The Avengers

Golfer enters witness protection for HBO pilot
Two more seasons for Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen
Canadian trailer for third season of Heroes
More money for Hugh Laurie…
…and a preview of this season on House and what went wrong last season [spoilers]
Katee Sackhoff to star in Dick Wolf’s Lost and Found
Cybill Shepherd to guest on Samantha Who?
Shannen Doherty leaving 90210

Monday’s suddenly cold and wet post-holiday news

18 August 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

Deleted scene from Iron Man
Remake of Candy Man planned – without a black lead?!
Matthew Vaughn to direct Kick-Ass
Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts and Bojana Novakovic join Edge of Darkness
Mike Myers to appear in Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards
Steve Carell and Tina Fey to play couple in Date Night
Tom Cruise to star in remake of French movie The Tourist
Superbad‘s Greg Mottola to direct Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s road movie

Theatre

Porridge to become stage show

British TV

Griff Rhys Jones to host new It’ll be Alright on the Night
Props for The IT Crowd requested
YA phone vote fix

US TV

Banana Splits to return
Madchen Amick to star in My Own Worst Enemy, John Eisendrath to be showrunner
Moonlight‘s Alex O’Loughlin signs one year with CBS
Pictures of Gene Hunt and Annie from Life on Mars remake
Sigourney Weaver to play Eli Stone‘s therapist
Pics of Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth in 90210 spin-off
True Blood trailer

Friday’s “Bad Lieutenant is Gene Hunt” news

25 July 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Doctor Who

Doctor Who and Star Trek merchandise signing ban at the RSC
Freema hacks off Rusty by quitting Torchwood for ITV
Lots of Moffat interviews from Comic-Con
John Barrowman to play Captain America??

Film

MTV to remake The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Hairspray 2 planned
In Treatment‘s Mia Wasikowska to play Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
Leonardo DiCaprio looking for old Twilight Zone episodes to adapt
David Self to write the new RoboCop movie
Footage from Tron 2 with Jeff Bridges shown at Comic-Con
Red Sonja gets the green light
Harold and Kumar 3 on the way

British TV

Gordon Ramsay creates his own production company
ITV to remake Bouquet of Barbed Wire
ITV commits to comedy

Russian TV

Russia gets its own The Office

US TV

And the new Gene Hunt is… Harvey Keitel!!
The Hoff might appear in Knight Rider again
Wizard’s First Rule changes name to Legend of the Seeker
FX making cop show Crossroads with McG
Little Britain USA characters unveiled
Patricia Heaton to star in second The Middle pilot
Jon Heder to star in online series Woke Up Dead

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