Friday’s “Rutger Hauer in True Blood, S4C’s bilingual cop and Rob Brydon goes to LA” news

Doctor Who

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for A Good Day To Die Hard with Bruce Willis
  • Trailer for Broken City with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe

UK TV

  • BBC1 orders who series of Lapland
  • S4C doing bilingual detective series co-production Mathias
  • Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran, Darren Boyd and Rebecca Front join Little Crackers
  • Sheridan Smith and Johnny Vegas joins BBC1’s Mr Stink, now in 3D

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

US TV show casting

  • Martin Henderson to star in The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
  • Avan Jorgia joins Socio

Tuesday’s “Murder Bitches, cable up, network down ratings, and dead Munsters” news

Doctor Who

Film

  • Longmire‘s Bailey Chase joins Ashley Scott and Cuba Gooding Jr in Summoned

Trailers

  • TV spot for Alex Cross, with Tyler Perry, Mathew Fox, Rachel Nichols and Jean Reno

Canadian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV Shows

  • Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane ironically probably dead
  • ABC buys Dakota, CBS buys The Centurion
  • Ryan Murphy to produce drama Montauk for Fox, comedy for NBC
  • Shonda Rhimes sells I Hate LA Dudes and The Mix to ABC
  • CBS buys single-camera family comedy
  • The Mentalist producers sells Murder Bitches to CBS
  • Fox buys two couples comedies
  • The CW developing supernatural ‘fixer’ drama Abaddon’s Journal
  • The SHIELD characters [minor spoilers]
UK TV

Review: Doctor Who – 7×5 – The Angels Take Manhattan

Angels Take Manhattan

In the UK: Twas on BBC1 on Saturday. Available on the iPlayer
In the US: It was on BBC America on Saturday, y’all

Vroomfondel: I think our minds must be too highly trained, Majikthise

From the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

So here we are. The end of an era. Exeunt Ponds, stage right, chased by a baby Angel. Stevie Moffat introduced them to us two and a half years ago with the first of his stories, The Eleventh Hour, and here he is, writing them out again.

Should be quite a moving moment, shouldn’t it? Rusty usually managed to make companion departures the big tearjerkers they should be. Maybe not Martha, although who cared about her. But the ‘death’ of Pipes? The ‘death’ of Donna? Pass me a snivel-rag now.

Except, while there was a certain degree of sadness right at the end, this wasn’t quite the tour de force I was hoping for from our Stevie. The trouble? I think that Stevie might be getting too clever for his own good. And working too hard.

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Monday’s “Channel 4’s winter dramas, Greg Kinnear returns to TV and Morrison redoes Watchmen” news

I lied

Doctor Who

Film

  • No Taken 3?
  • Andrew Garfield confirmed for The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  • Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan join Edgar Wright’s The World’s End
  • Judi Dench and Steve Coogan to star in Stephen Frears’ Philomena

Trailers

  • Clip from Red Dawn remake with Chris Hemsworth and Adrianne Palicki
  • Trailer for Bullet to the Head with Sylvester Stallone and Christian Slater

Comics

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting