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Lis Sladen previews The Sarah Jane Adventures

Film

Five-minute behind the scenes Iron Man 2 video
Friends: the movie to happen at last?
Neve Campbell signs up for Scream 4
Teaser trailer for Nightmare on Elm Street

Theatre

Rory Kinnear, Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben Miles to star in Measure for Measure
Sister Act extends its run
Gemma Arterton, Tamsin Greig and Rupert Friend to star in The Little Dog Laughed

British TV

Landmark crime drama commissioned from Marion and Geoff writer
Sir Crispin Davies to replace Michael Grade as ITV chairman?
Living HD to launch next month
Johnny Vegas to hunt dead puppets for CBBC

US TV

Smallville and Dollhouse ratings down over 40%
V to be broken in two
A&E cancels The Cleaner
Seth Rogen to write and voice a Simpsons episode
FlashForward gets good ratings, CSI‘s drop 44%
CW cancels The Beautiful Life

Wednesday’s “suit, counter-suit” news

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Doctor Who

David Tennant to guest host on Absolute Radio

Film

Stephenie Meyer‘s adult novel The Host acquired
The Rock, Samuel L Jackson and Steve Coogan join The Other Guys
Fast and Furious‘s Justin Lin to direct Highlander remake
Dennis Hopper, Scott Caan, Tricia Helfer and JK Simmons join A Beginner’s Guide to Endings
Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore join Thor
Bryan Singer to direct Jack the Giant Killer

Music

Chas and Dave split up

British TV

ITV sues STV; STV to sue ITV
BBC to boost children’s and BBC2 drama budgets
Top Gear to go HD from November
ITV appoints an acquisitions chief

US TV

Heroes gets disappointing ratings
Campbell Scott and Martin Short to join Damages
Fox working on half-hour medical comedy
Cast changes at Southland
Three Rivers‘ replacement pilot replaced
Heather Locklear to appear on Melrose Place

What’s Carey Mulligan up to now? An Education

21 September 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

You remember Carey Mulligan, don’t you? Sally Sparrow off that nice Blink episode of Doctor Who? The one everyone hoped would be the new companion when Sweet FA buggered off?

Anyway, she’s all poised to be a movie star. Look, here she is in An Education (out soon), with Alfred Molina, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper and Rosamund Pike. She plays a 16-year-old in 1960s England who studies hard so she might get into Oxford, but gets seduced by Peter Sarsgaard. Ew.

Doubly ew, because it’s based on the life of journalist Lynn Barber.

Monday’s Emmy-winning news

21 September 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

John Barrowman talks about meeting Matt Smith

Awards

The results of the Emmys

Film

Fox picks up vigilante angels drama Fallen
Matt Damon to star as Liberace’s lover
Trailer for Michael Caine’s Harry Brown
Disney Studios head Dick Cook stands down

British TV

Reggie Perrin likely to get second series
Launch of ITV1+1 delayed
Star says Demons axed because “it wasn’t good enough“
Brian Cox and Lindsay Duncan to star in The Sinking of the Laconia
Indies to shoulder the burden of

Czech TV

Prima TV to remake Cold Feet

US TV

Desmond Harrington returning to Gossip Girl
Andrew Connolly joins Heroes

Friday’s “unconvincing Vinnie Jones quote” news

18 September 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

The Sarah Jane Adventures to air twice-weekly from October 15th
Girl Number 9 to star Tracy-Ann Oberman and Gareth David-Lloyd

Film

Christopher Plummer, Brad Dourif, and Madchen Amick join Priest
Paul Giamatti and James Purefoy to star in medieval Magnificent Seven, Ironclad
Matt Damon and Clint Eastwood team up for Hereafter
X-Men: First Class to start filming next year?
Trailer for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Scott Glenn joins Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch
Noel Clarke starts shooting 4.3.2.1
Trailer for Jonathan Rhys Meyers’/John Travolta’s From Paris With Love

British TV

STV planning its own 6pm news
Beeb cuts My Family budget, orders two new series
C4 looking for more NI programming
Season three of Gossip Girl to start on ITV2 next month

US TV

The Tudors to be succeeded by The Borgias?
John McNamara to take over as showrunner on In Plain Sight
Penn and Teller to star as ‘Penn and Teller’: magician-detectives for ABC
Vinnie Jones to guest star on Chuck, star in comic book series (not convinced Vinnie came up with the quote in the article…)
Heroes websides and TV show to crossover

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