Film

• Clip from Transporter 3
• Trailer for Frank Miller's The Spirit
• Gale Anne Hurd gets rights to produce Gearhead adaptation
• Justin Chadwick to direct Ironbow: The Legend of William Tell

British TV

• Dani Behr trying to revive The Word?
• Best ever ratings for Screen Wipe
• ITV Local and S4C team to produce Welsh-language portal

• Shakespeare's Globe to run season of Greek drama

US TV

• Trailer for Cupid, starring Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson
• Cast for 10 Things I Hate About You
• Heroes to stop being a serial?
• 24: Redemption to be dry run for a movie
• Thomas Schlamme and Paul Scheuring working on second American revolution

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Doctor Who

• Next Doctor will be black – or Vanessa Redgrave
• But not John Simm, who's not allowed to say if he'll be back

Film

• Narnia writers to write Captain America
• Gore Verbinski to remake The Host
• Josh Schwartz to write younger X-Men movie
• Kung Fu Panda director to helm He-Man

British TV

• After You've Gone cancelled
• Harley Street cancelled
• BSkyB to raise $600m for acquisitions

US TV

• Rashida Jones joins not-Office spin-off
• South Park to end with another movie
• Patricia Heaton pilot green lit
• Little Britain USA re-commissioned

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Film

• Trailer for Race to Witch Mountain
• Star Trek trailer in high def
• Aaron Eckhart to star in Battle: Los Angeles
• Disney buys script for The World's Most Annoying Man
• Warner Bros acquires script for Control-Alt-Delete
• The Nutty Professor may return

British TV

• George Gently coming back
• Phoo Action cancelled before it even airs

US TV

• Seth Rogen to produce porn-shop sitcom for Showtime
• Sacha Baron Cohen sneaks onto set of Medium
• The Middleman's future is in limbo
• Lipstick Jungle might not be cancelled after all

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Doctor Who

• John Simm up for more DW

Film

• Alfred Gough and Miles Millar to write RoboTech movie
• Guillermo del Toro developing Pinocchio
• Chris McQuarrie to write and produce The Champions and The Monster of Florence

Theatre

• Whoopi Goldberg to open Sister Act in the West End
• Nicholas Hoult to make West End debut in New Boy
• Dominic Cooper to appear in Phaedra

British TV

• Apparitions gets 4.6m viewers
• Sky ratings up thanks to Virgin

US TV

• NBC developing comedy based on Cris Angel's life
• Joan Cusack developing psychiatry comedy at NBC
• Brian Dennehy joins Bunker Hill
• Monk reaches its final season
• CBS orders full season of Gary Unmarried and three more episodes of Worst Week
• How The Ex List would have ended

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Doctor Who

• James Frain to play the next Doctor?
• Or will it be Robert Pattinson?
• It's the K9 production site
• Big Finish to release weekly Eighth Doctor/Lucie episodes next year
• Einstein and Eddington DVD info

Film

• New Watchmen trailer
• Terrence Malick to make Gawain and the Green Knight?
• New Regency acquires rights to Asimov's The End of Eternity
• Marc Forster to direct World War Z
• James Cox to direct The Summoner
• Clint Eastwood to direct Hereafter?

Theatre

• Rory Kinnear and Ciaran Hinds to star in Burnt by the Sun at the National

British TV

• Lead Balloon format being sold to the US

US TV

• Pushing Daisies looking a bit dead now
• The Hoff to become a regular on second season of Knight Rider?
• Hilary Duff to get her own NBC show
• Two new pilots for Comedy Central
• Sean Combs to appear in CSI: Miami as a prosecutor
• Joshua Molina to reunite with Mary McCormack on In Plain Sight

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Film

• Greg Mottola to direct Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Paul
• Chris Cooper and Reeve Carney join The Tempest

Art

• Newly found Caravaggios go on display in Scotland

Comics

• Mike Mignola developing Hellboy spin-off

British TV

• Primeval fourth series already being worked on
• Five's Dawn Airey poaches Richard Woolfe from Sky

US TV

• NBC axes My Own Worst Enemy and Lipstick Jungle
• Sanctuary renewed for second season
• Prison Break close to cancellation
• Showtime and Stan Lee working on gay superhero project
• The CW orders five more episodes of Privileged
• Sasha Alexander to star in The Karenskys

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Film

• Martin Campbell to direct Nagasaki Deadline
• Uwe Boll loses lawsuit
• Ridley Scott to direct film based on Monopoly
• Pic of the new USS Enterprise

Theatre

• Who's going to be in the Old Vic's 24 hour plays

British TV

• Motive to make first TV comedy show shot on a mobile phone for MTV1
• Virgin to axe 2,200 jobs
• Live at the Apollo to fill Jonathan Ross's slot
• Ashley Highfield quits Project Kangaroo for Microsoft
• Tranter warns drama budgets have been cut back to breaking point
• Jeff Stelling to host Countdown

• HBO orders pilot based on fantasy book Game of Thrones
• The Ex-List still filming episodes for DVDs and international sales
• Breaking Bad's Mark Johnson working on legal drama for AMC
• Fox to take first look at Living With Abandon
• Casting on Nurse Jackie and Defying Gravity
• HBO readying 80s magazine comedy
• Dexter's Desmond Harrington to join Gossip Girl
• Kevin McKidd to join Grey's Anatomy as regular

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Film

• Danny Boyle to direct 28 Months Later?

Music

• Ultravox planning UK tour

Canadian TV

• Current TV arrives
• Colm Feore joins The Listener

British TV

• Sky launching online service

US TV

• ABC messes with its schedules, returns Lost to Wednesdays
• Former Prison Break regular to return
• Former Dirty Sexy Money regular to return
• Tracy Pollan joining Medium for three-episode arc
• Rita Rocks gets full season

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Film

• Chris Rock to remake Death at a Funeral
• Joe Johnston to direct First Avenger: Captain America
• Phillip Noyce to direct Above Suspicion
• Nicole Kidman to marry Charlize Théron for The Danish Girl
• 10 new Terminators for Terminator 4 [video, spoilers]

French TV

• French government revamps France Télévisions

Theatre

• Robin Williams to do two nights at the Gielgud this month

British TV

• Channel 4 to launch a religious strand
• No new factual formats for ITV
• BBC and Showtime working on contemporary retelling of Camelot

US TV

• Most of Knight Rider cast gets fired as series reboots
• Life gets a full second season
• Tiffani Thiessen to co-star on White Collar
• Michael Rapaport signs development deal with CBS
• Tori Spelling to return to Smallville and maybe 90210
• FX cancels 30 Days

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Doctor Who

• James Nesbitt says no…
• …as BBC bosses say "Colin Salmon - yes, please"?
• Rusty explains how to write

Film

• Steve Carell to star in The Beaver
• Justin Long, Josh Charles join Neeson/Ricci's After.Life
  
• Full theatrical trailer for Jim Carrey's Yes Man
• Behind-the-scenes featurette about Watchmen

Theatre

• Extensions for Jersey Boys, Joseph and Fat Pig

British TV

• Stanley Baxter returns to ITV for Christmas special
• British television exports soar 23%
• Virgin paying Sky £38m for channels
• Scottish Borders switch to digital only
• The Armstrong & Miller Show gets a second series
• Sarah Harding to appear in Freefall
• Andrew-Lee Potts dishes Primeval spoilers

US TV

• ABC mandates 2% production cuts
• The CW abandons plans for Batman prequel The Graysons
• Dylan McDermott to be the lead TNT's The Line
• Reiko Aylesworth joins Lost, Amy Price-Francis joins 24
• Emilio Estevez visits Two and a Half Man
• Pushing Daisies on brink of cancellation…
• …in which case Bryan Fuller would move back to Heroes
• Everwood's Justin Baldoni to appear in Heroes
• Fox's mid-season schedule spells bad news for Dollhouse
• Knight Rider ratings plummet

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