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Peter Davison red-button minisode to air on Saturday

Film

Hammer to remake The Abominable Snowman

Trailers

Trailer for Vampire Academy
Trailer for Sabotage, with Arnold Schwarzenegger

Comics

James Marsters writing a Spike comic for Dark Horse

Canadian TV

Rachael Crawford to recur on Continuum [minor spoilers]
Republic of Doyle and Murdoch Mysteries to have crossover episodes

UK TV

S4C renews: Y Gwyll/Hinterland

New UK TV shows

Michelle Gomez to star in Heather’s American Medicine + other pilots

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Banshee
Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Odette Annable to recur on Two and a Half Men
Chi McBride to be a regular on Hawaii Five-0
Leah Remini to recur on The Exes
Tom Cavanagh and Rebecca Budig to guest on Blue Bloods

New US TV shows

SyFy developing: The Woods with Liz Phang and Chris Fedak
The Space Vampires/Lifeforce to be turned into a TV series
Comedy Central greenlights: Crazy House pilot
Hemlock Grove creators to adapt The Sun

New US TV show casting

David Bradley to replace John Hurt on FX’s The Strain
Marley Shelton to star in Lifetime’s The Lottery, Noah Bean and Željko Ivanek join SyFy’s 12 Monkeys

Elizabeth Hurley: Tomorrow Person (almost), more modern day Greek gods and the Muppets are Most Wanted

21 November 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

A new minisode

Film casting

Colin Firth to star in Christopher McQuarrie’s adaptation of Three To Kill
Giancarlo Esposito to direct and star in Patriotic Treason with Ed Harris

Trailers

Trailer for Muppets Most Wanted

UK TV

ITV renews: Foyle’s War
Tuesday ratings

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Elizabeth Hurley to recur on The Tomorrow People

New US TV shows

Michael Chiklis’ Pantheon being developed as a TV show
HBO developing: Always Outnumbered follow-up The Right Mistake, with Laurence Fishburne
A new trailer for CBS’s Intelligence

del Toro’s The Strain picked up, Monty Python reunited and a Back to The Future reunion

20 November 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

David Tennant introduces The Day of the Doctor

Comics

A Dexter mini-series by Jeff Lindsay

Theatre

Monty Python to reunite on stage

UK TV

14 more channels added to Sky Go [subscription required]

US TV

USA cancels: Necessary Roughness
Monday ratings

US TV casting

Michael Wincott joins 24: Live Another Day
Robert Gant to recur on The Tomorrow People
Katrina Law to recur on Arrow as a DC character [spoilers]
Christopher Lloyd to guest on The Michael J Fox Show
Aarti Mann to guest on Suits

New US TV shows

FX greenlights: series of Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain
HBO adapting: F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon
The CW developing: terrorist sleeper cell drama

New US TV show casting

Bill Murray joins HBO’s Olive Kitteridge
Casting on FX’s Braddock & Jackson and a CBS comedy

RTD’s Banana and Cucumber, It’s A Wonderful Life 2, and Breaking Broadchurch

19 November 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Pics from the 50th anniversary special
Two more clips

Film

Oh FFS. It’s A Wonderful Life 2

Film casting

Annabeth Gish joins Somnia, Robert Patrick joins Bruce McDonald’s Hellions

New UK TV shows

Russell T Davies to write Banana and Cucumber for Channel 4/E4
Micky Flanagan developing a sitcom based on his life
Trailer for BBC2’s Legacy

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV casting

Nicholas Lea to recur on Arrow
Marla Sokoloff to recur on The Fosters

New US TV shows

Fox developing: Wunderland
FX developing: Desperadoes
NBC greenlights: Bad Judge pilot
Trailer for USA’s Sirens remake, with Dennis Leary
The Flash to get CW pilot

New US TV show casting

Bonita Friedericy joins Lifetime’s Unreal
Anna Gunn to co-star in Fox’s Broadchurch remake Gracepoint

The 10th and 11th Doctor meet in the Children In Need clip from Day of the Doctor

18 November 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

In case you weren’t watching Children In Need on Friday, you won’t have seen the first clip from the anniversary episode of Doctor Who, The Day of the Doctor, in which Doctors 10 and 11 (yes, they are) finally get to meet. And wear a fez in the former’s case.

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More Y Gywll, Canadian crossovers, Peter Davison’s red button and new Hammer yeti

Elizabeth Hurley: Tomorrow Person (almost), more modern day Greek gods and the Muppets are Most Wanted

del Toro’s The Strain picked up, Monty Python reunited and a Back to The Future reunion

RTD’s Banana and Cucumber, It’s A Wonderful Life 2, and Breaking Broadchurch

The 10th and 11th Doctor meet in the Children In Need clip from Day of the Doctor

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

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