Film

• Deleted scene from Iron Man
• Remake of Candy Man planned - without a black lead?!
• Matthew Vaughn to direct Kick-Ass
• Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts and Bojana Novakovic join Edge of Darkness
• Mike Myers to appear in Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards
• Steve Carell and Tina Fey to play couple in Date Night
• Tom Cruise to star in remake of French movie The Tourist
• Superbad's Greg Mottola to direct Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's road movie

Theatre

• Porridge to become stage show

British TV

• Griff Rhys Jones to host new It'll be Alright on the Night
• Props for The IT Crowd requested
• YA phone vote fix

US TV

• Banana Splits to return
• Madchen Amick to star in My Own Worst Enemy, John Eisendrath to be showrunner
• Moonlight's Alex O'Loughlin signs one year with CBS
• Pictures of Gene Hunt and Annie from Life on Mars remake
• Sigourney Weaver to play Eli Stone's therapist
• Pics of Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth in 90210 spin-off
• True Blood trailer

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I got this email yesterday from someone who read my season finale review of Moonlight:

I would just like to say that i think you should make more programs of moonlight because the program was such a big hit and it was such a thrill to watch.I am disappiont that you have ended the program and you should consider making a lot more.

yoursfaithfully

xxx (name removed to protect the innocent)

I'm not exactly sure how this (probably quite young) person got the idea from my review that I'd decided to cancel Moonlight, using my vast, vast powers, or that I made it. Was it my sentence structure?

But for them and anyone else who gets the impression from my TV reviews that I actually make the programmes I'm reviewing, I'd just like to point out that I don't. I don't cancel them either. I certainly didn't cancel Moonlight: that was CBS.

And really, if anyone's going to bring Moonlight or any other cancelled TV show back, I'm probably not the right person to do it. I'm gratified that people might think from my reviews that I'd make really great TV programmes, but I suspect I wouldn't. At least, not with my current budgets.

Let that be an end to the matter.

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Film

• Matthew Rhys to head off to Patagonia

Commercials

• Heinz gay kiss ad gets complaints

British TV

• ITV1 orders third series of Benidorm
• Jonathan Pryce to star in BBC cloning comedy
• S4C launches its own pre-school channel

US TV

• New Amsterdam's Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to star in Fox's Virtuality
• HBO options I Was Told There'd Be Cake
• Journeyman's Kevin Falls to adapt Argentina's Lalola womaniser-body swap drama for Fox
• George Clooney's Fall of Bob gets script go-ahead from Showtime
• Anne Archer joins Privileged (aka Surviving the Filthy Rich)
• Laurie Metcalf joining Easy Money
• Abandon all hope, Moonlight fans - it's gone for good now

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In the US: HBO, some time in the Fall.

Vampire series, hey? Apparently, we can't get enough of them. Well, we can, otherwise Moonlight wouldn't have been cancelled.

But as soon as one dies, others swoop in on bats' wings to take their place: BBC3's got the partly vampiric Being Human on the way (YouTube trailer) – as soon as they can sort out cast scheduling issues – and HBO has True Blood due in the Fall.

What's up there? It's like they're proxies that enable repressive societies that won't allow proper sex on tele to explore desire and the id in a semi-fantastical, metaphorical and therefore safe way.

But it can't be that. Don't be silly.

Vampire shows largely fall into two categories: group one, by far the more popular, is when vampires are secret. They skulk in the shadows, occasionally popping up to say things like "I want to suck your blood." Then they suck your blood.

Group two, in which True Blood falls quite neatly, is when vampires aren't secret. They creep around in the exact same way rock stars don't, take on the language of oppressed minorities and promise to be good.

"Don't mind us," they say. "We're just vampires".

"Really?" the humans respond. "You don't want to suck our blood?"

"Oh, no," reply the vampires. "That's a terrible, terrible stereotype."

"Ah," the humans nod sagely. Then they pause. "Excuse us, but aren't you sucking our blood?"

"Oh yes. Sorry about that. We're vampires. We lie. Don't mind us…"

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Doctor Who

• DT nice to Joan Collins' grandchildren
• Catherine Tate wanted for Corden and Horne's sketch show

Film

• Tyrese Gibson to play BA Baracus in The A-Team?
• Mummy 3 trailer
• Red Dawn and Robocop remakes on the cards
• Emmanuelle prequel planned
• Joe Dante to direct Bat Out of Hell
• Omar Sharif to do Arabic-language movies
• Ron Bass to adapt Carrie Evan's The Godmother
• Matt Lucas and David Walliams planning two new films
• Shia LaBeouf to star, Harrison Ford co-star in Indie sequels?
• Trailer for Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona [via]

British TV

• Waking the Dead and Silent Witness get new series
• Jim Sheridan and Terry George reunite for Troubles drama
• Barry council contemplating Gavin & Stacey trail

US TV

• Three Battlestar Galactica TV movies to be made?
• CBS learned from Jericho about how to treat Moonlight fans
• The CW has a year left?
• Supergirl MIA in next season of Smallville?
• Michael Landes joins cast of Courtoom K
• Joss Whedon talks Dollhouse

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We had a look at ABC's Life On Mars yesterday and seeing as that's pretty much its only new drama show, we'll be hearing nothing more from it for now.

So it's time to have a gander at CBS's new Fall shows: The Eleventh Hour, The Ex-List, Harper's Island, Project Gary, The Mentalist and Worst Week. Observant Brits (and Israelis) will notice a couple of remakes in there…

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Doctor Who

• Knit your own Adipose scheme falls foul of lawyers
• Burn Gorman to play Bill Sikes in Oliver!?

Film

• Michael Moore's making a Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel
• Point Break sequel planned, too
• Scott Glenn to play Donald Rumsfeld in Oliver Stone's W
• Nicolas Cage to star in Bad Lieutenant remake
• David Cronenberg to remake Timecrimes?

British TV/Technology

• Kangaroo to become SeeSaw

US TV

• Donnie Wahlberg in TNT drama
• Venture capitalists to rescue Moonlight for The CW?
• Shark cancelled
• Boston Legal's fifth season to be its last

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Film

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

British TV

• Vampire lesbian movie for James Corden?? Probably not
• Gladiators gets 1.8 million viewers

US TV

• CBS orders six new series including remakes of Eleventh Hour and Worst Week
• Michael Rapaport joins Prison Break as a regular
• Fox ready to remake Secret Millionaire
• Saffron Burrows to co-star in Christian Slater's My Own Worst Enemy
• Megan Mullally to be Alicia Silverstone's mother
• Reaper renewed for a second season
• How I Met Your Mother and The Unit renewed
• HBO shows coming to iTunes with different pricing
• October Road and Moonlight likely to be cancelled
• Miss Guided cancelled
• Back to You was 'on the wrong network'

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Doctor Who

• David Morrissey to appear in Christmas special [spoilers]

Film

• DS9's Nana Visitor to play Jason Vorhees' mum in Friday the 13th remake?
• Guillermo del Toro to direct Saturn and the End of Days
• Sex and the City world premiere to be in London

Comics

• Ender's Game comic coming
• Frank Miller to direct Hard Boiled adaptation?
• Stan Lee to work as writer and editor for Virgin Comics

British TV

• Harry Hill to make spoof soap for ITV
• Steve Coogan to play gambling addict in BBC1 comedy drama
• Work under way on a third series of The Street
• Gavin & Stacey moving – to BBC1 or maybe BBC2?
• Andrew Marr to front new history show [free registration required]
• Another series for Two Pints
• Absolutely reunion stage show planned?

US TV

• Fontana and Levinson leave NBC's The Philanthropist before it starts
• Caprica to be as gritty as BSG
• Family Guy writers sue Fox
• Sarah Chalke returning to HIMYM
• Terminator second season confirmed
• Second season of Moonlight being worked on

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Film

• David Fincher helming animated film based on 70s sci fi mag Heavy Metal
• Brad Bird and Pixar to do live-action with earthquake-set 1906
• Yet another Carry On film gets a green light
• Charlie Sheen to star in a horror film?
• Hulk talk [spoilers]
• Lost Boys 2 trailer
• How MMA is changing the face of martial arts films

Events

• Top Gear Live to go to 15 countries

British TV

• Channel 4 to spend £35m less over five years on US imports
• Series two Last Man Standing contestants and events unveiled

US TV

• Farscape mobisode revival still being talked about
• It's Always Sunny… creators ink two-year deal with 20th Century Fox
• Eric Winter to have recurring role in Moonlight
• Another season four BSG trailer
• Rob Thomas' Cupid gets a pilot order
• What's on Comedy Central's development slate?

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