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Jemma Redgrave to return for 50th anniversary special

Film

Black Widow to share lead role in Captain America 2?

Trailers

Trailer for Kick-Ass 2

Film casting

Jessica Lucas joins Pompeii
Luke Evans to star in Dracula

Trailers

Trailer for Ron Howard’s Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth

Theatre

Rising Damp to return to stage, Don Warrington to direct

Canadian TV

Space to co-produce, acquires Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

French TV

Canal+ acquires Banshee, Vikings

UK TV

Jonas Armstrong to star in BBC dramatisation of Moby Dick inspiration
Channel 5 acquires The Bible
Sky Atlantic developing Arctic murder-mystery Fortitude with Starz
Richard Lintern joins Silent Witness
Pippa Bennett-Warner joins Sky 1’s The Smoke
…as does Rhashan Stone, plus casting on BBC1’s Big School and ITV’s The Guilty

US TV

Bates Motel gets a second season
Hannibal gets a co-viewing app
Reaper cast to reunite for special
BBC America to co-produce, acquires Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Teaser for season 4 of Shameless
Saturday ratings: Smash down to 1.88m viewers
Sunday cable ratings: Mad Men gets 3.4m viewers

New US TV shows

Starz green lights: Fortitude
SyFy green lights: Blake’s 7 remake
ABC red lights: Jenni
Teasers for FX’s The Bridge
Trailer for HBO’s Family Tree

New US TV show casting

Amy Aquino joins ABC’s Divorce: A Love Story, Vik Sahay to recur on Sean Hayes comedy, plus other pilot casting

Review: Doctor Who – 7×8 – The Rings of Akhaten

8 April 2013 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

In the UK: Saturday, 6.15pm, 6th April 2013, BBC1/BBC1 HD. Available on the iPlayer
In the US: Saturday, 8pm/7C, 6th April 2013, BBC America

Once upon a time, Doctor Who was a different kind of show. It was a show that could wonder at being able to touch alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds wheeling in another sky. It could dedicate six episodes to a planet entirely inhabited by giant talking insects, each with their own cultures, or have a whole episode without the Doctor and companions, in which decidedly inhuman aliens discussed peace treaties and vegetation.

Then the show moved on. It became more of an action show, in which poetry and metaphor took a back seat to an action hero Doctor foiling aliens’ schemes.

Thank God. And if you don’t think that was a good idea, The Rings of Akhaten were an epic demonstrate of just how staggering boring just 45 minutes of little girls singing to false gods can be.

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Doctor Who

Rings of Akhaten gets 5.5m viewers

Film

James Roday to direct Gravy

Film casting

Bradley Cooper replaces Jude Law on Jane Got A Gun
Susan Sarandon and Topher Grace to star in The Calling
Sally Hawkins to star in Godzilla
Michael Pena joins David O Russell movie
Jessica Chastain joins Crimson Peak
Kellan Lutz to play Hercules in Hercules 3D
Dan Aykroyd and Allison Janney join Tammy

Theater

Rachel Wesz and Daniel Craig to star with Rafe Spall in Betrayal

Canadian TV

Ratings for week of March 25

UK TV

Lord Michael Dobbs and Borgen-creator Adam Price working on TV project
Not Going Out gets seventh series and Christmas specials
History Channel spin-off H2 to launch on May 4th
Trailer for ITV’s The Job Lot, with Russell Tovey and Sarah Hadland
Friday ratings

US TV

A second series for Vikings
Dexter season eight teaser
BBC America acquires In The Flesh
Trailer for new network FXX
Thursday ratings: Hannibal starts okay, Elementary, Community, Person of Interest all hit lows
Friday ratings: Happy Endings, Touch up, Vegas, Nikita down

US TV casting

Shannon Elizabeth and Marla Sokoloff to guest on Melissa & Joey
Richard E Grant to guest on Girls
Tim Matheson to recur on CSI
Julian Sands to recur on Banshee
Laura Benanti to recur on Royal Pains
Anna Camp to return to True Blood

New US TV show casting

J August Richards joins SHIELD, which might be becoming ABC’s Agents of SHIELD
Paul Reubens to voice the White Rabbit in ABC’s Once Upon A Time: Wonderland
Jessica Lu to guest on ABC’s Westside

Thursday’s “Sky Atlantic and Canal+’s Panthers, ITV’s The Guilty and David Tennant Dr Who location pics” news

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Doctor Who

Anniversary location photos from the 50th anniversary special with David Tennant, Joanna Page and a returning monster [spoilers, Daily Mail link]
Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman tease next episode

Film

Catherine Hardwicke to direct The Age of Miracles
Richard Linklater to direct A Walk In The Woods with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte

Film casting

Leighton Meester to join The Judge
Brad Pitt to star in Fury

Trailers

Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives with Ryan Gosling [NSFW]
Trailer for James DeMonaco’s The Purge with Ethan Hawke
Teaser for The Hunger Games 2
Teaser for the Carrie remake

Canadian TV

CBC announces 2013-14 season, including a mini-series and TV movie

UK TV

Sky Atlantic to co-produce The Panthers with Canal+ [subscription required]
ITV orders The Guilty with Tamsin Greig, Darren Boyd + more
Tuesday ratings

US TV

A clip from the Community musical puppet episode
Teaser trailer for season 3 of Wilfred
Tuesday ratings
Tuesday cable ratings: Justified down for finale

US TV casting

The Walking Dead promotes three to regulars

New US TV shows

Cinemax orders pilot for based on Max Allan Collins’ Quarry

New US TV show casting

Emma Rigby joins ABC’s Once Upon A Time In Wonderland

Wednesday’s “A returning Doctor Who monster, no more Misfits, but more Game of Thrones” news

3 April 2013 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

A returning monster for the 50th anniversary [spoilers]

Film

Tim Burton to direct Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams in Big Eyes

Film casting

Jason Isaacs, Vinessa Shaw, Wes Bentley et al join Things People Do
Toni Collette and Jean Reno to star in Hector and the Search for Happiness
Jason Dohring joins Veronica Mars
Will Arnett joins Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Jim Sturgess to star with Kate Beckinsale in Eliza Graves
Robert Redford confirmed to play head of SHIELD in Captain America 2

UK TV

Shetland to get another six episodes [subscription required]
Misfits to finish after fifth series
Samantha Womack, Nigel Harmon and Nicola Millbank join Mount Pleasant
Sunday ratings: The Village gets 6.35m
Monday ratings: Game of Thrones returns with 700k, Jonathan Creek with 7m

US TV

Game of Thrones gets a fourth season
Monday ratings: Revolution down, Castle up for 100th episode

US TV casting

Lance Reddick to guest on Wilfred
Hilary Duff to guest on Two and a Half Men

New US TV shows

BET green lights: Being Mary Jane
FX developing Conquistadors based on Last Day of the Incas

New US TV show casting

More pilot casting

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