Heroes

Thursday’s “I have a cold” news

26 April 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

  • 101 things you didn’t know (or care?) about Doctor Who

Film

Radio/British TV

  • Normally it goes the other way: Radio 4 is making a show based on BBC2’s QI [free registration required]

US TV

Wednesday’s news

25 April 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film/Books

  • Julia Stiles to star in a Sylvia Plath adaptation. And I really mean adaptation. Says an exec, “We don’t want to do a depressing descent into the world of suicide”. Hmm…

US TV

Monday morning news

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Doctor Who

  • Ratings for Smith and Jones were 8.2 million, peaking at 9.11 million
  • John Barrowman questioned about ‘fattie’ comments
  • David Tennant’s Doctor models himself on Jamie Oliver

Commercials

  • The official solution to that Virgin 74 bands puzzle

Film

  • First pics from Iron Man
  • Tarantino frightens cast with knowledge of their rubbish movies
  • A Dylan Thomas movie is on the way
  • The official site for Nicholas Cage’s Philip K Dick movie, Next, is up
  • Test-screening details of The Simpsons
  • Sigourney Weaver talks about Avatar
  • Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp may be in the sequel to Sin City
  • Luke Goss joins the cast of Hellboy 2
  • Two Transformers TV trailers

British TV

  • Living TV has the rights to Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer‘s second seasons

US TV

  • A promo for the next episode of Heroes
  • James Doohan has been fired into space
  • Sydney Pollack is directing a movie for HBO about the 2000 Florida recount
  • An interview with Dennis Haysbert about The Unit
  • The Sopranos in seven minutes

Thursday’s working from home news

29 March 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Sophia Myles likes David Tennant to dress up as the Doctor for?��Ǩ�� you know. Allegedly
  • A Metro interview with RTD
  • Freema talks about Daleks
  • The Doctor is the coolest

Commercials

  • The Trident gum ads have been banned for being racist [free registration required]

Film

  • The first Bourne Ultimatum trailer is up and at ’em
  • Andy Serkis (you may remember him as Gollum but he was great in kids’ bicycle courier drama Streetwise back in the 80s) is to star in The Cottage with Reece Shearsmith and Jennifer Ellison
  • Spoilers for Die Hard 4.0

British TV

  • Pat goes postal in the US
  • Now we’re adapting Italian formats
  • Sky has recommissioned Cirque de Soleil. Why? Oh. Ruby Wax won’t be in it this time [free registration required]



US TV

  • Standoff hasn’t been cancelled, honest. It just looks like it
  • USA Networks has some character-driven pilots. It’s their thing. They also have a few new character-driven series starting soon.
  • Mr Linderman in Heroes has a secret (spoiler alert)
  • Stuff about the Stargate movies
News

Tuesday’s news

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Radio Times covers

Doctor Who

Books/Comics

  • Neil Gaiman’s doing a book-signing at Forbidden Planet on Friday

Film

  • The original Transformers movie gets a re-release in London
  • Michael Biehn might have a part in James Cameron’s Avatar. QFS.

British TV

  • Philip Glenister from Life on Mars slags off British TV [free registration required]

US TV

  • Lots of BSG interviews. Looks like Caprica’s off, though
  • Piper Perabo is going to be House‘s love interest. Maybe.
  • More pilot casting, with The Thick of It getting a lead at last
  • The usual spoilers from Kristen this week, including a forthcoming Lost fatality, Prison Break fatalities, and a Heroes fatality