Studio 60

You’d never guess I wasn’t supposed to be working today, would you? Must. Work. Harder…

Doctor Who

• Doctor Who and Torchwood win big at the Welsh BAFTAs
• Evolution of the Daleks got 6.5 million viewers. Sunshine, hey? Really ruins those ratings
• Taking a leaf out the BSG playbook, the Beeb lets you create your own Doctor Who comic online
• John Barrowman wants to be a pop star?
• Torchwood, series two, starts shooting today
• Kylie? Russell doesn’t think so

Films

• Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse will be two separate movies in the UK. The first part will be out on September 21st
• Iron Man will have both the original grey and the more famous red and gold suits
• Frost-Nixon is being made into a movie with Frank Langella as Nixon. Will Michael Sheen get to be Frost again?
• Ridley Scott to direct revisionist Robin Hood film Nottingham, with Russell Crowe as the brave and good Sheriff
• Daniel Craig doesn’t like having his bottom snapped, allegedly
• Darren Aronofsky wants to make a film about Noah
• Gordon Ramsay: the movie?
• Old Clive Owen mini-series Second Sight to be adapted

Technology

• The European iTunes Store is going to start stocking full-length movies this year

British TV

• Freesat’s been given the all-clear by the BBC Trust. Good news: it’ll be futureproof
• Richard Herring talks about his new sitcom

US TV

• New characters for Adult Swim
• Conan O’Brien blames NBC for the demise of Andy Barker, PI
• Studio 60‘s coming back on May 24 in the current ER slot
• Whatever happened to Masters of Science Fiction?
• The UK’s Man Stroke Woman to be remade by and with Sean Hayes