Star Trek

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9 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who's coming back with a bang

It’s Friday!

Doctor Who

  • David Tennant promotes Red Nose Day sweets

Film

  • Goran Visnjic may be the villain in the next Bond film. Meanwhile, the Daily Express reckons there’s going to be less Craigy nudity next round
  • Sex and the City movie back on?
  • Shooting on Anthony Minghella’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency begins in May
  • Three Men Seeking Monsters might get adapted with John, Doug and Dan Heder
  • Star Trek XI is going to be a ‘re-imagining’, not a prequel
  • 2010 for Toy Story 3
  • Rorschach from The Watchmen hiding in 300 trailer?
  • Jeff Bridges will be Obidiah Stane in the Iron Man movie
  • Eddie Murphy to star in a remake of Fantasy Island?

British TV

  • John Inman has died
  • ‘Allo, ‘Allo is coming back for a one-off special. Allegedly
  • It’s got Sting. It’s got Hywel Bennet. It’s got Daniel Day Lewis. It must be Artemis ’81, out on DVD on April 23rd
  • The Thick of It is out on DVD April 2nd
  • Five’s suspended its premium rate phone numbers, as well

US TV

  • Future events in Jericho discussed
  • A great big article on Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
  • A Prison Break star is in the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off with a former co-waiter
  • So much pilot-casting, including Jeffrey Tambor, Kal Penn, Mia Maestro, Adam Goldberg, Michelle Trachtenberg and Hector Elizondo
  • Kristin talks to Dexter‘s cast and crew
  • Former Heroes stars get pilots
  • Grande Heroes spoilers

Tuesday’s rainy day news

27 February 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Billie Piper says she cried while watching The Christmas Invasion.
  • The Daily Star (motto: never once a correct story) reckons David Tennant’s leaving at the end of series three
  • Maybe it’s because he was turned away from the BBC when the guard didn’t recognise him
  • David Tennant’s Recovery got beaten by Lewis in Sunday’s ratings.



Film

  • A graphic novel will fill in the gap between 28 Days Later and its sequel
  • Aaron Eckhart talks Two Face
  • Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will be in Virgin Picadilly for a signing between 6pm and 7pm tomorrow.
  • Wish list casting for Star Trek XI

British TV

  • Sky, obviously having learnt nothing from Channel 4’s Space Cadets, has a new reality show in with six people are arrested for murdering Brigitte Nielsen.

US TV

  • Images from the new Babylon 5 DVD movies.
  • Kristin Chenoweth joins Pushing Daisies
  • Anna Paquin is to play a telepathic waitress who becomes a vampire’s love interest in True Blood
  • Carrie-Anne Moss is joining Guy Ritchie’s Suspect.
  • Spoilers from Kristin about various shows, mostly Grey’s Anatomy and Lost. But Studio 60 is still shooting episodes, apparently.
  • William Petersen talks and spoils.
News

Monday morning o’news

26 February 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Tennant, Barrowman and Agyeman outside the Millennium Centre in Cardiff

Top O’The Morning to you, future Black Donnelly viewers. Begorra.

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • Virgin Media has acquired the on-demand rights to Lost‘s first three seasons. Episodes from season three start in August.
  • Two Primeval stars have shacked up together.

US TV

  • Kiefer Sutherland is bemused that the US army would be influenced by 24
  • Missi Pyle’s a regular on new series Wedding Bells
  • Christopher Guest is to direct the pilot for the US version of The Thick of It
  • The SciFi Channel and Richard Branson unite to fight crime together. Or to make money.
  • Back from the dead, Six Degrees returns on March 23rd
  • Alyssa Milano has a new pilot with Mary Steenburgen.
  • An interview with an ex-Hero
  • Jericho‘s back but its ratings aren’t so hot now it’s up against American Idol
  • Sylar from Heroes (aka Zachary Quinto) talks to Kristin

Thursday’s post-Valentine’s news

15 February 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Get any heart-shaped chocolates?

Doctor Who

Theatre

Film

British TV

  • Oh no! Still no third season of Extras planned. Instead, a “drama based on an urban conspiracy theory”.

US TV

News

News to end the week by

26 January 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doc girls

I’m off again today. Stu_N knows where. Stu_N knows why.

Doctor Who

  • A cracking bit of art, illustrating the various female companions down the ages. Isn’t Liz Shaw cute, although the David Tennant is pretty cute, too. [via Behind the Sofa]
  • Talking of cartoons, an 13-part animated version of the show is to appear as part of Totally Doctor Who, according to the Mirror (scroll down). Anthony Head will guest-voice.
  • Confirmation of what Paul Cornell’s story will be about in series three.
  • PJ Hammond talks about Sapphire and Steel and Torchwood. He touches in passing on the fact he’s writing an episode for series two and that the ITV revival of Sapphire and Steel has fallen through.

Film

Music

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US TV