Doctor Who
- Sweet FA to play lawyer on Law & Order: London
Film
- Pictures of the new Jason Vorhees
- Anchorman 2 to be set in the 80s
- Episodic Watchmen game coming
- Phillip Noyce to develop and direct Captain Blood
- Bryan Singer to produce Capeshooters
Radio
- Father Ted actors reunite for radio play
British TV
- Ian McDiarmid, James Fox, Robert Hardy and Lindsay Duncan in drama about Margaret Thatcher's final days
- EastEnders' ratings fall to 5 million
- The Wire only gets 38,000 viewers
US TV
- Fox greenlights Glee pilot from Ryan Murphy
- Rosie Perez entering Lipstick Jungle
- Joss Whedon planning Dollhouse webisodes
- Keith Carradine guesting on Numb3rs
- Ad for True Love from HBO
- Ant and Dec get just 3.1m viewers
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July 24, 2008 | Reply
Is that really a low rating for 'EastEnders'? What type of numbers does it usually pull in? Couldn't they just be off because it's summer and people are out doing other things than watch TV?
July 24, 2008 | Reply
But she can't act.
July 24, 2008 | Reply
It's never stopped half of the cast of Casualty.
July 24, 2008 | Reply
Does the news about "Sweet FA" put the kibosh to her joining 'Torchwood'? Or was that five episode mini-event already filmed? And was she already done with 'Survivors'?
Busy girl. Leaving the TARDIS will probably be the best thing that could have happened.
July 24, 2008 | Reply
Have you not noticed who the show runner of L&O: London is? Why, it's Chris Chibnall...
July 24, 2008 | Reply
Although the Beeb has expressed a desire to do longer-run TV series (13 episodes or so) as the norm, ITV hasn't and even the Beeb rarely strays beyond eight episode commissions. I dare say L&O: London will probably be six episodes, since that's the usual ITV standard, although who knows - maybe one of the stipulations for the franchise extension is that it be at least 13.
All the same, I think Torchwood filming starts next month and that's six episodes, Survivors has been filming for a while (and the pictures are already out there) and is probably only going to be eight episodes anyway. Not sure when Little Dorrit, which is her other one, is going to start filming.
July 24, 2008 | Reply
It used to get 20 million+, back in the day, around Christmas. Nowadays, 5 or 6 million is a very good day indeed. This was its second lowest rating ever. The excuse is that Emmerdale is going for a full hour long episode that starts half an hour before Enders, but it might just be that Enders is rubbish these days.
July 25, 2008 | Reply
You should pretty much ignore this comment and pretend I never said it, judging from today's news....