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Great big spoilers from Rusty plus hints at another special Who project this year [spoilers]

Film

Alyssa Milano to star in and produce My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend

Books

JD Salinger sues over ‘sequel’ to The Catcher in the Rye

British TV

House gets 700,000 on its Sky1 debut
Jeremy Dyson to adapt Jonathan Coe’s What A Carve Up! for C4
Press pack for Hotel Babylon series four

US TV

Zac Levy talks Chuck season three [spoilers]

Monday’s maneater news

1 June 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

New trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth
Gareth David-Lloyd to direct student play

Film

Trailer for New Moon
Danny McBride to play supervillain’s henchman in Hench…
…and will be joined by Natalie Portman in Your Highness
Lucy Punch replaces Nicole Kidman on Woody Allen movie
Alien remake to be a prequel
Toy Story 3 teaser trailer
Die Hard prequel comic planned

Theatre

June Brown and Jerry Hall join Calendar Girls

British TV

BSkyB bidding £160m to buy Virgin Media’s TV channels?
Pam Ferris to play Smithy’s mum on Gavin & Stacey
Sarah Beeny has a new show
David Suchet filming four new Poirot episodes

US TV

How Pushing Daisies was supposed to end [spoilers]
Chuck to have webisodes over summer [spoilers]
Mykelti Williamson to run CTU on 24
Sarah Chalke’s Maneater could become a series

New Doctor Who companion: Karen Gillan

29 May 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

Just in case y’all want to chat about her, since she’s going to be Matt Smith’s companion on Doctor Who.

Writer and executive producer Steven Moffat said they saw some “amazing actresses” but Gillan “walked through the door the game was up”.

He described her as “funny, and clever, and gorgeous, and sexy”.

“A generation of little girls will want to be her. And a generation of little boys will want them to be her too,” he added.

UPDATE: Full companion picture

Friday’s purge all foreigners news

29 May 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

David Tennant’s Hamlet coming to BBC2

Film

Paul Verhoeven to develop and direct The Surrogate
Chevy Chase joins Hot Tub Time Machine
Warner Bros picks up Trans Am
Alan Cumming to play the villain in Escape to Donegal
Bad Lieutenant trailer
Pandorum trailer

Theatre

Daniela Nardini and Gary Milner join A Streetcar Named Desire

British TV

Timothy Spall joins Caroline Aherne drama about an obese man
Sky Player coming to the Xbox 360
Cranford returns at Christmas
Apprentice final moved to Sunday 7 June

US TV

Mass pilot exodus: Rupert Penry-Jones and Reiko Aylesworth leave The Forgotten; Louise Lombard leaves NCIS: Los Angeles; Julia Ormond leaves Three Rivers; Richard Coyle leaves Miami Trauma; plus supporting cast changes on The Good Wife and 100 Questions
Stargate: Atlantis and BSG cast to guest on Warehouse 13

Thursday’s tortuous Freddy news

28 May 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Specials to air on BBC America
BBC Films confirms work has started on a Who movie

Film

Alien to be remade?
Anchorman 2 close to happening
Granada America becoming ITV Studios
Seann William Scott and Adrian Brody join Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks
Clip from Steve Coogan’s What Goes Up
Tom Cruise to star as secret agent in Wichita?

British TV

More feasts for Heston
ITV looking for digital partner to help make Primeval
Press pack for BBC3’s PA drama Personal Affairs

US TV

Freddie Prinze Jr to be a regular on 24
BBC to launch a kids channel
John Lithgow joins Dexter
Summer Glau to appear in Dollhouse [spoilers]

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