Stargate

Maggies Gyllenhaal and Smith + Rhys Ifans to join Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee sequel
Kristen Bell to star in You Again
Elisabeth Moss, Sean Combs and Rose Byrne join Russell Brand in Get Him to the Greek
Brotherhood‘s Blake Masters to adapt 2 Guns
Michael Chabon to write John Carter of Mars
Trailer for Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist

Turkish TV

Golden Girls to be adapted for ATV

Canadian TV

Wild Roses cancelled?

British TV

Lucy Davis and Ralf Little to star in ITV1 rom-com Married, Single, Other
Red Dwarf gets record audience for Dave
Bravo acquires Sons of Anarchy
Horne and Corden finishes with 434k viewers
Cast for afternoon plays Moving On announced
Dervla Kirwan and Lenora Crichlow to star in Material Girl
Dead Ringers axed

US TV

What’s happening in season eight of 24
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles cancelled?
Amanda Tapping to guest on Stargate Universe
Jennifer Jason Leigh to recur on Weeds
Julie White to star in HBO’s Women’s Studies

Monday’s “passing of the glove” news

6 April 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Rusty and DT discuss making their last ever Who and more [spoilers]
Big Finish discuss making the lost season 23 episodes
Guess who‘s been spotted on set [great big spoilery spoiler]
Rusty asked to revive Lost in Space

Film

Aaron Eckhart to star in Rabbit Hole?
Jackie Earle Haley is the new Freddy Krueger

Theatre

Russ Abbot steps in to replace Rowan Atkinson in Oliver!

British TV

Vic and Bob back for new series of Shooting Stars
InBetweeners watched by 1.2m
Top Gear Italian Job stunt cancelled because of costs
Sky One acquires Stargate Universe

US TV

Cyndi Lauper to join Bones
New Stargate Universe trailer
NBC planning updated version of Wizard of Oz
Laura Leighton returns to Melrose Place
Dollhouse likely to get a second season

Friday’s news without people

3 April 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

Doctor Who

Trailer for the new K9 series. Oh dear

Film

Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke to star in Passion Plays
Fox to turn Life Without People into a movie
Rosemarie DeWitt to star in The Company Men
Trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno
Trailer for Fame

British TV

BBC3 commissions two new sitcoms, including one with Nigel Havers
Trailer for Ashes to Ashes series two
BBC’s The Street might be cancelled because of ITV redundancies
Devil’s Whore sequel on the way
4oD now available on the web
UKTV Style to relaunch as Home

US TV

Fifth season of Supernatural to be the last
Richard Dean Anderson to guest star on Stargate Universe
Gordon Ramsay gets April Fooled

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