Film

• Lost's Josh Holloway joins cast of comedy Stay Cool
• Arrested Development is on
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• Val Kilmer joins Silver Cord

Radio

• Chris Tarrant returning to radio

Theatre

• Josh Hartnett to make West End debut in adaption of Rain Man

British TV

• Out of the Blue will not be renewed
• Shaun Ryder to appear in Shameless
• More co-productions for the Beeb
• Larry Lamb joins EastEnders cast
• Hat Trick working on Isabel Fay comedy

US TV

• Shannen Doherty in talks to appear in 90210 update
• Las Vegas Star Trek Experience to close
• Guess who's not going back to Stargate: Atlantis

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• Freema Agyeman among stars of Survivors remake
• Catherine Tate wants to make another series of her sketch show

Film

• Judd Apatow to direct movie about stand-up comedy
• Trailer for new Coen Brothers/George Clooney movie
• Emily the Strange to become a movie
• Bryce Dallas Howard to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg on Terminator 4?
• Daniel Craig to become honorary green beret?
• Danny Glover, Oliver Platt and Thandie Newton to star in 2012?

Books

• Brian Cant reads downloadable fairy tales for free
• Gavin & Stacey: the book

Radio

• GCap sells Xfm South Wales [free registration required]

Musicals

• Gone with the Wind to close after just 79 performances
• An Inconvenient Truth to become an opera

British TV

• Sex discrimination on BBC news?
• Jonathan Ross to host Dad's Army special
• FIve to re-enact SAS missions [free registration required]
• No new US shows acquired yet
• Davina will “never quit” Big Brother
• Britain's Got Talent finale gets 14.4m viewers
• Jonathan Creek back for Christmas special

US TV

• Law and Order producer to head second season of In Treatment?
• Tim Minear signs two-year deal with 20th Century Fox TV
• Kim Cattrall to star in remake of Joanna Lumley's Sensitive Skin for HBO
• Time travelling Mad Men [minor spoilers]
• More pilot casting
• Harold Perrineau joins The Unusuals… and he's not happy about Lost
• A Lost deleted scene
• Scrubs: The Next Generation
• TBS launching female commuter micro-series

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• Steven Moffat to scare children?
• Billie feels too posh for Rose

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• Trailer for Will Smith's superhero movie Hancock
• Eddie Murphy and Brett Ratner lined up for Beverly Hills Cop 4?
• Jon Cryer and James Spader to star in Robert Rodriguez's Shorts
• Four more cast members for Transformers 2
• James McAvoy to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit?
• Elizabeth Berkley joins Donnie Darko sequel

Radio

• David Quantick gets a show on Q Radio

Theater

• Melissa Gilbert to star as Ma Ingalis in Little House musical

Austrian TV

• Cellar girl gets her own TV chat show

British TV

• What the Papers Say axed after 52 years
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• Piers Morgan to get his own ITV chat show
• Stephen Fry in America gets a spin-off series [free registration required]

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• Cast of Starz's Crash series coming together
• More casting on ABC comedy pilots

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• Terminator 4 plot details
• The first Hellboy 2 TV spot
• Richard Dreyfuss to play Dick Cheney in W?
• Beyonce to do Bond theme?

Radio

• Anne and Nick reunite with Mad Lizzie and Wincey Willis on BBC London 94.9

British TV

• James Marsters to play Buzz Aldrin for Moonshot?
• ITV to stop showing Pushing Daisies?
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• The six candidates for the Beeb's College of Comedy

US TV

• More episodes ordered for Law and Order: Criminal Intent
• Casting: Sam Neill, Sean Bean and Joss Ackland join Crusoe, CCH pounder joins Warehouse 13
• Guess who's back in CSI next season [spoiler]
• ABC's comedy casting includes Beau Bridges and Meagen Fay
• 24 prequel adds Eric Lively, Tony Todd and Gil Bellows to cast
• Ron Perlman to star in FX's Sons of Anarchy
• Rosie O'Donnell and Fran Drescher writing their own sitcom
• A round-up of this year's cancellations

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Today's Joanna Page (or did y'all prefer "Page of the Day"? Or even just "Joanna page"?) is from Gavin & Stacey (obviously). Hope you enjoy it.

Just as a brief – okay, not very brief at all – aside though, I've been listening to Safety Catch, which was a Radio 4 comedy show on in September/October last year. The lovely Ms Page isn't in it much, even though she gets almost top billing, but she's brilliant when she is, particularly when she gets a load of good lines in the fourth episode. Plus, ooh! She's allowed to keep her Swansea accent! Yey!

In case you don't know what it's about, here's the plot from the BBC Radio 4 web site:

Safety Catch is the story of a man who never intended to go into the arms trade: he fell into it but he's definitely going to leave soon. And if he wasn’t doing his job, someone else would. And at least he doesn’t work for McDonald’s

Simon McGrath likes to think of himself as a good person. He donates blood (although not bone marrow because he’s heard that hurts), he recycles and he's adopted two tigers. But he has to pay his mortgage just like everyone else and that's why he currently works as an arms dealer.

It's actually really funny (Laurence Howarth wrote it), so worth listening to in its own right. How can you do that, given that Radio 4 isn't playing it any more, and it's not on Listen Again? I couldn't possibly comment, but you could try clicking the Play buttons below...

PS I had the strangest impression they'd done a TV pilot of it with Stephen Mangan recently, but I can't find the slightest trace of that anywhere, so I must have imagined it.

PPS No hint of a second series. Sigh. Still, if you stick it on at 11.30pm on a Wednesday, what do you expect?

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Doctor Who

• Anthony Head keen to return to Doctor Who

Film

• Mel Gibson to star in film version of Edge of Darkness, directed again by Martin Campbell
• Universal options Eli Stone co-creator's comic Resurrection
• Galaxy Quest returning as a comic
• X-Files 2 pics

Theatre

• Kris Marshall/Rob Webb/Joanna Page's Fat Pig still to open on schedule despite accident

British TV

• Dave Gorman's Genius crossing from radio to TV

US TV

• Harold Gale to appear on Desperate Housewives
• Natasha Henstridge and James Cromwell join Impact
• Britney's officially back on HIMYM
• No Duff for 90210 spin-off but Lori Loughlin's in
• Aliens in America cancelled?
• Reaper likely to get the chop too?

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