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Doctor Who

No Prince Charles for the Christmas special. Maybe next year, hey?
The return of a series two monster (spoiler alert)

Film

Yes, Greg Grunberg will be in JJ Abrams’ secret movie
Guy Ritchie to direct a movie based on his own comic
How many Blade Runners do you want? Well, there’s five on this DVD set

Commercials

Morph shows us how to be green [QuickTime required]

British TV

Floella Benjamin warns of crisis in kids TV
Now the Beeb’s going to do an all-star Oliver Twist
GMTV’s boss resigns over the phone-in scandal
Virgin and Sky get to fight in court next summer. So no Sky One for cable viewers until then

US TV

The return of a Lost character next season (spoiler alert)
What’s happening next season on 24 [minor spoilers]
Melanie Lynskey returns to Two and a Half Men
ABC’s Fall schedule

Monday’s news of squee

16 July 2007 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Doctor Who

James Marsters talks a bit about Torchwood. Plus Alan Dale (Neighbours, 24, Ugly Betty, Lost et al) will be making an appearance, too
John Barrowman does lots of interviews including this one which is going to make lots of fan fic-writing fangirls very happy (if they like James Marsters and John Barrowman, that is)
Anthony Head talks Who and more

Film

Naomi Watts joins Clive Owen on thriller The International
Seth Green joins the cast of Old Dogs
Goodie. The next Bond movie will have more jokes

Radio

Harry Enfield stars as Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently

Web TV

Farscape returns as a web series

British TV

More on Ashes to Ashes
Sky One’s ratings drop by a third

US TV

X-Files 2 nearly ready for filming
Elisha Cuthbert wants to be in the 24 movie
Watch out Marie: SciFi has a new mini-series, Going Homer, starring Ben Browder as a man helped and hindered by Greek and Roman deities, as well as a load of other shows
Mandy Patinkin gets a slagging off extraordinare from Criminal Minds’s exec producer
Lots of Dexter spoilers
Showtime commissions an MPD comedy pilot off Spielberg
Steven Moffat has a go at NBC for ruining the remake of Coupling
The Wire will be back in early 2008
More BSG webisodes coming

Tuesday’s “don’t you point that thing at me” news

26 June 2007 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Doctor Who

Which Radio Times will you buy?
Sarah Jane comes to DVD in October
Freema Agyeman saves the world from Christmas spoilers
It’s Doctor Who weekend on UKTVDrama soon, and you can vote for your favourite Doctor online

Film

Anika Noni Rose and Lucian Msamati are to star in the The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Trailer for The Hitman online
More cast members, including Idris Elba, for Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla
Iron Man to film in Vegas
Stills and a trailer from John Rambo

British TV

Preston from BB and The Ordinary Boys is doing a documentary about voodoo. Okay…
Jason Donovan to star in ITV1’s new soap
Suburban Shootout gets a second series

US TV

New Transformers cartoon on the way
Missy Peregrym joins The Reaper
Preview of David Duchovny’s Californication
Will Michael be back in Lost and other spoilers

Thursday’s news news news

14 June 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

It’s like crack: here, have a cheap sampler DVD to get you addicted to the old show

Film

Babylon 5 creator JMS to write Silver Surfer movie; Layer Cake‘s Matthew Vaughn to direct Thor?
A World War II sequel for The Invisible Man
Neil Gaiman talks about Stardust
Kevin Spacey not interested in film any more
And Captain America’s next

British TV

Steven Moffat would like to bring back Press Gang
Channel 4 has bought CBS’s forthcoming Big Bang Theory
An online ratings system is getting closer

US TV

More details about Flash Gordon
Four actors no longer regulars in Boston Legal but there are some new arrivals
James Burrows to exec produce Kelsey Grammer’s Back to You
BSG stars spill more secrets (video)
Kyle XY‘s premiere gets good ratings
Lost execs talk about the series’ conclusion

And then… sniff… he found out he wasn’t who he thought he was… sniff… but to save everyone he had to give up the woman he loved… sniff… and then he saw what his life would have been like with her… sniff…

Film

Lots of clips from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Eek. Optimus Prime v Bonecrusher
Pathe and the Beeb are making films about Mrs T and Lord Nelson among others
Tarantino says Italian film industry is depressing. Italian film industry says he is. So ner!
Video of Speed Racer‘s Mach 5 and cast, including Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon and Christina Ricci – you’ll have to watch an ad first
America’s version of Derren Brown, Criss Angel, is to appear in Mandrake, possibly as Mandrake

Commercials

Amy Winehouse’s mockney accent and ‘edgy’ image make Americans like her, not want to slap her [free registration required]

US TV

They’re looking for an extremely hot editor for the Daily Planet in Smallville
Spoilers for House, Lost, et al at Kristin. Plus they’d really like to get Christopher Eccleston back on Heroes

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