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Monday’s “Last Resort, Partners, 666 Park Avenue cancelled, Web Therapy renewed and ITV1 becomes ITV again” news

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Doctor Who

Details of the Christmas special
David Tennant back for anniversary special?

Film

Vincent D’Onofrio and Anton Yelchin to star in Broken Horses

Trailers

Trailer for The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
Trailer for Beautiful Creatures, with Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson et al
Trailer for Now You See Me with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson et al
Trailer for Admission with Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen et al

Canadian TV

Five more episodes for Saving Hope

UK TV

ITV in major rebranding exercise, including renaming of ITV1 back to ITV
S4C now available throughout the UK on Virgin
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV

Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue cancelled
Partners cancelled
Showtime renews Web Therapy for third season
Elementary gets two more episodes, Vegas cut by one
Guys With Kids gets four more episodes
Hot in Cleveland to have a live episode
Thursday ratings: The CW down, Elementary up
Friday ratings: Malibu Country down 41% on first episode

US TV casting

True Blood‘s Janina Gavankar to recur on Arrow
Mykelti Williamson to recur on Touch
Rebecca Mader to guest on 30 Rock

New US TV shows

MTV acquires Blackwood series of books
Lifetime developing Paranormal Housewives

New US TV show casting

Eddie Izzard to guest on Hannibal

This year’s Doctor Who Children in Need fun

17 November 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Every year more or less since it came back, there’s been a tradition of having a little bit of extra Doctor Who broadcast as part of Children of Need. Sometimes it’s been a whole mini-episode or ‘mini-sode’; sometimes it’s been a trailer for the Christmas special. This year, it’s both and you can watch them below. Enjoy!

Today’s Joanna Page: Nativity 2 with David Tennant

13 November 2012 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Finally, it’s happened: David Tennant and Joanna Page are working together. Will the blog be able to cope? I think it’s having a lie down at the moment.

Anyway, the project in question is Nativity 2, a sequel to – you guessed it – Nativity. In this movie, David Tennant plays not one but two roles – as a teacher, Mr Peterson, and his twin brother – with Joanna Page playing his wife. Being Nativity 2, she’s pregnant, as she is in real life, and for another real-world tie-in, it’s going to be in UK cinemas on November 23, the 49th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.

Here’s the trailer: you may notice that he’s got his normal Scottish accent in this… I think the blog might have to go and have another lie down.

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Thursday’s “Joe Biden to guest on Parks and Recreation, Ben Browder to guest on Arrow and the Cybermen return” news

8 November 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Neil Gaiman‘s episode to feature Cybermen, Tamzin Outhwaite, Warwick Davis and Jason Watkins

Films

Tim Robbins to direct Man Under with Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloe Moretz
Brett Ratner’s Hercules gets the go-ahead

UK TV

Virgin launches TV Anywhere

US TV

A sequel to The Kennedys?
Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Ben Browder to guest on Arrow
Reiko Aylesworth to guest on Person of Interest
Vice President Joe Biden to guest on Parks and Recreation

New US TV shows

Trailer for FX’s The Americans, with Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell

New US TV show casting

Benjamin Walker to star in HBO’s The Missionary
Numb3rs‘ Alimi Ballard joins Trooper plus other pilot casting

Wednesday’s “Star Wars episode 7, Avengers join Captain America and six BBC1 pilots” news

31 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on Monday. Happy halloween!

Doctor Who

X-Factor‘s Zoe Alexander to appear on Doctor Who?

Film

Samuel L Jackson and Cobie Smulders to return for Captain America 2
Gerald Butler joins Dynamo
Bryan Singer to direct the next X-Men movie
Disney buys Lucasfilm, Episode 7 of Star Wars to be released in 2015
Olivia Wilde to star in The Keeping Room
Domino’s to offer UK streaming movie service

Trailers

Trailer for John Dies At The End with Paul Giamatti

Theatre

Tamzin Outhwaite and Gina McKee to return to DI and Viv and Rose

UK TV

BBC1 lines up six sitcom pilots, including adaptation of failed US pilot It Takes A Village
The Paradise gets a second series
iPlayer added to Sky+
FX shows joining Sky Go
Saturday ratings: The Thick Of It ends on a low
Monday ratings

US TV

NBC changes mid-season schedule, Community to return in February
Copper to change producers
Sunday ratings: Homeland hits series high

US TV casting

Sarah Shahi to recur on Chicago Fire

New US TV shows

Greg Malins to adapt Israel’s Your Family Or Mine? as Tribes for ABC
ABC buys thriller Black Friday

New US TV show casting

Breakout Kings‘s Serinda Swan to recur on Graceland

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Monday’s “Last Resort, Partners, 666 Park Avenue cancelled, Web Therapy renewed and ITV1 becomes ITV again” news

This year’s Doctor Who Children in Need fun

Today’s Joanna Page: Nativity 2 with David Tennant

Thursday’s “Joe Biden to guest on Parks and Recreation, Ben Browder to guest on Arrow and the Cybermen return” news

Wednesday’s “Star Wars episode 7, Avengers join Captain America and six BBC1 pilots” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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