Time for another one of those Marvel one-shots featuring Agent Coulson, who’s appeared in virtually all the Marvel superhero movies of late, including Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Thor. It’s set before the start of Thor, for obvious reasons.
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The Avengers
News
Friday’s “Buffy reunion” news
Film
- Trailer for This Means War with Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy
- Robert Downey Jr joins The Accidental Genius
- Gerard Butler joins Hunter Killer
- Trailer for American Pie sequel American Reunion
- Patty Jenkins to direct Thor 2
- Matthew Rhys and Eileen Atkins to star in The Scapegoat
British TV
- Jason Isaacs’s Case Histories to return in 2012 for two feature-length stories
- Downton Abbey could go on forever
US TV
- Fred Durst to star in CBS comedy
- HBO teams with Dick Wolf for period think tank drama
- Netflix to stream The CW shows for four years
- NBC buys Ryan Murphy comedy
- Wednesday ratings: American Horror Story drops 14%, Psych up to 3m…
- …Happy Endings get best ever ratings…
- …prompting ABC to give it more episodes, give full seasons to Revenge and Suburgatory
- The Killing‘s Eric Ladin to guest on Castle
- HBO developing The Kids Are All Right as a pilot
- Steve Bochco and David Milch reunite for NBC legal drama
- The Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi to star in CBS comedy
- Fox picks up Confessions of a Contractor
- Cable’s USA Network beating sister network NBC in the ratings
Wednesday’s “Avengers assemble” news
Film
- Lone Ranger back on – with a reduced budget
- Javier Badem confirmed as Bond villain
- Trailer for The Avengers
Radio
- David Tennant to play Robert Louis Stevenson in Stevenson in Love
Theatre
- Ugly Betty‘s America Ferrera to make West End debut in Chicago
British TV
- Terra Nova nearly gets 1m viewers
- Richard E Grant, Sylvia Sims, James Purefoy, Geoffrey Palmer and Ralph Fiennes to guest on Rev
- Sue Johnston to star in Lapland
US TV
- Neal McDonough and 24‘s Mykelti Williamson to play baddies in Justified
- Rachael Harris to guest on New Girl
- New trailer for Grimm
- NBC picks up Courteney Cox’s Ten Years
- Sunday ratings: Homeland does well, Dexter drops
- Monday ratings: Bored to Death and Enlightened do badly
- Six more episodes for Harry’s Law
Web TV
- More Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge [subscription required]
Wednesday’s “what are you thinking, NBC?” news
Film
- Mister Ed movie planned
- Kyle XY/Thor‘s Jaimie Alexander joins The Last Stand
- Bridget Jones 3 needs a new British director
- WTF? Werner Herzog to play the villain in Tom Cruise’s One Shot
- Trailer for Another Happy Day, with Ellen Barkin and Demi Moore
Canadian TV
- Stefanie von Pfetten to star in Cracked
- Ratings for the week of Sept 26 to October 2
US TV
- Brad Dourif to guest on Once Upon A Time
- Chris Bauer to guest on Hawaii Five-0
- Jon Favreau working on Tweaked
- Michael C Hall/Showtime talks break down…
- …as do The Simpsons/Fox talks
- Ash Atalla sells I Lick My Cheese and another comedy to CBS
- NBC cancels The Playboy Club, picks up Up All Night and Whitney for full seasons
- Remake of French-Canadian Les Invincibles sold to Fox
- Monday ratings: House, 2 Broke Girls down, Terra Nova, Hart of Dixie steady
- ION acquires The Listener
- The Coen Brothers developing a PI show for Fox
Musical interlude: William Shatner sings “Iron Man”
Isn’t it amazing that despite this rendition of “Iron Man” for his forthcoming album, William Shatner is still totally awesome?