Doctor Who

• David Tennant's on Top Gear on Sunday (here's another picture for you)…
• …and denies he's leaving the show next year…
• …although Rhys Ifans (he's Welsh you know) might be next in line apparently, assuming Jennifer Saunders doesn't get the job
• Sarah Jane's future in doubt
• And there's a new remix of the theme tune on the way

Film

• Peter Jackson to produce a two-part Hobbit
• Chow Yun-Fat joins the cast of Dragonball
• Sean Penn (and Brad Pitt?) to star in Terrence Malick's Tree of Life
• Now Edward Norton is leaving State of Play and Ben Affleck might replace him

Audio plays

• No more audio plays of The Tomorrow People

Technology

• Jerry Bruckheimer signs a deal with MTV to produce video games

British TV

• New series of Shameless to debut on MySpace

US TV

• Monk and Psych to be re-run on NBC
• Clips from volume 3 of Heroes

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Doctor Who

• Verity Lambert, the series' first producer, has died
• Doctor Who dating an assistant?

Film

• Featurette on shooting the Dark Knight in IMAX
• Russell Crowe to replace Brad Pitt on State of Play?
• Teaser trailer for Rambo
• Maggie Q to play Wolverine's girlfriend?
• Jesus to get an evil twin

British TV

• Ken Stott to play Tony Hancock for BBC4
• Max Headroom to be the new face of digital TV

US TV

• Marie's Gods Behaving Badly to be adapted by Ben Stiller's production company as a TV series!
• No room for Journeyman finale?
• Jerry Seinfeld toying with new idea for sitcom
• Showgirls star Elizabeth Berkley to play the Carusobot's ex-wife on CSI: Miami - wouldn't she have been 10 at the time?
• John Michael Higgins to play US version of Father Ted

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Happy Thanksgiving, US readers!

Doctor Who

• Fifth Doctor celery sells for £5,500

Film

• Brad Pitt walks out of State of Play
• Christian Bale to play John Conner in McG's Terminator: Salvation?
• Watchmen extra material being shot?
• Naomi Watts in Angels and Demons?
• Wizard of Oz munchkins get a Hollywood star
• R2D2 launches toilet shower campaign

British TV

• Dave now 10th largest channel
• Channel 4 unveils its new season of programming
• Virgin Media to offer Star Trek on demand

US TV

• Dancing with the Stars producers working on mixed martial arts version

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Film

• Sarah Paulson joins Frank Millar's The Spirit
• Dominic West and others just The Punisher 2
• Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn and Helen Mirren join State of Play
• Rachel Weisz v Chloe Sevigny for Terminator 4 role?
• X-Files 2 starts shooting in December
• Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon contemplating rugby movie

Art

• Unknown Modigliani painting found in Serbia

British TV

• BBC4 announces new programmes, including the acquisition of Mad Men
• A recap of The Prisoner remake problems

US TV

• Kidnapped's Timothy Hutton to star in TNT pilot Leverage
• Stargate: Atlantis star sued by agency
• Nashville pulled in favour of K-Ville
• John From Cincinnati moves to Friday Night Lights

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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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Occasional contributor Linda Jones is asking over on her blog who our favourite fictional journalists are. My somewhat incoherent reply:

Ooh, tricky. So many good ones to choose from. Tin Tin? Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who, etc? There's Kevin McKidd in Journeyman to look forward to. I was always kind of partial to David Warner in Hold the Back Page. And Julia Sawalha in Press Gang. Danny in The West Wing? John Simm in State of Play?

I'd probably go for Darren McGavin in Kolchak: The Night Stalker though.

Who says I watch too much television?

But how about you guys? Answer here, answer there, answer in your own blog: the meme is on.

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Doctor Who/Torchwood

• Torchwood's first episode produces BBC America's best ever ratings

Film

• Edward Norton to reunite with Brad Pitt for State of Play movie
• Tron ready to return to the games grid for sequel
• Third Elizabeth movie possible
• BSG's Jamie Bamber to live in a fortress for Pulse sequels
• Total Recall to be remade?
• Alien v Predator: Requiem may go to the Predator homeworld
• Nosferatu coming to DVD with original intertitles

Russian TV

• Married with Children remake is a smash hit

British TV

• John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman have a fight
• Judy Davis, Sir Derek Jacobi and James Purefoy in a mini-series about a murder in a diamond mine
• Merlin, pirates and musketeers all battling to replace Doctor Who
• Hamster has another crash. But he's all right this time

US TV

• NBC to pick up Fox's discarded Blue Blood

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Would you trust this man to assassinate Hitler?

Doctor Who

• An interview with John Simm about many, many things (no State of Play 2. Sniff. Boo hoo)

Film

• Seth Rogen as The Green Hornet?
• Bourne Ultimatum plot details and spoilers

British TV

• Senior BBC editorial staff suspended
• FX poaches Nip/Tuck from Sky One, as well as The Rules for Starting Over, Breaking Bad and re-runs of 24
• Hooray! Five has picked up 30 Rock. Watch it everyone, watch it!
• Pierce Brosnan is the new voice of Thomas the Tank Engine
• Now ITV is refusing to commission RDF
• Ricky Gervais has a go at critics. You know who you are

US TV

• Jericho spoilers
• Reshoots on Journeyman. Plus what it's all about
• Moonlight really isn't Angel, honest. Plus why it was retooled
• La Femme Nikita meets Heroes next season (no, no Peta Wilson)
• Geena Davis to replace Mandy Patinkin on Criminal Minds?
• Hidden Palms/The Nine's Dana Davis joins Heroes
• Revelations about BSG and what the producers are planning to do afterwards

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That was a little too hot, don't you think?

Doctor Who

• Gridlock got eight million viewers
• Episode four is on at 6.35pm next week
• David Tennant jokes (hopefully) that Jimmy Krankie should be the next Doctor

Film

• Edward Norton is The Incredible Hulk
• Saddle up, Billy Zane
• David Mamet recycles a plot or two for a movie about jiu jitsu
• A script review of the State of Play movie

Theatre

• Guttenberg promotes Gutenberg
• The cast of Frasier may reunite on stage

British TV

• There's going to be a new series of The Mr Men
• Drop the Dead Donkey's writers turn to semi-improv comedy for the BBC [free registration required]

US TV

• John Cho gets another pilot, now The Singles Table appears to have disappeared. The curse of Silverstone strikes again.
• The Tudors gets a second season, and Tracey Ullman gets a new show
• The last five episodes of Six Degrees will air online
• CBS signs lots of deals to put its content online for free
• First shots from The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• Death comes to Smallville

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Paul Abbott says Brad Pitt is definitely going to star in the big screen version of State of Play. Previously, he was only circling it as a possible project.

Could be fun...

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