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The Tudors series leads the pack at 2008 Gemini Awards 2008-08-31 19:26:35 Peace Arch’s Emmy winning and Golden Globe nominated television series
The Tudors
, broadcast on the CBC Television Network, received 12 Gemini
Award nominations from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television last week.
Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Natalie Dormer, The Tudors was recently renewed for a third season, which is currently filming in Ireland.
Here is [...] Read more:Awards
Torchwood: Children of Earth goes into production 2008-08-27 01:11:32 The third season of BBC’s top rated science fiction drama Torchwood has gone into production in Cardiff. The show is set to return for a five episode run in 2009 under the title Torchwood: Children
of Earth
.
After an excellent second season, the third one will follow the Torchwood team – Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), [...]
ABC picks up five new series 2008-08-26 08:05:29 ABC has picked up five new series
for the 2008-09 season: dramas Castle, Cupid and The Unusuals and comedies Better Off Ted and Single with Parents.
“It was worth taking the time to go through the pilot process to really do it right. We’re excited about these series and feel they’re perfect additions to our [...]
Megalyn Echikunwoke promoted to regular on CSI: Miami 2008-08-26 07:58:39 Megalyn Echikunwoke has been cast on CSI: Miami
as the new medical examiner and will become a series regular
when the series returns for the seventh season on CBS on September 22.
“Megalyn Echikunwoke is an exciting addition to CSI: Miami. She brings savvy humor to her role of Dr. Tara Price, a young medical examiner [...] Read more:promoted
Flashpoint headed for season two, Swingtown for new home 2008-08-26 00:51:52 It seems only yesterday that two new shows airing on CBS this summer, cop thriller Flashpoint and adult family drama Swingtown, had their premieres, and yet their fate already looked decided about a month ago, when the network switched the time slots and moved Flashpoint from Friday to the more desirable Thursday slot.
Needless to say, [...]
Fox to stream premieres of Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe to on-campus students 2008-08-25 11:32:27 In an unprecedented event, FOX will stream the premieres
of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES and FRINGE exclusively for on-campus college students at www.fox.com. Only students on college campuses accessing through a college internet domain (.edu) will have the opportunity to watch the episodes online simultaneously with their primetime premieres.
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES wil Read more:Connor
, Sarah
, Sarah Connor
Plans for Bruce Lee museum in Hong Kong in danger 2008-08-25 08:29:37 The billionaire owner of kung fu legend Bruce
Lee’s last home warned Monday he would scuttle plans for a museum at the site if Hong Kong
’s government did not allow him to build a tribute cinema, library and fan shops.
Chinese property developer Yu Panglin said in an interview Monday he would only go ahead with [...] Read more:Bruce Lee
La Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles, October 16-19 2008-08-25 08:00:08 The LA FemmeInternational
Film Festival
launches in its fourth year of films and festival activities. The last submission deadline is August 30 and tickets are on sale now. This is the premier film festival which supports women in entertainment as directors, writers, producers or talent. The events have seminars which inspire and educate filmmakers [...] Read more:Angeles
, Los Angeles
, October
Flashpoint gets a second season on CBS 2008-09-20 04:41:41 CBS has renewed the Canadian cop procedural Flashpoint for a second season. The 13 new episodes will be broadcast next year.
Flashpoint, originally developed by CTV and Pink Sky Entertainment, is the top scripted show this summer, with 7.73 million viewers on average. It was broadcast simultaneously on CBS and CTV.
Last week’s episode scored high ratings [...]
Fringe: The Same Old Story review 2008-09-18 08:37:41 While the Fringe pilot suffered from a severe identity crisis, trying to decide whether it was a police procedural, comedy, or a conspiracy mystery, the second episode, The Same Old Story, steers the show sharply into The X-Files sphere.
The premise of the episode is a little shaky. We have a scientist’s son who kills women [...] Read more:review
Vampire alert: True Blood gets season two, Moonlight gets DVD release 2008-09-18 08:24:46 HBO has renewed the new vampire series True Blood
for another season after airing only two episodes. The second episode drew over four million viewers. Moonlight
, which had twice as many viewers on CBS and got cancelled a few months ago, may finally get a definite DVD release date in the U.S. (NBC’s Journeyman, mind [...] Read more:Vampire
The Tubey Awards: best and worst of the 2007-08 TV season 2008-09-16 21:05:24 Television Without Pity has posted the winners of this year’s Tubey Awards
, voted by viewers across the globe. Lost, Battlestar Galactica, House, 30 Rock and How I Met Your Mother are among the shows that scored several wins in the positive categories, while Heroes and Grey’s Anatomy picked up a few uncomplimentary Tubeys this year.
Here [...]
Slumdog Millionaire audience’s favourite at Toronto Film Festival 2008-09-14 18:51:37 The 33rd Toronto
International Film Festival
closed over the weekend. British director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Sunshine) took home the Cadillac People’s Choice Award and the $15,000 prize for his latest feature, Slumdog Millionaire
, a story about a teenage Indian orphan who is about to win 20 million rupees on India’s edition of Who Wants to [...]
Winners of Creative Arts Primetime Emmys announced 2008-09-14 04:54:24 HBO’s acclaimed drama John Adams, AMC’s award winning Mad Men, NBC’s 30 Rock, and SCI FI’s fan favourite Battlestar Galactica were just some of the shows that took home Creative Primetime Emmys this weekend.
The Creative Arts ceremony will be followed by the main Primetime Emmy Awards event, which takes place on September 21 and will [...] Read more:Winners
Spike TV announces 2008 Scream nominees - time to vote 2008-09-11 09:22:23 Spike TV has announced the Advisory Board and nominees for Scream
2008. The Scream awards honour the best works in the comic book, science fiction and fantasy genre. The event will take place at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles on October 18 and be aired on Spike TV on October 21. It will be [...] Read more:Spike
Venice Film Festival 2008 awards 2008-09-08 00:47:04 The 65th annual Venice
Film Festival
wrapped over the weekend. The Golden Lion for best film went to Darren Aronofsky for his drama The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke as a retired professional wrestler trying to make a comeback.
Rourke is one of the early contenders for an Oscar for his performance in the film, even if [...]
European Film Academy announces selections for 2008 European Film Awards 2008-09-05 17:24:17 The European
Film Academy
(EFA) has released the list of the potential nominees for this year’s European Film Awards
.
The list includes 44 films from 27 countries, with France, the U.K., and Germany leading the pack with multiple nominations. The official list of nominated films will be announced on November 8 at the Sevilla European Film [...]
Blade Runner sequel rears its head again 2008-10-09 05:55:36 Screenwriter Travis Wright has addressed the rumours about the BladeRunnersequel
being in development, rumours he himself started at the Creative Screenwriting special screening of his critically panned summer blockbuster Eagle Eye the other week. At the event, Wright told the audience at the Q&A that he and John Glenn, who co-wrote Eagle Eye, [...]
Walter Hill set to direct new pilot for Spike TV 2008-10-08 11:41:20 Spike TV has ordered an untitled two-hour pilot based on the Irish Mob in Boston from MGM Television Entertainment (MGM), and will go into production late this fall with an option to go to series. Emmy(R) and DGA award-winning director Walter
Hill will serve as director of the pilot. Chris Bertolini (The General’s Daughter, Battle: [...] Read more:Spike
New Sci FI Web series to premiere October 8 2008-10-06 20:44:00 After Judgment, an original Sci Fi Web Series about a group of post-apocalyptic survivors searching for an elusive entry into paradise will premiere with a multi-site launch on October
8th, 2008. Touching on the uncertain times we now live in, After Judgment re-imagines a doomsday experience and gives a unique glimpse into our own potentially [...] Read more:series
Sons of Anarchy gets second season on FX 2008-10-06 05:25:10 Sons of Anarchy
, FX’s most successful series in delivery of adults aged 18-49 since Rescue Me, has been picked up for a second season. FX has ordered 13 more episodes from Fox 21 and FX Productions.
The biker drama has chalked very strong and consistent ratings among FX’s target demo of adults aged 18-49, averaging 3.5 [...]
HBO picks up Entourage for sixth season 2008-10-06 05:16:53 HBO has renewed its popular series Entourage for a sixth season. The news comes weeks after Jeremy Piven, who plays Hollywood agent Ari Gold on the show, won his third consecutive Emmy for the role.
The new season of Entourage will go into production early next year and premiere in summer 2009.
Michael Lombardo, HBO’s West Coast [...]
Johnny Depp signs on for Alice in Wonderland 2008-09-24 17:39:36 Johnny Depp will reunite with Tim Burton yet again to play the Mad Hatter in Burton’s upcoming Disney flick Alice in Wonderland
. He was confirmed for the part earlier today at the Walt Disney Studio Showcase in Hollywood.
Burton signed a deal to direct Alice last November and the movie is currently in pre-production.
Mia Wasikowska, 18-year-old [...] Read more:Johnny
, Johnny Depp
, signs
Netflix to stream hit Disney and CBS TV series 2008-09-23 08:00:57 Netflix, Inc. has announced two new agreements with the CBS Television Network and Disney
-ABC Television Group. The agreements will allow current episodes of several popular TV shows to be streamed at Netflix.
Netflix members now have instant access to a library of 12,000 choices on their computers and TV sets.
The CBS shows to be [...] Read more:series
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