Doctor Who

• Lots and lots and lots and lots of Torchwood filming photos

Film

• Daredevil reboot being planned
• Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt to star in Every Day
• 300 sequel to take place before Battle of Plataea
• Yogi Bear - the movie

Commercials

• Monster Munch ads featuring Timmy Mallett and Geoffrey Hayes

Theatre

• Eddie Izzard to return to the West End for stand-up

German TV

• Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor to be remade as Ich Bin Boes

British TV

• Pulling pulled
• Heroes gets 3.1m viewers
• BSkyB could be forced to share content
• Beeb looking for Hollyoaks rival
• Five revives Going For Gold - without foreigners
• QI moves to BBC1

US TV

• The Life on Mars starter kit
• James L Martin to co-star on The Philanthropist
• AMC plans adaptation of Red Mars
• Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sex Money and Private Practice all return to bad ratings
• TheWB.com launching three new series
• Frasier's dad to play Michael Weston's dad on Burn Notice?
• Heroes' budget not high enough?

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Getting people to watch your shiny new show (or returning old show) is always tricky. Billboards are among the main media you can use to get people to tune in, provided you create enough impact.

Here's a shiny collection of billboards (and a couple of magazine spreads and covers) for the current and returning shows in the US, as featured by The Hollywood Reporter, complete with rating. Where I've reviewed the show, I've included a link to the review

• Gossip Girl : A (first series review)
• Fringe : B (my review)
• Heroes: C+ (my review)
• Pushing Daisies : B (first series review)
• Entourage : C
• Chuck: A- (first series review)
• House : B+ (my review)
• 90210: B+
• Knight Rider: B (review tomorrow!)
• Privileged : C- (first episode review; third episode verdict on Monday)
• CSI: NY : C+
• America's Next Top Model : F+
• My Own Worst Enemy : B
• Dexter: A (my preview)
• Worst Week: B- (my review)
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles : A- (my review)
• Grey's Anatomy: B-
• Simpsons/Family Guy/King of the Hill: B
• Eleventh Hour: B- (UK series review)
• Desperate Housewives: B
• Californication: B (first series review)
• The Ex-List: B
• Lipstick Jungle: D+ (first series review)
• The Shield: A

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As lovely wife puts it, "Does Keeley Hawes really want us all to hate her?

Doctor Who

• And River Song was… [spoilers for Christmas special]

Film

• Jude Law to play Dr Watson in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes
• Brett Ratner to direct new Conan the Barbarian?Robert Zemeckis to adapt Eoin Colfer's Airman
• Robert Zemeckis to adapt Eoin Colfer's Airman
• David Duchovny and Demi Moore to play product placement family The Joneses
• Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Jason Bateman to star in Couple Retreat
• Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi to star in Internet porn historical Middle Men
• Four minutes of Simon Pegg's How To Lost Friends and Alienate People
• William Shatner responds to JJ Abrams [video]

Commercials

• Seinfeld and Gates ads pulled

British TV

• Rob Brydon's Arbie to make BBC4 comedy pilot about wealthy Russians
• Bill Bailey to leave Never Mind the Buzzcocks
• 200 complaints about EastEnders paedophile storyline

US TV

• SciFi's Warehouse 13 goes to series
• Wade Allain Marcus joins Gossip Girl
• Fox orders pilot of un-PC Save Us Then The Whales
• ABC has visions of the future with Flash Forward
• Shark's Sarah Carter joins Dirty Sexy Money

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Doesn't it make you proud to be British (or English, or something)? Bonus points if you can name all the historical periods correctly.

It's the Mad Men effect: what was acceptable then, isn't quite so acceptable now. More ads over here.