Clips and interviews with the cast of House

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Film

• Guy Ritchie to direct Sherlock Holmes
• I Spit On Your Grave to be remade
• Matt Damon to join Morgan Freeman in Clint Eastwood rugby movie

Awards

• Winners of the Glamour awards, including Joanna Page as comedy actress of the year
• Mad Men and The Wire top nominations at the Television Critics Association Awards

Commercials

• Privilege ads 'unfair' to the upper classes

British TV

• Production starts on BBC3's PAs
• More4 head leaves to set up his own indie [free registration required]
• Al Murray to create new characters for ITV1
• Simon Nye working on ITV comedy about a teenager's video diary

US TV

• Discovery launches first 'green' channel
• More casting, including Andre Braugher on Ray Romano's Men of a Certain Age
• Green Arrow back for Smallville's eighth season
• Showrunners for Lost, Mad Men, House and Pushing Daisies discuss ratings [video]

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We've looked at ABC's new Fall drama, Life on Mars, and we've had a look through CBS's as well, so now it's time to give Fox's Fall 2008 output a looksie.

On the schedule, we have a new Joss Whedon sci-fi spy show starring Eliza Dushka, Dollhouse; a new animated comedy from Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane, The Cleveland Show; an X-Files for the noughties from Alias/Lost creator JJ Abrams, Fringe; a covert remake of Angela's Eyes in the form of Lie to Me; not so covert remakes of Australian show Sit Down, Shut Up and British shows Secret Millionaire and Outnumbered; Alfred Molina playing Judge House; and something that makes Hotel Babylon seem like art.

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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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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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In the US: Memorial Day, 9pm/8c, A&E
In the UK: Not yet acquired

Didn't I say you should own this a while ago? Oh wait it's a remake. A mini-series in fact. Let's start again then.

Michael Jurassic Park/Westworld/Disclosure/Rising Sun Crichton's first novel was The Andromeda Strain, a scary little book that asked the question "What if an alien virus that was absolutely virulent and lethal came to Earth? What would it be like and how would we deal with it?" After becoming a bestseller, it got turned into a rather excellent movie (which you should own) back in the early 70s.

So do we need a remake? Interesting question, too. Before watching this two-part mini-series, I'd have said no, even if it is "presented by" Tony and Ridley Scott, especially since it's showing on A&E, which hasn't done much decent for about a decade.

But you know what? It's not half bad. It's different in a lot of ways. It's better in a lot of ways, too. But is it the best Andromeda Strain so far?

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Doctor Who

• Dervla Kirwan as the new assistant? [spoilers]

Film

• Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan to reunite – but not for another Rush Hour
• Richard Gere to star with Hilary Swank in Amelia Earhart biopic
• More studios add content to the US Apple Store
• Stan Lee launches new superhero franchise
• Allison Janney up for two comedies

British TV

• Andrew Davies adapting Joanna Briscoe's Sleep With Me for ITV1

US TV

• Producers talk about overcrowding in House [spoilers]
• Jennie Garth drops out of pilot for 90210 return?
• More background on Dollhouse

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After a long absence, here are my latest questions and realisations that my brain has generated over the last month that I couldn't be arsed to put into individual entries. Actually, I didn't have any questions, just realisations

1. Realisation: There's nothing more disconcerting than a first-run Christmas episode in January.
2. Realisation: The 80s were small and blurry
3. Realisation: Sayid is the most interesting character in Lost
4. Realisation: It's now possible to spot a Groundhog Day episode within its first three seconds

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Film

• Bootleg copy of new Indiana Jones trailer
• Al Pacino to be head Bond terrorist?
• Nicole Kidman to play Valerie Plame in Doug Liman biopic
• Star Trek XI pushed back to Summer 2009
• Corey Haim will be in Lost Boys sequel

British TV

• Philip Glenister to play American vampire killer who wants to stake Mackenzie Crook in The Last Van Helsing (working title)
• Beeb looking for more studio-based comedies [free registration required]
• No more CITV for Wales [free registration required]
• Shane Ritchie to play Arthur Daley in Minder remake for Five?

US TV

• NBC renews Chuck, Life and Heroes, but Bionic Woman, Journeyman and Friday Night Lights look dead
• CBS orders more episodes of Shark and Rules of Engagement
• Save Cavemen - send hair to ABC
• Chuck Lorre and co to work 24/7 to get episodes of Big Bang Theory, etc made
• My Name is Earl creator spent strike working in fast food restaurant
• Hugh Laurie upset by end of strike

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Doctor Who

• Fourth series of Who to air on SciFi in April in the US
• God I wish I could have used my original headline for this: Peter Davison's daughter has a very special role this series? [spoilers?]

Film

• Robert Englund to direct Christopher Lee in Vij
• Max Payne to begin filming soon?
• Parnassus still a goer

British TV

• ITV1 schedule revamp working
• ITV trying hard to sell shows to the US
• Prime Suspect could be back
• No more acting for Michael Palin

US TV

• Clips from the next episode of Lost
• NBC not hopeful of Friday Night Lights' chances…
• …But reality won't replace drama once the strike is over
• House ratings sky-high thanks to Superbowl (and Mira Sorvino, I reckon)
• 24 revamp caused by GW Bush's declining approval ratings?

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