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[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Monday’s “Han Solo returns?, Sarah Michelle Gellar teams up with Robin Williams and Zero Hour bombs” news

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Doctor Who

Missing Tenth Planet episode to be animated for DVD release
Reece Shearsmith to play Patrick Troughton in anniversary special

Film

Lobo movie ‘just went away’

Film casting

Matthew Modine to star in Ralph Bakshi’s Last Days of Coney Island
Jennifer Lawrence joins David O Russell’s American Bullshit
Jason Momoa to star in Guardians of the Galaxy?
Harrison Ford to return as Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode VII?

UK TV

Channel 4 greenlights: Matt Berry’s Toast Of London
Mayday to be stripped across five days

US TV

Valentine’s Day ratings: Zero Hour has worst ever ABC scripted TV debut, Community hits lowest ever ratings for its time slot, everyone else down
Friday ratings: Touch down 22%
Up All Night probably dead

US TV casting

Jack McBrayer to guest on The Middle

New US TV shows

TV Land greenlights: Kirstie’s New Show
Lifetime redlights: Cinnamon Girl
Lifetime developing Cleopatra mini-series
Amazon developing Press Start to Continue

New US TV show casting

Sarah Michelle Gellar to star with Robin Williams in CBS’s Crazy Ones
Ernie Hudson to co-star in ABC’s Reckless, Burn Gorman to star in AMC’s Turn, plus casting on CBS’s Hostages
Krysten Ritter to star in NBC’s Assistance
Kyle Chandler to star in Showtime’s Vatican
Felicity Huffman to star in Fox’s Boomerang
Tom Everett Scott joins NBC’s Bloodline
Miranda Cosgrove to star in NBC’s Girlfriend in a Coma, Humphrey Ker joins NBC’s Holding Patterns
Jake McLaughlin to star in JJ Abram’s NBC pilot Believe
Peyton List to star in The CW’s The Tomorrow People, Matt Malloy to star in Amazon’s Alpha House
David Alan Grier to star in CBS’s Bad Teacher
Gage Golightly to star in The CW’s Company Town
Sean Patrick Thomas to star (again) in The CW’s The Selection
Corey Reynolds to co-star in Delirium

Big Finish release a trailer for the 50th anniversary Doctor Who story, The Light At The End

14 February 2013 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

It’s got Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann as the Doctor (obviously), as well as Louise Jameson as Leela, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, Nicola Bryant as Peri, Sophie Aldred as Ace and India Fisher as Charley. Plus Geoffrey Beevers is back as The Master – well, one of them, obviously – and there are ‘special guest stars’ promised, too.

I might actually get this when it comes out (and review it for you lovely people). Even if it is written and directed by Nicholas Briggs.

November 23rd 1963 proves to be a significant day in the lives of all eight Doctors…

It’s the day that Bob Dovie’s life is ripped apart…

It’s also a day that sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events which forces the first eight incarnations of the Doctor to fight for their very existence. As a mysterious, insidious chaos unfolds within the TARDIS, the barriers of time break apart…

From suburban England through war-torn alien landscapes and into a deadly, artificial dimension, all these Doctors and their companions must struggle against the power of an unfathomable, alien technology.

From the very beginning, it is clear that the Master is somehow involved. By the end, for the Doctors, there may only be darkness.

Arrow unites Captain Jack and River Song

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Well, John Barrowman and Alex Kingston, anyway. No idea if they’ll actually have some screen time together on Arrow, since Kingston might only show up in flashback, but they managed to meet behind the scenes, anyway.

Tuesday’s “3D Who, nine new BBC shows, Life’s Too Short’s life is short, SyFy’s The Man in The High Castle, and Arrow et al renewed” news

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Doctor Who

50th anniversary special to be shot in 3D, shown in cinemas
A returning classic monster [spoilers]

Film

Jesse Armstrong to write feature version of his Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You for Robert Downey Jr

Comics

Geoff Johns leaves Green Lantern after 10 years

Internet TV

Ratings for House of Cards

UK TV

BBC1 commissions Atlantis, Death Comes to Pemberley, Breakdown, The Interceptor, Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, recommissions Call The Midwife and Death in Paradise; BBC2 commissions Turks and Caicos and Salting The Battlefield; BBC4 commissions Burton and Taylor
Life’s Too Short to finish with one-hour special featuring Val Kilmer
YouTube to launch on Freesat
Trailer for ITV’s Lightfields
Sunday ratings: Mr Selfridge beats the Baftas

US TV

The CW renews Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries and Arrow
G4 to rebrand as The Esquire Network
Sunday ratings
Sunday cable ratings: The Walking Dead returns to record-breaking series high

US TV casting

Lisa Edelstein to guest on Scandal

New US TV shows

Frank Spotnitz to adapt The Man In The High Castle for SyFy
Warner to Game of Thrones the Wizard of Oz with Red Brick Road
Trailer for Ray Donovan with Liev Schreiber

New US TV show casting

Casting on Chuck Lorre’s CBS pilot Mom
Andre Braugher to co-star in Fox’s Andy Samberg comedy
Thomas Kretschmann and Oliver Jackson-Cohen join NBC’s Dracula
Maggie Lawson to star in ABC’s Cullen Brothers comedy
Josh Holloway to star in CBS’s Intelligence

Thursday’s “Doctor Who’s new Susan, John Corbett in NCIS:LA spin-off, Smash tanks and more HD Freeview” news

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Claudia Grant to play Carole Ann Ford in 50th anniversary special

Film

Pierce Brosnan to star in Craig Ferguson’s Last Man Out
JJ Abrams working on Half-Life and Portal

Film casting

Matt Smith, Christina Hendricks and Eva Mendes to star in Ryan Gosling’s How To Catch A Monster
Jennifer Aniston joins Convention
Colin Firth joins Before I Go

Canadian TV

Ratings for the week ending January 27th

UK TV

Universal Channel acquires Major Crimes
Fox acquires Monday Mornings
Freeview could get 10 more HD channels
Tuesday ratings: The Undateables beats Dallas

US TV

Chicago Fire gets another episode
Monday ratings: Smash tanks – down 71% on last year

US TV casting

Taissa Farmiga returns to American Horror Story
Donal Logue joins Copper
Miguel Ferrer promoted to regular on NCIS: LA
Brooke Langton and John Reardon to guest on Supernatural

New US TV shows

ABC Family greenlights to series: The Fosters and Twisted

New US TV show casting

Ellie Kemper to star in Brenda Forever
Keith David to star in Fox’s Enlisted, Jack McGee joins CBS’s McCarthys
Dave Annable to star in NBC’s Joe, Joe & Jane, Echo Kellum joins Sean Hayes’ NBC comedy
Casting on ABC’s Mixology
David Denman joins CBS’s Beverly Hills Cop
John Corbett and Miguel Ferrer join NCIS: LA spin-off

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Monday’s “Han Solo returns?, Sarah Michelle Gellar teams up with Robin Williams and Zero Hour bombs” news

Big Finish release a trailer for the 50th anniversary Doctor Who story, The Light At The End

Arrow unites Captain Jack and River Song

Tuesday’s “3D Who, nine new BBC shows, Life’s Too Short’s life is short, SyFy’s The Man in The High Castle, and Arrow et al renewed” news

Thursday’s “Doctor Who’s new Susan, John Corbett in NCIS:LA spin-off, Smash tanks and more HD Freeview” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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