TV Bits: Frank Darabont’s ‘L.A. Noir’ Gets Guest Star Simon Pegg, Plus: ‘The Killing’, ‘Mad Men’, ‘Community’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Game of Thrones’, and More

Posted on Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 by Angie Han

We’ve got a ton of small screen-centric odds and ends today, and there’s good news for just about everyone. Unless, that is, you’re Mike Tyson, Spike Lee, John Boyega, or Lord Eddard Stark. After the jump:

• Simon Pegg enters talks for Frank Darabont’s L.A. Noir
• The Killing Season 2 drops a new promo
• Mad Men unveils Season 5 photos and two new promos
• Showtime announces return dates for Weeds and Episodes
• HBO passes on Mike Tyson and Spike Lee’s Da Brick
• Comedy Central picks up Community reruns
• The Internet speculates about the Doctor’s next companion
• Robert Rodriguez talks about his new cable network
• Game of Thrones gets a gruesome new poster, offers first look at Jaquen H’ghar

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Now Robert Rodriguez Has His Own Cable Channel

Posted on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 by Russ Fischer

Just as the Weinstein Company skips cable and goes straight to Netflix, one-time Harvey Weinstein genre film creator Robert Rodriguez is getting his own cable channel thanks to Comcast.

Rodriguez proposed El Rey, “designed to be an action-packed, general entertainment network in English for Latino and general audiences that includes a mix of reality, scripted and animated series, movies, documentaries, news, music, comedy, and sports programming.” Read More »

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