Doctor Who

• Ask Rusty a question
• Catherine Tate to return to comedy show. Some time

Film

• Original cut of Metropolis found
• Hellboy 2 promoted with Chuck, Actors Studio and American Gladiators crossovers
• Val Kilmer and Xzbit join Bad Lieutenant

Art

• A bit of Tracey Emin's Liverpool sculpture goes missing

Theatre

• David Walliams to make West End debut in No Man's Land

British TV

• Jerry Springer opponent bankrupt and wants Beeb to pay
• Barristers complain about Criminal Justice
• Top Gear criticised for drink-driving at the North Pole

French TV

• France Televisions' Patrick de Carolis threatens to quit over government funding

US TV

• Ray's back! The Sopranos' Michael Imperioli to play Ray Carling in Life on Mars
• Tori Spelling might be out of 90210 spin-off
• Spin-off from Criminal Minds planned

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I happen to quite like Jeremy Clarkson. No matter that he's a bit right-wing or that some of his newspaper articles seem to have been cobbled together in a couple of minutes, probably by a ghost writer*.

In person and on tele, he's entertaining, interesting and his views are slightly tempered by humour. 

No wonder some are willing to confess they like him.

All that being equal, some people still don't like him. So my question today is: Does knowing that his Mum created the original Paddington Bear toy for him make him more likeable?

"Originally made one Christmas as a present for Shirley's and her husband Eddie's children Jeremy and Joanna, the bear remains a classic of its kind - one which still gives me pleasure whenever I see it - and it served as a kind of yardstick when judging other products. Some things, like Concorde and the Jaguar XK120, look right from the word go. It was created with love and it was born with that indefinable something known as star quality. You either have it or you don't."
Michael Bond, author of the Paddington Bear stories

* Although, for the sake of libel writ prevention, let's say not.

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(pic by Jalopnik)

Film

• Spielberg acquires screen rights to The 39 Clues
• PIerce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage to star in Roman Polanski's The Ghost

British TV

• BBC calls off sale of BBC Resources' post-production arm [free registration required]
• Fremantle launches three web shows [free registration required]
• ITV3 and ITV4 to be used to test programmes for ITV1
• Performance Channel to close after 23 years

US TV

• Tricia Helfer joins Inseparable; Michaela McManus joins L&O:SVU
• Yes, there will be a US Stig (and more) on Top Gear
• Three more years of Steve Carell on The Office
• Mary-Kate Olsen to appear on Samantha Who?

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Doctor Who

• K9 spin-off to start filming… soon. Honest

Film

• Spike Lee to direct Time Traveler
• JJ Abrams to produce Mystery based on NY Times article
• Universal to adapt The Last Call graphic novel

Theatre/Theater

• Neil LaBute's Reasons To Be Pretty to move to Broadway
• Dickens Unplugged to close after less than a month in West End
• Jai Rodriguez to play Desi Arnaz in Dance With Me

British TV

• Japanese silent comedians Gamarjobat get BBC3 pilot

US TV

• Jon Harmon Feldman to replace Daniel Cerone as showrunner on Dirty Sexy Money
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl gets record ratings on Showtime
• Top Gear hosts free to say what they want about cars
• Barry Sonnenfeld to adapt Argentina's The Pretenders
• BSG finale gets 1.8m viewers

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Film

• Rome churches shut to Angels and Demons
• Kevin Spacey heads up cast of Shrink

Commercials

• Emma Watson replaces Keira Knightley as new face of Chanel

Theatre

• John Cleese planning a stage version of A Fish Called Wanda

British TV

• ITV Productions developing detective drama set in Brighton based on 'Roy Grace' novels [free registration required]
• Matthew Horne says a third series of Gavin & Stacey is probable

US TV

• Michael Shanks filming episodes of Burn Notice [via Kaballa, no link]
• DB Sweeney and others join cast of Crash
• First Bones episode to shoot in the UK
• Full US Top Gear line-up announced
• Marla Sokoloff to star in YA NBC mini-series
• Wizard's First Rule gets a showrunner
• Four new cast members for ER
• William Hurt joining cast of Damages
• Casting on Knight Rider, Terminator: TSCC and Numb3rs
• Fox helping to develop Canadian cartoon

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Today's Sitting Tennant is from Top Gear. Or from that episode of Doctor Who where he was attacked by a gold velvet suit.

Amusing captions, please.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it's judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery in due course.

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A flurry of activity from you admirers of David Tennant! As well as concerns about how horizontal Mr Tennant needs to be to be truly sitting, we've now a little bit of a backlog, so prepare yourself for photos from Toby and Persephone over the next few days. But first, this lovely picture of David Tennant driving in Top Gear. Thanks Rosby!

Captions and/or links to more pictures of David Tennant in a not-vertical (or better still, sitting) position in the comments section, please.

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NBC have been difficult this year. They've messed around with the whole concept of upfronts, which isn't helpful. They also haven't really got round to filming any proper pilots, which isn't helpful either.

All the same, they have given us some info about what shows they are going to make as well as a single solitary, slightly weak video to back it up. Let's look at the highlights - including Knight Rider, Top Gear, a remake of Kath and Kim, Sean Bean in Crusoe and Christian Slater trying to be Jason Bourne - and that poor lonely little vid.

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News will be back on 6th May because of the UK bank holiday on Monday

Doctor Who

• Why Rose's return in Partners in Crime was a 'secret'
• Bradley Walsh and Russ Abbott to appear in The Sarah Jane Adventures

Film

• Rick Yune to play villain in Ninja Assassin
• Iron Man 2 production to start soon
• Maggie Gyllenhaal to replace Toni Collette in Sam Mendes feature

British TV

• Channel Five chief executive Jane Lighting resigns from Five
• Ian Hislop doing another documentary for BBC Four
• Dave commissions three game show pilots [free registration required]
• ITV tried to poach The One Show team [free registration required]
• Double pay for Hamster?

US TV

• Michael Rosenbaum leaving Smallville, to be replaced by other villains
• ABC Family unveils its schedule
• Catherine O'Hara and Andie MacDowell join pilots
• Characters revealed in Little Britain US
• Gary Dourdan might return to CSI

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Doctor Who

• David Tennant to propose marriage to first person who leaves a comment on this blog entry before midday
• DT 'informally committed' to series five
• A Gareth David-Lloyd interview
• Four different DW Radio Times covers

Film

• Scott Bakula to star opposite Matt Damon in The Informant
• Brad Pitt goes Amazon shopping

Comics

• Who owns Superman?

Theatre

• Kevin Spacey has a go at BBC1 talent shows

British TV

• Cranford returning for Christmas

US TV

• What's up on Supernatural this season (and next) [minor spoilers]
• Jay Leno turns down Top Gear hosting gig for fear NBC will ruin it
• Sleeper Cell creators to head up probable Eleventh Hour series
• William Petersen will be returning for the next season of CSI
• Ray Romano to do an hour-long drama pilot for TNT
• Season four of The Unit still likely
• ABC unveils summer schedule
• Eddie Cibrian to join Ugly Betty
• Ioan Gruffudd and Robin Tunney, among others, cast in pilots

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