TV News Round-Up: The Office, Doctor Who, Lost and more!

After a significant slowdown during the holidays there is plenty to report in TVland.

On the Doctor Who front is it old news that Steven Moffat will be taking over the show moving forward. Here is a video of former Doctor David Tennant interviewing Moffat about his new gig.


Speaking of ex-Doctors, Christopher Eccelson will be portraying John Lennon in a BBC movie Lennon Naked. Someone must have had their head in the Who-verse on casting day because Naoko Mori (Torchwood) will be playing Yoko Ono.


The Office may have a long awaited guest appearance by the one and only Ricky Gervais, hot off his gig hosting the Golden Globes, and promoting his new HBO series, recently hinted that David Brent (his character from The Office UK) may make an appearance on the American series.


Now that NBC has come to its senses and kicked Leno's late-night-butt out of prime-time, NBC has announced its post-Olympic prime time schedule, one that makes room for more scripted television. Yay!

The new season of 24 starts tonight airing two hours of its two day, 4 hour event. In honour of Starbuck finding her place in the work of Jack Bauer she sits down for an interview with BuzzSugar about her new role...and more importantly, about what it's like to have been a part of something as fantastic as BSG, and her love of sci-fi.

The LOST premiere is fast approaching and there seems to be a steady stream of information that really doesn't reveal a whole lot. Here's the latest. LOST's TCA panel revealed some returning cast members, and that Emilie DeRavine was very, very confused by the script for the first episode. hmm...

In other news, LOST producers claim that for LOST the end will really be the end. No sequels, spin offs or the like. Do you believe them?

This Week in TV News

ActuallyNPH - Neil Patrick Harris got twitter and his tweets are actually a pleasure to read. Better yet, he's using his 140 characters to link us to pictures of himself (yay!) with guest stars working on HIMYM. Icing on the cake; picture posted of Zach Woodlee (see photo to the right), choreographer for FOX's musical hit Glee is choreographing HIMYM's 100th episode's musical number. These guys look good together, do we see Glee in NPH's future?


Power Comedy Couple - Amy Poehler's hilarious husband Will Arnett (Arrested Development) will be guest staring on one episode of Parks and Recreation in January. (source)

Playing with Dolls - FOX has launched a Dollhouse themed web game in anticipation of the show's December 4th return. The game begins on the Rossum Corperation homepage, the mysterious entity behind the Dollhouses. Check out arg.net for more info on the game. Click on the "ditch the tech" logo to the left to receive a message, possibly from rebels attempting to prevent the post-apocalyptic future depicted in the un-aired "Epitaph One"



Kickstart my TARDIS - "Waters of Mars" the first installment in the series of specials to end the story of David Tennant's tenth Doctor aired on the BBC this past Sunday and will be appearing on BBC America (and hopefully the CBC) in December. Russel T. Davies has been quite busy stirring up new ideas for the BBC. After the devastatingly heartbreaking five-part mini-season, Davies intends on creating a re-vamped fourth season of Torchwood.

David Tennant scores a pilot with NBC

We can't get enough of him as the Doctor, but as David Tennant will soon be retiring from BBC's Doctor Who as the tenth doctor he just might find himself a spot in American television on NBC.

From THR:
"No longer will American TV audiences be asking doctor who?

Popular British actor David Tennant, best known for playing the title role in the BBC's long-running sci-fi series "Doctor Who," is set to make his American television debut as the title character in NBC's hourlong pilot "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer."

Written by Andrew Leeds and David Lampson, "Rex" centers on Rex Alexander (Tennant), a top Chicago litigator who begins suffering panic attacks and takes up coaching clients to represent themselves in court."

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