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Review: Doctor Who – 4×3 – Planet of the Ood

21 April 2008 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Oh goody! It’s a returning monster!

Oh wait. It’s the Ood. We’re going to have to wait until next week for the Sontarans.

Ho hum.

All the same, for something of a filler episode in which everyone just ran up and down corridors a lot to cover up the fact the budget had all been spent on a snow machine, it wasn’t half bad.

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Friday’s “that bloody boiler” news

18 April 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Eve Myles to host boxing on Radio Wales
Catherine Tate and David Tennant to speak at Times Cheltenham Literary Festival

Film

Ronald D Moore to write three sci-fi movies for United Artists
Spielberg and Lucas talk!
Brett Ratner to remake The Incredible Shrinking Man
Emma Watson to star in Napoleon and Betsy
Val Kilmer, 50 Cent, Sharon Stone, Dylan McDermott and Brian Presley to star in Streets of Blood
MySpace and Hammer launch their first production

Commercials

Halifax’s Howard faces the axe

Comics

Heroes‘ Milo Ventimiglia to star in comic book

British TV

The Apprentice ratings increasing [free registration required]
Switch to digital could have been greener
Sky One to make two high-def adaptations of Martina Cole books
ITV3’s first original drama to be adaptation of Ladies of Letters
ITV4 commissions documentaries featuring Andy McNab, Vinnie Jones and Philip Glenister
Five Life (aka Fiver from April 28) to pick up Bebo’s Sofia’s Diary

French TV

TF1 suing YouTube

US TV

The Black Panther coming to BET
NBC might want to come back to iTunes
Harry Lennix and Angel‘s Amy Acker join Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse
David James Elliott to appear in disaster mini-series
New Amsterdam looking dead
ABC greenlights another sitcom pilot from Victor Fresco

Thursday’s “newyddion Cymru” news

17 April 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Doctor Who

Dalek ownership decided
David Tennant to appear on Derren Brown’s Trick or Treat
Doctor Who ‘not Welsh enough‘?
The Ood know something we don’t know? (spoiler alert)

Film

Ridley Scott to direct Casey Affleck in period noir The Kind One
X-Files sequel will try something new
Hulk smash puny Marvel!

British TV

Mitchell and Webb making new sitcom for BBC2
Ieuan Wyn Jones asks Beeb to make more programmes in Wales
Richard and Judy ditching Channel 4 and heading to UKTV

US TV

NBC picks up Rosario Dawson’s web series Gemini Division
Lucky Louie star writing sitcom for CBS

Wednesday’s unthemed news

16 April 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Dervla Kirwan as the new assistant? [spoilers]

Film

Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan to reunite – but not for another Rush Hour
Richard Gere to star with Hilary Swank in Amelia Earhart biopic
More studios add content to the US Apple Store
Stan Lee launches new superhero franchise
Allison Janney up for two comedies

British TV

Andrew Davies adapting Joanna Briscoe’s Sleep With Me for ITV1

US TV

Producers talk about overcrowding in House [spoilers]
Jennie Garth drops out of pilot for 90210 return?
More background on Dollhouse

Ashes to Ashes – confessions of the writers

15 April 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Sometimes, it’s the network’s fault, sometimes it’s the writers’ when a show isn’t quite as it should be. Ashes to Ashes‘ writers explain some of the behind-the-scenes compromises. [via Feeling Listless]

UPDATE: More from the same event, which also suggests that Matthew Graham did not have a happy time on Doctor Who

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Review: Doctor Who – 4×3 – Planet of the Ood

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