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Myleene Klass leaving The One Show
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Dermot Murnaghan leaving the Beeb for Sky News
ITV Factual looking for voluntary redundancies
ITV could face £70m fine over premium phone cheating
Beeb announces cuts, including Bill Oddie shows and £10m from BBC3
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SciFi green-lights Revolution pilot
Private Practice, The Big Bang Theory and The Unit all get full-season confirmations
Complete Daily Show archive now online while Jon Stewart agrees to host until at least 2010
Bionic Woman ratings dropping
Toni Collette to star in Spielberg’s The United States of Tara
Dean Cain talks Smallville
The Wire to focus on Baltimore Sun
John Travolta and Kirstie Alley to cameo together in Ugly Betty

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Doctor Who

David Tennant and Catherine Tate take Peter Capaldi, Tracey Childs and Phil Davis over to Rome for a week’s filming for the new series [spoilers]

Film

Jessica Biel to be the Justice League‘s Wonder Woman?
The Rock to play either hero or villain in Shazam!
Die Hard director John McTiernan sent to prison for four months for lying to the Feds

British TV

To The Manor Born gets a Christmas reunion

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Michael Shanks to guest star in Eureka
Nana Visitor to guest on Battlestar Galactica
James Garner to play David Boreanaz’s granddad on Bones?
A teaser trailer for the new season of The Wire
NBC orders up an anthology horror series
HBO to make drama based on 2000’s Florida recount

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John Cusack’s Stopping Power is back on track
Brett Ratner and Christ Tucker take on Frank Sinatra – and his valet
Katherine Heigl picks up the rights to Lost & Found, so she can make it with her mum
Isla Fisher to star in Confessions of a Shopaholic adaptation
Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green join futuristic London-set thriller Franklyn
Brad Pitt to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter
Wild Geese to be remade
Resident Evil 4 to focus on Ali Larter?
Warner not best pleased with JJ Abrams

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First look at Matt Lucas in Kath & Kim

British TV

It sounds like a joke, but UKTV G2 is taking over UKTV Bright Ideas’ slot on Freeview and renaming itself – as Dave. Yes, Dave
Win a walk-on part in Shameless
Five to get a Spring refresh?
Living unveils its 2008 line-up, including Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle and Viva Laughlin
Blue Peter‘s cat-naming poll was fixed

US TV

Brit actors Gina McKee and Sienna Guillory join the cast of The Oaks
FX making a modern day Parallax View called Paranoid, from the screenwriter of Fight Club
The Wire‘s writers come up with a spoof final scene
Fall series might have to drop their budgets
A Lost character rises from the dead (spoiler)

Review: Prison Break 3×1

19 September 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

In the US: Mondays, 8/7c, Fox

In the UK: Mondays, 10pm, Sky One. Starts 24th September

Characters re-cast: 0

Major characters gotten rid of: Several

Major new characters: An entire prison-full

Format change percentage: 50%

Have a look at the title of the show. Prison Break. Two words. Prison and Break. There’s not a lot of room for manoeuvre, is there?

So plot of season one: Prison. Plot of season two: Break.

What’s season three going to be about then? Have a guess. Prison again?

You betcha.

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Review: K-Ville 1×1

19 September 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

In the US: Fox, Mondays, 9/8c

In the UK: Acquired by Five for air in early 2008

Ever wondered what would have happened if Fox, rather than HBO, had made The Wire? Then wonder no more, because here it is: K-Ville.

The parallels are clear: both are cop shows; both are set in poor US cities; both have a mainly black cast and supporting cast; and both have a political edge.

Here, though, the parallels stop. While The Wire is edgy and intelligent, has a measured pace with plots developing over seasons rather than a single episode, and well defined, realistic characters, K-Ville is implausible, silly and falls for every cliché the genre has to offer.

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