The Medium is Not Enough TV blog

Friday's not so traumatic news

Rob Buckley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:28:58 +0000

The Daily News will be back on Thursday 26th November 2009

Doctor Who

Pic of David Tennant from End of Time – Part 1

Film

New bill would require Channel 4 to invest in film
Idris Elba to play Heimdall on Thor
The Shield writer John Hlavin to write Underworld 4
War of Gods now Dawn of War
Jason Lee to direct Get Back

Theatre

Trafalgar 2 and Sadler's Wells announce seasons

British TV

Psychoville 2 set for next year
Virgin 1 picks up Trauma and Warehouse 13
Living 2 to become Livingit
Comedy Pete v Life becomes a series for Channel 4
BT Vision to get Freeview HD

US TV

Heroes moving back to 9pm after Chuck returns in January
V and The Prisoner's ratings plummet
ABC Family to get a pirates show
Wednesday's ratings
Casting on Delta Blues
Sam Shepard to star in Epix's first pilot
Grey's Anatomy to get a web series
Trauma gets uncancelled
Clip from season 3 of Chuck

Thursday's "Sorkin's TV trilogy" news

Rob Buckley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:28:01 +0000

Film

Director found for 47 Ronin
Simon Baker acquires rights to Breath
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel acquired
Sam Worthington to star in American Criminal

British TV

BBC thriller The Silence to star profoundly deaf actress
BBC3 commissions comedy pilot centered on pub

US TV

Brooke Shields to guest on The Middle
Heroes ratings drop again
V ratings drop again
Kiele Sanchez, Carlos Gomez land roles in Sugarloaf
Hilary Duff leaving Gossip Girl?
More original Melrose Place characters to return
Aaron Sorkin working on another behind-the-scenes TV show

Wednesday's "well it's one way for STV to make money" news

Rob Buckley — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:51:16 +0000

Doctor Who

Clip from End of Time to feature in Children in Need on Friday

Film

Jennifer Hudson to star in Winnie

British TV

Screenwipe to return for review of the year
STV sues ITV again – this time for VoD rights
Sky launches Christmas movie channel
Cast on ITV1's Murder on The Orient
Consortium to provide Wales and Scotland with news on channel 3 to be ready by March
Photos from Gavin & Stacey series 3

Canadian TV

The Listener gets a second season

US TV

The CW orders up another pilot for Global Frequency
Will Arnett to guest on NBC's Parks and Recreation
Prison Break's Amaury Nolasco and Ethan Embry get cast on pilots
Gretchen Mol joins Boardwalk Empire
Jason Lee to star in Delta Blues
Fred Willard to guest on Modern Family

Tuesday's no Nemo news

Rob Buckley — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:51:15 +0000

Doctor Who

Waters of Mars gets 9.1m viewers

Film

Universal acquires TMI for Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris
Anna Faris to play Robin Williams' daughter in Wedding Banned?
Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano join Thor?
Captain Nemo stops production

Theatre

Hair returns to the West End
Abi Titmuss to play Lady Macbeth

US TV

Trailer for HBO/Spielberg/Hanks's Pacific
WGBH acquires ITV1's Collision
Amanda Tapping to guest again on Stargate Universe
Orlando Jones to play Foreman's brother on House
Buffy: the webisodes
Mad Men's Abigail Spencer joins Rex is Not Your Lawyer
Lorraine Bracco joins Rizzoli
The Prisoner gets 2.2m viewers
Mandy Patinkin gives Three Rivers highest ever ratings
Kevin Murphy replaces Jane Espenson as Caprica showrunner

Monday's TV exorcism news

Rob Buckley — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:32:08 +0000

Doctor Who

Michael Moorcock to write Doctor Who novel?

Film

Aaron Sorkin to write movie about the founding of Greenpeace?
Butch Cassidy legend to be shot as Blackthorn
Independence Day to get two sequels?
Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon join The King's Speech
Trailer for Ed Norton in Leaves of Grass
Trailer for Steve Carell and Tina Fey's Date Night
Silent Hill 2?

British TV

Ricky Gervais to script edit PhoneShop for E4
New iPlayer channel for Wii
STV calls for changes in ITV
E4 gets 447,000 viewers
Big Top press pack

Canadian TV

Broadcasters petitioning to avoid simultaneous transmission of US shows

US TV

FlashForward still at all-time low, but CSI up in ratings
Larry Charles developing fanboy sitcom for NBC
Alyssa Milano to guest on Castle
George Segal to star in Retired at 35 for TV Land
Order for Romantically Challenged cut
Friday's ratings
Lost producers abandon Dark Tower adaptation
Exorcist to be remade as mini-series by William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty
Gina Torres joins The Vampire Diaries

Friday's "Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid" news

Rob Buckley — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:28:49 +0000

Doctor Who

An interview with John Simm [spoilers]
More 'lost stories' for Big Finish, including McCoy's missing season

Film

New trailer for Avatar
Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Dreyfuss and Brian Cox to star with Bruce Willis in Red?
Trailer for Amy Adam's rom-com Leap Year

Radio

Charlie Brooker to host Radio 4 panel show

Theatre

Alan Moore to write an opera

British TV

Bebo cuts staff and web TV shows
Janice Hadlow looking for smart dramas for BBC2
Being Human to move to Wales if there's a third series
Spooks get 4.5m for second ep

Canadian TV

CBC and Telefilm Canada to collaborate on TV movies

US TV

Sarah Connor producer to remake Charlie's Angels?
BSG's Kate Vernon joins Heroes
Minnie Driver to guest on Modern Family
ABC to adapt Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid
Jeffrey Tambor to star with David Tennant in Rex Is Not Your Lawyer
Hayden Panettierre to produce CW Harvard Medical School drama, HMS
Alternative Star Trek pilots to be released on Blu-Ray
Details of the Gattaca TV series

Thursday's "Hank and Dollhouse get yanked" news

Rob Buckley — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:30:52 +0000

Doctor Who

Fourth series of Torchwood to begin work in January?
New pictures from The Waters of Mars

Film

Marti Noxon to write new version of Fright Night
Harvey Keitel joins Little Fockers

Theatre

La Cage Aux Folles to close

British TV

Tuesday night ratings
It's the BBC2 winter and spring press pack
BBC2 acquires Nurse Jackie

US TV

Ray Bradbury working on mini-series based on short stories
Dollhouse and Hank both get cancelled
Tuesday night ratings, with V dropping off
SyFy commissions comedy Outer Space Astronauts

Wednesday's Sex and Brazil news

Rob Buckley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:30:15 +0000

Film

Trailer for Kick-Ass
Trailer for Clash of the Titans
Will Smith to star in adaptation of Flowers For Algernon?
Mad Men creator plans rom-com with Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper

Theater/Theatre

Denzel Washington returns to Broadway for Fences
Jason Donovan and Liz McClarnon to star in touring version of The War of the Worlds

British TV

BBC4 drama press pack
BBC Cymru Wales appoints Elis Owen head of commissioning
BSkyB launches iPhone mobile TV app

US TV

LA Law's Sheila Kelley joins Lost
TV viewing reaches all-time high
CSI, Gossip Girl up, Heroes hits all-time low in ratings
Robert Patrick to guest on Chuck
Jason Lewis to star in detective pilot set in Brazil, Rio!

Tuesday's bye, bye witches news

Rob Buckley — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:43:25 +0000

Doctor Who

Promo pics from Waters of Mars

Film

Cecile de France joins Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter
Len Wiseman to direct Nocturne
Dolph Lundgren to appear in Conan?
Dwight Schultz to cameo in The A-Team

Theatre

Lesley Manville, Anthony Head and Obi Abili to star in Six Degrees of Separation

British TV

STV criticised for not showing Collision
Ofcom rejects Freeview anti-piracy scheme

US TV

Pam Grier to guest on Smallville
Matthew Perry turns down Cougar Town role
Eastwick cancelled, The Forgotten gets five more episodes
Melissa George to recur on Lie to Me
CBS orders comedy script based on Twitter's Shit My Dad says
Mad Men finale gets 2.3m
Behind the scenes of David Simon's Treme
White Collar down 36%, SGU down to new low, Smallville on season high

Monday's ITV period drama news

Rob Buckley — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:50:33 +0000

Awards

Results of the Scottish BAFTAs

Film

Jake Gyllenhaal to star in Source Code?
Gwyneth Paltrow to star in The Danish Girl
Se7en team reunite for The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

Theatre

Jonathan Pryce to star in The Caretaker when it transfers to West End

British TV

ITV1 to adapt Philippa Gregory's The Little House
Alan Plater to write one-off period drama for ITV1
ITV greenlights WW2 drama Joe Maddison's War
STV sues ITV but will bring back Taggart anyway
Gavin & Stacey series three press pack – including episode synopses! [spoilers]
The line up for Idris Elba's Luther, including Paul McGann and Indira Varma

US TV

Community up, Fringe down on Thursdays
Elliott Gould to guest on Law & Order?
BSG's Michael Trucco and Virginia Williams join USA's Facing Kate
James Franco doing General Hospital for a movie

Friday's transgender and onion-based news

Rob Buckley — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:41 +0000

Doctor Who

New trailer for Waters of Mars

Books

Fiction sales in the UK soar 90% as non-fiction sales fall

Film

Woo hoo! Elizabeth Mitchell to star in Answers to Nothing with Julie Benz
Bradley Cooper to star in Dark Fields
Dan Aykroyd to star in Burke and Hare
Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake in talks to star in Yogi Bear
Isla Fisher to star in Desperados?
Trailer for Angelina Jolie's CIA action-flick Salt

British TV

Lord Burns to become chair of Channel 4
Spooks gets 6m

US TV

JJ Abrams to direct NBC secret agents pilot Undercovers?
HBO developing transgender T
A&E greenlights Sugarloaf pilot, adds Jeffrey Nordling, John Heard and Michael Arden to The Quickening
Doctor Suresh's research on Heroes unearthed [videos, spoilers]
V does well in the ratings
Comedy Central orders Onion TV pilot
Extended trailer for the CSI crossover

Thursday's days numb3red news

Rob Buckley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:08:40 +0000

Doctor Who

Cheryl Cole to guest on Doctor Who??

Film

Mandalay to adapt online novel Machine Man
Johnny Depp to star with Angelina Jolie in The Tourist?
Andy Garcia, Anthony Hopkins and Annette Bening to star in Hemingway and Fuentes
Helen Mirren joins Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman in Red

British TV

Freesat to get iPlayer
Jimmy McGovern developing The Accused for BBC

US TV

Sarah Wynter and Reiko Aylesworth join Damages
Numb3rs cut from 22 to 16 episodes
Kim Kardashian and Vanessa Minnillo to guest on CSI: NY
Julianne Moore to guest on 30 Rock?
Trailer for Caprica featuring James Marsters
FX developing a western
2012 TV series to be set in 2013

Wednesday's marshalling Heroes news

Rob Buckley — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:59:36 +0000

Doctor Who

David Tennant SJA gets 1.14m viewers

Film

Gerard Butler to star in Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus
Patrick Dempsey signs up for heist comedy
Fox developing CIA remote viewing thriller
Alan Cumming joins Burlesque

Theatre

Ambassador Group buys Live Nation's theatres
Prick Up Your Ears to close early
The Shawshank Redemption to close early

British TV

Liza Marshall quits as C4 head of drama
C4, BBCW merger abandoned

US TV

No more Flight of the Conchords?
Chuck exec producer to become show runner for V
Five more episodes of Accidentally on Purpose
Heroes ratings up again past season opener
Colin Hanks to star with Bradley Whitford in Jack and Dan
CMT greenlights two adventure series
James Franco to guest on 30 Rock
Blair Underwood to return to Old Christine
Dexter hits a series high again

Monday's Stevie talks news

Rob Buckley — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:04:36 +0000

Doctor Who

US airdate for The Waters of Mars
Steven Moffat discusses the new series [spoilers]
A clip, et al from The Waters of Mars [spoilers]

Film

Katie Holmes replaces Liv Tyler in The Romantics
Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy to star in Mad Max 4
Trailer for The Road

British TV

Gavin & Stacey may return for specials
Russell Tovey gets a six-part BBC3 comedy series

French TV

French twist on The Shield, Braquo, gets great ratings

US TV

Friday night ratings
Bret Easton Ellis to adapt stalker novel The Follower for HBO
Denis Leary's company acquires remake rights to Gattaca
Ghost Whisperer producers have three dramas brewing at ABC
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio joins Law & Order: CI
NBC's Zeroes to focus on last hour of crises
Fox21 adapting graphic novel Gunplay
A returning 24 character [spoilers]
Rena Sofer joins NCIS
Scott Foley coming to Cougar Town
Kelly Lynch joins 90210
Anthony Michael Hall to guest on Community
JoAnna Garcia to guest on How I Met Your Mother

Friday's Welsh Odin news

Rob Buckley — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:53:28 +0000

Doctor Who

Waters of Mars to air 7pm on Sunday 15th November

Film

Tony Scott to make film based on Chippendales creator
Men in Black 3?
Anthony Hopkins to play Odin in Thor
Reese Witherspoon to star in Rule #1
Joe Cornish to direct Attack the Block

British TV

Tom Hollander to star in vicar comedy for BBC
BBC to cut senior manager pay by 25%
Peter Bowker to write medical series for ITV
Virgin Media doing well

US TV

Fox orders sixth season of American Dad
Nick Swardson gets a Comedy Central show
Sasha Alexander to co-star in Rizzoli
Toby Whithouse talks Being Human USA