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Film

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British TV

  • Mark Williams and Ayesha Dharker join Sanjeev Bhaskar in The Indian Doctor
  • Channel 4 to subtitle all programmes from 2011 [subscription required]
  • Channel 4 picks up Pillars of the Earth [subscription required]
  • FX acquires The Walking Dead [subscription required]
  • ITV Player coming to smartphones and PlayStation 3?
  • Freeview HD available to 50% of the UK

US TV

News

Life Unexpected/Being Erica season 3/UK version update

15 April 2010 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Liz Tigelaar, the creator/show-runner of Life Unexpected, gives an interview over here in which as well as confirming the low budget of the show, she explains:

  • Alex Breckenridge was supposed to be in the final episode but actually did get sick so couldn’t fly up from Los Angeles for filming
  • If the budget were bigger, Breckenridge would be a series regular
  • Most of the problems with the supporting cast getting swapped out have been due to actor availability as well as budget.

However, it looks like today is Being Erica news day today. Tigelaar drops a strong hint that season three of Being Erica is a go since Erin Karpluk will only be available for the second half of season two of Life Unexpected at most because of filming conflicts (if there is a season two, of course). We’ll know the answer by the end of the week, apparently.

Meanwhile, Big Talk Productions is planning a UK remake of the show, swapping the title character’s therapist for an NHS worker and relocating the action from Toronto to Glasgow. What do you think? Good idea or just show the original on a better network than E4 and with more publicity?

UPDATE: TV.com has more information on the British remake. You don’t think they were cribbing from here, do you?

US TV

Season finale: Life Unexpected

14 April 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Life Unexpected

So, 13 episodes gone already. My, how time flies. An unexpectedly edgy show for the network that gave us Privileged, Gossip Girl, America’s Next Top Model, 90210 and Melrose Place, Life Unexpected has seen foster child Lux locate her birth parents in an attempt to get emancipated, only to be thrown into their care instead – thrusting radio show host Cate and bar-owning Baze into the scary world of parenting a 16-year-old daughter.

It’s not been picked up for a second season yet or by a UK network, but just in case it does, let’s talk about whether the first season was worth sitting through and whether a second season is going to be a much-watch.

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