Wednesday’s perfectly acceptable news

Doctor Who

  • Christopher Eccleston talks a bit about Doctor Who, his potential return to Heroes and The Dark is Rising

Film

Commercials

  • Heineken is back [free registration required, I think]

British TV

  • Simon Amstell is developing a sitcom based on his own life
  • Sky One nabs the rights to Prison Break from Five

US TV

News from over the weekend

It might be news, it might not: I’ve been in a bubble for a week. Have we started any new wars?

Doctor Who

Film

Theatre

British TV

  • Kim Cattrall to play Daniel Radcliffe’s mum in a World War I ITV1 drama. I thought Rupert Grint was supposed to be ITV’s saviour?
  • Which of the forthcoming new US shows are the British networks interested in: news from the LA screenings
  • Reality TV: the US has a show about pirates, we get one about local planning offices

Polish TV

US TV

Wednesday’s news

Film

Commercials

  • Mena Suvari is next up to face the ‘Orange film funding board’

Theatre

  • The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns to the West End from June 12

British TV

US TV

News

Friday’s slightly more lucid news

Party Doctor

They must have been out partying.

Doctor Who

Film

  • Talk with Zack Snyder about Watchmen. Narrowly avoided: Tom Cruise as Ozymandias.
  • A sequel is being planned for LA Confidential
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is contractually obliged to appear in Terminator 4
  • Latino Review casts its eye over the script for Matt Helm. There’s a blast from the past, hey?

Art

  • Sotheby’s has a Munch sale towards the end of the month

British TV

US TV

  • Big changes afoot for season two of Heroes
  • Bereft of inspiration, ABC turns some commercials featuring cavemen into a pilot
  • Richard Dreyfuss joins the cast of Tin Man
  • Season five of The Wire will be the funniest but only run to 10 episodes
  • Lots of casting news, with Donald Sutherland joining Peter Krause’s Dirty Sexy Money
  • Yet another Spiderman cartoon is on the way.
  • Heroes‘ Jessalyn Gilsig gets a pilot
  • Trailer for the last Heroes before the season break
  • Paul Reubens joins the cast of the Area 52 pilot