Game of Thrones

Wednesday’s “World War Z teaser, The Good Life play and a Game of Thrones coldplay cameo” news

7 November 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Film casting

Trailers

  • Trailer for Paul Hyett’s Seasoning House with Sean Pertwee
  • Teaser for World War Z with Brad Pitt
  • Trailer for Movie 43 with practically everyone

Theatre

UK TV

US TV

  • Reelz acquires Bomb Girls
  • Trailer for Spartacus: War of the Damned
  • Monday ratings: Mob Doctor up, Gossip Girl down, Castle hits series low

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • Mila Kunis producing Women’s Lib drama Meridian Hills for The CW
  • Chelsea Handler to produce ABC workplace comedy Discounted
  • Martha Stewart to exec produce Tao of Martha for Fox
  • Seth Gordon sets up Run Black at Fox and Bar Scene at NBC
  • NBC buys Grow The F**k Up and CBS developing How To Grow Up…
  • …NBC buys Slouching Toward Adulthood and a multi-generational comedy

New US TV show casting

  • Eric Petersen joins TV Land’s Giant Baby
  • Ken Leung joins After Hours, plus other pilot casting
  • ABC Family‘s Phys Ed adds Samm Levine, Sunkrish Bala and Chelsea Harris

Some of the best and most famous US audition tapes, including Hugh Laurie as House

13 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Almost every actor has to audition to get a role in a TV show – unless they’re really, really famous. Audition tapes allow producers to see what the actor would like in the role and although most audition tapes remain private, a few have escaped onto YouTube. Flavorwire has put together a collection of the best, including Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner as Arya and Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones, Seth Rogen as Ken Miller in Freaks and Geeks and Lea Michele as Rachel Berry in Glee, but I’ve put a few of them below as well:

Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad

Josh Holloway as Sawyer in Lost

Hugh Laurie as House

Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl

Monday’s “Plenty of trailers, Diana Rigg joins Game of Thrones and Joss Whedon starts acting” news

16 July 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Theatre

UK TV

  • The Killing director to helm BBC2’s Murder

US TV

Trailers

  • Trailer for Da Vinci’s Demons
  • Trailer for Spartacus: War of the Damned
  • Trailer for season five of Breaking Bad
  • Trailer for season three of Treme
  • Trailer and other videos for season two of Once Upon A Time
  • Trailer for season three of The Walking Dead
Arrow
US TV

The CW’s upfronts 2012-3 – a rundown and clips from the new shows

18 May 2012 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Green Arrow

Time for the last of the upfronts. Okay, USA did its first upfronts yesterday, but didn’t really announce anything new, so let’s end with the traditional way to end the upfronts: following on from the main broadcast networks NBC, Fox, ABC and CBS, today we’re going to be looking at the ‘young female adult’-skewed The CW and what it has lined up for us for the 2012 to 2013 season.

The CW didn’t have much success last year with its new scripted shows: only Hart of Dixie survived, while Ringer and The Secret Circle both got cancelled. Meanwhile, some of its older shows are now limping alone, with Gossip Girl nearing the end, Supernatural‘s end date being eyed and Nikita looking as poor as it always did. The experiment of The LA Complex fell apart, leaving just 90210 to keep the network’s scripted dreams alive.

But CW president Mark Pedowitz promised more original programming when he joined the network, so this year, The CW is trying to give itself a shot in the arm with… more of the same. Yes, time to cash in on some past glories as well as emulate some other networks. Lined up for 2012-13 are:

  • Beauty and The Beast: based on the 1980s CBS show with Linda Hamilton, but starring The CW’s Smallville‘s Kristen Kreuk as the beauty in question
  • Arrow: Bourne-esque adaptation of DC’s superhero the Green Arrow, but not starring Justin Hartley who was the Green Arrow in Smallville. But that’s because of…
  • Emily Owen MD: …in which a new doctor discovers that hospital is no different from high school. Co-stars… Justin Hartley
  • Carrie Diaries: HBO’s Sex and the City‘s Carrie, when she was a teenager. Notably features Freema Agyeman from Doctor Who, though.
  • Cult: starring one of the guys from The CW’s Vampire Diaries and one of the girls from The CW’s Melrose Place, and sees the fans of a TV show recreating the on-screen crimes.

After the jump, the run-down, trailers for the Fall shows (Carrie Diaries and Cult are mid-season – sorry) and a schedule.

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Wednesday’s “Ray Stevenson joins Dexter, and Wild At Heart and Young James Herriot axed” news

25 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Pixar’s Brave
  • Trailer for Lawless with Tom Hardy, Gary OIdman, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain

UK TV

  • Wild At Heart axed
  • Young James Herriot axed

US TV