I don't normally do reviews of current films. There's not much point since I always see them too late. But when I do see a film just as it comes out, invariably my review would be almost identical to Mark Kermode's. Case in point: Quantum of Solace. Here's Mark Kermode's review, which is pretty much word for word what I would have said. Loved the fight scenes though.

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Film

• Shane Black to direct Cold Warrior
• Chris Morris's suicide bombers comedy to be a movie instead
• Matt Lucas and David Walliams working on a movie
• Filming begins on Hammer's The Wake Wood
• Nick Cassavetes to direct Keira Knightley in The Beautiful and the Damned
• Remake of Rashomon to be released in 2010
• Daniel Craig says no to gay Bond sex

Theatre

• £2.5m free theatre tickets scheme for young adults
• Alan Bennett's Enjoy to transfer to the West End

British TV

• Steve Coogan to star in BBC1's Sunshine
• Ben Stephenson to head BBC drama commissioning
  
• Merlin gets 6.6m viewers

US TV

• Aaron Sorkin writes a meeting between Jed Bartlet and Barack Obama
• Bridget Moynahan to appear on Eli Stone
• Fox developing CIA comedy with Ben Stiller
• The differences between the UK and US versions of The Eleventh Hour
• Producers apologise for Do Not Disturb and ask for a second chance
• Fox picks up Tim Roth's Lie To Me
• Tom Everett Scott joins LAPD
• Tana Ramsay gets her own US TV show
• More episodes for 90210
• Ex-List showrunner joins Cupid
• Mary McDonnell in talks to appear on Grey's Anatomy
• I can't believe we all missed David Caruso Day

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Doctor Who

• It's the The Sarah Jane Adventures series two press pack
• David Tennant negotiating for DW movie role?

Film

• Paul Verhoeven looking at erotic thrillers again
• New Quantum of Solace trailer
• Val Kilmer, Armand Assante and Eric Roberts cast in The Steam Experiment
• Dreamworks sued for stealing Rear Window plot for Disturbia
• Stephen Merchant joins Tooth Fairy
• Why William Shatner isn't in Star Trek XI

British TV

• Justin Lee Collins to reunite Star Wars cast
• Clip and pics from series two Secret Diary of a Call Girl

US TV

• Rod Lurie sues Touchstone over Commander-in-Chief back cash
• Clip from 24: Exile
• NBC back on iTunes

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In the UK: Wednesdays, 9pm, ITV1

What's that? Is it the sound of something precious and beautiful being trampled underfoot by philistines and idiots?

Erm, no. Surprisingly, it's not and we have yet another miracle of the post-Grade age: an ITV1 primetime drama that doesn't suck, doesn't insult the intelligence and actually makes you hunger for more.

Any more of this and it'll almost become ordinary, expected even, that ITV1 dramas won't make you feel like you've been hit on the head by a six-pack of Kestrels on a night out in Malia.

Anyway, it is a truth, universally acknowledged, that all women of a certain temperament love Pride and Prejudice, particularly that bit with Colin Firth in the water. Many are the women who know it almost word for word; and no doubt there are many who wish they could be in it, particularly during that bit with Colin Firth in the water.

So Lost in Austen is quite a clever idea, even if sounds a bit daft at first: what would happen if somehow you ended up in the novel Pride and Prejudice, having taken Elizabeth Bennet's place. You're a big fan, you know what's supposed to happen, who's supposed to end up with whom and how.

But what if you ballsed it all up?

Continue reading "Review: Lost in Austen 1x1"

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Doctor Who

• Catherine Tate keen to return as Donna
• More Torchwood series three details, including a possible return for one character

Film

• Production stops on The Sweeney
• No plans to film Devil May Care
• Nicolas Cage to star in Kick-Ass

Commercials

• Jerry Seinfeld to appear with Bill Gates in Microsoft ads for $10m

Theatre

• Marguerite to close two months early

British TV

• Clip from Lost in Austen
• Picture of John Hurt in An Englishman in New York…
• …which now features Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon
• Charlie Brooker's Dead Set will be set in the Big Brother house
• Eli Stone acquired by the SciFi Channel

US TV

• Pictures of the “KITT cave”…
• …and there are plans for the Hoff and William Daniels to cameo
• Stargate: Atlantis movie greenlit…
• …as is new series Stargate: Universe
• Regina King, Kevin Alejandro and Michael McGrady join LAPD
• James Cromwell joins My Own Worst Enemy
• NBC acquires the British version of The Apprentice
• Navy SEALs become 24 extras

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Film

• Proper Quantum of Solace teaser trailer
• Seven clips from Hellboy 2
• Christopher Guest to appear in Night at the Museum sequel
• Gillian Anderson to star in and produce biopic of Martha Gellhorn
• Phillip Noyce to direct Tom Cruise in Edwin A Salt

British TV

• Full details of the remake of The Prisoner
• BBC America cuts investment in BBC comedies
• Kangaroo VoD service referred to competition commission
• ITV1 gets its second worse rated day ever [free registration required]
• Ha ha! BSkyB suggests BBC and Channel 4 shouldn't be able to buy imports

US TV

• Tim Roth to star in Fox's Lie To Me
• BSG TV movie a go - but no one's in it?
• Hughes Brothers making Gentlemen of Leisure for HBO

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Doctor Who

• Tom Baker would do cameo if 'asked nicely'
• Trailers for the fourth series
• RTD defends Catherine Tate

Film

• Tin Tin to be played by Thomas Sangster?
• Supernatural's Jared Padalecki to star in Friday the 13th remake?
• Stan Winston to work on Terminator 4
• James Gandolfini joins cast of The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 remake
• Shekhar Kapur to complete Anthony Minghella's last movie
• Hugh Jackman and Eli Stone creator collaborate on comic, movie
• Fans may not like Indy 4
• Quantum of Solace featurette

Technology

• iPlayer to use Blinkx to search for video

British TV

• ITV abandons latest Ant and Dec project
• Famous Five to return, but animated
• Planning for a Tucker movie?
• Five Life rebranding as Fiver

US TV

• Highlights of the Buffy-fest
• Kelly Preston to guest-star on Medium for four episodes
• Bones going overseas
• Joss Whedon considering Buffy alumni for Dollhouse
• Prison Break gets a fourth season
• CBS picks up two new comedy pilots
• David Cross to star in his own co-written HBO pilot
• Fox cancels The Return of Jezebel James after three episodes
• CBS cancels Jericho - again - while Canterbury's Law gets a scheduling downgrade
• Jerry O'Connell to appear in Samantha Who?
• Michael Cassidy cast in How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls
• Smith's Amy Smart cast as lead in Glenn Gordon Caron's Meant to Be, while The Wonder Years' Fred Savage is to play a Single White Millionaire
• 90210's Jennie Garth to play My Best Friend's Girl
• HBO orders pilots for Suburban Shootout remake and Darren Star's Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl
• Will Sasso and Frederico Dordei join Fox's Spaced remake
• David Eick working on pilot based on PD James' Chldren Of Men
• Jane Seymour to play a TV host who solves mysteries for Hallmark pilot
• Sarah Connor viral marketing for a second season?

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Film

• Yet another Wizard of Oz remake planned
• Tim Piggott-Smith to appear in next Bond film
• Jason Isaacs joins Paul Greengrass's Green Zone
• Sky pushing to get British movies put into HD

British TV

• Mad Men's first episode gets good ratings for BBC4
• Virgin Media looking to sell some of its channels

US TV

• Simon Pegg's reaction to the US remake of Spaced
• The CW renews Gossip Girl, Smallville and Supernatural
• NBC lines up actors and directors for Masters of Horrors
• The Riches' Maverick TV shuts up shop
• Mira Sorvino and Victor Garber sign up for The Last Templar

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Film

• Bootleg copy of new Indiana Jones trailer
• Al Pacino to be head Bond terrorist?
• Nicole Kidman to play Valerie Plame in Doug Liman biopic
• Star Trek XI pushed back to Summer 2009
• Corey Haim will be in Lost Boys sequel

British TV

• Philip Glenister to play American vampire killer who wants to stake Mackenzie Crook in The Last Van Helsing (working title)
• Beeb looking for more studio-based comedies [free registration required]
• No more CITV for Wales [free registration required]
• Shane Ritchie to play Arthur Daley in Minder remake for Five?

US TV

• NBC renews Chuck, Life and Heroes, but Bionic Woman, Journeyman and Friday Night Lights look dead
• CBS orders more episodes of Shark and Rules of Engagement
• Save Cavemen - send hair to ABC
• Chuck Lorre and co to work 24/7 to get episodes of Big Bang Theory, etc made
• My Name is Earl creator spent strike working in fast food restaurant
• Hugh Laurie upset by end of strike

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Doctor Who

• RTD chats to the LA Times about making Who – and cries (SJA start on US SciFi in April, apparently)
• Doctor Who trailer coming to cinemas
• Join in with interactive Torchwood

Film

• Pan's Labyrinth wins the BBC4 World Cinema Award
• Josh Hartnett, martial arts star?
• An interview with new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko

British TV

• The Stig is Lewis Hamilton?

US TV

• Which Heroes will survive to season three?

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