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Wednesday morning news

14 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Comics

  • Captain America not dead, as predicted?

Film

  • Hayley Atwell is the new Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
  • John Waters is making a kids’ film
  • The inevitable (and partially justified) nitpicks of 300 by historians begins

    There’s going to be a Transporter 3

British TV

US TV

  • Interviews with the Heroes cast by Kristin
  • Bravo has bought Television Without Pity
  • Dr Evil aka Viacom has finally sued YouTube/Google for $1 billion
  • Michael Shanks is guest starring on 24
  • Lost, Scrubs, Smallville and CSI: Miami spoilers on Ask Ausiello

Monday’s March news

5 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Video footage of the possible last scene for John Barrowman in the next series of Doctor Who. No sound to spoil things
  • David Tennant’s video diary is on YouTube, now the Beeb has done a deal with Google

Film

Art



British TV

  • Neil Gaiman gets bewildered by the UK release of Neverwhere

US TV

  • Sort of spoilers for Tuesday’s House. And for The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. Yey?
  • Chris Showerman (what did his ancestors do?) has been cast as Flash Gordon
  • Spoilers for Heroes. And more spoilers. And more!
  • Sarah Connor Chronicles talk. Yes, Summer Glau is an evil female terminator
  • Joss Whedon talks about Buffy, Firefly, Wonder Woman and the Buffiverse movies that never happened
  • How Lost got a VW camper van onto the island
  • Spoilers for BSG
  • Pamela Anderson has a new TV show in the works
  • Amber Tamblyn is to star in the disturbing Babylon Fields pilot
  • 24 spoilers

Guess who’s back Wednesday news

28 February 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

  • No need to lock up your daughters from the 31st March. They’ll be staying in voluntarily to watch David Tennant in the new series of Doctor Who…

Film

  • There’s a video game based on The Golden Compass coming out this year.
  • Another film that didn’t need one gets a remake. This time it’s Cronenberg’s Scanners.

Theatre

British TV

US TV

  • The Black Donellys‘ ratings weren’t very good. Begorra.
  • Freddie Prinze Jr has another show. Wisely, his name isn’t in the title.
  • Lucy Liu’s coming back to tele for Cashmere Mafia
  • Las Vegas will be back for a fifth season, but without James Caan or Nikki Cox
  • Jack McBrayer (Kenneth the page in 30 Rock) only gets recognised by pages.
  • Lots of spoilers over on Ausiello as usual. Most notable that I can talk about here are Goran Visnjic not renewing his ER contract, a new female character is coming to Lost, and one of Close to Home, The Unit and Jericho is to get cancelled. Also, interesting stuff about Heroes, House and 24.
News

Monday morning o’news

26 February 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Tennant, Barrowman and Agyeman outside the Millennium Centre in Cardiff

Top O’The Morning to you, future Black Donnelly viewers. Begorra.

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • Virgin Media has acquired the on-demand rights to Lost‘s first three seasons. Episodes from season three start in August.
  • Two Primeval stars have shacked up together.

US TV

  • Kiefer Sutherland is bemused that the US army would be influenced by 24
  • Missi Pyle’s a regular on new series Wedding Bells
  • Christopher Guest is to direct the pilot for the US version of The Thick of It
  • The SciFi Channel and Richard Branson unite to fight crime together. Or to make money.
  • Back from the dead, Six Degrees returns on March 23rd
  • Alyssa Milano has a new pilot with Mary Steenburgen.
  • An interview with an ex-Hero
  • Jericho‘s back but its ratings aren’t so hot now it’s up against American Idol
  • Sylar from Heroes (aka Zachary Quinto) talks to Kristin
News

Wednesday’s news and catching up

21 February 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Hugh Grant in The Curse of Fatal Death

Doctor Who

  • Hugh Grant is in talks to appear as a baddie. Plus he claims he could have been the Doctor, too.

Film

  • Lots of Transformers pics.

Theatre

British TV

  • Marco Pierre White comes out of retirement to replace Gordon Ramsay in Hell’s Kitchen. You should read what Gordon has to say about him in his biography. [free registration required]
  • Actors appearing in the new Blake’s 7 audio plays will get royalties [subscription required].
  • Heroes gives the SciFi channel its best ratings ever. That’s a 4.4% share or less than half a mill, by the way.
  • Big Brother partworks? De Agostini may be after Endemol.

US TV

  • I previewed it a very long time ago, but The Black Donnellys is nearly here now and you can see that first episode (yes, you, too, UK viewers) for free over on Yahoo! TV.
  • George Takei strikes back against homophobic basketball players in a slightly unexpected way.
  • Pioneering new levels of tastelessness in reality TV, Spike now wants amateur detectives to solve real-life murder cases in just 48 hours. But it’s for charity, so that’s all right then, isn’t it?
  • The last (?) episode of Studio 60 gets really bad ratings.
  • Ausiello talks to David Eick about Battlestar Galactica and reveals that the movie now has the green light, spoilers about the last four episodes of the season and spoilers about the next season.
  • Also from Ausiello: Nancy Cartwright (aka Bart Simpson) will be appearing in 24 and lots of Lost spoilers.
  • Jewel Staite from Firefly is joining Stargate: Atlantis, as are Stargate regulars Amanda Tapping, as we know, and Christopher Judge (although only for one episode). Torri Higginson (Dr Weir) has been demoted to recurring character status. Plus thoughts from exec producer Joseph Mallozzi. Looks, judging from the comments, like fans aren’t happy about any of it…
  • Heroes spoilers over on Kristin’s E! blog
  • Pilots, pilots, pilots. Notably Linus Roache is in a pilot with Juliana Margulies and Beau Bridges is a comedy bigamist.