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Friday’s redhead news

17 July 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Karen Gillan to star in digital drama for teens The Well
New companion to be Scottish and called Amy
David Tennant to play Bilbo Baggins?

Film

Pics of Scarlet Johansson in Iron Man 2
Robert de Niro, Michelle Rodriguez to star in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete?

British TV

Occupation writer developing Morecambe and Wise biopic
LA Muscle TV to launch on Sky
Teletext to shut down in 2010

US TV

NBC acquires Persons Unknown about people imprisoned in a small ghost town
John Goodman to star in The Station
NBC drops The Listener
TNT’s Dark Blue does well

Review: Doctor Who – 121 – Enemy of the Daleks

13 July 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Oh joy. Another Sylvester McCoy story. There’s another one out this month, too.

But wait. Just like the last one, Enemy of the Daleks isn’t bad at all. In fact, it’s pretty good and nips along at a decent pace thanks to writer David Bishop, former editor of 2000AD and writer of several Doctor Who novels.

In it, the Doctor and co land on ‘Bliss’, only to discover it’s anything but. The Daleks are coming yet there are dead bodies already. And an atrocity’s about to happen, but the Doctor’s the one who’s going to cause it.

If I’m not careful, I’m going to start looking forward to Sylvester McCoy plays and that will never do.

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Wednesday’s rejuvenated Caruso news

8 July 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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Torchwood gets nearly 6m viewers

Film

Randall Wallace to rewrite McG’s 20,000 Leagues
Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer to star in MacGyver parody MacGruber?

British TV

Simon Brodkin gets his own BBC3 sketch show pilot
ESPN to launch a new UK sports channel
S4C to do Fferm Ffactor – The Apprentice meets The X-Factor… on a farm

US TV

Clip from missing Dollhouse episode
Trailer for NBC’s Day One
The origins of Lost
CSI: Miami to flashback to 1997

Wednesday’s rejuvenated Caruso news

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Doctor Who

Torchwood gets nearly 6m viewers

Film

Randall Wallace to rewrite McG’s 20,000 Leagues
Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer to star in MacGyver parody MacGruber?

British TV

Simon Brodkin gets his own BBC3 sketch show pilot
ESPN to launch a new UK sports channel
S4C to do Fferm Ffactor – The Apprentice meets The X-Factor… on a farm

US TV

Clip from missing Dollhouse episode
Trailer for NBC’s Day One
The origins of Lost
CSI: Miami to flashback to 1997

Tuesday’s “girls behaving badly” news

7 July 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

David Tennant and Sarah Harding to star in new St Trinian‘s film

Film

Trailer for Megan Fox’s Jennifer’s Body
Virginia Madsen joins Father of Invention
Mandate acquires You Are A Miserable Excuse For A Hero
Blade prequel to focus on Stephen Dorff?
Peter Krause joins Beastly
George Clooney to play Jack Ryan?

British TV

Comedy pilot season at Channel 4
David Suchet, Charles Dance and Richard Coyle to star in Sky1 version of Terry Prachett’s Going Postal

US TV

Lost writer Brian K Vaughan leaves show
Rita Wilson to develop Middlesex for HBO
Jane Lynch leaves Party Down for Glee

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Review: Doctor Who – 121 – Enemy of the Daleks

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