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Doctor Who

Behind the scenes at The Mill [spoilers]

Film

Mila Kunis talks Max Payne plot
24‘s Mary Lynn Rajskub joins Julie and Julia
Brendan Fraser and The Rock join GI Joe

British TV

Freeview HD to launch next year
Hotel Babylon gets another series

US TV

Gough and Millar leave Smallville after seven seasons. Promotions for everyone else!
NBC learning from Bionic Woman failure to improve Knight Rider
Olivia Williams to run Dollhouse
ABC trying to poach New Adventures of Old Christine from CBS?
King of the Hill gets another season
As does Brothers and Sisters?

David Tennant speaks to Simon Mayo

3 April 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

FYI, in case you don’t listen to Simon Mayo’s excellent daily show on Radio Five live, David Tennant was his guest yesterday. They spoke for about 27 minutes on various matters Whoey (including a few, known spoilers), DT’s ambitions for the future, etc. If you missed it, you can download it from the Daily Mayo podcast page or directly from this link as an MP3 about 13MB in size.

Thursday’s “Bill and Ted… not!” news

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Doctor Who

Time slot will change to 7pm around episode five or six
Move to HD would require TARDIS rebuild

Film

David and Jennifer Lynch unite for Surveillance
Matthew McConaughey to play Magnum?
Wargames 2 trailer
Another Bill and Ted sequel, but without Keanu or Alex Winter

British TV

The Jacksons to have a reality show set in Devon?

US TV

ABC unveils new sitcoms, including Molly Ringwald vehicle Brenda Hampton and Roman’s Empire/Never Better remakes
NBC unveils Fall schedule, including Lipstick Jungle, Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock, a spin-off from The Office and the last season of ER
CSI/Two and a Half Men writers swap will lead to Cybill parody?
Britney to return to HIMYM?
A long interview with Ronald D Moore about BSG season four et al
Ridley and Tony Scott to adapt Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth thanks to Oprah

Wednesday’s dimensionally transcendental news

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Doctor Who

A review of the fourth series press conference and first two episodes [spoilers]
Skins‘ Joe Dempsie to appear in an episode
John Barrowman fights back at Kevin Spacey
Pics and clip of Sarah Lancashire from episode one
Pics of DT and CT
No love between Donna and Doctor
Badly formatted guide to the new episodes [spoilers]

Film

Dark Knight viral fun
Stan Lee has three projects at Disney
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to do road movie
Ben Stiller to be King Doug

British TV

Michelle Ryan to star in ITV’s Mr Eleven
More Lily Allen and Friends to come

US TV

Kristin Bell to star in Rob Thomas’s Outrageous Fortune pilot
Barry Sonnenfeld’s The Kingdom being re-written after lack of pick-up
TNT greenlights Truth in Advertising series
Preview of the Caprica pilot
Fast and the Furious writer to be Knight Rider exec and showrunner

Tuesday’s completely true news

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Doctor Who

David Tennant to propose marriage to first person who leaves a comment on this blog entry before midday
DT ‘informally committed’ to series five
A Gareth David-Lloyd interview
Four different DW Radio Times covers

Film

Scott Bakula to star opposite Matt Damon in The Informant
Brad Pitt goes Amazon shopping

Comics

Who owns Superman?

Theatre

Kevin Spacey has a go at BBC1 talent shows

British TV

Cranford returning for Christmas

US TV

What’s up on Supernatural this season (and next) [minor spoilers]
Jay Leno turns down Top Gear hosting gig for fear NBC will ruin it
Sleeper Cell creators to head up probable Eleventh Hour series
William Petersen will be returning for the next season of CSI
Ray Romano to do an hour-long drama pilot for TNT
Season four of The Unit still likely
ABC unveils summer schedule
Eddie Cibrian to join Ugly Betty
Ioan Gruffudd and Robin Tunney, among others, cast in pilots

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