This Distracted Globe (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Synopsis Real estate salesman Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon) begins his evening in a phone booth outside a Chinese restaurant, speaking to his hospitalized daughter and promising to visit her after a sales meeting. Dave Moss (Ed Harris) is furious over the “Mickey Mouse sales conference” and confronts office manager John Williamson (Kevin Spacey) [...]
io9 (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
A new British sitcom has the weirdest storyline ever — and the most intriguing pedigree. Clone is the brainchild of Adam Chase, an executive producer of American sitcom Friends, and he's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I Am A TV Junkie, A Blog For The Cl (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
And I wanna see it right now. THR.com: With British scripted formats invading the U.S. marketplace in the wake of the success of "The Office," Chase went against the current,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott is to explore the British class system in a new BBC2 documentary series. By Tara Conlan
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Dear Readers, Last month we received an unusual request at Dear Author. We were asked to review something other than a book — a DVD set called “The Romance Collection: Special Edition.” The 14 DVD set, which can be found here, retails for $99.95 and contains nearly 30 hours of programming (not [...]
RT (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death As part of 1999’s Comic Relief telethon, the BBC screened four “new episodes” of Doctor Who . The spoof stars Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor, Julia Sawalha, who played Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous as his assistant Emma, and Jonathan Pryce as the Master. The script was written by Steven Moffatt, one of the writers on the new series. Other parodies associated with...
The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Film Matthew Rhys to head off to Patagonia Commercials Heinz gay kiss ad gets complaints British TV ITV1 orders third series of Benidorm Jonathan Pryce to star in BBC cloning comedy S4C launches its own pre-school channel US TV New Amsterdam 's Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to star in Fox's Virtuality HBO options I Was Told There'd Be Cake Journeyman 's Kevin Falls to adapt Argentina's Lalola womaniser-body...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
STAR Jonathan Pryce teams up with Friends writer Adam Chasse for a new BBC comedy
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
David Tennant hasn't definitively said whether he's going to stay in the Tardis beyond the guest-startastic end of this season's Doctor Who, but a little thing like reality isn't enough to stop the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
London, June 20 (IANS) actress Uma Thurman will star in a BBC TV drama titled “My Zinc Bed”. It is an adaptation of a play by David Hare and the “Kill Bill” actress will team with Jonathan Pryce who played her father in the “Pirates of the Caribbean”, contactmusic.com reports. The 38-year-old Thurman has also [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
In today's Morning Call Time podcast, The Weinstein Company gets rich and famous with Tacee Webb and W.E.B. Griffin , the BBC and HBO get in bed with Uma Thurman and Jonathan Pryce , and CBS turns Chicago and San Francisco in Eco-Zones . Click here to subscribe to mediabistro.com 's Morning Call Time ... or check us out on iTunes ! For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Brie O'Reilly . New...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
HOLLYWOOD star Uma Thurman is set to star in some plays adapted for BBC2
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Sir Jonathan Miller, the theatre director, has attacked West End theatre producers for having "an obsession with celebrity".
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
West End theatre producers have such “an obsession with celebrity” that they are turning down acclaimed productions with unknown actors because they lack a star from television or film. It is “the merely famous” that attracts them.
Gossip Thug - GossipThug.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
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