angels & Demons to be less dull than Da Vinci Code
Brendan Fraser to join Harrison Ford in medical drama
Will Smith to play Captain Nemo?

Radio

Galton and Simpson scripts being used for Radio 2 show

Theatre

Rob Brydon going on national tour

British TV

BBC3’s Winter/Spring press pack
BBC3 to air more repeats
CNN to launch on Freeview
Sanjeev Kohli working on Asian Cold Feet

US TV

Prison Break cancelled
What’s happening with Fox’s pilots and Fringe
Michael J Fox to play paraplegic on Rescue Me
SOAPnet picks up Being Erica
House producers talk about character juggling [spoilers]
Interview with the Conchords

Things I learned surfing the Internet this evening

13 January 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

Mark Lamarr has not disappeared from the world altogether, but currently hosts a Radio 2 music show on Thursdays.
In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran a feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV. that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection, and went on to state that "most heterosexuals are not at risk" and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
Safety Catch is being turned into a TV show

Tuesday’s reuniting Moonlighting news

13 January 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Torchwood to air in summer simultaneously on BBC1 and BBC America
John Barrowman to write Torchwood comic with his sister

Film

Danny Elfman to score Terminator: Salvation

British TV

Flight of the Conchords‘s Kristen Schaal’s Penelope: Princess of Pets to be turned into Channel 4 pilot
BBC1 director urges Channel 4 and Five to merge

US TV

Two regulars leaving Ugly Betty
Moonlighting reunion film being planned?
First night of 24 does well in ratings
TNT picks up Ray Romano drama
Hilary Duff to star in HBO’s Barely Legal
Clip from Damages season two
18-49 demographic not so appealing any more

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