Look away if you haven’t watched it yet: there be spoilers ahead
Heroes
News
Thursday’s Champions-tastic news!
Doctor Who
- John Barrowman’s on tour and helping with an anti-bullying campaign
- David Tennant talks to The Stage about the stage
Film
- Guillermo del Toro to write, direct and produce remake of The Champions!
- Roman Polanski to direct Robert Harris’s The Ghost
- Mike Newell to direct Prince of Persia?
- Josh Lucas to star in Tell-Tale?
- Bruce Greenwood is Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek XI
Web TV
- 4oD to carry 20th Century Fox movies
US TV
- 24 postponed until strike resolved
- More shows shutting down, including Pushing Daisies
- Tim Kring admits season two mistakes with Heroes [spoilers]
- Gina Torres cast in Dirty Sexy Money (subject to strikes)
- Madchen Amick to star in Lifetime pilot
News
Thursday’s “Joss, Eliza and Tim are back” news
Doctor Who
- Doctor Who and David Tennant win big at the National Television Awards. DT threatens to kiss the audience
Film
- Clive Owen and Julia Roberts to star in Tony Gilroy caper pic Duplicity
- A script review of The Brazilian Job
- Alanis Morissette joins cast of Philip K Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth
- Hints about The X-Files 2
- Terry Gilliam re-teams with Heath Ledger for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Macaulay Culkin to star in the next Orange Film Board ad
Books
- JK Rowling completes Harry Potter spin-off for charity
British TV
- ITV1 to relaunch in 2008
- Jimmy McGovern says he was wrong to bring back Cracker
US TV
- Bloody hell! Joss Whedon, Tim Minear and Eliza Dushku get seven-episode commitment from Fox for new sci-fi series Dollhouse. Whedon chats to Ausiello as well
- Molly Shannon to guest on Pushing Daisies
- Heroes: Origins cancelled because of writers’ strike (allegedly)
Wednesday’s ever so spooky news
Pumpkins are optional.
Film
- Gerard Butler not doing Escape from New York after all
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers to be Mandrake
- Toho remaking Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress
- Ridley and Tony Scott developing Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart
- Antonia Banderas setting up an animation house
British TV
- Ricky Gervais enters The Dragons’ Den
- ITV plans comedy about Man City fans
US TV
- NBC developing a spin-off of The Office
- Heroes‘ ratings keep falling
- Gordon Brown being lined up for a role on The Simpsons
- Oxygen doing Coolio reality show
- 20th Century Fox cobbles together two new comedy pilots
- Samantha Who? gets a full season
Thursday’s money-happy news
Doctor Who
- Noel Clarke to direct and star in Kidulthood sequel Adulthood
Film
- Sam Raimi talking about Spiderman 4
- Nicolas Cage to play American Muslim in The Vanished
- Barbarella goes shopping – for a studio
- Shannyn Sossamon as Justice League Wonder Woman?
- Time Cop to be remade
- UK government gives £25m to BFI to preserve archive
British TV
- Beeb buys rights to the second season of The Tudors
- Stewart Lee filming a pilot for BBC2
US TV
- The Sundance Channel buys rights to Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
- CSI boss vows to bring back departing CSI character – maybe because of the planned marching band [spoilers]
- Damon Wayans returns to ABC for family sitcom
- USA orders 10 new episodes of The Starter Wife
- Kristen Bell talks Heroes [spoilers]
- Dharma and Greg crew sue 20th Century Fox