Doctor Who

• Rusty was right: Who ratings jump in 7pm timeslot

Film

• John Cusack signs on for Roland Emmerich disaster movie 2012
• Trailer for Baz Luhrmann's Australia
• DreamWorks to do Blackbeard movie
• St Trinian's sequel planned

British TV

• ITV3 to run a Primeval weekend in June, complete with behind-the-scenes documentary written and directed by Andrew Lee Potts [free registration required]
• E4 to be the focus of Channel 4's US acquisitions

US TV

• Angel writer Jeffrey Bell to be showrunner for the forthcoming Harper's Island
• Katee Sackhoff joins Nip/Tuck, Saul Rubinek joins Warehouse 13
• Kings gets a series order from NBC

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Time to announce the winner of the Primeval competition. After much consideration, I've decided to award the prize of a copy of Primeval - Shadow of the Jaguar to…

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Film

• Two minutes of Iron Man on YouTube
• Gisele Bundchen to be female lead of new Austin Powers movie?

Music

• ITN to do music news on YouTube

British TV

• Primeval's third series to have new cast members, including Jason Flemyng, and 10 episodes [spoilers]
• Charlie Brooker to write zombie show for E4
• BBC News 24 and BBC World to be renamed
• iPlayer supremo Ashley Highfield to head up joint BBC/ITV/C4 VoD development
• ITV skipping second episode of Pushing Daisies despite strong start

US TV

• Albert Brooks to appear in Weeds
• Gary Dourdan to leave CSI
• Rob Thomas quits 90210 spin-off

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Pay close attention, gentle reader. At the end of this, there's going to be a competition – a first for this 'ere blog – in which you're going to be able to win an actual real thing that you can own and that will arrive through the post, rather than through a Superpoke on Facebook.

But first, a question. Who do you think a novel based on Primeval would be aimed at? I ask this because I have a copy of the first in Titan's new range of Primeval novels and I'm slightly curious as to the thinking process behind it.

Primeval is something of a family show, going out on Saturdays, nice 'n' early in the evening. Yet, Shadow of the Jaguar is definitely not something you should be giving to the kiddies.

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I guess at some point in time the producers of Primeval had a choice about what to do with their series finale. Either they could have an intellectually satisfying piece of drama that answered a whole bucket-load of questions. Or they could have lots and lots of dinosaurs in a fight.

Guess which they went for.

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Doctor Who

• BBC4 to air Verity Lambert tribute night

Film

• Who won which Oscars
• Odeon bans Rambo
• X-Files 2 talk from cast and crew
• There will be a Bourne 4
• Tom Cruise cameo for Star Trek?
• Iron Man to link up with The Avengers

Comics

• Mr T to feature in a graphic novel

British TV

• Moving Wallpaper spared from cancellation
• Longest ever commission for Taggart, just as Rebus is cancelled

US TV

• Rufus Sewell to take Patrick Stewart's role in Jerry Buckheimer remake of Eleventh Hour
• BBC America buys Primeval [free registration required]
• Six more episodes for Lipstick Jungle
• Three more episodes for Women's Murder Club
• Previews of the next Lost
• Jericho producers looking for a new home for the show

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Remember Crimson Tide? No, probably not.

It was this submarine movie starring Gene Hackman. Thing was, they had Quentin Tarantino as script advisor.

You'd have never known for most of us. It chugged along like a regular movie. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, there's this bizarre scene where they all discuss which version of the Silver Surfer was their favourite. Stood out like a bodybuilder at a vegetarians convention.

I mention this purely because tonight, I seemed to wander into a completely different show from the Primeval I've been watching for the last few weeks. No surprise there though: it was written by Paul Cornell.

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That's a bit more like it. After treading water, sometimes literally, for the last couple of weeks, we're heading towards the end of the series and so the plot developments are getting piled on.

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Ah, ITV. How dearly it loves to imitate the Beeb. That goes right down to the scheduling, including messing around with the timings of its Saturday night shows. How many times am I going to have to use the mighty power of the Internet to catch up with Primeval because I've missed the first 15 minutes again?

Anyway, it must be fabulous being a professor of “dinosaurs and things” in the brave new world of Primeval. You get to run around with a sub-machine gun with an ever-lasting supply of bullets, shooting at stuff. You get to look at dead animals and rather than say “my, I've not seen something like this in the fossil record before. There are so many marvellous new discoveries coming out of the Gansu Province of China these days, aren't there?”, you can firmly pronounce them the future of shark evolution without the slightest shred of evidence. You get to act like a dopey teenager around the ladies. And you never, ever have to use a comb.

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Doctor Who

• Who's that? Why it's a very young David Tennant in Dramarama
• Phil Collinson to head up drama in Manchester

Film

• Indy to steal the Ark again?
• Rob Lowe to star with Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner in This Side of the Truth
• Stallone lined up for more sequels to Rocky and Rambo
• Anna Friel to star opposite Will Ferrell in Land of the Lost
• Joe Johnston to direct The Wolfman
• Trailer for Prince Caspian
• New Iron Man trailer
• Arrested Development movie talks confirmed

Australian TV

• Stephen Fry to appear in Neighbours?

British TV

• Adrian Chiles won't be hosting The Apprentice - You're Fired!
• Primeval won't have guest stars
• Top Gear to film in Japan

US TV

• Jay Leno or Jerry Seinfeld to host US version of Top Gear?
• Lena Headey tired of being compared to Linda Hamilton
• Behind the scenes of The Wire
• Cast lined up for The Man of Your Dreams comedy pilot
• After my appeal to the relevant authorities, NBC is likely to pick up Canada's The Listener, while other networks are looking at The Border and Sophie (why?)
• Breakthrough in writers' guild talks

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