A fun game in which Zachary Quinto and Billy Eichner run around New York, trying to find people who care that the man who plays Spock in the Star Trek movies is right there in front of them.
Friday’s “Roseanne’s Nuts, Superman Unbound and The Americans starts well” news
Film casting
- Julia Stiles to play Frances Marion in The First
- Jeremy Renner to star in Kill The Messenger
- Mark Duplass joins Mercy and Parkland
- Frank Langella joins Reykjavik
Trailers
- Trailer for World War Z, with Brad Pitt
- Trailer for Somebody Up There Likes Me, with Nick Offerman
- Trailer for Superman Unbound
UK TV
- SyFy acquires Defiance
- S4C to adapt Theatr Genedlaethol dramas
- Wednesday ratings: 1.4m watch Derek
US TV
- Hulu acquires more Prisoners of War
- Wednesday ratings: comedies hit series lows
- Wednesday cable ratings: The Americans gets 3.22m viewers
US TV casting
- Roseanne Barr to recur on The Office
- Michaela McManus and David Cassidy to guest on CSI
- Lily Rabe for American Horror Story – season 3
New US TV shows
- Lifetime greenlights: Witches of East End
- ABC greenlights: Syndicate adaptation Lucky 7
- Teaser for A&E’s Bates Motel
- Roseanne Barr developing Roseanne’s Nuts for NBC
- Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner developing All Dressed Up and Everywhere To Go for HBO
New US TV casting
- Ellen Muth to guest on Hannibal
New US TV show casting
- John Goodman to star in Amazon’s Alpha House
- Brenda Song to star in Fox’s Seth MacFarlane comedy
Thursday’s “Duncan Jones’ World of Warcraft, a final season for HIMYM and an ABC Sharon Horgan show” news
Film
- Duncan Jones to direct World of Warcraft
Film casting
- Jessica Chastain joins Miss Julie
- Tom Welling joins Parkland
- Sam Worthington to star in Phillip Noyce’s For The Dogs
Trailers
Theatre
- National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations
UK TV
- Two Christmas Mrs Brown’s Boys
- S4C funding agreed
US TV
- ABC acquires CTV’s Motive
- A whole load of mini-series for ReelzChannel
- How I Met Your Mother gets ninth, final season
- Tuesday ratings: Fox up, NBC way down
US TV casting
- Gerald McRaney to recur on Southland [minor spoilers]
- Melinda Clarke to guest on Vegas [spoilers]
- Kate Micucci to recur on The Big Bang Theory
- Michael Urie to guest on Hot In Cleveland
New US TV shows
- ABC greenlights: Middle Age Rage, Crazy Gene and Sharon Horgan’s Bad Management
- Fox greenlights: Gang Related and Graham Yost’s Wild Blue
New US TV show casting
- TJ Miller and Thomas Middleditch cast in Silicon Valley
- Merlin‘s Katie McGrath joins Dracula
- Vincent Laresca to recur on Graceland
Homeland: the RPG
Time for another one of those College Humor TV-series-as-old-video-game spoofs. This time, it’s the turn of Homeland, season 1, to be mocked.
Wednesday’s “First Doctor Who cast, Entourage: the movie, The X-Files continues and more Banshee and Shameless” news
Doctor Who
- David Bradley to play William Hartnell in anniversary special
Film
- Entourage movie gets the go-ahead
Film casting
- Bradley Cooper to star in The Man From Primrose Lane
- Eva Green and Julia Garner join Sin City 2
Trailers
- Clip from The Dark Knight Returns – Part 2
Comics
- The X-Files to continue in comics
Theater
- Aaron Sorkin leaves Houdini musical
French TV
- Canal+ acquires Hunted, Arte acquires The Hour, TF6 acquires Real Humans
International TV
- Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to write Barbarella TV series
UK TV
- Ripper Street gets a second series
- Channel 4 making Irish ex-pat comedy London Irish
- No more Mrs Brown’s Boys until 2014?
US TV
- House of Lies, Shameless and Californication get renewed
- Banshee gets a second season
- Monday’s ratings: The Following up, Bones hits season high
- Monday’s cable ratings: Dallas returns to series low
US TV casting
- Scott Wolf joins Perception
- Mark Hamill to guest on The Neighbors
New US TV shows
- Fox greenlights: multiple time zone comedy Brenda Forever
- ABC greenlights: thriller Reckless, Ryan Reynolds’ PI dramedy Murder In Manhattan, drama Gothica and Big Thunder, based on the rollercoaster ride
- NBC greenlights: Alice in Wonderland sequel
- Starz developing ballet drama
New US TV show casting
- John Schneider cast in OWN’s The Haves and The Have Nots, plus casting on Love Thy Neighbor