Film

• Tom Cruise to play US president in Phillip Noyce's 28th Amendment?
• Michael Fassbender to play Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights
• George Clooney to stare at goats

Commercials

• Rob Lowe latest star of Orange cinema ads

British TV

• ITV buys Scandi indie Silverback for £14m
• Julie Walters playing Mary Whitehouse for BBC2
• Peep Show gets sixth series
• Kangaroo/SeeSaw planning Autumn roll-out

US TV

• Fox shows to benefit from fewer ads
• Kelly Preston joins Suburban Shootout, Adam Goldberg joins The Unusuals
• Robert Carlyle to play Jack Bauer's mentor in Africa in 24 prequel
• Six Feet Under stalker to play House private eye?
• Mutant X alum to replace Jorja Fox on CSI
• New interns for Scrubs
• Green Arrow back on Smallville?

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Doctor Who

• Former producer Philip Hinchcliffe compares old Who with nu-Who

Film

• Not a joke after all: Corden and Horne to star in Lesbian Vampire Killers
• Nia Vardalos and John Corbett reteam for I Hate Valentine's Day
• Tommy Lee Jones to write, direct, produce and star in Hemingway's Islands in the Stream
• 15 minutes of behind the scenes footage from Indiana Jones
• Jonah Hill to star in 21 Jump Street adaptation?
• New Hulk trailer
• Leonardo DiCaprio to play Ian Fleming?
• Daniel Day Lewis to do musical based on 8½

Art

• Bacon's “Triptych, 1976” sets record for post-war art sale

British TV

• Kelly Brook to replace Jennifer Ellison on Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life
• Gordon Brown to do PM Apprentice show?
• Johnny Vegas to star in BBC3 record label comedy

US TV

• Allison Mack staying on Smallville
• TNT orders series from George Clooney, Joel Surnow et al
• Kelsey Grammer lobbying CBS execs to rescue Back To You
• Heroes webisodes to start mid-July
• Scrubs boss airs some grievances

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Doctor Who

• Knit your own Adipose scheme falls foul of lawyers
• Burn Gorman to play Bill Sikes in Oliver!?

Film

• Michael Moore's making a Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel
• Point Break sequel planned, too
• Scott Glenn to play Donald Rumsfeld in Oliver Stone's W
• Nicolas Cage to star in Bad Lieutenant remake
• David Cronenberg to remake Timecrimes?

British TV/Technology

• Kangaroo to become SeeSaw

US TV

• Donnie Wahlberg in TNT drama
• Venture capitalists to rescue Moonlight for The CW?
• Shark cancelled
• Boston Legal's fifth season to be its last

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Film

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

British TV

• Vampire lesbian movie for James Corden?? Probably not
• Gladiators gets 1.8 million viewers

US TV

• CBS orders six new series including remakes of Eleventh Hour and Worst Week
• Michael Rapaport joins Prison Break as a regular
• Fox ready to remake Secret Millionaire
• Saffron Burrows to co-star in Christian Slater's My Own Worst Enemy
• Megan Mullally to be Alicia Silverstone's mother
• Reaper renewed for a second season
• How I Met Your Mother and The Unit renewed
• HBO shows coming to iTunes with different pricing
• October Road and Moonlight likely to be cancelled
• Miss Guided cancelled
• Back to You was 'on the wrong network'

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Doctor Who

• Pipes' return covered up by “bin girl”
• Catherine Tate to star in Under The Blue Sky
• The Doctor (and Chuck from Pushing Daisies) voted sexiest TV characters
• Church leaders watch Doctor Who for advice
• Big Finish: the companions in the Companion Chronicles, the Wirrn and Key To Time return, as do the Krotons

Film

• Steven Spielberg working on Lincoln biopic with Liam Neeson
• Bruce Willis as Hannibal in The A-Team and Brad Pitt as Thor?
• Donnie Darko sequel on the way
• Natalie Portman leaving Wuthering Heights
• Witchblade movie planned
• Buck Rogers rights picked up

Theatre

• Peter Kay to star in stage version of Porridge?
• Dirty Dancing nearly made Joanna Page give up acting

British TV

• BBC forgets to hand money over to charity
• Gordon Ramsay to quit Kitchen Nightmares?
• Red Dragon buying Tinopolis
• Gavin & Stacey boost Barry tourism
• Simon Nye making multicultural sitcom pilot

US TV

• David Eick to help The Philanthropist?
• Even more Britney for How I Met Your Mother?
• Back to You and New Amsterdam cancelled
• Eric Stoltz to invent cylons
• McSpaced not picked up by Fox but other shows are luckier, including Dollhouse
• Life on Mars remake to get pick-up

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Doctor Who

• Catherine Tate was funnier than Ant and Dec after all
• Sonic screwdriver creator would like some cash please

Film

• The first seven minutes of Speed Racer

Commercials

• Thunderbirds's Brains sells water

British TV

• Virgin in talks with BSkyB again
• ITV pays record fine for phone-in 'problems'

US TV

• The Gong Show returns
• Allison Mack leaving Smallville?
• Portia de Rossi in pilot
• Women's Murder Club cancelled, Eli Stone to return
• Lost adds hours to future seasons

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