Doctor Who

• Torchwood series three details

Film

• Rhys Ifans to star in The Boat That Rocked
• Filming starts on Mighty Boosh's Bunny and the Bull
• Tom Cruise working with Sam Raimi on adaptation of DC/Wildstorm's Sleeper
• Fox and Warner Bros to fight over Watchmen rights
• Tyrese to appear in A-Team movie as BA?
• Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?

British TV

• Clips from BBC3's Autumn season
• Kelly Brook and Alan Dale to fight zombies in Moving Wallpaper's second series
• BBC4 to celebrate Mills & Boon's 100th anniversary
• BSkyB launching a second arts channel

US TV

• Laurence Fishburne to replace William Petersen on CSI
• Seth Green to appear on Heroes?
• The first two episodes of Rosario Dawson's new web series for NBC (US only)
• Mark Sheppard to appear in three episodes of Dollhouse
• Master P launching Better Black Television network

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Doctor Who

• Beeb gearing up to offer David Tennant lots of money

Film

• Bloody hell. The Watchmen trailer is here
• Who's replacing Arnie in Terminator Salvation
• Trailer for Ridley Scott's Body of Lies
• Don Cheadle to star in and produce film about British drug trafficker

Theatre

• Full cast of Old Vic's The Norman Conquests revealed

British TV

• ITV commissions car crash television
• Five launches its catch-up service Demand Five
• Alan Bleasdale returns to the Beeb after 22 years
• Silly sitcoms coming back
• ITV2 making radio-based sitcom starring Chris O'Dowd and Nina Sosanya
• Ofcom ready to relax ITV's public service requirements
• Another 10 channels join Freesat
• British TV still too white

US TV

• Another Heroes trailer
• David James Elliott to star as a knight in Mirabilis mini-series
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan returning to Grey's Anatomy

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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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Doctor Who

• More information on next year's specials

Film

• A trailer for Max Payne
• Jon Favreau will direct Iron Man 2

British TV

• UKTV rebranding its non-Dave channels to Watch, GOLD and Albi
• BBC secures lifetime rights to Heroes
• Friends' Adam Chase talks about writing Clone for BBC3
• BBC2's Autumn highlights
• RDF launches a comedy downloads site

US TV

• New cast members for Ugly Betty, Heroes and Damages
• Scott Bakula to star opposite Ray Romano in Men of a Certain Age
• New pilots ordered by HBO, including projects from David Simon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Martin Scorsese
• And HBO announces Fall premiere dates for True Blood and Little Britain USA
• ABC willing to rip off foreign formats?
• Guest appearances on Criminal Minds and Psych for Jason Alexander and Justine Bateman
• BBC America will censor Skins

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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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Film

• No Jon Favreau for Iron Man 2?
• Hugh Grant up for another rom-com shock
• New Three Musketeers adaptation/prequel

Art

• 'Mr Darcy' portrait to be sold

British TV

• A pantomime and a Gavin & Stacey sketch for Comic Relief from Ruth Jones and James Corden?
• Beeb to build web page for every show ever
• Third season of Heroes to be simulcast with the US
• US producers to bring pilots to the UK for buyers
• Sky One audiences drop 14% since leaving Virgin Media [free registration required]
• Casualty to move to Cardiff?

Irish TV

• Bill Cullen to start looking for his Apprentice

US TV

• Gossip Girl spin-off?
• Sarah Paulson to be female lead in Cupid
• Francis Capra joining Heroes
• Jamie Kennedy to replace Jay Mohr on Ghost Whisperer
• Seth Green to appear on My Name is Earl [spoilers]

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Doctor Who

• David Tennant talks about Doctor Who and Hamlet [video]
• RTD offered Steven Moffat his job - by email last summer
• Want to get angry at something today? Let the Daily Mail help with this article on DT… Good old, reliable old DM

Art

• Lowry Welsh sea view sells for £313k

Film

• Keira Knightley to play cockney in My Fair Lady
• Producers team up to make intelligent chick flicks
• Leonardo DiCaprio to play founder of Atari
• A Hulk promo featuring Iron Man
• Harrison Ford to play real-life scientist
• Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon to star in Cameron Crowe rom com

British TV

• David Morrissey and Tara Fitzgerald to star in stalker drama
• Hugh F-W faces £86,000 Tesco chicken bill
• James Corden and Ruth Jones to write panto for Comic Relief

US TV

• A clip from season three of Heroes
• Amber Tamblyn joins The Unusuals plus more casting, including RTM's Virtuality
• Chris Rock's brother gets his own show
• A&E puts Patrick Swayze's Beast into production

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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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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

• Eve Myles to host boxing on Radio Wales
• Catherine Tate and David Tennant to speak at Times Cheltenham Literary Festival

Film

• Ronald D Moore to write three sci-fi movies for United Artists
• Spielberg and Lucas talk!
• Brett Ratner to remake The Incredible Shrinking Man
• Emma Watson to star in Napoleon and Betsy
• Val Kilmer, 50 Cent, Sharon Stone, Dylan McDermott and Brian Presley to star in Streets of Blood
• MySpace and Hammer launch their first production

Commercials

• Halifax's Howard faces the axe

Comics

• Heroes' Milo Ventimiglia to star in comic book

British TV

• The Apprentice ratings increasing [free registration required]
• Switch to digital could have been greener
• Sky One to make two high-def adaptations of Martina Cole books
• ITV3's first original drama to be adaptation of Ladies of Letters
• ITV4 commissions documentaries featuring Andy McNab, Vinnie Jones and Philip Glenister
• Five Life (aka Fiver from April 28) to pick up Bebo's Sofia's Diary

French TV

• TF1 suing YouTube

US TV

• The Black Panther coming to BET
• NBC might want to come back to iTunes
• Harry Lennix and Angel's Amy Acker join Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
• David James Elliott to appear in disaster mini-series
• New Amsterdam looking dead
• ABC greenlights another sitcom pilot from Victor Fresco

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