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Monday morning day-off news

30 April 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Comic Doctor

You’d never guess I wasn’t supposed to be working today, would you? Must. Work. Harder…

Doctor Who

Films

  • Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse will be two separate movies in the UK. The first part will be out on September 21st
  • Iron Man will have both the original grey and the more famous red and gold suits
  • Frost-Nixon is being made into a movie with Frank Langella as Nixon. Will Michael Sheen get to be Frost again?
  • Ridley Scott to direct revisionist Robin Hood film Nottingham, with Russell Crowe as the brave and good Sheriff
  • Daniel Craig doesn’t like having his bottom snapped, allegedly
  • Darren Aronofsky wants to make a film about Noah
  • Gordon Ramsay: the movie?
  • Old Clive Owen mini-series Second Sight to be adapted

Technology

British TV

  • Freesat’s been given the all-clear by the BBC Trust. Good news: it’ll be futureproof
  • Richard Herring talks about his new sitcom

US TV

  • New characters for Adult Swim
  • Conan O’Brien blames NBC for the demise of Andy Barker, PI
  • Studio 60‘s coming back on May 24 in the current ER slot
  • Whatever happened to Masters of Science Fiction?
  • The UK’s Man Stroke Woman to be remade by and with Sean Hayes

Tuesday’s ever-so-tired news

3 April 2007 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Feel sorry for the US: BBC America has just bought Torchwood
  • David Tennant back for series four

Film

  • Aardman’s signed with Sony now
  • Can anyone say ‘fix’? Serenity voted best sci-fi movie ever
  • Two John Cusack trailers

British TV

  • John Travolta will appear in the Christmas Extras
  • Virgin Media has launched a digital terrestrial service

US TV

  • Jennifer Love Hewitt’s mind is as thin as the rest of her: she thinks ghosts haunt the set of Ghost Whisperer
  • The Black Donnellys has been pulled
  • You can buy one of the original KITTs from Knight Rider
Events

Glorious Friday’s glorious news

16 March 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Billie and David



Doctor Who

  • Stephen Fry didn’t have the time to finish his Doctor Who episode
  • David Tennant drops in on Pipes at the theatre
  • Doctor Who and Torchwood have turned Cardiff into one of the top 10 tourist destinations in the UK. You mean it wasn’t before?

Film

  • Cate Blanchett is in Indiana Jones 4
  • More Watchmen info. The ‘girls’ are going to be sexier apparently
  • Jackie Chan says Brett Ratner doesn’t know much about directing action
  • There’s a script for Trainspotting 2

Commercials

British TV

  • Stephen Fry’s Kingdom gets a second series before the first has even aired.
  • Not got digital yet? If you live in Whitehaven, you’re screwed

US TV

Monday morning news

12 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Have a good one?

Doctor Who

  • John Barrowman will be meeting horses this month and signing Torchwood audio books in April
  • Russell T Davies talks to the Telegraph about his work, the fourth series and leaving Doctor Who (maybe), among other things

Film

  • Simpsons and Futurama movie talk from Matt Groening
  • A Captain Marvel film is being written by John August
  • Dougray Scott will co-star in Luc Besson’s adaptation of the HItman video game
  • Casting for the new St Trinian’s movie includes Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Russell Brand

British TV

  • Skins will be back, unfortunately
  • There’s going to be a special Inspector Morse weekend on ITV3, as well as a concert at the Albert Hall, to celebrate the show’s 20th birthday.

US TV

  • Another UK format crosses the Atlantic: BBC3’s “give teenagers a baby to look after” show Baby Borrowers is to become a comedy for NBC.
  • Jenna Elfman does for authors what Tom Cruise did for sportsmen with new Darren Star show Literary Superstar
  • Kristin meets Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes
  • Windows users can watch Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver’s new show, The Riches, online at AOL TV before it airs.
  • Potentially big, Watchmen-esque spoiler for Heroes
  • Oliver Platt joins the cast of the US version of The Thick of It. Plus more casting news
  • Dexter stuff, including second season spoilers

Tuesday’s worst kept secrets

13 February 2007 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

It’s the news, my friends.

Doctor Who

  • Australia says ‘No’, to Torchwood
  • More on Recovery from the ever-classy Mirror
  • Billie Piper is ‘attached’ to an adaptation of Belle de Jour. The blog/book, that is, not the movie.

Film

  • More details on the Watchmen movie, which is still happening, it seems.
  • Adrien Brody as The Hulk?
  • Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller as The Hardy Men is on.
  • An interview with Ioan Gruffudd, a proper Welsh super-hero. None of that English rubbish.

British TV

German TV

  • ZDF is making a mini-series based on Stanislav Lem short stories

US TV

  • Here’s something you probably never thought you’d hear: Michelle Ryan, aka Zoe Slater from EastEnders, is the new Bionic Woman.
  • The Sarah Silverman Program has already been commissioned for a second season.
  • Former Wonder Woman Lynda Carter is to play Chloe’s mum in Smallville
  • Louise Lombard from CSI has a pilot, as does Sarah Clarke (Nina Myers from 24)
  • Battlestar Galactica has been given a fourth season. Only 13 episodes at the moment, though.
  • Classic TV coming to YouTube?
  • Kristin’s got scoops and spoilers, including the return of a certain character to Supernatural.