Monday’s March news

Doctor Who

  • Video footage of the possible last scene for John Barrowman in the next series of Doctor Who. No sound to spoil things
  • David Tennant’s video diary is on YouTube, now the Beeb has done a deal with Google

Film

Art



British TV

  • Neil Gaiman gets bewildered by the UK release of Neverwhere

US TV

  • Sort of spoilers for Tuesday’s House. And for The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. Yey?
  • Chris Showerman (what did his ancestors do?) has been cast as Flash Gordon
  • Spoilers for Heroes. And more spoilers. And more!
  • Sarah Connor Chronicles talk. Yes, Summer Glau is an evil female terminator
  • Joss Whedon talks about Buffy, Firefly, Wonder Woman and the Buffiverse movies that never happened
  • How Lost got a VW camper van onto the island
  • Spoilers for BSG
  • Pamela Anderson has a new TV show in the works
  • Amber Tamblyn is to star in the disturbing Babylon Fields pilot
  • 24 spoilers

Guess who’s back Wednesday news

Doctor Who

  • No need to lock up your daughters from the 31st March. They’ll be staying in voluntarily to watch David Tennant in the new series of Doctor Who

Film

  • There’s a video game based on The Golden Compass coming out this year.
  • Another film that didn’t need one gets a remake. This time it’s Cronenberg’s Scanners.

Theatre

British TV

US TV

  • The Black Donellys‘ ratings weren’t very good. Begorra.
  • Freddie Prinze Jr has another show. Wisely, his name isn’t in the title.
  • Lucy Liu’s coming back to tele for Cashmere Mafia
  • Las Vegas will be back for a fifth season, but without James Caan or Nikki Cox
  • Jack McBrayer (Kenneth the page in 30 Rock) only gets recognised by pages.
  • Lots of spoilers over on Ausiello as usual. Most notable that I can talk about here are Goran Visnjic not renewing his ER contract, a new female character is coming to Lost, and one of Close to Home, The Unit and Jericho is to get cancelled. Also, interesting stuff about Heroes, House and 24.

Things I learned from watching television last week

24: Even when a character played by Eddie Izzard is recast, his spirit lives on in the role

30 Rock: Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin speak pretty good German. Inbreeding jokes never get old.

CSI: Left to his own devices for too long, William Petersen will always grow an unfortunate beard.

Daybreak: Was cancelled way too soon. Be patient, networks!

Heroes: Just get on with it will you. Plus Christopher Eccleston really can act when given a grumpy role to play.

House: Sooner or later, the crankiness of a character needs an explanation. He can’t be cranky for no reason at all.

My Name is Earl: Some Americans actually think the US won the 1812 war.

Smallville:
Red Kryptonite needs to be in every script from now on.

Studio 60: It’s no use applying the rules of reality to anything Aaron Sorkin writes. You just have to sit back and enjoy it.

Catch up with the weekend’s news

Heroes

The trials continue, but here’s the latest news all the same. And there’s plenty of it.

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

US TV

Wednesday’s news

Film

Music

US TV