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Tuesday’s eruptive news

25 September 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

David Tennant and Catherine Tate take Peter Capaldi, Tracey Childs and Phil Davis over to Rome for a week’s filming for the new series [spoilers]

Film

Jessica Biel to be the Justice League‘s Wonder Woman?
The Rock to play either hero or villain in Shazam!
Die Hard director John McTiernan sent to prison for four months for lying to the Feds

British TV

To The Manor Born gets a Christmas reunion

US TV

Michael Shanks to guest star in Eureka
Nana Visitor to guest on Battlestar Galactica
James Garner to play David Boreanaz’s granddad on Bones?
A teaser trailer for the new season of The Wire
NBC orders up an anthology horror series
HBO to make drama based on 2000’s Florida recount

Questions and realisations from television last week: Burn Notice

22 September 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

It’s back, but it’s mutated. “Things I learned from watching television last week”/“Things I learned from television last week”/“Things I learnt from last week’s television” (style guide? What style guide?) has returned – but in a different guise (as promised). After a brief experiment last week, it has now emerged from the pupa of my brain into something hopefully more butterfly-like than the original caterpillars.

Here goes: this week’s question(s) – which I throw open to the floor to answer, whether you’ve seen the show or not – and realisation(s) – for which I also invite comment – come from having watched the rather good finale of Burn Notice on Friday.

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Wednesday’s fighting news

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Brad Pitt and Ed Norton

Doctor Who/Torchwood

Torchwood‘s first episode produces BBC America’s best ever ratings

Film

Edward Norton to reunite with Brad Pitt for State of Play movie
Tron ready to return to the games grid for sequel
Third Elizabeth movie possible
BSG‘s Jamie Bamber to live in a fortress for Pulse sequels
Total Recall to be remade?
Alien v Predator: Requiem may go to the Predator homeworld
Nosferatu coming to DVD with original intertitles

Russian TV

Married with Children remake is a smash hit

British TV

John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman have a fight
Judy Davis, Sir Derek Jacobi and James Purefoy in a mini-series about a murder in a diamond mine
Merlin, pirates and musketeers all battling to replace Doctor Who
Hamster has another crash. But he’s all right this time

US TV

NBC to pick up Fox’s discarded Blue Blood

Friday’s “Hooray! I made it to the end of Big Brother this year without watching a single episode?” news

31 August 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

What can it all mean? No more Who? No more tenth Doctor? An October start for series five? Whichever one it is, David Tennant is going to be playing Hamlet and Berowne from July 24th until November 15th 2008

Film

Danny Boyle to direct Slumdog Millionaire
Ridley Scott says sci-fi is dead
Paul Haggis combining Fleming and Le Carré for next Bond film
Star Trek finds its new Chekov

British TV

Reece Shearsmith to star in ITV1 hotel comedy drama this Christmas
Vernon Kay to appear in final Extras
Ugly Betty to return in October?
Millionaire spin-off planned

US TV

Jeffrey Nordling and John Billingsley join the cast of 24
TNT greenlights the new Smith?
ABC orders script about the most powerful woman in New York
John Dahl to direct a Battlestar Galactica
Sony signs up Brit talent

Wednesday’s cameo-heavy news

29 August 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Relationships will ‘develop’ in Torchwood [spoilers]

Film

The Rock to star in Witch Mountain!
Zack Snyder to direct The Illustrated Man remake
Withnail and I back in cinemas next month

British TV

The Famous Five grow up
Chris Morris and Peep Show writers join forces [free registration required]
NBC buys up the international Hallmark channels [free registration required]
Kim Cattrall wants to be on The Catherine Tate Show?
No more Cape Wrath/Meadowlands

US TV

Former Supergirl Helen Slater to play Superman’s real mom in Smallville
James Van Der Beek to appear in Ugly Betty
Heather Locklear to guest on Rules of Engagement
Jason Alexander to guest on The New Adventures of Old Christine
Gordon Ramsay comments on that lawsuit
Ted Danson talks about Damages and needing an acting coach
No Kevin Smith for BSG after all
Heroes mockumentary viral goes online

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Tuesday’s eruptive news

Questions and realisations from television last week: Burn Notice

Wednesday’s fighting news

Friday’s “Hooray! I made it to the end of Big Brother this year without watching a single episode?” news

Wednesday’s cameo-heavy news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

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