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Fox, CBS and ABC pick up pilots
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And NBC picks up a comedy pilot
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Life Unexpected does well, Chuck and 24 ratings drop, Heroes falls to new low in ratings
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Review: Heroes 4×15 – Pass/Fail

19 January 2010 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

In the US: Monday 18th January 2010, 9pm, NBC
In the UK: April/May, BBC2. Probably

One of the accusations that used to be – and still is – made at Heroes is that no one ever dies. It doesn’t take.

Now, as the last two volumes have shown, that ain’t really true any more – if someone appears to die, the producers make sure there’ll be a clue in the episode that said person will be coming back, or said person will be back before the end of the episode. Otherwise, they really are dead.

That doesn’t mean they can’t come back in another form, though – and so it is with Pass/Fail, where a huge wodge of long-dead characters came back in a reasonably good, if fan-ficcy episode. I won’t tell you how until after the jump. Spoilers ahoy.

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Review: Heroes 4×14 – Close To You

13 January 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

In the US: Monday 11th January, 9pm, NBC
In the UK: April/May probably, BBC2

Well, after last week’s duller than dull affair, things could only get better. And they did. Woo hoo!

Spoilers after the jump.

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Film

Stephen Norrington to write and direct WW2 film The Lost Patrol
Peter Sarsgaard to play the villain in Green Lantern?
Vera Farmiga and Michelle Monaghan sign up for Duncan Jones’ Source Code
Paul Rudd and Zach Galifinakis to star in Angel comedy Will
Chris Rock to remake La Premiere Etoile
Mannequin remake being planned
Trailer for remake of Chloe with Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore
Peter Serafinowicz to play Paul McCartney in remake of Yellow Submarine

British TV

Hugh Dennis to replace James May on Oz and James’ Big Wine Adventure? [registration required]
Law & Order watched by 5.6m viewers
Glee does well, too
iPlayer now available

Canadian TV

Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald to make half-hour 80s nostalgia comedy for Canwest

US TV

Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star in JJ Abrams’ Undercovers
ABC Family renews Secret Life of the American Teenager and Make It Or Break It
Matthew Perry’s Mr Sunshine pilot greenlit by ABC
Modern Family, Cougar Town and The Middle renewed by ABC
Dana Delany to guest on Castle
David Strathairn to guest on House
Take a tour of the new CTU from 24
Chuck does well, Heroes does badly on Monday
A teaser trailer for HBO’s Treme
Writers for Being Human announced

Monday’s NBC bomb drop news

11 January 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

The A-Team teaser trailer
Gossip Girl‘s Blake Lively to co-star in Green Lantern
Another trailer for Kick Ass
Trailer for From Paris With Love
Remakes of Robocop and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes shelved
John Malkovich joins Red

Theatre

Jeremy Irons returning to the RSC for The Gods Weep

US TV

Jeremy Irons to star in The Borgias
Maz Jobrani to star in Funny in Farsi
Day One cut back to a two-hour movie
NBC greenlights six drama pilots…
…considers Law and Order: Los Angeles…
…after moving Jay Leno from primetime…
…but what’s going to happen to Heroes, Chuck, Trauma, Mercy et al?
ABC greenlights Scoundrels based on NZ series Outrageous Fortune
CBS cancels Three Rivers
A sixth season for Supernatural?
…and a tenth for Smallville?
Someone’s coming back to Chuck [spoilers]
Dana Carvey to develop and star in new Fox comedy show
Alexis Denisof discusses his supernatural pilot for ABC/ABC Family
Moonlight to return?

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