Friday News Roundup: Happy Memorial Day Edition
While you are waiting for your early release from work to get started on all your holiday plans, take a spin through this week’s News Roundup for tidbits and goodies from around the world of British entertainment. Click through for more on Downton Abbey, Sherlock, The Fades, Doctor Who, Misfits, Bedlam, Twenty Twelve, Eurovision 2012 and more!
Confirmed: Benedict Cumberbatch, Steven Moffat and Andrew Scott will all be at the BAFTA TV Awards ceremony this weekend representing Team Sherlock. No word yet on whether Martin Freeman, who is also nominated, will be present, but here’s fingers crossed!
Sherlock’s Andrew Scott says it’s “unlikely” that he’ll return for Series 3.
BBC One contoller Danny Cohen talks about the ratings performances of recently cancelled series Upstairs Downstairs and The Royal Bodyguard.
Joe Dempsie talks about what Series Two of The Fades might have looked like, had it been renewed.
Steven Moffat says that critics who brand Sherlock and Doctor Who as too complicated must be “fairly stupid.” Well, that’s them told.
Moffat also talked about why the Doctor Who schedule is moving around this year.
From the weird, yet surprisingly awesome files: all eleven Doctors re-imagined as dinosaurs.
Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith is set to carry the Olympic Torch as the torch relay moves through Cardiff this weekend.
Ninth Doctor Christoper Eccleston says his “conscience is clear” regarding his 2005 departure from Doctor Who.
Sherlockians from around the world rally to show support at the Judicial Review which will decide the fate of Undershaw, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s home.
Iconic weekly music show Top of the Pops is being revived as a stage show
Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell set for an appearance as a guest judge on The X Factor.
Previous X-Factor champion Leona Lewis will also be a guest judge this season.
Two new cast members look to be set for Series 4 of Misfits.
Sherlock beats out Downton Abbey and The X Factor for Entertainment Show of the Year in the Audience Vote category at the Freesat Awards.
Watch “Good as Gold,” a Doctor Who Olympic-themed mini-episode and the winning entry in the Script to Screen contest for schoolchildren aged 9-11. It’s really cute!
Downton Abbey star Jessica Brown Findlay joins the cast of Andrew Levitas’ Lullaby.
Take this with a grain of salt, but some interesting behind-the-scenes gossip that there’s some tension on the Downton Abbey set because of contract issues.
Steven Moffat will receive the Special Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to television writing at the BAFTA TV awards ceremony this weekend,
Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men’s Jon Hamm will star together in a television adaptation of The Young Doctor’s Notebook
Olympic mockumentary Twenty Twelve, starring Hugh Bonneville, will premiere on BBC America’s “Ministry of Laughs” comedy block on June 28.
First look at cast photos and a trailer from the revamped Series 2 of Bedlam, complete with all the new faces we can expect to see.
Get a report from filming on A Mother’s Son, the upcoming ITV thriller with Martin Clunes and Hermione Norris.
Watch the first preview trailer from ABC’s upcoming remake of Mistresses with Alyssa Milano.
This really amazing footage of Queen Elizabeth arriving for her coronation in 1953 makes me so happy. Yay, Diamond Jubilee!
In other awesome Diamond Jubilee related things, this look back at Queen Elizabeth’s sixty years on the throne from BBC News is also outstanding. (It's so good I got a little emotional watching it, I’m not kidding.)
You can watch the Olympic Torch as it travels around the UK via livestream here.
Since it’s Towel Day, and I’m a big nerd, I pretty much have to link to this post of 25 Douglas Adams Quotes to Live By over at Anglophenia.
A handy guide to Eurovision 2012 from the lovely folks at the Radio Times. More on Eurovision can be found here at HuffPo UK.
From the Weird History files, 812 years later a French forensic scientist is going to investigate the death of Richard the Lionheart
