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Doctor Who

David Tennant talks about Doctor Who and Hamlet
RTD offered Steven Moffat his job – by email last summer
Want to get angry at something today? Let the Daily Mail help with this article on DT… Good old, reliable old DM

Art

Lowry Welsh sea view sells for £313k

Film

Keira Knightley to play cockney in My Fair Lady
Producers team up to make intelligent chick flicks
Leonardo DiCaprio to play founder of Atari
A Hulk promo featuring Iron Man
Harrison Ford to play real-life scientist
Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon to star in Cameron Crowe rom com

British TV

David Morrissey and Tara Fitzgerald to star in stalker drama
Hugh F-W faces £86,000 Tesco chicken bill
James Corden and Ruth Jones to write panto for Comic Relief

US TV

A clip from season three of Heroes
Amber Tamblyn joins The Unusuals plus more casting, including RTM’s Virtuality
Chris Rock’s brother gets his own show
A&E puts Patrick Swayze’s Beast into production

Thursday’s “18 inch monument” news

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Doctor Who

David Tennant records trailers for BBC Wales
Did she or didn’t she? Who really should have won Catherine Tate’s comedy award?

Film

The latest Captain America news
Kung Fu Panda clip
Keira, Gwyneth and Sir Anthony Hopkins to star in King Lear

British TV

Beeb apologies over allegedly defamatory Waking the Dead episode
MPs attack home office for using £400,000 to fund Sky One’s Border Force [free registration required]
Nigel Tufnel to promote Stonehenge documentary
ITV fails its regional quota

US TV

Comedy Central renews Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil
Some mistake, surely? Sharon Osbourne to teach etiquette
Polly Walker joins Caprica
Gordon Ramsay nearly eats a Hell’s Kitchen contestant’s thumb

Thursday’s “not Greek, not fat, but maybe a wedding” news

15 May 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Former producer Philip Hinchcliffe compares old Who with nu-Who

Film

Not a joke after all: Corden and Horne to star in Lesbian Vampire Killers
Nia Vardalos and John Corbett reteam for I Hate Valentine’s Day
Tommy Lee Jones to write, direct, produce and star in Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream
15 minutes of behind the scenes footage from Indiana Jones
Jonah Hill to star in 21 Jump Street adaptation?
New Hulk trailer
Leonardo DiCaprio to play Ian Fleming?
Daniel Day Lewis to do musical based on 8½

Art

Bacon’s “Triptych, 1976” sets record for post-war art sale

British TV

Kelly Brook to replace Jennifer Ellison on Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life
Gordon Brown to do PM Apprentice show?
Johnny Vegas to star in BBC3 record label comedy

US TV

Allison Mack staying on Smallville
TNT orders series from George Clooney, Joel Surnow et al
Kelsey Grammer lobbying CBS execs to rescue Back To You
Heroes webisodes to start mid-July
Scrubs boss airs some grievances

Iron Man – the post-credits bonus

12 May 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Liked Iron Man. Liked it a lot. But I wasn’t prepared to sit through a day’s worth of credits at the end.

So I missed this. It’s brief but it’s interesting for its Very Famous Person cameo and what it means for future movies.

UPDATED: I replaced the vid with one that Paramount hasn’t taken down. But it has Spanish subtitles. Sorry.

Friday’s doomsday news

2 May 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

News will be back on 6th May because of the UK bank holiday on Monday

Doctor Who

Why Rose’s return in Partners in Crime was a ‘secret‘
Bradley Walsh and Russ Abbott to appear in The Sarah Jane Adventures

Film

Rick Yune to play villain in Ninja Assassin
Iron Man 2 production to start soon
Maggie Gyllenhaal to replace Toni Collette in Sam Mendes feature

British TV

Channel Five chief executive Jane Lighting resigns from Five
Ian Hislop doing another documentary for BBC Four
Dave commissions three game show pilots [free registration required]
ITV tried to poach The One Show team [free registration required]
Double pay for Hamster?

US TV

Michael Rosenbaum leaving Smallville, to be replaced by other villains
ABC Family unveils its schedule
Catherine O’Hara and Andie MacDowell join pilots
Characters revealed in Little Britain US
Gary Dourdan might return to CSI

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