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Your first look at Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries, including Doctor Who’s Freema Agyeman
Well, brace yourselves, because in January, The CW plans to unleash on the world The Carrie Diaries, a prequel to Sex and the City set in 1984 and based on Candace Bushnell’s own books. Now, I was expecting a certain level of dreadful to this, simply because at the very least it was going to look bad compared to the original, particularly since The CW isn’t exactly going to offer the same latitudes as HBO.
But OMG, this looks worse than I could possibly have imagined. It doesn’t help that Doctor Who‘s own Freema Agyeman appears to have completely lost the ability to act. If she had it once, it’s gone now. Oh dear.
Monday’s “BBC3’s zombie casting, Torchwood limbo and Mira Sorvino is a trooper” news
Doctor Who
- Torchwood not cancelled, just in limbo
Film
- Undercovers‘ Boris Kodjoe to star in Addicted
Trailers
- Trailer for Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, with Maggie Smith et al
Canadian TV
- Ratings for the week of October 15-21
UK TV
- Hayley Atwell to star in ITV’s Life of Crime
- Kenneth Cranham and Ricky Tomlinson join BBC3 zombie drama In The Flesh
US TV
- Thursday’s ratings: The Last Resort down 24%, Elementary down 10%, Scandal up 5%
- Friday’s ratings: Mockingbird Lane okay, Grimm up 27%
US TV casting
- Kathleen Quinlan to recur on Chicago Fire
- Seth Green to reunite with Alyson Hannigan on How I Met Your Mother
- Jack Wagner to guest on Castle
New US TV shows
- ABC developing My Korean Deli…
- …compliKATEd with Ben Stiller and Bonnie Hunt…
- …and buys City Hall
- Fox working on All Grown Up with makers of BBC’s Misery Bear
- FX buys military academy comedy from Jack Black
- David Marshall working on comedy at HBO, dramas at CBS, CW
New US TV show casting
- Bradley Whitford joins Trophy Wife
- Joe Flanigan joins The Secret Lives of Wives
- Eoin Macken joins After Hours
- Mira Sorvino to star in TNT’s Trooper…
- …Rebecca Romijn to star as Maxwell in King and Maxwell
- Kyle Harris to recur on The Carrie Diaries
Friday’s “Arnie’s Legend of Conan, Channel 4’s new line-up, more Chicago Fire and Bravo’s cola wars” news
Doctor Who
- No Rusty for 50th anniversary
Films
- Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in The Legend of Conan
Trailers
UK TV
- ITV3 acquires Global’s Bomb Girls
- Channel 4‘s autumn and winter line-up
- June Brown and Dawn French to star in Sue Perkins’ Heading Out
- Trailer for series 4 of Misfits
US TV
- Five more scripts for Chicago Fire
- Wednesday ratings: Chicago Fire up 20%, Nashville steady, Arrow down 15%
US TV casting
- Megan Boone to replace Jennifer Esposito on Blue Bloods
- Gary Cole to recur on Veep
- Maria Bamford joins Arrested Development
New US TV shows
New US TV show casting
- The Office‘s Brian Baumgartner to star in Greg Daniels ABC comedy
- Dan Castellaneta joins Continuing Fred plus other casting
- Rhea Perlman reunites with Kirstie Alley for Giant Baby