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Tuesday’s news

13 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Ooh. No train to catch today. Time for some leisurely news.

Film

  • Talks are on for Constantine 2. Why?
  • Gerard Butler is to be Snake Plissken in an Escape from New York remake. Maybe.
  • Watchmen stuff

Commercials

  • Oh goody. Another Coke Zero ad, this one with Wayne Rooney. Sounds better than the last one, though. [free registration required]

Theatre/Doctor Who

British TV



US TV

  • Which shows are doomed and which shows are coming back next season
  • An interview with Malcolm McDowell about his appearance in Heroes
  • A great big blow-by-blow account of a crucial scene in the next episode of Heroes
  • Spoilers from Kristin, including an unexpected promotion to series regular for one Heroes character next season; some deceased Lost characters are back in flashbacks; plus Ugly Betty stuff.
  • Life on Mars has been pushed back, because they’re having trouble finding a lead.
  • Moves are afoot to cut back on the Law & Order franchises
  • Eliza Dushku comes back to Fox for a soapy drama about nurses
  • Christina Applegate, Jean Smart and Amy Brenneman get pilots. Plus Melanie Griffiths gets a recurring role in Viva Laughlin!
  • So Rob Morrow, Fisher Stevens and Chad Lowe go skiing. And they get lost. It’s not a joke, but it is funny.

Monday morning news

12 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Have a good one?

Doctor Who

  • John Barrowman will be meeting horses this month and signing Torchwood audio books in April
  • Russell T Davies talks to the Telegraph about his work, the fourth series and leaving Doctor Who (maybe), among other things

Film

  • Simpsons and Futurama movie talk from Matt Groening
  • A Captain Marvel film is being written by John August
  • Dougray Scott will co-star in Luc Besson’s adaptation of the HItman video game
  • Casting for the new St Trinian’s movie includes Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Russell Brand

British TV

  • Skins will be back, unfortunately
  • There’s going to be a special Inspector Morse weekend on ITV3, as well as a concert at the Albert Hall, to celebrate the show’s 20th birthday.

US TV

  • Another UK format crosses the Atlantic: BBC3’s “give teenagers a baby to look after” show Baby Borrowers is to become a comedy for NBC.
  • Jenna Elfman does for authors what Tom Cruise did for sportsmen with new Darren Star show Literary Superstar
  • Kristin meets Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes
  • Windows users can watch Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver’s new show, The Riches, online at AOL TV before it airs.
  • Potentially big, Watchmen-esque spoiler for Heroes
  • Oliver Platt joins the cast of the US version of The Thick of It. Plus more casting news
  • Dexter stuff, including second season spoilers

Thank crunchy

9 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who's coming back with a bang

It’s Friday!

Doctor Who

  • David Tennant promotes Red Nose Day sweets

Film

  • Goran Visnjic may be the villain in the next Bond film. Meanwhile, the Daily Express reckons there’s going to be less Craigy nudity next round
  • Sex and the City movie back on?
  • Shooting on Anthony Minghella’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency begins in May
  • Three Men Seeking Monsters might get adapted with John, Doug and Dan Heder
  • Star Trek XI is going to be a ‘re-imagining’, not a prequel
  • 2010 for Toy Story 3
  • Rorschach from The Watchmen hiding in 300 trailer?
  • Jeff Bridges will be Obidiah Stane in the Iron Man movie
  • Eddie Murphy to star in a remake of Fantasy Island?

British TV

  • John Inman has died
  • ‘Allo, ‘Allo is coming back for a one-off special. Allegedly
  • It’s got Sting. It’s got Hywel Bennet. It’s got Daniel Day Lewis. It must be Artemis ’81, out on DVD on April 23rd
  • The Thick of It is out on DVD April 2nd
  • Five’s suspended its premium rate phone numbers, as well

US TV

  • Future events in Jericho discussed
  • A great big article on Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
  • A Prison Break star is in the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off with a former co-waiter
  • So much pilot-casting, including Jeffrey Tambor, Kal Penn, Mia Maestro, Adam Goldberg, Michelle Trachtenberg and Hector Elizondo
  • Kristin talks to Dexter‘s cast and crew
  • Former Heroes stars get pilots
  • Grande Heroes spoilers

The by-jingo it’s early Wednesday news

7 March 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Do you know you have to be at the US embassy at 8am for your i-visa interview? Bah.

Doctor Who

  • Troughton story The Web of Fear gets its first episode aired on BBC4 on Sunday 18th March as part of a London Underground season.

Film

  • Just when you thought there was no way for cinema to get crasser, now come plans to adapt John Milton’s Paradise Lost, getting rid of the dull bits, Adam and Eve being nude, etc.
  • M Night Hasbeen’s new film has been greenlit by Fox

Music

  • As though we cared, The Wurzels reveal who the mystery guest vocalist is on the re-release of “I Am A Cider Drinker” (it’s for charity though)



British TV

  • The DVD of Life on Mars, series two, is out on 16th April. It’ll feature a documentary about the Camberwick Green moment from episode 5.

US TV

  • The Black Donnellys gets okay ratings for its second episode, although others argue it’s a worrying slide.
  • Heroes will be back on April 23rd. Here’s the promo with clips from the next episode.
  • Zach Braff’s sorted himself a good deal to stay with Scrubs
  • An interview with Ronald Moore, exec producer of Battlestar Galactica
  • More pilot casting news. Anyone remember Party of Five?
  • Steve Coogan is to appear in Curb Your Enthusiasm as a psychiatrist
  • Create your own BSG video using SciFi’s BSG videomaker toolkit. You could win a prize
  • He may had jury duty, but he still has spoilers. Michael Ausiello lets us know useful things about Lost. Plus he seems to think a certain thing wasn’t permanent after all on BSG. Was RDM conning us?
  • Kristin talks to the producer of House about what’s to come and what’s past
  • Tim Robbins has a pharma-related drama planned for Showtime
  • Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver’s The Riches is going to premiere online this week

Things I learnt from watching television last week

5 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

24: As long as something exciting happens all the time, I can watch the most mindless drivel.

30 Rock: Manatee. Hee, hee!

Battlestar Galactica: It is possible for Starbuck to be boring.

Heroes: Even people you suspect can’t act will start acting if you give them something to do. “Claire-bear” can reduce a grown man to tears. Sniff.

Jericho: Flashbacks are only interesting if you give a monkey’s about the flasher. If you know what I mean.

Lewis: Occasionally the writers can be funny. Lewis “not a professional Northerner”? Hee hee!

Lost: Oh yes. Lost used to be fun. I remember now.

Primeval: As long as something exciting happens all the time, I can watch the most mindless drivel. Also, the right backing track for a flock of dodos is Kasabian’s “Club Foot”.

The Unit: Eric Haney should be allowed to write episodes, too, not just Lynn Mamet as I suggested last week – another lesson learned. Also, all previous attempts to write realistic war dialogue have been rubbish: if it was authentic, we wouldn’t understand a word of it, as Haney has just proved. I had to watch it twice to work out what was going on.