You’re a BBC reporter. You’re stopping people in the street, asking them for their opinions on the topic of the day. Of course you weren’t expecting Henry Winkler to be one of those people…
An extended Doctor Who Christmas special trailer
Those nice people at BBC America have put together a much longer trailer for Time of the Doctor, which charitably they’ve made accessible to viewers around the world and which charitably I’ve embedded below. What do you think? Not sure we’ve yet seen anything ‘killer’ about the episode, but spoilers, sweetie, and all that.
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Josh Gad’s Gilligan’s Island, a new Miranda Hart comedy drama and Sundance joins the NRA
Film
- Josh Gad to co-write and star in Gilligan’s Island remake
Film casting
- Paul Rudd to play Ant-Man?
- Daniel Wu and Clancy Brown join Warcraft
- Ricky Gervais to return for Night at the Museum 3
Trailers
- Trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
UK TV
- Hinterland/Y Gwyll to air on BBC Wales in both Welsh and English
New UK TV show casting
- Miranda Hart to star in adaptation of Kathy Lette’s To Love, Honour and Betray
- Hermione Norris et al join BBC1’s In The Club
US TV
US TV show casting
- Fred Armisen to return to Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Paul Sorvino to guest on Elementary
New US TV shows
- TBS green lights: Jake & Amir
- Sundance developing: NRA drama Cold Dead Hands
New US TV show casting
- Marcia Cross to star in Fox’s Fatrick
- Michael Rapaport to co-star in TNT’s Public Morals
The Wednesday Christmas Play: A Warning To The Curious (1972)
You’ve seen it recreated with PlayMobil figures, but with Christmas fast approaching, it’s time for the real thing: the BBC adaptation of MR James’ classic ghost story, A Warning To The Curious. Airing in 1972, it was the second of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas and was adapted by the marvellous Lawrence Gordon Clark. In it, Peter Vaughan is an amateur archaeologist looking for a particularly important English treasure. Unfortunately for him, he finds it and discovers it has a guardian…
With its marvellous atmosphere and stark seaside location, I think it’s the best of all the MR James adaptations that the BBC did and you can watch it below, you lucky people*. Enjoy!
* There is, apparently, a minor edit in this version. For the full version, there’s the marvellous BFI DVD, which includes Robert Hardy in The Stalls of Barchester.
Sir Ian McKellen gatecrashes a Hobbit screening
Bet they didn’t check his ticket.