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- Rumours have been circulating about a further follow-up to This is England ’86 since it aired this summer, and now Channel 4 have confirmed that Shane Meadows has been commissioned to make This is England ’90, following the same cast of characters four years on.
- As well as critical and fan acclaim, Coronation Street Live was also a ratings success: overnight figures suggest that Thursday night’s episode peaked at 14.9m viewers, which was over half of the viewing audience at the time.
- ITV have confirmed that sci-fi show Primeval will return with a double bill on New Years’ Day and 2nd January.
- TNT have announced that they will be ending The Closer after its seventh season. Also, in other TNT related news, Eliza Dushku will no longer be starring in the upcoming pilot Bird Dog. Instead, she will be replaced by Ashley Williams (with Gerald McRaney playing the show’s other lead).
- A sequel to Pillars of the Earth has gone into development. It will be based on Ken Follett’s bestselling follow-up novel to the “Pillars of the Earth”, “World Without End.”
- No Ordinary Family has finally been given a UK airdate. The series (starring Julie Benz and Michael Chiklis), about a family who gain superpowers, will begin on January 11th at 8pm on Watch.
- CBS have announced that they will be making an hour-long series which Jason Alexander will executive produce and star in. The pilot, according to Variety, will be about a “former TV star who’s down on his luck and winds up joining his ex-wife’s detective agency. Once there, the character reinvents himself as an investigator with a penchant for disguise.”
- The CW have ordered a drama from Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas. The series (Beautiful Strangers) will be about two young thieves who end up working as informants for a new division of the FBI. The CW have also commissioned a music-themed show, Prickly Spheres, about a Julliard-trained teen who gives up on classical music to join a new indie rock band.
- Unfortunately, Fox have opted not to order a back nine for their drama Lie To Me, meaning that the third season will be 13 episodes long.
- There’s a whopping great four hours of The X Factor on our screens this weekend, as the programme comes to a head in the final. Tune into ITV1 from 7-9pm on Saturday to see the acts perform, and then again from 7.30-9.30pm on Sunday, when our very own X Factor blogger Natalija will be here liveblogging her way through the results for your entertainment pleasure.
- Not to be outdone, the Strictly Come Dancing semi-final is spread over three nights this weekend. After last night’s performances, the celebrities will be dancing again tonight from 6pm on BBC1, followed by the results tomorrow evening at 7pm, when the remaining five will become three.
- A filmed version of an acclaimed production of Hamlet starring Patrick Stewart is debuting on BBC4 on Sunday at 7.30pm.
- An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, starring Stephen Mangan in the title role, is showing this Thursday (9pm, BBC4).
- If you just can’t get enough of Wallander, the first of five films starring Rolf Lassgard as the Swedish detective is on BBC4 tonight at 9pm.
- The final (and arguably best) episode of the repeated Sherlock airs on Sunday at 8pm on BBC3.
- The brilliant first season of The Walking Dead came to its end last night after an infuriatingly short (a mere six episodes long) run. The series has received huge levels of critical praise and broken records for basic cable ratings - it’ll return for its second season in October next year. (You can catch repeats of the finale throughout the week on FX.)
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