Game of Thrones

Watson & Oliver gets a second series
Ratings: Touch up to 600k viewers; Mad Men down 50% on first episode; Game of Thrones opens with 522,000
Sky Go now has 2.5m users
S4C’s 2012 work plan

US TV

Bent dead
Campbell Scott and Brooke D’Orsay to be regulars on Royal Pains
Entourage‘s Emmanuelle Chriqui to recur on The Mentalist [minor spoilers]
1m people dumped cable for Netflix and Hulu last year
Dollhouse‘s Tahmoh Penikett to recur on Castle [minor spoilers]
Being Human‘s Jeremy Carver to replace Sera Gemble as co-show runner on Supernatural

US TV pilots

Body of Proof‘s Jeffrey Nordling joins Malibu Country, Party Down‘s Ryan Hansen joins Louis CK comedy, Penelope Mitchell joins Hemlock Grove
Cougar Town‘s Briga Heelan joins Counter Culture
Bryan Greenberg leaves Greg Berlanti comedy
Greek‘s Martha MacIsaac replaces Brittany Snow on 1600 Penn

Wednesday’s “Richard Coyle: suave KGB spy, David Tennant: suave British spy, and Emma Thompson: Gareth Peirce again?” news

4 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Emma Thompson to return as Gareth Peirce for The Secret Evidence?
Noomi Rapace, Colin Farrell and maybe Dominic Cooper to star in Dead Man Down

Trailers

Trailer for Sparkle with Whitney Houston
Trailer for Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love
Trailer for Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise

UK TV

BBC4 working on Kenny Everett biopic
Nicholas Ferguson replaces James Murdoch at BSkyB
David Tennant and Janet Montgomery cast in The Spies of Warsaw

US TV

Richard Schiff to recur on NCIS
Coupling‘s Richard Coyle to recur on Covert Affairs
Emilie de Raven to return as Belle in Once Upon A Time
Sunday ratings: Game of Thrones returns with 3.9m viewers
Monday ratings: Bones up

US TV pilots

Super Bad‘s Christopher Mintz-Plasse to star in Friend Me

All of season 1 of Game of Thrones in 20 minutes

26 March 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

I’m not sure I’ve even got that much time, but if you want to watch season 2 of Game of Thrones and haven’t seen season 1 yet, this is probably the quickest way of catching up.

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