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19 March 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Let the third series publicity machine grind into action.

Doctor Who

Freema Agyeman talks to The Star and The Sun and others without web links
RTD talks to The Observer and The Independent
The death of C’rizz? We can only hope. That and other Big Finish news.
Billie Piper talks Who and Austen

Comics

Stan Lee Media sues Marvel. Stan Lee condemns the move. Confused?

Film

A sequel to 300?
The next Bond movie will be a direct sequel to Casino Royale
Erk. Here comes Pirates of the Caribbean 3‘s trailer

British TV

A new Chris Morris show on the way about suicide bombers?
Simon Cowell’s moving into drama

US TV

24 spoilers
Richard Dean Anderson will be in the second Stargate movie
Fox picks up part-reality, part-scripted comedy Anchorwoman for six episodes
Lots of casting news: in particular, Kathy Baker joins Babylon Fields and Victoria Pratt joins Dirty, Sexy Money
Heroes is getting sued for stealing ideas. I’ll preserve the surprise by letting you guess which part is allegedly unoriginal
Stanley Tucci joins ER
An interview with The Wire‘s Felicia Pearson
MTV does an autism reality TV show
Cynthia Watros from Lost gets a pilot
30 Rock looks likely to get a second season

Wednesday morning news

14 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Murray Gold gets interviewed about making music, surprisingly
Freema gets all SAS
SFX interviews RTD

Comics

Captain America not dead, as predicted?

Film

Hayley Atwell is the new Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
John Waters is making a kids’ film
The inevitable (and partially justified) nitpicks of 300 by historians begins

There’s going to be a Transporter 3

British TV

ITV Play is getting the chop

US TV

Interviews with the Heroes cast by Kristin
Bravo has bought Television Without Pity
Dr Evil aka Viacom has finally sued YouTube/Google for $1 billion
Michael Shanks is guest starring on 24
Lost, Scrubs, Smallville and CSI: Miami spoilers on Ask Ausiello

Wednesday’s news and catching up

21 February 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Doctor Who

Hugh Grant is in talks to appear as a baddie. Plus he claims he could have been the Doctor, too.

Film

Lots of Transformers pics.

Theatre

Peter Egan stars in a new production of Hound of the Baskervilles.

British TV

Marco Pierre White comes out of retirement to replace Gordon Ramsay in Hell’s Kitchen. You should read what Gordon has to say about him in his biography. [free registration required]
Actors appearing in the new Blake’s 7 audio plays will get royalties [subscription required].
Heroes gives the SciFi channel its best ratings ever. That’s a 4.4% share or less than half a mill, by the way.
Big Brother partworks? De Agostini may be after Endemol.

US TV

I previewed it a very long time ago, but The Black Donnellys is nearly here now and you can see that first episode (yes, you, too, UK viewers) for free over on Yahoo! TV.
George Takei strikes back against homophobic basketball players in a slightly unexpected way.
Pioneering new levels of tastelessness in reality TV, Spike now wants amateur detectives to solve real-life murder cases in just 48 hours. But it’s for charity, so that’s all right then, isn’t it?
The last (?) episode of Studio 60 gets really bad ratings.
Ausiello talks to David Eick about Battlestar Galactica and reveals that the movie now has the green light, spoilers about the last four episodes of the season and spoilers about the next season.
Also from Ausiello: Nancy Cartwright (aka Bart Simpson) will be appearing in 24 and lots of Lost spoilers.
Jewel Staite from Firefly is joining Stargate: Atlantis, as are Stargate regulars Amanda Tapping, as we know, and Christopher Judge (although only for one episode). Torri Higginson (Dr Weir) has been demoted to recurring character status. Plus thoughts from exec producer Joseph Mallozzi. Looks, judging from the comments, like fans aren’t happy about any of it…
Heroes spoilers over on Kristin’s E! blog
Pilots, pilots, pilots. Notably Linus Roache is in a pilot with Juliana Margulies and Beau Bridges is a comedy bigamist.

Thursday’s news. Just one more day

18 January 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Curses. I thought they were going to let me go, yesterday, but now they’ve promised me a potential “quick one- or two-day” trial. Anyway, here’s the news.

Film

Doug Coupland’s jPod has been turned into a short film which you can view online.
There’s a not-great trailer for Highlander: The Source on YouTube. Well, more like a rough-cut of the first two minutes. Doesn’t look promising though.

British TV

Even Gordon Brown is weighing in on the Celebrity Big Brother turmoil. A Big Brother effigy was burnt in Patna. Carphone Warehouse is thinking about withdrawing sponsorship. It’s all got a bit serious. Still, it looks like this week’s eviction is going to be Jade v Shilpa, so guess who’s going to get kicked out.
What’s going to happen to the British The IT Crowd? The second season has been filmed and is ready for transmission in the next few months. But now Richard Ayoade has joined the cast of the American version of the show to reprise the role of Moss. Will he have time for a third British series if the US version goes ahead?
BBC4 will show another one-off special of The Thick Of It in the summer.

US TV

Keith Olbermann’s lost perspective and started to have a go at 24 instead of Bill O’Reilly.
Tricia Helfer gives minor spoilers about the rest of the season on BSG.
NBC has ordered new seasons of Heroes, My Name is Earl, The Office and 30 Rock, as well as a few other shows. It’s also picked up an Australian improv comedy format.
Juliet’s going to get another flashback in Lost.
Some of the cast of the now-cancelled Stargate SG-1 are going to start appearing in Stargate Atlantis. In particular, Amanda Tapping is going to be in 14 episodes.
Richard Dean Anderson’s been approached to appear in the forthcoming Stargate SG-1 movies
There’s going to be a six-episode animated series of Smallville for mobile phones. Yahoo is also going to have a four minute clip from the forthcoming episode Justice.
Aaron Sorkin’s hacked off about criticism of Studio 60. He also provides some spoilers for the rest of the season.
Fox has commissioned another rubbish sitcom called Playing Chicken.

Tuesday’s news update

16 January 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Film

Bong Soo Han has died.
Sasha Baron Cohen’s Golden Globes speech didn’t go down well.

British TV

Viewers are complaining about racism on Celebrity Big Brother. What do they expect with so many Essex celebrities on the show?

US TV

Scrubs might have a seventh season, but only if Zach Braff stays. Spoilers at the end of the article, though!
And if it does come back, if NBC doesn’t want it, ABC will take it.
Jennifer Aniston is going to appear in Dirt as a rival tabloid’s editor.
The Stargate movies have got the go-ahead and names now.
No one’s very enthusiastic about In Case of Emergency, not even the stars.
A draft of the pilot episode of Preacher is ready.
The Dresden Files is going to be monster-of-the-week instead of serial.
SciFi guarantees a bad movie every Saturday.

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