David Tennant on the PBS panel at TCA

David Tennant was on the PBS Masterpiece Contemporary panel at TCA on August 2. He's set to begin hosting Masterpiece Contemporary with the series' October 25th premiere in the US. During the PBS panel, it was revealed that David Tennant's performance in Hamlet will be aired in the US in 2010, on the PBS program Great Performances. Below are photos of David from the PBS panel:




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Gerard Butler on GMTV + a Law Abiding Citizen contest

You can check out the interview Gerard did on GMTV in the UK to promote The Ugly Truth. You can also watch him do the weather on GMTV. The Ugly Truth premiers tomorrow, August 4 in the UK at Vue West End Cinema, Leicester Square in London.

F. Gary Gray, director of Law Abiding Citizen has asked his Twitter followers to help him get even more followers. Whoever sends him the most followers will be invited to the to the Law Abiding Citizen premiere in LA or NY. He's been paying pretty close attention and named some of the people on Twitter who have been doing a good job so far.

He also hinted at letting the public choose the Law Abiding Citizen teaser poster - hopefully we'll get an update on that soon.

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James McAvoy HQ Photoshoot

I believe these photos of James are new, or at least they're never before seen. I've posted some of the photos below, and you can go here for the rest of them.




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Weekly schedule for Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 8/3: Edie Falco, Les Stroud, Lisa Landry
Tu 8/4: Tony Shalhoub, Minka Kelly
We 8/5: Wolf Blitzer, Rose Byrne
Th 8/6: Zooey Deschanel, Glasvegas
Fr 8/7: Don Rickles, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

John Barrowman to join Desperate Housewives?

Dougray Scott was on a few seasons ago so this would be awesome:

JOHN Barrowman is in talks with Desperate Housewives producers to nab a part on the show.

The Torchwood star revealed he was about to meet up with bosses in LA to discuss the role during a chat with DJ Chris Moyles on his Radio 1 Breakfast Show today.

The 42-year-old exclaimed: "I probably shouldn't say this but I've got a meeting with the execs of Desperate Housewives.

"Can you believe it, I'm going to be a Desperate Housewife!"

The America actor didn't say what the part entailed. [The Sun]

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New Gamer international poster, clip, and TV spot,

Above is a new international poster for Gamer (courtesy of GB.net).

For some reason neither the new clip, nor the TV spot will embed, so you can go to GB.net for the clip and to ComingSoon.net for the exclusive TV spot.

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The Men Who Stare at Goats gets a release date

There's more release date news today with the announcement that The Men Who Stare at Goats will open on November 6, 2009. The film has also been added to the Venice Film Festival line-up, but it will be out of competition.

The film, starring Ewan McGregor is based on Jon Ronson's novel of the same name and focuses on soldiers trained to fight with paranormal powers.

What I find really interesting about this news is the fact that Overture is distributing The Men Who Stare at Goats and it was Overture who announced yesterday that Law Abiding Citizen was being moved to an October 2009 release date. Moving two films into the middle of awards season in the same week seems pretty confident to me.

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Sir Sean Connery to come out of retirement?

Sean Connery will narrate a film about war veteran, Ken McGinley's fight against the military. McGinley won a landmark case when he was allowed to "sue the British Ministry of Defence on behalf of thousands of servicemen who were exposed to nuclear testing on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean."

Over 1,000 soldiers claimed that they and their children were affected by cancer and other ailments, because of exposure to radiation in tests that took place over 50 years ago.

Connery even wrote a letter highlighting his interest in bringing the story, told by McGinley in his book 'No Risk Involved: The Ken McGinley Story: Survivor of a Nuclear Experiment', to the big screen.

He wrote: "It is a shocking history of events. I have already made my opinion regarding the possibility of filming the book written by Mr. McGinley.

"I am more than interested to see the end result and would be prepared to do the narration." [CelebEdge]

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Law Abiding Citizen gets an ealier release date

Whoa. This might be kind of a big deal:

Update: So far as non-Universal releases go, Box Office Mojo claims that Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx's Law Abiding Citizen has just been moved up from a release next March to this October 16th. Hmmm, on the tail of Butler's own Gamer the month before and up against the teen-drawing remake of The Stepfather and the theoretically older-crowd-grabbing adaptation of The Road, eh? So many thrillers, so little time. [Cinematical]

I thought at first it had been moved to October of next year, but it really has been moved to October of 2009. If you check out director F. Gary Gray's tweets he hints at why the date has been changed. According to Gray, the movie test scores were "through the roof" and "92 in the top 2 boxes". The executives also love the movie and there was a screening for Gerard Butler and Gerry thinks it's his best film.

Typically this stuff is just hype, but if the date has been moved to a fall release date, then the film might really be good.

Dorian Gray international trailer

Today is a slow news day, but the new international trailer for the film Dorian Gray is now up. Scottish actor Douglas Henshall plays Alan Campbell in the film, but I haven't been able to spot him in the trailer. Maybe he isn't in it at all. The film is set for release on September 9, 2009 and you can watch the trailer below:



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Henry Ian Cusick's Darwin project to premier in October

Henry Ian Cusick's movie about Charles Darwin is set to air on PBS on October 6, 2009. The project had originally been titled I, Darwin, but it will now be titled Darwin's Darkest Hour.

The film is set to mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Darwin's Darkest Hour focuses on two weeks in the summer of 1858 just before the publication of The Origin of Species. It is National Geographic's Television's first scripted film and will air on the PBS series NOVA.

Thanks so much to Kathy for keeping us up to date on this project.

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First look: John Hannah in Spartacus: Blood and Sand

There was a preview of the brand new Starz Channel original series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand at Comic-Con. The show premieres in January 2010 in the US and stars Scottish actor John Hannah and Lucy Lawless.

The trailer was previewed at Comic-Con and you can watch it below:

John is also in the behind the scenes interviews along with some of the cast and crew of the upcoming show:



Here's a synopsis of the show courtesy of Starz:

Betrayed by his country. Beaten into slavery. Reborn as a warrior. "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" is a graphic and visceral account of Rome’s most famous gladiator. When he’s separated from the love of his life, Spartacus is forced into the gruesome and bloodthirsty arena, where a grisly death is primetime entertainment. Spartacus must fight for survival, befriend his enemies and play politics in this new world of corruption, violence, sex and fame. He’ll be seduced by power and tormented by vengeance. But his passion will give him the strength to prevail over every obstacle, in this modern and uninhibited tale of death, honor and endurance.

Starring Australian actor, Andy Whitfield (McLeod's Daughters) as Spartacus, Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) as Lucretia, John Hannah (The Mummy, Four Weddings and A Funeral) as Batiatus and Peter Mensah (300, The Incredible Hulk) as Doctore, this unique mix of live action, graphic novel effects and brutal battle sequences is set to make "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" an epic television event.

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David Tennant's Comic-Con roundup

David Tennant was at Comic-Con in San Diego to promote Doctor Who. He did tons and tons of interviews, so I will post as many as I possibly can.

First, there's the video of David and John Barrowman introducing Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead and Torchwood: Children of Earth to the panel. I believe this was either on Friday or Saturday. John got a kiss from David. Lucky:



Next is David and Russell T Davies's appearance on San Diego television station CW6 on Sunday morning:



You can also watch video of the Doctor Who panel at Comic-Con. I've uploaded the first part for you and you can watch all 4 parts of the panel here.



Okay, this is the final David Tennant video from Comic-Con (well, at least for this post anyway). He talked to MTV News about those Hobbit rumors:

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If you would like to check out photos of David at Comic-Con you can go to David-Tennant.com's gallery.


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Weekly schedule for Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 7/27: Chelsea Handler, Richard Wolffe, Gavin DeGraw
Tu 7/28: Christiane Amanpour, Johnny Galecki
We 7/29: Toni Collette, Rodney Carrington
Th 7/30: James Spader, Rose Byrne
Fr 7/31: Saffron Burrows