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Doctor Who

Freema will return… some day
Specials to have an arc

Film

MacGyver: the movie
Trailer for In the Loop

British TV

Horne & Corden gun sketch pulled
Comic Relief gets 12.8 million viewers…
…causing Moving Wallpaper’s ratings to drop to 1.4m

US TV

Harlan Ellison suing Paramount over Star Trek
Jordana Brewster returning to Chuck [spoilers]
Chevy Chase joins NBC’s Community
Spike’s Blue Mountain gets a series
Richard Dreyfuss joins Jason Biggs in Happiness Isn’t Everything
Lots and lots of pilot casting, including Peep Show‘s Sophie Winkleman in 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne and Paul Campbell in No Heroics
Samantha Who?‘s Jennifer Esposito appearing in Burn Notice
SciFi channel rebranding itself as… SyFy

Monday’s musical Ghost news

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Doctor Who

Smirk. It’s the Torchwood promo poster
David Tennant to appear in Taggart?

Awards

Full results of the Laurence Olivier Awards

Film

Tracy Morgan and Martin Lawrence among those joining Death at a Funeral
Julia Roberts to produce Jesus Henry Christ
Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss to star opposite SJP and Hugh Grant in Did Your Hear About The Morgans?
Nick Nolte and Jennifer Morrison to star in mixed martial arts film Warrior

Theatre

Ghost: The musical
Cynthia Nixon says no to Sex and the City Broadway adaptation
Carrie’s War to become a West End play

British TV

World Productions in danger of closing
Lark Rise to Candleford gets a third series
Playwrights get a BBC sitcom
No third series of Extras ever
Red Riding gets 2.6m viewers
Sky about to upgrade Sky+HD EPG

US TV

More casting on Gossip Girl spin-off
Spooks‘ Rupert Penry-Jones to star in Jerry Bruckheimer pilot, Firefly‘s Morena Baccarin to star in V and other casting, including No Heroics
Burn Notice now hottest cable show
ABC gives pilot order to adaptation of BBC3’s Pulling
Nate Corddry and Molly Parker join Sarah Michelle Gellar pilot
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz joins Melrose Place
CSI to get BSG visitation

Season finale: Burn Notice (season 2.5)

6 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

There’s been a marked “treading water” quality about Burn Notice. On the one hand, Burn Notice is very, very good when it’s dealing with spy stuff; but when it’s all that tedious “person in distress” stuff, it’s really very boring – having all the mystery of whether the nuclear-bomb grade spy skills of Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) really can take out the small tea hut that is the usual criminal-of-the-week.

The spy stuff for the last few seasons has come from the series’ big question: why was Michael fired from his spy job? I don’t know. He doesn’t know. He’s been looking for ages and to stretch that plot out, they’ve been filling up episodes with tedious “person in distress” episodes that make me want to yawn. We’ve even had guest rapper episodes. Not good.

Fortunately, though, we’ve found out the answer to that question. Yes, we’ve found out. Sort of. And it looks like the hatches are being battened down for a third (or is that fourth?) season of mostly spy hijinks. Thank God for that.

Oh, some spoilers ahead, so watch out.

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Doctor Who

Trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth

Film

Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds join The Debt
Timothy Hutton joins Roman Polanski’s The Ghost
All four stars sign up for Sex and the City 2
Sally Hawkins to star in We Want Sex (Equality)

Theatre

Michael Bogdanov’s theatre company to fold after staging Thorn Birds musical
Les Dennis to star in Priestley comedy

British TV

ITV Wales dropping signing on Wales Tonight
Good ratings for Minder
Ian Hart to star in Virgin 1 web drama
Amy Nuttall signs up for Hotel Babylon
BBC Four doing a Japan season in March
Kim Thomson joining Emmerdale
ITV and Shine form a partnership. More series like Demons anyone?

US TV

Hayden (sort of) denies she wants out from Heroes
Life on Mars‘ ratings plummet in new slot
Caprica to premiere on DVD
Joss Whedon’s future plans
The CW picks up Vampire Diaries and Body Politic; CBS picks up The Big D
Eli Stone‘s Loretta Devine joins Legally Mad
Burn Notice‘s Jeffrey Donovan gets a raise
Networks looking for new crime dramas and procedurals like The Mentalist
Krysten Ritter joins Gossip Girl spin-off
How LA is made to look like DC for 24
Cupid now down to seven episodes
Cliffhanger planned for Terminator: TSCC

Friday’s “not very impressive Torchwood trailer” news

6 February 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth

Film

Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds join The Debt
Timothy Hutton joins Roman Polanski’s The Ghost
All four stars sign up for Sex and the City 2
Sally Hawkins to star in We Want Sex (Equality)

Theatre

Michael Bogdanov’s theatre company to fold after staging Thorn Birds musical
Les Dennis to star in Priestley comedy

British TV

ITV Wales dropping signing on Wales Tonight
Good ratings for Minder
Ian Hart to star in Virgin 1 web drama
Amy Nuttall signs up for Hotel Babylon
BBC Four doing a Japan season in March
Kim Thomson joining Emmerdale
ITV and Shine form a partnership. More series like Demons anyone?

US TV

Hayden (sort of) denies she wants out from Heroes
Life on Mars‘ ratings plummet in new slot
Caprica to premiere on DVD
Joss Whedon’s future plans
The CW picks up Vampire Diaries and Body Politic; CBS picks up The Big D
Eli Stone‘s Loretta Devine joins Legally Mad
Burn Notice‘s Jeffrey Donovan gets a raise
Networks looking for new crime dramas and procedurals like The Mentalist
Krysten Ritter joins Gossip Girl spin-off
How LA is made to look like DC for 24
Cupid now down to seven episodes
Cliffhanger planned for Terminator: TSCC

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