Film

• Trailer for The Spirit

British TV

• ITV2 commissions drama Trinity…
• …and cancels Jordan's chat show

Australian TV

• Big Brother cancelled

US TV

• Fringe episodes will be 50 minutes long
• The first of the Heroes webisodes [video, US only]
• Christina Ricci joining Saving Grace for three episodes
• Crash won't be depressing or about race much
• Christopher Gorham leaving Ugly Betty
• Casting for Valentine Inc, plus Dexter and The Unit

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Film

• Chris Carter secretly filming Fencewalker
• New Bourne movie 'coming soon'

British TV

• Promo video for the new-look iPlayer

Australian TV

• BBC Worldwide buys up UKTV and launches new services
• Pamela Anderson entering the Big Brother house
• iTunes starts offering TV shows

US TV

• Teaser trailer for Joss Whedon's Dr Horrible
• Nicole RIchie to guest star on Chuck
• Timothy Olyphant joins Damages
• John Schneider to star independent twentysixmiles
• Aidan Quinn and Rutger Hauer joins ABC's Hamlet-esque Prince of Motor City
• Lara Logan gets a promotion at CBS
• Heroes to answer 'deep questions' next season

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Doctor Who

• 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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Film

• Mission Impossible 4?
• Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in 500 Days of Summer

British TV

• New series of Lead Balloon commissioned
• No more Davina for BB?
• Beeb drops Out of the Blue after six episodes [free registration required]

US TV

• Bruce Boxleitner to appear in Heroes
• Private Eye spin-off from House planned?
• Knight Rider TV series will be different from the TV movie
• Breaking Bad gets a second season
• Stephen Root to play lonely vampie in HBO's True Blood
• Gossip Girl to get extended second season

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Doctor Who

• John Barrowman prefers David Tennant to Chris Eccleston

Film

• New Freddie Krueger franchise planned by Michael Bay and co
• Robert Redford to star in Bill Bryson adaptation?
• Gerard Butler and Katherine Heifl to star in offensive romcom

Books

• A video game version of Ender's Game is being planned

British TV

• Primeval commissioned for a third series, airing in January 2009
• Beeb sells its Australian soap back to Australia [free registration required]
• Ross Kemp in Afghanistan does better in the ratings than Celebrity Hijack finale
• It's the Phoo Action press pack - blimey, Carl Weathers is in it!

US TV

• SJP's production company to create Project Runway for the art world
• An interview with Damon Lindelof about season four of Lost
• Behind the scenes video of the new Knight Rider movie
• More crossovers planned between Heroes and Heroes: Evolutions
• Eli Stone will go out with a health warning
• Pushing Daisies probably won't be back now until season two

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Doctor Who

• A certain new Who monster will appear in The Sarah Jane Adventures, as will Jane Asher, Phyllida Law and Floella Benjamin [minor spoilers]

Film

• Steve Coogan to star in high school comedy Hamlet 2
• Journeyman's Kevin McKidd may be Thor. But probably not
• Set footage from The Hulk

Commercials/Music

• Brian Ferry appears in a Carling ad

British TV

• Wall to Wall up for sale
• BB8 had to play it safe after Celebrity BB fall out

US TV

• Glen Morgan quits Bionic Woman because of creative differences
• Apple would like to cut iTunes TV prices to 99?Ǭ¢
• Alyssa Milano to join My Name is Earl as a love interest for Earl
• Edie Falco to appear on three episodes of 30 Rock
• Californication renewed

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Doctor Who

• BBC now saying it's 'too early' to tell if DT will be back in 2010, but the general expectation is that he'll be back
• Enough people voted Torchwood 'best new drama' at the TV Quick awards for it to win. Really
• Another Hugo for Steven Moffat

Film

• Brian Dennehy and John Leguizamo join de Niro and Pacino in Righteous Kill
• The French honour George Clooney's 'irresistible charm'
• Cusack's Stopping Power stopped

Art

• Francis Bacon's rent painting up for sale

British TV

• CGI Magic Roundabout ready to launch
• Dara O'Brien a replacement for Parkie?
• IT Crowd gets a million more viewers thanks to Big Brother
• BSkyB avoided phone-ins because they 'felt grubby'
• The Teletubbies are ten. Shouldn't they be speaking properly by now?

US TV

• David Schwimmer says no Friends reunion
• Sara Gilbert to guest on The Big Bang Theory

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I don't know, what's the world coming to? Blue Peter's being fined for faking phone quizzes. The Beeb (and RDF) has had to apologise for distorting footage of the Queen. Richard and Judy are apologising for their phone quiz. To update Sarah Jane Smith for a new medium, “Never believe what you see on television.”

Michael Grade reckons it's all the fault of the training system in British television, which doesn't teach young recruits that lying is wrong. You'd have thought they'd have learnt that earlier in life, but apparently not.

The very, very latest person to have to apologise for faking footage is Gordon Ramsay. Naughty old Gordon pretended to catch fish when actually he didn't. Naughty Gordon. He's not much different from other fishermen in exaggerating his catching prowess, but this is a Channel 4 entertainment show and higher standards are expected, apparently.

Whatever next? Big Brother distorting the footage to portray housemates in particular lights chosen by the producers? Top Gear reshooting scenes to make everything look more impressive and entertaining?

Nah. Too improbable.

It's not going to do Gordon much good in the US of A, of course, where even before the show airs, Ramsay's Kitchen's Nightmares (US) is being accused of faking footage by one of the people featured in it. Ouch. Who's going to believe him now when he claims it all happened just as you saw on TV, honest m'lord?

Ironically for me, no matter whether he faked the catching of fish or not, Gordon Ramsay's F-Word did have one effect on me this series - for the last month, I've been vegetarian, thanks to Gordon killing off anything that moves in his vicinity. And that was even before he took one of his lambs off to the abattoir. I didn't actually watch that - my wife narrated it while I hid my eyes. “Oh my God, they're cutting it open. You can see its pancreas. God, there's its liver.” Could I have coped with seeing it? Not a chance. Poor little lambs.

PETA, I know you think Gordon is the enemy, so chose to dump all that stuff on his doorstep, but as you've now realised, he's actually doing your work for you...

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Film

• Trailer for David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises
• Finally! Robert de Niro and Al Pacino together wasn't enough. What we were really waiting for was 50 Cent to join the cast of Righteous Kill...
• Laurence Fishburne to write and direct a movie based on Paul Coelho's The Alchemist. Anyone read it?
• More Dark Knight casting, including Melina McGraw (Scully's sister in The X-Files)

'Music'

• The Spice Girls to reform?

British TV

• Channel 4 has bought the rights to Back To You, starring Kelsey Grammer
• The BBC's iPlayer will launch on July 27. They're already looking for extra content [free registration]
• ITV1 has pulled both Tycoon and Tough Gig
• One Man and His Dog is making a comeback on digital channel Horse & Country
• Oh no! Chantelle and Preston are splitting up! Did anyone see that coming?
• Ofcom having a good look at BSkyB's pay-per-view on Freeview plans

US TV

• Victoria Beckham to appear in Ugly Betty?
• No bionic ears necessary to help the deaf hear. Just recast The Bionic Woman's sister
• An interview with Michael Hogan and Katee Sackoff from BSG

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Doctor Who

• John Barrowman is doing panto in Birmingham this year, with guest appearances by the Daleks
• Blink got 6.1 million viewers
• Thank God it's only an audio play: Doctor Who returns to the web planet

Film

• Peter Cullen credits fans for getting him the Optimus Prime gig again
• A trailer for Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman's Invasion
• Pixar's forthcoming projects

Commercial

• Darth Vader makes beans on toast for Woolworths [free registration required]

British TV

• Prince for Big Brother?
• 1,000 people say Emily shouldn't have been chucked out of BB
• Two new cast members for Primeval

US TV

• Jericho's coming back, maybe as early as the end of the year if anything gets cancelled, with a lower budget and another cliffhanger. But don't watch it on PVR, watch it as it airs if you want that tiny hamster to live
• David Anders (Sark) from Alias might join Heroes next season
• Bradley Whitford on the demise of Studio 60
• Reactions to Fox's forthcoming Anchorwoman from the town where it's shot
• Isaiah Washington's a bit annoyed that he's not in Grey's Anatomy any more
• David Eick would like a BSG movie

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