Heroes

News

Film

Trailer for The Spirit

British TV

ITV2 commissions drama Trinity…
…and cancels Jordan’s chat show

Australian TV

Big Brother cancelled

US TV

Fringe episodes will be 50 minutes long
The first of the Heroes webisodes [video, US only]
Christina Ricci joining Saving Grace for three episodes
Crash won’t be depressing or about race much
Christopher Gorham leaving Ugly Betty
Casting for Valentine Inc, plus Dexter and The Unit

Friday’s GOLD news

11 July 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

More information on next year’s specials

Film

A trailer for Max Payne
Jon Favreau will direct Iron Man 2

British TV

UKTV rebranding its non-Dave channels to Watch, GOLD and Albi
BBC secures lifetime rights to Heroes
Friends‘ Adam Chase talks about writing Clone for BBC3
BBC2’s Autumn highlights
RDF launches a comedy downloads site

US TV

New cast members for Ugly Betty, Heroes and Damages
Scott Bakula to star opposite Ray Romano in Men of a Certain Age
New pilots ordered by HBO, including projects from David Simon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Martin Scorsese
And HBO announces Fall premiere dates for True Blood and Little Britain USA
ABC willing to rip off foreign formats?
Guest appearances on Criminal Minds and Psych for Jason Alexander and Justine Bateman
BBC America will censor Skins

Thursday’s antipodean news

26 June 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Chris Carter secretly filming Fencewalker
New Bourne movie ‘coming soon‘

British TV

Promo video for the new-look iPlayer

Australian TV

BBC Worldwide buys up UKTV and launches new services
Pamela Anderson entering the Big Brother house
iTunes starts offering TV shows

US TV

Teaser trailer for Joss Whedon’s Dr Horrible
Nicole RIchie to guest star on Chuck
Timothy Olyphant joins Damages
John Schneider to star independent twentysixmiles
Aidan Quinn and Rutger Hauer joins ABC’s Hamlet-esque Prince of Motor City
Lara Logan gets a promotion at CBS
Heroes to answer ‘deep questions’ next season

Wednesday’s Heroes simulcast news

11 June 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

No Jon Favreau for Iron Man 2?
Hugh Grant up for another rom-com shock
New Three Musketeers adaptation/prequel

Art

‘Mr Darcy’ portrait to be sold

British TV

A pantomime and a Gavin & Stacey sketch for Comic Relief from Ruth Jones and James Corden?
Beeb to build web page for every show ever
Third season of Heroes to be simulcast with the US
US producers to bring pilots to the UK for buyers
Sky One audiences drop 14% since leaving Virgin Media [free registration required]
Casualty to move to Cardiff?

Irish TV

Bill Cullen to start looking for his Apprentice

US TV

Gossip Girl spin-off?
Sarah Paulson to be female lead in Cupid
Francis Capra joining Heroes
Jamie Kennedy to replace Jay Mohr on Ghost Whisperer
Seth Green to appear on My Name is Earl [spoilers]

Monday’s big chicken bill news

9 June 2008 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

Doctor Who

David Tennant talks about Doctor Who and Hamlet
RTD offered Steven Moffat his job – by email last summer
Want to get angry at something today? Let the Daily Mail help with this article on DT… Good old, reliable old DM

Art

Lowry Welsh sea view sells for £313k

Film

Keira Knightley to play cockney in My Fair Lady
Producers team up to make intelligent chick flicks
Leonardo DiCaprio to play founder of Atari
A Hulk promo featuring Iron Man
Harrison Ford to play real-life scientist
Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon to star in Cameron Crowe rom com

British TV

David Morrissey and Tara Fitzgerald to star in stalker drama
Hugh F-W faces £86,000 Tesco chicken bill
James Corden and Ruth Jones to write panto for Comic Relief

US TV

A clip from season three of Heroes
Amber Tamblyn joins The Unusuals plus more casting, including RTM’s Virtuality
Chris Rock’s brother gets his own show
A&E puts Patrick Swayze’s Beast into production

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