Sex and the City

News

Doctor Who

Yes, Michelle Ryan is the next companion. On the Easter Special anyway. Lee Evans also appearing.

Film

Rights to David Fincher’s next pic, Torso, expire
Who might not be back for Sex and the City 2?

British TV

Culture secretary backs Channel 4/BBC Worldwide merger
Five US to rebrand as Five USA in Feb, acquires The Beast, will show 30 Rock
New BBC circus sitcom, Big Top, begins filming

US TV

Underworld: The TV series?
Eastwick and Mercy get pilot orders
Lost premiere gets record low ratings
Angie Harmon guesting on Samantha Who?
ABC and ABC Studios will combine operations

Thursday’s bloodier news

18 September 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

So what’s David Morrissey doing exactly? (spoiler alert)

Film

20th Century Fox picks up Nicole Kidman’s The Eighth Wonder

Books

Candace Bushnell to write two ‘Carrie Bradshaw: the teenage years’ novels

British TV

Red Dwarf cast reunite for new episodes, John Cleese and Johnny Vaughan get new series – all on Dave
Mutual Friends‘ ratings down to 3.3m
Channel 4 could face £100m annual deficit

US TV

True Blood picked up for second season…
…after its and Mad Men‘s ratings pick up
Jada Pinkett Smith to star in and exec TNT’s Time Heals
The Daily Show‘s Jason Jones to guest on How I Met Your Mother
USA greenlights Iraq war comedy pilot Operating Instructions
Six clips from the first new episode of Heroes
Fringe ratings pick up after House
Matt Lucas to guest star on Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire

Friday’s ellipsis news

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Doctor Who

Catherine Tate keen to return as Donna
More Torchwood series three details, including a possible return for one character

Film

Production stops on The Sweeney
No plans to film Devil May Care
Nicolas Cage to star in Kick-Ass

Commercials

Jerry Seinfeld to appear with Bill Gates in Microsoft ads for $10m

Theatre

Marguerite to close two months early

British TV

Clip from Lost in Austen
Picture of John Hurt in An Englishman in New York…
…which now features Sex and the City‘s Cynthia Nixon
Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set will be set in the Big Brother house
Eli Stone acquired by the SciFi Channel

US TV

Pictures of the “KITT cave”…
…and there are plans for the Hoff and William Daniels to cameo
Stargate: Atlantis movie greenlit…
…as is new series Stargate: Universe
Regina King, Kevin Alejandro and Michael McGrady join LAPD
James Cromwell joins My Own Worst Enemy
NBC acquires the British version of The Apprentice
Navy SEALs become 24 extras

Review: Sex and the City

16 June 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

It’s here. It’s here! After all that waiting, it’s finally here.

Much like the January sales, there are strategies to be used when you’re going to watch something as anticipated as Sex and the City: the movie. Either you wait all night camped outside and then be the first in before everyone else, or you wait until everyone has been crushed under foot and enter at your leisure afterwards.

Which is why I’m sauntering in with a review of Sex and the City over a week after it opened.

What do you mean I shouldn’t be watching this cos I’m a bloke? Watching movies about women is ‘so gay’? Do you want to have a think about that?

Continue reading “Review: Sex and the City”

Thursday’s chick news

12 June 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Warren Ellis’s Red to be adapted
Another writer takes a stab at I Dream of Jeannie
More chick flicks thanks to Sex and the City?
Jessica Hynes up for Spaced movie
George Clooney to star in adaptation of spy novel The Tourist?
No Jack Black for Man-Witch
New Dark Knight TV spot
24/ER‘s Stana Katic to appear in Quantum of Solace
Gale Anne Hurd talks about Hulk, The Punisher and Captain America

Books

Yummy Mummy author says “chick lit” tag isn’t bad

British TV

BBC3 faces £10m budget cut which may end Pulling and Ideal
Rowan Atkinson avoids Blackadder reunion
BBC needs to improve its nations and regions news coverage

US TV

Brad Garrett does Internet dating with… Dating Brad Garrett
Caroline Lagerfelt joins Dirty Sexy Money as Peter Krause’s mum
No Gossip Girl spin-off after all
David Caruso launches his own (ironically) interactive company

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