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Film

Tron Legacy sequel already in the works
Allison Janney and Oliver Platt join The Oranges
John Hurt and Isabel Lucas join War of the Gods, now called Immortals

British TV

BBC iPad app doing well in the US, even if blocked in the UK
Final Frost gets 8m+
Pacific gets 680,000 viewers
FlashForward sets new series low
Ashes to Ashes gets 5.5m

US TV

Monday night ratings
USA’s pilot scripts
BET greenlights Let’s Stay Together
Spartacus beating cable ratings downturn trend
Lauren Bowles joins True Blood
Andrew Lincoln to star in AMC’s The Walking Dead
House gets an iPhone spin-off
A returning Rescue Me character [spoilers]
Lisa Rinna to guest on Community

Tuesday’s actors and sinking ships news

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Doctor Who

An interview with Matt Smith
Bus with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan to tour the UK

Film

Liam Hemsworth joins Arabian Nights
Proper trailer for Tron: Legacy
The Book of Genesis: 3D
Trailer for American: The Bill Hicks Story

Theatre

Laurence Fishburne‘s Riff Raff coming to the Arcola Theatre

British TV

Bravo acquires Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Film4 HD and E4 HD to launch only on Virgin [subscription required]
Men outnumber women two to one on TV
True Blood gets 206k
Benidorm back for fourth series – one ep possibly live

Canadian TV

Canadian viewers prefer really bad sitcoms to drama

US TV

Brittany Snow and 24‘s Sarah Wynter join pilots
Lennie James joins Hung + more
Nick Nolte to join Lucky?
Heroes‘ Sendhil Ramamurthy joins Covert Affairs
Jean Smart joins Hawaii Five-O, Tom Cavanagh joins Edgar Floats
Numb3rs‘ Rob Morrow joins The Whole Truth
Coby Bell joins Burn Notice as a regular [spoilers]
Brothers and Sisters gets a fifth season [spoilers for Lost]
American Idol‘s Katherine McPhee turns down Trauma in favour of Community

Monday’s best and worst actress news

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Doctor Who

David Tennant to do Karate Kids narration
Billie Piper and David Tennant to star in Love On The Murder Mile

Awards

The results of the Oscars
The results of the Razzies – surprising overlap with Oscars

Film

Midnight Run 2 will happen
New Iron Man 2 trailer

Theater

Sleepless in Seattle: the musical

US TV

Scott Foley joins True Blue, plus other pilot casting
Kathy Bates to star in Kindreds?
Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar to star in Franklin & Bash
Worst Week‘s Kyle Bornheimer joins CBS pilot
Fringe gets a third season
The Office, Community and 30 Rock all get another season each
NBC to pick up 24 if Fox doesn’t?
House re-runs to include extra footage

Best Mad Men/Community crossover ever

6 March 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Alison Brie is one of the stars of Community, where she plays Annie. She’s also one of the stars of Mad Men, playing Trudy Campbell. And on Thursday, Community did a shout out to Mad Men with Don Draper hitting on Trudy.

Kind of.

What if Community had a Friends-style title sequence?

3 March 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Community is of course one of the funniest new shows on US TV this season, as you may recall from my third-episode verdict and initial review. Naturally, it’s not been purchased by any UK broadcasters, but that’s another story – you can always try TV Dome instead.

But what about its title sequence? Does this say funny to you?

It’s nice, but funny? No.

You know what had energy and verve? The Friends title sequence, that’s what. So how about if Community had the same title sort of title sequence as Friends? Huh? Huh?

[via]

Much better, huh? BTW, doesn’t Gillian Jacobs who plays Brita on the show have the cutest Twitter avatar in the whole world…

…as well as a strange obsession with old Saturday morning . I follow her just to find out what weird stuff I’ve missed out on…

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