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Tuesday\'s no Nemo news
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? Capt...
Third-episode verdict: Trauma
In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, NBC Time for a third-episode verdict on "Jerry Bruckheimer's Casualty" aka Trauma. After an opening episode that made it hard to spot the wheat (most of the writing and characters) from the chaff (the colossal, ridiculous ex...
Wednesday\'s Millennium news
Film Chris Pine to play Jack Ryan? Trailer for The Expendables A Millennium movie without Chris Carter? Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis to make film about double suicide Screen rights acquired to Rashida Jones' Frenemy of the State ...
What have you been watching this week (w/e October 2)
As you may have guessed, I've been watching quite a bit of tele this week and you should have seen the result in a big wodge of reviews. However, on top of this I've also seen: Accidentally on Purpose: Episode 2, which was truly dreadful so I've g...
Review: Lie To Me 2x1
In the US: Monday September 28, 9/8c, Fox In the UK: Thursday October 8, 10pm, Sky 1/Sky 1 HD As you can imagine, with so much TV for me to watch and review, there's a certain discipline involved if I'm ever going to have a life (arguably, I s...
Review: House 6x1-6x2
In the US: Mondays, 8/7c, Fox In the UK: Sundays, 9pm, Sky 1. Starts 4th October The biggest accusation that can be levelled at House is that it's formulaic. Every episode, someone comes down with the lurgi after a fake out sequence at the beginning...
Friday's "BBC news' not so impossible task" news
Film CBS Films picks up script for Sleeper Spy British TV Return of Midsomer Murders gets 6m viewers BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4 to be assessed by the BBC Trust Wow. BBC News has a year to find one female presenter over 50 RDF developing show...
