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Film casting

Abigail Breslin joins Maggie
Titus Welliver joins Transformers 4
Andrew Garfield to star in 99 Homes

Trailers

Trailer for 47 Ronin with Keanu Reeves
Trailer for A Single Shot with Sam Rockwell
New trailer for Jobs with Ashton Kutcher

UK TV

Knightmare to return on YouTube for Geek Week
Tuesday ratings: Luther gets 4.83m

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Comedy Central’s Big Bad World

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Henry Winkler and Heidi Klum to guest on Parks and Recreation
Michael Eklund to recur on Bates Motel
Nicole Ari Parker to recur on Revolution
Lauren Stamile to guest on The Mentalist
Freddie Prinze Jr to recur on Bones

New US TV shows

Trailer for CBS’s The Millers
ABC developing: Sarah Watson/Jason Katims romcom

New US TV show casting

Cary Elwes to star in USA’s Horizon, Jordan Hayes joins SyFy’s Helix
Daniella Alonso joins NBC’s Night Shift
Roger Cross joins FX’s The Strain
Luke Roberts and Katie Boland join The CW’s Reign

Wednesday’s “John Travolta/Kirstie Alley reunion, Sean Maguire is Robin Hood and more Maron” news

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Film casting

Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey and Victor Ortiz join The Expendables 3
Christopher Walken joins Jersey Boys
Jessica Alba joins Stretch
Topher Grace joins Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
Rosemarie DeWitt to star in Poltergeist remake
Danny McBride joins new Cameron Crowe movie

Canadian TV

Ratings for week of July 8

US TV

IFC renews: Maron
Trailer for season 3 of Once Upon A Time
Trailer for season 3 of Hell On Wheels [US only]
Monday ratings

US TV casting

Michael Vartan, Rebecca Creskoff and Kenny Johnson join Bates Motel
Michelle Forbes to recur on Chicago Fire, Leslie Odom Jr to recur on Person of Interest
David Anders to guest on Criminal Minds
Sean Maguire to replace Tom Ellis on Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

ABC developing: The Assets…
…and Shonda Rhimes’s legal drama
WEtv green lights: The Divide

New US TV show casting

John Travolta to guest on TV Land’s Kirstie
Terrence Howard to co-star in Fox’s Wayward Pines, Adriana Barraza to co-star on FX’s Saint George
Taylor Handley and Mark Femiglietti join USA’s Horizon

Charley says: here’s the best way to end it all

23 July 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Most public information films from the 1970s were designed to scare you to death in order to prevent you from doing something the government thought silly. However, this week’s ‘Charley says’ focuses on a relatively unique public information film – one that recommended the best way to kill yourself.

Let the lovely Michael Palin talk you through the worst ways of ending it all, before revealing the one that’s largely guaranteed to work – it probably won’t be the one you were thinking of.

A clip from Marvel’s Iron Man 3 bonus movie Agent Carter with Hayley Atwell

23 July 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

For a while now, Marvel has been including on their DVDs and Blu-rays short movies featuring support characters from their various franchises. Think of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Thor’s Hammer and Item 47, for example. The next one heading our way is Agent Carter, starring Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter from Captain America: The First Avenger, which is set to feature Bradley Whitford, Shane Black and a few surprises.

Now, if you wanted to watch it, you could wait for Iron Man 3 to come out. Alternatively, you could watch this clip below.

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Tuesday’s “12 Monkeys TV show, Fight Club sequel, The Professionals movie and Russian Hot in Cleveland” news

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Doctor Who

A returning enemy for the 50th anniversary special [spoilers]

Comics

Fight Club sequel to be a graphic novel

Film

The Professionals to be adapted
New writers for Star Trek 3

Film casting

Sacha Baron Cohen leaves Freddie Mercury biopic

International TV

Russia’s Channel 1 adapting Hot in Cleveland

UK TV

Channel 4 acquires: Showtime’s Masters of Sex
Channel 4 red lights: Bad Sugar
E4 renews: The Midnight Beast

New UK TV show casting

Sarah Hadland et al join Comedy Central’s Mummy’s Boys

US TV

ABC Family cancels: Bunheads
BBC America to co-produce Atlantis
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Felicia Day returning to Supernatural
Stephen Collins to join Revolution
Kris Humphries to guest on The Mindy Project
David Denman to recur on Parenthood

New US TV shows

Trailer for TNT’s The Last Ship
New trailer for NBC’s Dracula
SyFy developing: 12 Monkeys adaptation…
…and post-apocalyptic Wizard of Oz
The Kingkiller Chronicle to be adapted for TV

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The Medium is Not Enough

Reviewing the best and worst media from around the world for 17 years

Thursday’s”Knightmare returns, the 47 Ronin trailer, and Cary Elwes to star in Horizon” news

Wednesday’s “John Travolta/Kirstie Alley reunion, Sean Maguire is Robin Hood and more Maron” news

Charley says: here’s the best way to end it all

A clip from Marvel’s Iron Man 3 bonus movie Agent Carter with Hayley Atwell

Tuesday’s “12 Monkeys TV show, Fight Club sequel, The Professionals movie and Russian Hot in Cleveland” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

Life and Beth and Night Sky

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Essex Serpent