Star Trek

News

Wednesday morning’s eye-opening and independent news

4 July 2007 Rob Buckley 32 Comments

David Tennant and Catherine Tate

Happy Independence Day, America!

Doctor Who

  • And the new companion is… Catherine Tate. Seriously. I’m not fibbing

Film

  • David Oyelowo, Idris Elba, Colin Salmon, Winston Ntshona and John Kani are all in The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Journalism

British TV

  • Keeley Hawes is the new John Simm for Life on Mars sequel Ashes to Ashes
  • The Beeb says the viewing public wants it to innovate
  • Michael Grade says TV shouldn’t treat the viewing public with ‘casual contempt’
  • Oh yeah? Well, ITV are copycats, says the Beeb [free registration required]

US TV

News

Friday’s news blast

22 June 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

It's the Doctor

Doctor Who

Film

US TV

  • ABC remaking the UK’s Mile High for Lifetime. Plus they seem to want to do something with Channel 4’s classic Ultraviolet
  • Peter MacNicol back as a regular on Numb3rs next season
  • A female president for 24?
  • Who’s back in Heroes next year after their world tour. Plus Heroes: Origins will start in April

Friday’s news

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Film

Comics

  • Stan Lee to create superheroes for Disney

British TV

  • Channel 4 has clearly learnt something: one of the Big Brother inmates has been released for using racist language. And just to show how pleased they are with themselves and how much they don’t want to be punished again and don’t want to be privatised, Channel 4 has press released it, including a transcript. Others are pleased, including Shilpa Shetty

US TV

The end of the week slow news day

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British TV



US TV

  • ABC Family gives out its summer and fall schedule, including the return dates of Kyle XY and Lincoln Heights
  • Sharon Osbourne will be the third judge in America’s Got Talent. The Hoff and Piers Moron will return intact
  • Lynda Carter talks about being on Smallville [small spoilers]

Monday morning news

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Doctor Who

  • Ratings for Smith and Jones were 8.2 million, peaking at 9.11 million
  • John Barrowman questioned about ‘fattie’ comments
  • David Tennant’s Doctor models himself on Jamie Oliver

Commercials

  • The official solution to that Virgin 74 bands puzzle

Film

  • First pics from Iron Man
  • Tarantino frightens cast with knowledge of their rubbish movies
  • A Dylan Thomas movie is on the way
  • The official site for Nicholas Cage’s Philip K Dick movie, Next, is up
  • Test-screening details of The Simpsons
  • Sigourney Weaver talks about Avatar
  • Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp may be in the sequel to Sin City
  • Luke Goss joins the cast of Hellboy 2
  • Two Transformers TV trailers

British TV

  • Living TV has the rights to Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer‘s second seasons

US TV

  • A promo for the next episode of Heroes
  • James Doohan has been fired into space
  • Sydney Pollack is directing a movie for HBO about the 2000 Florida recount
  • An interview with Dennis Haysbert about The Unit
  • The Sopranos in seven minutes