Doctor Who
- David Tennant, John Barrowman, Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori all leaving Doctor Who and Torchwood??
- Eve Myles wants Sweet FA to return to Torchwood
Film
- Alison Lohman to replace Ellen Page in Drag Me To Hell
- Djimon Hounsou to play Conan?
- Rose Byrne to star opposite Nick Cage in Knowing
- Michael Bay to remake Rosemary's Baby?
- Joan Cusack and John Goodman to be Isla Fisher's parents for Confessions of a Shopaholic
Commercials
- Monkey to explain the history of tea
British TV
- Brits want on-demand programming, but only if it's free [free registration required]
- Discovery Science rebranded [free registration required]
- Next Sky Pratchett adaptation to be Going Postal [free registration required]
- ITV1 wants full series of Mumbai Calling
US TV
- Adam Carolla to host Top Gear remake?
- Dexter gets a Shield exec and a video game
- Paris Hilton to cameo in My Name is Earl
- David Simon answers questions about The Wire
- Lost cast ask producers questions about the plot
- Spoilers for 30 Rock
- The CW greenlights Filthy Rich Girls pilot…
- …while downsizing and ditching its comedy division
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March 5, 2008 | Reply
I call complete bullshit on the DW/TW article; David Tennant has signed on for series five, Burn Gorman has stated he'd doing series three, and Torchwood without John Barrowman is like...is like...is like a sex shop with no dildos. Or a field with no grass. Or our headmaster without his nervousness and abject pompousness whilst talking to a large crowd. It just doesn't work.
I know Rusty is prone to fibs, but come on!
March 5, 2008 | Reply
I'm not sure DT has signed on for series five, only the specials. As for saying you have/haven't signed up to do lots of series, I refer you to Billy Piper re: series three and Freema Agyeman re: series four.
Nevertheless, it's probably complete rubbish, which is why I included the officially trademarked two question marks of doubt.
March 5, 2008 | Reply
If/when Barrowman finally leaves, they won't be able to take the easy way out in order to grab big ratings - they can't kill him off!
Maybe they'll use that opportunity to show him in the first stages of becoming the Face of Boe....
March 5, 2008 | Reply
As for the rest of that story, Robert Carlyle has said several times (including last week) that he hasn't had any contact from the Doctor Who team, although he also says it's the sort of thing he might be interested in doing.
March 5, 2008 | Reply
For the sake of Devil's Advocacy:
1) Why has he been saying it this week? The rumour started ages ago. Why deny it before anyone was even saying it again?
2) He might be telling porkies (cf Catherine Tate not being a companion, Kylie Minogue not being in it, Jane Seymour telling the Onedin Line cast she hadn't done well at the Live and Let Die audition, etc)
3) He might not have had contact. But made his agent had. Or a friend of his agent. Or someone who works for his agent. Or maybe a friend of the Who team approached him, etc.
4) Or maybe everyone's lying.
I've given up trying to use truth, knowledge and common sense to parse Who rumours. It's all gut instinct and whether it was in The Sun or not, now.
March 5, 2008 | Reply
1) is because he's in that BBC thriller thingy with Benedict Cumberbatch at the moment, so he's being interviewed a lot and, of course, they always ask him. The other points are all valid.
I don't think we're going to get a new Doctor for series 5, but that's only because I don't think they'll do a regeneration in one of the specials.
March 6, 2008 | Reply
Interesting that Sky should choose Going Postal as their next Pterry adap. Means they're dotting around all over the place. I hear Colour of Magic got its premiere the other day - any scuttlebutt on it? While I quite liked Hogfather, I have grave misgivings about David Jason basically casting himself as Rincewind: he just doesn't fit with my idea of the character at all (I've always imagined Rincewind as tall and thin. David Jason is neither of these things.)
March 6, 2008 | Reply
Also, I'd always thought of Rincewind as being fairly young. Mid-30s, at the oldest.