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Wednesday’s “Rufus Sewell projects, Shameless ends, Hulu acquires Braquo and more Great Expectations” news

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Film

Ralph Fiennes to star in Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel
Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone and Rufus Sewell to star in The Sea
Film4 launches iPad app

Theatre

Kristin Scott Thomas and Rufus Sewell to star in Old Times

UK TV

Shameless to end next year
James Corden to star in BBC2/Hulu’s The Wrong Mans

US TV

ABC Family cancels Secret Life of the American Teenager
PBS acquires The Paradise and The Lady Vanishes
Hulu acquires Braquo
Monday ratings: Revolution down slightly, Mob Doctor goes even lower, Gossip Girl down 43% on last year

US TV casting

Eric Stoltz to guest on Made in Jersey
Megan Mullally to return to Parks and Recreation

New US TV shows

ABC buys Great Expectations soap
Fox acquires comedy Adulting from JJ Abrams…
…and Rachael Harris and Angela Kinsey comedy Dirty Blondes

New US TV show casting

Clarke Peters joins AMC legal thriller, Thomas Wright joins The Bridge, Lauren Bittner joins The Secret Lives of Wives
Five joins Michael Bay’s The Last Ship
Madchen Amick joins Witches of East End

Wednesday’s “Black Widow back, Revolution, Go On, New Normal, Boardwalk Empire get renewed and JMS-Wachowski’s Sense8” news

3 October 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Jake Gyllenhaal joins Prisoners
Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow likely to be back for Captain America 2
Amanda Peet, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, William H Macy et al to star in Clark Gregg’s Trust Me
Ashley Judd, Seth Green, Ray Liotta to star in The Identical
Kevin Costner joins McG’s latest

UK TV

Martine McCutcheon, Charlie Baker, Russ Abbott to star in the BBC’s The Home Office

US TV

NBC gives full seasons to Revolution, Go On and The New Normal
Boardwalk Empire gets a fourth season
Monday ratings: Mob Doctor, Partners struggle

US TV show casting

Bradley Whitford to recur on Shameless
Dylan Walsh to guest on CSI [minor spoilers]
Callie Thorne and Lisa Edelstein to guest on Elementary [minor spoilers]
Whoopi Goldberg to guest on 666 Park Avenue
Stephen Collins to guest on Falling Skies
Patton Oswalt joins Justified
Daniel Henney to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Tony Hale to guest on Up All Night

New US TV shows

Fox buys Reese Witherspoon’s Wendy & Peter
NBC buys Jason Bateman’s 80s comedy Then Came Elvis
CBS orders pilot of Jerry Bruckheimer’s adaptation of Hostages

New US TV show casting

Mike Vogel and Nestor Carbonell join Bates Motel
Drea De Matteo to star in Lifetime’s Stalkers
Robbie Amell joins 1600 Penn
J Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis working on Sense8

Friday’s “Dallas down 50%, The Secret Dude Society and Guillermo del Toro’s TV The Strain” news

21 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Ashley Walters to guest

Films

Kate Bosworth joins Jason Statham and James Franco in Homefront
Roman Polanski to direct Venus in Fur
Katee Sackhoff joins Oculus
Teri Polo and Cary Elwes join A Bit of Bad Luck

Trailers

Trailer for 42 with Harrison Ford
Trailer for remake of Gambit with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz
Trailer for Beautiful Creatures with Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons et al

Canadian TV

Outsourced‘s Rizwan Manji to star in The Khouris

UK TV

Sky1 acquires Last Man Standing
Dallas ratings down 50% since the first episode
Pappy’s to make The Secret Dude Society for BBC3
Lifetime to launch in 2013 [subscription required]
ITV working on two pay-TV channels [subscription required]
Danny Brocklehurst and Jim Poyser working on BBC crime drama [subscription required]
Sky fit to broadcast
Last episode of Bad Cop pulled

US TV casting

Buffy‘s Ken Lerner to guest on The Big Bang Theory
Stephen Colbert to visit The Office
Sherilyn Fenn joins Magic City

New US TV shows

Fox developing modern Hamlet set in DC
Guillermo del Toro adapting The Strain for FX with Carlton Cuse
FX buys thriller from Stephen Belber
CBS buys Melissa McCarthy-produced comedy
ABC buys Party Girls

New US TV show casting

Missi Pyle to guest on 1600 Penn
Diane Kruger to star in adaptation of The Bridge

Thursday’s “Hobbit trailer, Royal Pains TV movie and James Gandolfini in HBO Criminal Justice remake” news

20 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

No 28 Months Later
Melissa McCarthy to cameo on The Hangover 3

Trailers

Trailer for Sinister with Ethan Hawke
Another trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Theatre

Julian Barratt joins NSFW

French TV

Canal+ gets the go-ahead to acquire Direct 8 and Direct Star

US TV

Royal Pains to do two hour movie
Netflix acquires Ricky Gervais’ Derek
Tuesday’s ratings: Go On and Parenthood steady, The New Normal down

New US TV shows

Ghost Whisperer producers sell dramas to ABC and CBS
NBC developing drama based on Midnight, Mass. comics
NBC picks up Jerry Bruckheimer comedy At Ease

US TV casting

James Caan, Jamie Harris and Esai Morales to recur on Magic City
Jake McDorman joins Shameless
F Murray Abraham to recur on Homeland
Eddie Cibrian to guest on Hot In Cleveland
Michael Gross to guest on CSI, Julian Sands to guest on Person of Interest
Mark Pellegrino, Todd Stashwick and Colin Ford to appear on Revolution

New US TV show casting

James Gandolfini to star in HBO’s adaptation of BBC1’s Criminal Justice
Olivia Cooke joins Bates Motel, Rachel Boston joins Witches of East End, Dorian Missick to recur on Paging Dr Freed
Harrison Thomas joins Banshee

A roundtable with Claire Danes, Emmy Rossum, Kyra Sedgwick, Mireille Enos, Julianna Margulies and January Jones

31 May 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Hollywood Reporter has some great roundtables with actors and actresses, and since they’ve finally worked out how to give people like me embed codes, let’s take the opportunity to show off their latest roundtable with the Emmy-nominated Claire Danes (Homeland), Emmy Rossum (Shameless), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Mireille Enos (The Killing), Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) and January Jones (Mad Men).

Yes, January Jones is up for an Emmy this year. No, don’t ask me why.

Did you know that Kyra Sedgwick auditioned for Flashdance? No, me either. This, the full 50-minute interview and the answers to “What was your scariest moment as an actress?”, “Nudity – when is it okay?”, and “Who has influenced your career?” after the jump

Continue reading “A roundtable with Claire Danes, Emmy Rossum, Kyra Sedgwick, Mireille Enos, Julianna Margulies and January Jones”

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Wednesday’s “Rufus Sewell projects, Shameless ends, Hulu acquires Braquo and more Great Expectations” news

Wednesday’s “Black Widow back, Revolution, Go On, New Normal, Boardwalk Empire get renewed and JMS-Wachowski’s Sense8” news

Friday’s “Dallas down 50%, The Secret Dude Society and Guillermo del Toro’s TV The Strain” news

Thursday’s “Hobbit trailer, Royal Pains TV movie and James Gandolfini in HBO Criminal Justice remake” news

A roundtable with Claire Danes, Emmy Rossum, Kyra Sedgwick, Mireille Enos, Julianna Margulies and January Jones

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