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- Over the past week, a lot of drama has occurred surrounding Charlie Sheen and his show Two and a Half Men. After Sheen left rehab, he made a number of derogatory remarks about the sitcom’s creator Chuck Lorre (after Lorre had declared that “If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I’m gonna be really pissed”), calling him a “clown” and saying that his real name is “Haim Levine”. The most recent, and sort of inevitable, news is that production for this season of Two and a Half Men has been suspended.
- James Corden is to reprise his role as Craig in the next series of Doctor Who. The Gavin and Stacey star appeared in the series five’s surprisingly touching episode ‘The Lodger,’ although it’s not yet known if Daisy Haggard will return as his love interest Sophie.
- The BBC have decided to axe Italian-set crime drama Zen. The first series of the programme, which starred Rufus Sewell, received mixed reviews and its ratings fell over the three episodes. However, Zen’s production company are in talks with other broadcasters about continuing the series.
- US cable network FX have given the green light to a pilot entitled Powers. The project is based on the popular comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, and it centres around homicide detectives investigating cases involving superheroes. Charles Eglee (The Walking Dead, The Shield) wrote the pilot and will serve as an executive producer for the series.
- After almost 50 years of alternating broadcasts with the BBC, ITV have won the sole rights to show The Royal Variety Performance for the next 10 years.
- Fans of Joss Whedon’s outstanding (and unfortunately short-lived) series Firefly have launched the ‘Help Nathan Fillion Buy Firefly’ movement after the actor said (in an interview with Entertainment Weekly), that if he got $300 million from the California Lottery, he’d buy the rights to Firefly, make it on his own, and distribute it on the Internet.
- Sebastian Faulks’ series Faulks on Fiction concludes this evening at 9.30pm on BBC1, as the author takes a look at literary villains. Check out the first three episodes, looking at ‘The Hero’, ‘The Lover’ and ‘The Snob’, on iPlayer now.
- Acclaimed drama The Promise reaches its fourth and final episode this Sunday on Channel 4 at 9pm.
- The twelfth season of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit begins on Sunday at 9pm on Universal Channel.
- New Canadian cop drama Rookie Blue, which follows the lives of five new police officers, premieres on Sunday night at 10pm on Universal Channel.
- The first episode of a web spin-off of the award winning Waterloo Road goes online this Wednesday at 9pm, straight after the main programme on BBC1. Waterloo Road Reunited will follow the stories of some of the school’s former pupils, and will be found on a blog that already features some teasers.
- New American series Glory Daze, which focusses on four college freshmen in the 1980s, begins on Thursday at 9pm on E4.
- Check out the final episode of ITV’s creepy thriller Marchlands this Thursday at 9pm – how will the supernatural mystery that spans three time spans conclude?
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