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Doctor Who

Tombo would return – but only with script approval

Film

Ridley Scott will direct Alien prequel
Michael C Hall to star in East Fifth Bliss
Trailer for The Fantastic Mr Fox

Theatre

Avenue Q gets a 2010 extension

British TV

BSkyB gaining subscribers at fastest rate for five years
BSkyB to launch 3D TV channel next year
Breaking The Mould gets 400,000 viewers
Damn. Bravo acquires Deadliest Warrior
Five Days returning to BBC1
Moving On recommissioned

US TV

Details of the Curb Your Enthusiasm Seinfeld reunion [spoilers]
HBO renews True Blood, Entourage and Hung
Joey Lauren Adams joins United States of Tara

Tuesday’s marvellous news

28 July 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

More official confirmation of who’s in the final special [spoilers]
DT willing to return for anniversary special

Film

Spike Jonze acquires Light Boxes
Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall join Ben Affleck in The Town
Alcon buys The Prisoners
Warren Ellis scripting King Arthur
Star Trek 2 and 3 to be two-parter?

Comics

Marvel acquires Marvelman

US TV

Ben Silverman leaving NBC
Jamie Bamber to guest on Dollhouse
A CSI regular will become irregular [spoilers]
Make It or Break It gets 10 more episodes
Without fan outcry, a returning Lost character wouldn’t be returning [spoilers]

Review: The Companion Chronicles 3×11 – The Mahogany Murders

27 July 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

The controversy of over who exactly is a companion takes a new twist with this Companion Chronicle since it features Jago and Litefoot, the intrepid Victorian professor and music hall impresario who helped Tombo in classic fourth Doctor adventure The Talons of Weng Chiang.

That’s right. They never travelled in the TARDIS, and they were only in it for one story. Are they technically companions?

Bah. Who cares?

They were, as it happens, popular enough at the time that a spin-off series was suggested – yes, they were the Captain Jacks of their day – although it never happened. The Mahogany Murders builds on that imagined series of adventures to show us a Jago and Litefoot still solving mysteries together.

In this case, the mysterious case of a life-sized, perfectly formed wooden mannequin that can walk.

Continue reading “Review: The Companion Chronicles 3×11 – The Mahogany Murders”

Ropey Doctor Who End of Time trailer

27 July 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Who wants to see a ropey copy of the trailer for David Tennant’s final adventures as the Doctor that was shown at ComicCon? Spoilers within, of course.

Monday’s post Comic-con news

27 July 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Guinness says Doctor Who most successful sci-fi show ever
Torchwood‘s back for another series
BBC officially confirms return of another character [spoilers]
New trailer for Water of Mars
John Barrowman and David Tennant kiss (not really news but…)

Film

Asimov’s Foundation adaptation has a writer
Trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine
A King Kong prequel?
Batman 3 to shoot in 2010
High-res Tron Legacy trailer
David Cronenberg to direct Cosmopolis
Teaser trailer for Dorian Gray

British TV

Revamped The Bill gets 4.5m viewers
Virgin picks up Chuck for two more series
ITV unveils Autumn schedule

Canadian TV

British shows added to iTunes

US TV

Moon Bloodgood to star opposite Noah Wyle in Spielberg’s alien invasion series
Alexis Denisof and Summer Glau to get roles on Dollhouse, Amy Acker confirmed for three episodes
New, cooler Stargate Universe trailer
Eureka gets a fourth season
Dominic Monaghan confirmed for FlashForward
Dexter season four footage [US only]
Clips from Spartacus
Clip from 24 season 8
Charisma Carpenter joins Legend of the Seeker
Nine minute preview of The Prisoner
A fight scene from Heroes: Redemption (with Ray Park), plus full, full extended trailer

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