Wednesday’s slash and burn news

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US TV

  • CBS cancels Without A Trace, Worst Week, renews Numb3rs, cancels Eleventh Hour, renews How I Met Your Mother, Gary Unmarried, Rules of Engagement and Old Christine
  • The CW drops Privileged, Reaper, Everybody Hates Chris, picks up Melrose Place 2.0, Beautiful Life and Vampire Diaries, but not the Gossip Girl spin-off
  • NBC cancels My Name is Earl and Medium; CBS picks up Medium and cancels The Unit
  • NBC to rotate shows around the yearChuck to follow Heroes in the Monday 8pm time slot mid-season
  • ABC cancels Cupid, According to Jim, The Unusuals

Thursday’s even more Greek myths news

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British TV

  • Kevin McKidd, Michelle Ryan and Ewen Bremner to star in Odyssey-inspired One Night in Emergency
  • Sky 1 trying to lure TV Burp from ITV
  • E4 acquires Privileged

US TV

June at the BFI

Time for our regular look at what’s on at the South Bank in London in June. Not much, basically, but here’s what I found:

  • 12th: Torchwood: Children of EarthDay 1. The first episode of the third series, followed by a Q&A with members of the cast and crew
  • 18th: Chandleresque: Raymond Chandler on Film & TV. An illustrated talk featuring film and audio clips.

For those that want the full description of that Torchwood episode (why?), here you go:

1965: Twelve children are gathered on a deserted moor, before being surrounded by a harsh, bright light… and then they are gone! Today: All over Earth, children stop moving. Stop playing. Stop laughing. Then, as one, they begin to speak with the same voice, announcing the imminent arrival of a new alien threat. ‘We are coming…’ As the British government closes ranks, it issues a death warrant against Captain Jack and Torchwood…

Anyone want to help out?

There’s also a “Jazz at Ronnie Scott’s” season, but if you think I’m wasting more than a nano-second on that, you’re wrong.

Members’ priority booking opens: 11.30am May 5
Public booking opens: 11.30am May 12

As always, visit the BFI web site for more details

Wednesday’s implausible Horne news

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News

Wednesday’s US Have I Got news

Family Guy meets ST:TNG

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Books

  • Macmillan to publish ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’ series written by Who/Torchwood novelist Andrew Lane

Theatre

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