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A Town Called Mercy gets best ratings for Doctor Who since 2010

Film

Sony working on Manimal movie
Dexter‘s Aimee Garcia joins Robocop

Trailers

Trailer for Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, with Helen Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes et al

Canadian TV

Kristin Lehman to star in Motive, New Kids on the Block’s Joel McIntyre to guest star
Tatiana Maslany to star in Orphan Black

UK TV

Sunday ratings: Downton Abbey starts with 8.6m viewers

US TV

P Diddy to guest star on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Sunday’s ratings: Boardwalk Empire starts with 2.9m viewers
Teaser trailer for season 2 of Girls
Teaser trailer for season 2 of Enlightened

New US TV shows

Howard Gordon sells Vigilant superhero show to Fox
Laura Prepon and Taylor Schilling to star in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black
ABC having another go at adapting Pulling
The CW adapting Embrace
ABC Family orders pilots of Terminals, Phys Ed and Continuing Fred
Annie Potts to star on Paging Dr. Freed

Review: Doctor Who – 7×2 – Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

11 September 2012 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

In the UK: Saturday, 7.20pm, BBC1
In the US: Saturday, 9/8c, BBC America

CRACKLE, CRACKLE

This review… being transmitted… outer space.

CRACKLE, CRACKLE

…Dinosaurs!… Borderline Jewish stereotype…

CRACKLE, CRACKLE

…like nails on a blackboard…

CRACKLE, CRACKLE

…Chris Chibnall!

AAARGHHH!

End of transmission

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It’s episode one of ‘Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time’, not Inspector Spacetime at all

11 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

It’s not Inspector Spacetime or Doctor Who, honest.

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Your handy Asylum of the Daleks observer’s guide

7 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Seen Asylum of the Daleks, but didn’t realise that pretty much every model of Dalek that was ever in the old show got shown?

Me neither.

Fortunately, someone with a lot of time on their hands has put together this handy guide to all the Daleks that appeared and in which story you might have seen them previously (click on it to make it bigger, if necessary). Did you spot them all?

Thursday’s “No more Hit and Miss, The Good Shepherd TV series and Sherlock goes manga” news

6 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will be back on Monday

Doctor Who

Asylum of the Daleks gives BBC America highest ever rated show

Film

Safe House to get a sequel
David Slade to direct Matched
Paddy Considine joins The World’s End

Trailers

Trailer for Atlas Shrugged, Part II

Comics

Sherlock goes manga

UK TV shows

Torchwood‘s Eve Myles to star in Frankie
No second series for Hit and Miss

US TV shows

Rita Wilson to guest on Girls
Coma only gets 1.8m viewers
NBC pulls Saving Hope
Frances Conroy returning to American Horror Story
Christina Ricci to guest on The Good Wife
Pretty Little Liars‘ Amanda Schull to recur on Suits
Tone Bell to be a regular on Whitney

New US TV shows

Kim Raver, David Andrews and David Meunier to recur on Revolution
JJ Abrams sells robot cop drama to Fox
CBS buys workplace comedy from Mike Wolfe
Cougar Town co-creator sells comedy to Fox
Showtime working on adaptation of The Good Shepherd
FX developing martial arts drama
The Finder‘s Geoff Stults to recur on Ben and Kate

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