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

• Rusty's not happy with his new slot
• David Tennant pictures from tonight's Friday Night Project

Film

• Dolph Lundgren to star in “Die Hard at a rock concert”
• Malice in Sunderland now to be filmed on Wearside
• Will Arnett to join Kristen Bell in When in Rome
• Kevin Kline has his first French-speaking role
• C Thomas Howell to star as George W Bush-alike in Commander and Chief
• Disney working on live-action remake of The Lone Ranger

Radio

• New season of comedy for Radio 4 on Mondays

British TV

• Friends writer creates sci-fi sitcom for BBC3
• Ashes to Ashes gets a second series
• The Apprentice gets its highest rated opening episode
• Two more series of My Family ordered
• Discovery to get a third Sky entertainment channel slot
• 87% of homes now have digital TV
• Armstrong and Miller form their own production company

US TV

• CSI: Miami writer Sunil Nayor gets two-year deal with CBS
• Samaire Armstrong no longer a regular on Dirty Sexy Money
• Sarah Wayne Callies to return to Prison Break as a regular. Hang on...
• Jason Bateman to direct the pilot for The Inn
• Lots of pilot casting, including Sara Rue in Spaced

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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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Doctor Who

• Torchwood sold to Belgium and the Netherlands [free registration required]

Film

• Max Von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley join Scorsese's Shutter Island
• Terminator 4 to open May 2009
• Transporter 3 on the starting line

British TV

• Alan Whicker to revisit Whicker's World
• Virgin to challenge BSkyB ruling
• Chris Ryan to shadow cops

US TV

• More Babylon 5 DVD movies to come
• Prison Break filming moving to LA following storyline rethink?
• An interview with Michael K Williams (Omar) from The Wire [big season five spoilers]
• Fox's Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em remake ready for casting

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Doctor Who

• Freema not bothered by Catherine Tate replacement
• Catherine Tate to interview David Tennant for Radio 4's Chain Reaction
• John Barrowman in discussions to play Barnum on stage

Film

• Jonny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell to replace Heath Ledger on The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
• Greg Dyke to chair the BFI
• Common to play Green Lantern?
• Melissa George to star in Triangle?

British TV

• Frost Report returning for one-off special on BBC4
• Terry Wogan to get Channel 4 teatime show?
• Ashes to Ashes to get a third series
?

US TV

• William Fichtner praises Prison Break writers
• Will and Grace creators' pilot picked up by ABC

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Doctor Who

• RTD picks fight with parents

Film

• Guy Ritchie to direct Dirty Dozen remake
• Anthony Hopkins to appear in The Wolfman
• Michael Mann to reteam with Robert De Niro
• John Rambo trailer
• Rupert Evans as JLA Superman?
• Angels and Demons being rushed through

British TV

• Cheers' George Wendt and June Whitfield to appear in Green, Green Grass
• Timothy Spall to play vengeful father for ITV1 drama
• Disney to sponsor 4oD downloads of ABC shows
• Dave a hit
• Neil Gaiman wants to work with the Beeb again
• BBC Natural History Unit to lose a third of its staff
• RTD wants to do fortysomething gay drama

US TV

• Britney Spears to appear on Sesame Street?
• The CW's ratings are down
• Carrie-Anne Moss to co-star in FX's transgender pilot
• Steven Weber to star in another sitcom
• David Duchovny bewildered by sanitising syndication reshoots of Californication
• Moonlight gets four more scripts
• Viva Laughlin cancelled
• Carpoolers gets three more scripts while Samantha Who? gets six more
• And the awful Back To You gets a full season
• Fox to make female prison spin-off of Prison Break
• Kurtwood Smith and Frankie Faison join Barry Sonnenfeld drama
• Timothy Olyphant joining Samantha Who?
• SciFi greenlights Warehouse 13
• Stargate Atlantis renewed for fifth season
• Pushing Daisies gets complete first season

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Film

• Warner Bros decrees: no more female leads?
• Jake Gyllenhaal flying to the moon with Doug Liman
• Paz Vega and Jaime King get into The Spirit
• Kevin McKidd to play Loki instead of Thor?
• Michael C Hall joins Game
• Pixar plans three John Carter of Mars movies
• Neil Gaiman wants Terry Gilliam to direct Sandman

Audio plays

• Andy Serkis and David Warner to appear in adaptation of The Brightonomicon

Web TV

• ITN launches a movie show on Joost

British TV

• ITV1 doing pushy mums comedy, May Contain Nuts
• BBC2 picks up terrestrial rights to Kyle XY
• Robin Hood opens with 5.9m viewers
• But Top Gear returns with 6m viewers

US TV

• Popular/Dirt's Carly Pope to appear on 24
• CSI: NY's Gary Sinise gets a payrise until 2011
• Moonlight has surprisingly good ratings
• Explanations and cast reactions to a certain recent Prison Break event [spoilers!]
• Disappearing product placements in Heroes explained
• Heroes' Sendhil Ramamurthy nearly quit acting for business school
• Damages to get a second season

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Variety is broken today, so if there's no link for a story, that's the reason. Sorry

Doctor Who

• Inflatable power boat booked for Torchwood excitement!
• BBC considering Doctor Who movie?

Film

• Changes are afoot at The Dark is Rising. It's now called The Seeker for one thing
• Guillermo Del Toro to make Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness?
• McG in talks to director Terminator 4. Woo hoo
• Sacha Baron Cohen wants to remake Sellers' The Party
• Vin Diesel to return for fourth Fast and the Furious film
• Blade Runner: The Final Cut in UK cinemas on 23rd November
• Bradley Cooper to star in Yes Man with Jim Carrey

Radio

• Noel Fielding to join Vic and Bob for a new sketch show

Theater

• Happy Days: The musical

British TV

• BSkyB might have to sell its stake in ITV
• Wallace and Gromit to return to BBC1 in late 2008
• Beeb working on Swallows and Amazons, The Jungle Book and Peter Pan in Scarlet

US TV

• Fox to remake ITV's The Jury
• Dick Wolf to make show based on Johnny Dynamite graphic novel
• Prison Break star was forced to quit?
• Jon Stewart prepping a second Daily Show spin-off: Important Things with Demetri Martin
• He hasn't even appeared in an episode yet, but Isaiah Washington might get a spin-off show from Bionic Woman
• Val Kilmer, Karl Urban, Wes Studi et al to appear in Lonesome Dove prequel
• Jeremy Piven's Cupid resurrected
• Dexter gets more than 1 million viewers - a first for a Showtime season-opener

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Film

• Jason Bateman takes James McAvoy's role in State of Play
• Simon Pegg and Nick Frost writing movie together
• Ben Kingsley to play Shakespeare
• Tony Scott and Denzel Washington remaking Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3
• Giovanni Ribisi joins James Cameron's Avatar
• Sex and the City goes back in time

British TV

• Catherine Tate should have a won a comedy award in 2005 instead of Ant and Dec
• Danny Wallace to do a weekly Prison Break podcast for Sky One
• Spooks will be a 10-part serial, not series, when it comes back this autumn

US TV

• Only one GLBT character planned for this year's new shows
• Eli Roth to make a Heroes: Origins episode
• ABC picks up geeks show from former Microsoft employee
• Sex and the City writer to create romcom anthology series for NBC
• Barry Sonnenfeld talks about Pushing Daisies and Notes From the Underbelly
• New cast members for Sarah Connor, Life, et al

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In the US: Mondays, 8/7c, Fox
In the UK: Mondays, 10pm, Sky One. Starts 24th September

Characters re-cast: 0
Major characters gotten rid of: Several
Major new characters: An entire prison-full
Format change percentage: 50%

Have a look at the title of the show. Prison Break. Two words. Prison and Break. There's not a lot of room for manoeuvre, is there?

So plot of season one: Prison. Plot of season two: Break.

What's season three going to be about then? Have a guess. Prison again?

You betcha.

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