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News

I keep hearing the sound of drums. Is that bad?

Doctor Who

James Marsters (Spike in Buffy) is currently filming in Cardiff for Torchwood

Film

Neil Gaiman’s Interworld has been optioned by Dreamworks Animation
Aardman’s working on four films, including one by the Life on Mars writers and one by Peter Baynham
Ridley Scott directs a movie based on Monopoly????
Price cuts strike: The $40,000 Man is coming
Russell Mulcahy to direct a Scorpion King movie
Batman’s Batbike is unveiled. Plus some Dark Knight rumours

British TV

Bernard Manning has died
Beeb says it’s not impartial [free registration required]
Interview with Olivia Colman of Peep Show et al
Baby Cow is making an online sitcom

US TV

NBC wants to do something with Jon Stewart
Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia reveals his deep man love for 24
Oh crap. We couldn’t stop it getting made, now a second season of My Friends Tigger & Pooh is on the way

Monday’s back to work again then news

18 June 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Pimp your hotel the Torchwood way
The FT launches a save Freema campaign (bottom story)
John Barrowman auditioned to be 007 once

Film

Clips and stuff from Transformers
Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach in Watchmen?

Theatre

Mickey Rooney does panto

British TV

The UK wins 14 awards at the 47th Monte Carlo TV Festival
Porridge censored?
The Thick of It is back next month
Afterlife has been axed

US TV

Nick D’Agosto lands a role in Heroes
If it weren’t for the movie, Jack Bauer might have died at the end of 24
Do we really need to search for the next Elvira?
Robot Chicken and Family Guy compare notes on Star Wars parodies
Hustle‘s Jaime Murray joins the cast of Dexter

Wednesday’s kick-arse news

13 June 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

John Barrowman does the Torchwood promo tour for Australia

Film

Clips from the new Nancy Drew movie. Or maybe you preferred the Hardy boys?
Samuel L Jackson plots The Long Kiss Goodnight 2
The Big Chill‘s ready for a remake apparently

Media journalism

Tony Blair slags off the media [free registration required]

British TV

Katie off The Apprentice has been fired for real
Gordon Ramsay crashes his car while herding buffalo for The F-Word
Toyah Willcox and Cheri Lunghi join Pipes for Belle de Jour [free registration required]
Steven Moffat is working on a new rom com for the Beeb
SciFi acquires the new Flash Gordon series [free registration required]

US TV

Stargate SG-1 may never end
CSI exec mulls over hiring Two and a Half Men writers, plans a trip to San Francisco and thinks seriously about London
The UK’s Ladette to Lady becomes Lady or a Tramp, with Donald Trump keeping a watchful eye on party girls. Hmm
Spoilers for 24, Supernatural, and House in the Ausiello Report, as well as the not unexpected news that if Supergirl’s popular in Smallville, she’ll get her own show

Anyone else watching 24 – Day Zero, the highly amusing Flash prequel to everyone’s favourite preposterous Fox thriller? It’s worth tuning into an episode just to see the slightly rubbish looking animation. But it also does a relatively good job of recreating the feel of 24 in a short amount of time; they even got Kiefer Sutherland to voice Jack. It’s also filling in various gaps about how Nina and Jack got together before Day One.

I feel a little shortchanged they couldn’t get Sarah Clarke and Xander Berkeley to voice Nina Myers and George Mason, but I imagine that all that deodorant advertising sponsorship money can only stretch to one of the original actors.

Give it a whirl if you need to divert your attention for a while.

Wednesday’s perfectly acceptable news

6 June 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

Christopher Eccleston talks a bit about Doctor Who, his potential return to Heroes and The Dark is Rising

Film

Oh sweet merciful… Thundercats: the live action movie
WB acquires rights to Terry Brooks’ The Shannara series. Any good are they?
A fight long coming: Clive Owen v Paul Giamatti in Shoot ‘Em Up
Adam and Eve: the rom-com

Commercials

Heineken is back [free registration required, I think]

British TV

Simon Amstell is developing a sitcom based on his own life
Sky One nabs the rights to Prison Break from Five

US TV

All those nuts paid off: looks like Jericho‘s coming back for another eight episodes and maybe more
The Wire has started filming at the Washington Post
Trenton, Michigan celebrates 24‘s “Mary Lynn Rajskub day”
Them may live
Peter O’Toole is to play Pope Paul III in The Tudors

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Tuesday’s news blast

Monday’s back to work again then news

Wednesday’s kick-arse news

24 – Day zero

Wednesday’s perfectly acceptable news

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

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Essex Serpent