TV News — Tuesday, 31st May, 2011

By
Valerie Parker
on May 31, 2011Posted in: News, Television
  • Digital Spy also have the first three minutes of the new series of True Blood.
  • Ray Winstone will make his first appearance on the Beeb in quite some time in an adaptation of Great Expectations, one of many Dickens productions in the works to celebrate the bicentenary of the writers birth in 2010.  From the BBC Press Office.
  • Sherlock swept the BAFTA Cymru awards over the weekend with five wins, including Best Drama and Best Director for Euros Lyn.  From BBC News.
  • Penelope Wilton sat down with BBC News to discuss the motivations behind her character Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey.
  • SFX spoke to the producer of BBC Threes new show The Fades.
  • Frances Barber gives a few snippets of information about her character in Doctor Who.  Warning: There be spoilers ahead.  From Digital Spy.
  • Turns out Steven Moffat is a fan of cliffhangers, so you can expect to see an awful lot more of them in his time running the Doctor Who.  From Digital Spy.
  • Mad Men star John Hamm will be taking a crack at directing for the first episode of the forthcoming fifth series.  From NME.
  • TV Line has some news on new characters we’ll be meeting in the second series of AMCs hit, The Walking Dead.
  • Mark Addy talks about his exit from Game of Thrones.  From Digital Spy.
  • Morena Baccarin finds a new job only a couple weeks after her last, V, was canceled.  She’ll be joining Showtimes new drama, Homeland.  From TVLine.
  • The Hollywood Reporter has a first look at The Glee Project.
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