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Film

Lost‘s Josh Holloway joins cast of comedy Stay Cool
Arrested Development is on
Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell to play Holmes and Watson
Val Kilmer joins Silver Cord

Radio

Chris Tarrant returning to radio

Theatre

Josh Hartnett to make West End debut in adaption of Rain Man

British TV

Out of the Blue will not be renewed
Shaun Ryder to appear in Shameless
More co-productions for the Beeb
Larry Lamb joins EastEnders cast
Hat Trick working on Isabel Fay comedy

US TV

Shannen Doherty in talks to appear in 90210 update
Las Vegas Star Trek Experience to close
Guess who’s not going back to Stargate: Atlantis

Tuesday’s “unforgiving Catholic church” news

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Film

Rome churches shut to Angels and Demons
Kevin Spacey heads up cast of Shrink

Commercials

Emma Watson replaces Keira Knightley as new face of Chanel

Theatre

John Cleese planning a stage version of A Fish Called Wanda

British TV

ITV Productions developing detective drama set in Brighton based on ‘Roy Grace’ novels [free registration required]
Matthew Horne says a third series of Gavin & Stacey is probable

US TV

Michael Shanks filming episodes of Burn Notice [via Kaballa, no link]
DB Sweeney and others join cast of Crash
First Bones episode to shoot in the UK
Full US Top Gear line-up announced
Marla Sokoloff to star in YA NBC mini-series
Wizard’s First Rule gets a showrunner
Four new cast members for ER
William Hurt joining cast of Damages
Casting on Knight Rider, Terminator: TSCC and Numb3rs
Fox helping to develop Canadian cartoon

Review: Doctor Who – 4×5 – The Poison Sky

6 May 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Ah. Now that’s better. Finally, a decent two-parter and – miraculous though it might seem – one written by Helen Raynor at that.

After last week’s poorly paced but still reasonably good first part, I was expecting a lump of old rubbish for the second part, since that’s how it usually pans out. But hurroo, hurray, bar the occasional bit of dodgy dialogue, direction and acting, it was good.

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Wednesday’s news from up the Khyber

6 February 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Russell Brand to star in new Carry On films?

British TV

Channel 4 to spotlight comedy heroes including Ricky Gervais and the Little Britain crowd
Richard Hammond shooting Richard and Judy alternative pilot
Virgin 1 only the 88th most popular channel on satellite [free registration required]

US TV

Stargate: Atlantis gets a fifth season
Fox to cut back on TV pilots
NBC picks up Kath and Kim without a pilot
Shows will be back four to six weeks after the strike ends…
…with possibly the back nine episodes able to be completed
15 episodes of In Treatment to be streamed for free

Thursday’s news from the last few days

25 October 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

RTD picks fight with parents

Film

Guy Ritchie to direct Dirty Dozen remake
Anthony Hopkins to appear in The Wolfman
Michael Mann to reteam with Robert De Niro
John Rambo trailer
Rupert Evans as JLA Superman?
Angels and Demons being rushed through

British TV

Cheers‘ George Wendt and June Whitfield to appear in Green, Green Grass
Timothy Spall to play vengeful father for ITV1 drama
Disney to sponsor 4oD downloads of ABC shows
Dave a hit
Neil Gaiman wants to work with the Beeb again
BBC Natural History Unit to lose a third of its staff
RTD wants to do fortysomething gay drama

US TV

Britney Spears to appear on Sesame Street?
The CW’s ratings are down
Carrie-Anne Moss to co-star in FX’s transgender pilot
Steven Weber to star in another sitcom
David Duchovny bewildered by sanitising syndication reshoots of Californication
Moonlight gets four more scripts
Viva Laughlin cancelled
Carpoolers gets three more scripts while Samantha Who? gets six more
And the awful Back To You gets a full season
Fox to make female prison spin-off of Prison Break
Kurtwood Smith and Frankie Faison join Barry Sonnenfeld drama
Timothy Olyphant joining Samantha Who?
SciFi greenlights Warehouse 13
Stargate Atlantis renewed for fifth season
Pushing Daisies gets complete first season

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