Doctor Who

Trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger (with Richard Armitage!)
Bill Nighy to play Hephaestus in Clash of the Titans sequel (which will feature actual Titans this time)
Teaser for Mr Popper’s Penguins (which will feature actual penguins)

Theatre

Lenny Henry to star in The Comedy of Errors

British TV

The cost of BBC soap operas, including £10.1m for Pobol y Cwm

US TV

Anthony Head to reprise role in remake of Free Agents
Eliza Dushku joins Damon Wayans in CBS comedy
Zach Galifianakis signs HBO first-look deal
Outsourced‘s Ben Rappaport gets a new job
Tea Leoni‘s Spring/Fall gets the green light from HBO
Chris Vance to recur on Rizzoli & Isles
Futurama gets a seventh season
First look at SyFy’s Alphas

Tuesday’s “no Kate Winslet this time” news

22 March 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

BBC sued over Davros
Michael Sheen to voice a character

Film

Trailer for Ryan Phillippe in The Bang Bang Club
Trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean 4

British TV

Julian Fellowes to write Titanic mini-series, adapt Agatha Christie’s Crooked House
Mrs Brown’s Boys gets a second series
Fourth series of Merlin to get 13 episodes
Ridley Scott to produce adaptation of Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth

US TV

Playboy changes its name to The Playboy Club
Elizabeth Perkins joins Vince Uncensored
Will Arnett and Ricky Gervais to appear in The Office finale
Laura Allen switches role in and Michaela McManus joins REM…
…as does Cherry Jones, while Natasha Henstridge joins Secret Circle…
…as does Louis Hunter
Retired at 35 renewed, two pilots given series orders at TV Land
Jeff Daniels to star in Aaron Sorkin’s HBO pilot
Steven Weber to recur on Parenthood
Arnie returning to TV?
Kathryn Hahn to star in Free Agents…
…as does Mo Mandel

Some of the best bits of Comic Relief – Doctor Who, Joanna Page and James Corden

21 March 2011 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Comic Relief was on Friday and as usual, there were some sketches from some well known shows, including Doctor Who.

But there was also a two-part sketch, written by Steven Moffat at his muckiest best:

Joanna Page was also doing her thing:

While Lenny Henry and Richard Curtis had to call in James Corden (Smithy from Gavin & Stacey) to help save the show, which he did with the assistance of George Michael among others:

And then there was Alan Partridge…

What was your favourite?

Tuesday’s “bleaker expectations” news

22 February 2011 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Eve Myles talks Torchwood

British TV

Radio show Bleak Expectations moves to television
South Riding gets 6.6m viewers

US TV

Minnie Driver to star in Hail Mary, Alan Tudyk to star in Suburgatory
Another trailer for Falling Skies
James Taylor to cameo on Mr Sunshine
A Cougar Town/Scrubs crossover is imminent [minor spoiler]

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