Looks excellent at every point except the ones where our heroes try to be action heroes. Nope. Not working. Never going to convince me. But the rest of it could be good even.
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Torchwood
Friday’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Trailer” news
Doctor Who
- Eve Myles has message for angry UK Torchwood fans
Film
- Thor 2 gets go-ahead without Kenneth Branagh
- Trailer for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Vince Vaughn joins Ben Stiller in Neighborhood Watch
- The O2 to host UK Comic-Con
- Drew Barrymore to produce and direct Heist Society
British TV
- ITV to cut daytime drama repeats to test to in-house formats [subscription required]
- Sky1 HD acquires rights to Terra Nova
- News Corp cleared to acquire BSkyB
- Russell Tovey to appear in Sherlock
Canadian TV
- Dichen Lachman joins Being Human
US TV
Wednesday’s “3D animated Graham Chapman” news
Doctor Who
- An 11-minute Torchwood featurette
Film
- New trailer for The Three Musketeers
- Breaking Bad‘s Giancarlo Esposito joins I, Alex Cross
- Trailer for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
- Alias‘s Mia Maestro joins The Savages
- A Party Down movie?
- Monty Python reunite for 3D animated movie based on Graham Chapman’s memoirs
- The Rock to be in GI Joe sequel
British TV
- Press pack for The Night Watch
- Sirens starts with 1.6m viewers
US TV
- The Playboy Club finds a home in Utah
- True Blood returns with 5.4m viewers
- Cougar Town to become Friends With Beverages?
- Martin Short joins How I Met Your Mother
Tuesday’s “Greek myths and singing Johanssons” news
Doctor Who
- Torchwood to premiere in UK on July 14th
Film
- New trailer for The Immortals
- Carey Mulligan to star in Outback
- Scarlett Johansson to star in – and sing in – Can A Song Save Your Life?
- Tobey Maguire out of The Paperboy, Nicole Kidman in?
- Xerxes becomes 300: Battle of Artemisia
Theatre
- Alistair McGowan to replace Rupert Everett in Pygmalion
- Sharon Gless to star in A Round-heeled Woman
Canadian TV
- Ed Asner to recur on Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays
US TV
- Michelle Trachtenberg to guest on Weeds
- Ed Begley Jr to guest on Rizzoli & Isles
- HBO to make pilot based on The Big Girls
- Tom Sizemore to recur on Hawaii Five-0
- Trailer for season 2 of Boardwalk Empire
- Falling Skies ratings drop 29% for episode 2
News
Monday’s “but which is canon?” news
Doctor Who
- Torchwood to have US extras that UK won’t see and vice versa
Film
- Green Lantern sequel a go
- Trailer for Apollo 18
- Ed Helms pitch picked up by Warner Bros
- Christopher Meloni to co-star in Man of Steel
- Emma Stone turns down Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
US TV
- Guests on Suits…
- …which starts well in the ratings, as does Burn Notice
- Fight Club writer to write Trent Reznor’s HBO/BBC mini-series Year Zero
- Wilfred is FX’s highest rated comedy premiere