Film

• Proper Quantum of Solace teaser trailer
• Seven clips from Hellboy 2
• Christopher Guest to appear in Night at the Museum sequel
• Gillian Anderson to star in and produce biopic of Martha Gellhorn
• Phillip Noyce to direct Tom Cruise in Edwin A Salt

British TV

• Full details of the remake of The Prisoner
• BBC America cuts investment in BBC comedies
• Kangaroo VoD service referred to competition commission
• ITV1 gets its second worse rated day ever [free registration required]
• Ha ha! BSkyB suggests BBC and Channel 4 shouldn't be able to buy imports

US TV

• Tim Roth to star in Fox's Lie To Me
• BSG TV movie a go - but no one's in it?
• Hughes Brothers making Gentlemen of Leisure for HBO

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Doctor Who

• Tom Baker would do cameo if 'asked nicely'
• Trailers for the fourth series
• RTD defends Catherine Tate

Film

• Tin Tin to be played by Thomas Sangster?
• Supernatural's Jared Padalecki to star in Friday the 13th remake?
• Stan Winston to work on Terminator 4
• James Gandolfini joins cast of The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 remake
• Shekhar Kapur to complete Anthony Minghella's last movie
• Hugh Jackman and Eli Stone creator collaborate on comic, movie
• Fans may not like Indy 4
• Quantum of Solace featurette

Technology

• iPlayer to use Blinkx to search for video

British TV

• ITV abandons latest Ant and Dec project
• Famous Five to return, but animated
• Planning for a Tucker movie?
• Five Life rebranding as Fiver

US TV

• Highlights of the Buffy-fest
• Kelly Preston to guest-star on Medium for four episodes
• Bones going overseas
• Joss Whedon considering Buffy alumni for Dollhouse
• Prison Break gets a fourth season
• CBS picks up two new comedy pilots
• David Cross to star in his own co-written HBO pilot
• Fox cancels The Return of Jezebel James after three episodes
• CBS cancels Jericho - again - while Canterbury's Law gets a scheduling downgrade
• Jerry O'Connell to appear in Samantha Who?
• Michael Cassidy cast in How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls
• Smith's Amy Smart cast as lead in Glenn Gordon Caron's Meant to Be, while The Wonder Years' Fred Savage is to play a Single White Millionaire
• 90210's Jennie Garth to play My Best Friend's Girl
• HBO orders pilots for Suburban Shootout remake and Darren Star's Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl
• Will Sasso and Frederico Dordei join Fox's Spaced remake
• David Eick working on pilot based on PD James' Chldren Of Men
• Jane Seymour to play a TV host who solves mysteries for Hallmark pilot
• Sarah Connor viral marketing for a second season?

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Film

• Yet another Wizard of Oz remake planned
• Tim Piggott-Smith to appear in next Bond film
• Jason Isaacs joins Paul Greengrass's Green Zone
• Sky pushing to get British movies put into HD

British TV

• Mad Men's first episode gets good ratings for BBC4
• Virgin Media looking to sell some of its channels

US TV

• Simon Pegg's reaction to the US remake of Spaced
• The CW renews Gossip Girl, Smallville and Supernatural
• NBC lines up actors and directors for Masters of Horrors
• The Riches' Maverick TV shuts up shop
• Mira Sorvino and Victor Garber sign up for The Last Templar

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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

• RTD chats to the LA Times about making Who – and cries (SJA start on US SciFi in April, apparently)
• Doctor Who trailer coming to cinemas
• Join in with interactive Torchwood

Film

• Pan's Labyrinth wins the BBC4 World Cinema Award
• Josh Hartnett, martial arts star?
• An interview with new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko

British TV

• The Stig is Lewis Hamilton?

US TV

• Which Heroes will survive to season three?

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Doctor Who

• Sarah Jane Adventures gets another 24 episodes and Sarah Jane will be appearing in series four of Doctor Who

Film

• Quantum of Solace press conference highlights (video)
• Marvel reaches deal with Writers Guild
• Hulk want sequels!

British TV

• Behind the scenes of Ashes to Ashes
• New Sharpe commissioned
• Pushing Daisies to get a primetime ITV1 slot
• ITV to make modern Jack the Ripper drama…
• … as well as 'Top Gear for Girls' with Fearne Cotton, Sarah Harding and Abigail Clancy

Theatre

• Alan Dale joins cast of Spamalot

US TV

• Mad Men and Weeds writers going back to work
• NBC sues Dick Wolf - for no money
• Set the wayback machine: ABC sued over old NYPD Blue episode
• ABC to show last Lost finale with clues at the bottom of the screen
• Keith David joins cast of Spike's SIS pilot movie
• ABC drops a third of its pilots

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Happy Birthday, Mr Espedair!

Doctor Who

• DW and Torchwood have a MySpace video channel
• An interview with that Eve Myles woman
• John Barrowman committed to Torchwood
• Alex Kingston and Colin Salmon to appear in series four

Film

• UFC fighter Randy Couture to appear in Mandrake
• Jason Statham auditioned for part of Namor (the sub mariner)
• New Bond is Quantum of Solace
• Milo Ventimiglia, Jean Reno and Laurence Fishburne to star in Armored

Music

• UB40 split up

British TV

• Andrew Davies' Little Dorrit gets commissioned by the Beeb
• BBC2 to make 10 short dramas about Iraq
• Armstrong and Miller and The Omid Djalili Show get second series
• Chris Tarrant's The Great Pretender axed after one series
• Five to refresh its brand
• It's that Mitchell and Webb book deal

US TV

• Heather Locklear's comeback stimied
• Steve Bochco's Raising the Bar has been given the green light
• Dead Like Me could be resurrected

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Doctor Who

• First few minutes of Torchwood up on BBC1 web site (thanks Rosby!)

Film

• Hayden Christensen to be the Neuromancer?
• Olga Kurylenko to be head Bond girl

Radio

• Denise Van Outen and Johnny Vaughan to reunite on Capital Radio

US TV

• Golden Globes award ceremony scrapped
• A Knight Rider teaser trailer or two

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Film

• Interim deal settled over writers strike
• Gemma Arterton confirmed as new Bond girl
• Hulk and Iron Man crossover scene filmed?
• Guillermo Del Toro planning Frankenstein remake now
• Marlon Wayans join GI Joe

British TV

• Idiots complain about Hootenanny being pre-recorded
• Nuts TV, Adult Swim and Cartoon Network to go mobile
• Golf Channel stops broadcasting

US TV

• Marlo from The Wire joins Heroes
• Matthew Fox discusses Lost season four (and three)
• Lost using stealth promos

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No news tomorrow since it's my birthday and I'm not working for any amount of money then. But the news will be back on Monday. Incidentally, happy birthday to Kev for today!

Doctor Who

• James Marsters not happy with Torchwood-style kissing

Film

• Mathieu Amalric confirmed as Bond villain
• Producer Frank Marshall on Indy 4 and Bourne 4
• Wasn't The Source bad enough? More Highlander telefilms planned
• Another Brit for GI Joe: Darth Maul himself Ray Park

British TV

• ITV acquires Weakest Link/Eggheads production company 12 Yard

US TV

• Tim Kring explains the second season Heroes finale and talks about the third season
• Soul-searching needed before killing people, say Lost producers
• Pilot season scuppered if strike continues

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