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Film

Mission Impossible 4?
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in 500 Days of Summer

British TV

New series of Lead Balloon commissioned
No more Davina for BB?
Beeb drops Out of the Blue after six episodes [free registration required]

US TV

Bruce Boxleitner to appear in Heroes
Private Eye spin-off from House planned?
Knight Rider TV series will be different from the TV movie
Breaking Bad gets a second season
Stephen Root to play lonely vampie in HBO’s True Blood
Gossip Girl to get extended second season

Phil and Grant Kung Fu fighting

7 May 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

It’s odd, I warn you. It’s Phil and Grant Mitchell from EastEnders dancing (and stripping) to "Kung Fu fighting". At least they can have a laugh, hey?

Wednesday’s “Awright, Little Dorrit?” news

7 May 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Little Dorrit to feature Freema Agyeman as well as Gavin & Stacey‘s Ruth Jones
Daleks get their own street sign

Film

Common joins Terminator 4
Ellen Page to play Jane Eyre

British TV

ITV HD to launch soon
BBC commissions Chris Langham-inspired drama
Stewart Lee finally gets his own BBC2 show
Meera Syal‘s new sitcom

US TV

Men in Trees cancelled
Casting for Caprica and Warehouse 13
Katee Sackhoff turned down as Jorja Fox’s CSI replacement
David Kelley may be leaving Life on Mars as it nears pick-up
Ugly Betty hires Lindsay Lohan and may move to New York

Joanna Page on Love Soup

6 May 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

You know, if Joanna Page is going to appear in Love Soup, as she did on Saturday, they really should tell people before it’s on.

Oh well. It’s still available on the iPlayer though… [via]

Review: Doctor Who – 4×5 – The Poison Sky

6 May 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Ah. Now that’s better. Finally, a decent two-parter and – miraculous though it might seem – one written by Helen Raynor at that.

After last week’s poorly paced but still reasonably good first part, I was expecting a lump of old rubbish for the second part, since that’s how it usually pans out. But hurroo, hurray, bar the occasional bit of dodgy dialogue, direction and acting, it was good.

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