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- The first image of Adrianne Palicki in NBC’s Wonder Woman has been released. It’s certainly an update, with many changes from the original costume, but I can’t help but feel that it looks a little more “fancy dress” than it should do. One thing that isn’t in doubt, however, is that Palicki really looks the part.
- After a strong third season, Being Human has been re-commissioned for a fourth series, which is expected to air in the usual slot for the show early next year.
- NBC has opted to renew three of its comedies with Community, The Office and Parks & Recreation all earning pickups for next season (30 Rock has already been renewed). Community’s first season has aired here on VIVA, whilst 30 Rock and The Office are both currently on Comedy Central. The critically-acclaimed Parks & Recreation is yet air here in the UK, although it would appear that Sky does own the rights.
- In a decision that will surprise precisely no-one due to its schedule change and poor ratings, the BBC have chosen to cancel sci-fi drama Outcasts.
- Simon Cowell has added the first member of his judging panel for the US version of The X Factor. Antonio "L.A." Reid, former Chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group and co-founder of LaFace Records has joined the show, which will be beginning its auditions later this month.
- Following his controversial remarks in this week’s Radio Times, Midsomer Murders executive producer and co-creator Brian True-May has been suspended from the programme.
- Christina Applegate (Married... With Children, Samantha Who?) will star in a comedy pilot for NBC. The half-hour sitcom pilot will centre around a professional woman who is raising her family with her stay-at-home-dad husband.
- Miranda Hart continued her winning streak at this week’s Royal Television Society Programme Awards, picking up the ‘Scripted Comedy’ prize for Miranda and winning the ‘Comedy Performance’ award herself. Other winners included the marvellous Sherlock, which won the award for ‘Drama Series’, while its co-creator Steven Moffat received the ‘Judges’ Award’ for his work on Sherlock and many other shows, including Doctor Who and Coupling.
- Christopher and His Kind, a drama based on the formative years of novelist Christopher Isherwood set in 1930s Berlin and starring Matt Smith, airs this evening at 9.30pm on BBC2.
- The six-part prequel to the brutal, depraved and gloriously addictive gladiator series Spartacus: Blood and Sand (entitled Spartacus: Gods of the Arena) will begin airing on Monday at 10pm on Sky1.
- Probably the last-ever episode of Secret Diary of a Call Girl airs on Tuesday at 10pm on ITV4, although there are rumours swirling of a movie spin-off.
- Tune in to first full episode of Midsomer Murders without John Nettles is on Wednesday at 8pm on ITV1 to see if Neil Dudgeon is a worthy replacement for the great Tom Barnaby.
- The third season of J.J. Abrams’ (Alias, Lost) complex and compelling sci-fi drama Fringe returns with its tenth episode (‘The Firefly’) on Wednesday at 10pm on Sky1.
- The first season of Pretty Little Liars has moved from VIVA to MTV. It will be showing from the very beginning starting at 8pm this Thursday on MTV.
- A new adaptation of DH Lawrence’s novels The Rainbow and Women in Love comes to our screens this Thursday at 9pm on BBC4, under the title Women in Love. The two-part series, starring Rosamund Pike, Rachael Stirling, Rory Kinnear and Joseph Mawle among others, looks at the lives of two sisters as they attempt to cope with love and commitment in run-up to WWI.
- The second season of V arrives on Thursday at 9pm on Syfy.
Seriously, Wonder Woman? FFS, there are some comic books which just shouldn't be made into films.
It's a television remake (of a TV series that lasted for 3 years) and, I'd be interested, why do you think that it is something that "just shouldn't be made"?
Because, as the article intimates, it looks so campy ridiculous that it won't be taken seriously.
Superman's costume is pretty ridiculous too, but I don't hear many people saying that Zack Snyder's reboot should be abandoned... Personally, I'll judge whether it works when I've seen an episode. (Or at least more promotional material than merely one image!)
Shame about Outcasts, seems I was the only one but I quite liked it.
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