Heroes

Thursday’s potted news

22 February 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Morning has broken. Yey.

Doctor Who

  • Russell T Davies says, “We’d love to have Hugh.”

Film

British TV

  • The National Film and Television Archive is to be opened up to the public for free.

US TV

  • Claudia Black will be guest starring on The Dresden Files.
  • Stewie Griffin and Brian the dog from Family Guy are to become talk-show hosts
  • Video interviews with the stars of Heroes.
  • Jericho star Lennie James fesses up to being British and gives some pretty interesting insights.
  • Nigel Lythgoe’s handling the Emmys this year.
  • There’s a Grey’s Anatomy spin-off in the works.
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.
News

Monday

19 February 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Lighting Flame

Sorry, fell asleep during the headline. Must get more sleep.

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

US TV

Thursday’s post-Valentine’s news

15 February 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Get any heart-shaped chocolates?

Doctor Who

Theatre

Film

British TV

  • Oh no! Still no third season of Extras planned. Instead, a “drama based on an urban conspiracy theory”.

US TV

Love news?

14 February 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Love Valentine’s news.

Doctor Who

Film

  • There’s a look at M Night Shyamalan’s new script, The Green Effect. Wonder if there’s a twist at the end…

US TV

  • UK viewers: Haven’t already seen episode one of Heroes and want to see it now? The UK SciFi Channel is streaming it from its web site for free. You’ll need to register though.
  • The US military would like 24 to cut back on the torture.
  • Kevin Sorbo bitch slaps Sam Raimi over Hercules, Xena et al. Bitter? No…
  • Questions that will be answered in Lost this season (warning: spoilers for other shows):
    • Is Claire Jack’s half sister?
    • How’d Locke end up in a wheelchair?
    • What’s the link between the Others and Dharma?
    • What’s the deal with Jack’s tattoos?
    • What’s so special about Claire’s baby?
  • There are going to be video backstories of Lost‘s big four characters on the ABC.com web site, starting today. You’ll probably already have seen them, though.