Doctor Who

• Doctor Who and David Tennant win big at the National Television Awards. DT threatens to kiss the audience

Film

• Clive Owen and Julia Roberts to star in Tony Gilroy caper pic Duplicity
• A script review of The Brazilian Job
• Alanis Morissette joins cast of Philip K Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth
• Hints about The X-Files 2
• Terry Gilliam re-teams with Heath Ledger for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Macaulay Culkin to star in the next Orange Film Board ad

Books

• JK Rowling completes Harry Potter spin-off for charity

British TV

• ITV1 to relaunch in 2008
• Jimmy McGovern says he was wrong to bring back Cracker

US TV

• Bloody hell! Joss Whedon, Tim Minear and Eliza Dushku get seven-episode commitment from Fox for new sci-fi series Dollhouse. Whedon chats to Ausiello as well
• Molly Shannon to guest on Pushing Daisies
• Heroes: Origins cancelled because of writers' strike (allegedly)

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Doctor Who

• David Tennant and Sweet FA praise Peter Fincham and Jane Fletcher
• David Tennant to interview Kylie Minogue for Radio 2
• Andrew Cartmel to write for Torchwood?
• Christmas plot spoilers revealed in song?

Film

• David Fincher to direct graphic novel adaptation The Killer
• Alan Cumming and Rebecca Romijn team up for fashion-version of the Mad Hatter's tea party
• No fifth episode for EastEnders
• The people have spoken: The Rock to Black Adam in Shazam! Maybe
• Adrian Paul to play SinbadSir Francis Drake

British TV

• Ted Childs steps down as exec producer of Lewis
• Graham Linehan sets up his own production company

US TV

• Justin Bruening to play Michael Knight Jr
• Edgar Wright says he has nothing to do with McSpaced
• Three more scripts for Women's Murder Club
• Helen Slater on her Smallville role [spoilers]
• CBS and Darren Star making comedy based on YouTube's We Need Girlfriends

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Answering the question, “What would it look like if Joel Schumacher and MAD magazine were to design a monster for Doctor Who?”

Doctor Who

• Martha to meet Donna – and a monster [spoilers]
• James Marsters talks Torchwood (and Smallville, Spike, et al)

Film

• Second Golden Compass trailer
• Sylvester Stallone for Death Wish remake?
• Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan reunite for Wushu

British TV

• Richard and Judy quit

US TV

• Early alternate ending to Heroes' second season planned in case of strike continuation
• Scrubs might be left in limbo though
• CBS 'committed' to Moonlight - but not for a full season yet
• NBC to do modern version of King David story
• Weeds gets a fourth season

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Haven't watched today's The SJ Adventures, but through the miracle of Starbuck's WiFi, I can give you all the opportunity to leave in the comments below any references to Doctor Who that might have been in the episode.

I can only remember spotting a ref to UNIT training last week, although I'm sure there was another one I'm forgetting.

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Doctor Who

• Simon Pegg's head would explode if asked to play the Doctor

Film

• Jennifer Connelly to star opposite Keanu Reeves in The Day The Earth Stood Still
• Rachel Nichols up for a role in Star Trek XI?
• International Iron Man trailer up
• Heath Ledger talks about playing the Joker (and more)

British TV

• ABC to launch a 24 hour news channel
• Paramount Comedy 2+1 launches

Theater

• Aaron Sorkin explains why he wrote a play about the inventor of the electronic television

US TV

• Rob Lowe likes being a man on Brothers and Sisters
• I knew it! The Big Bang Theory has a physicist on staff to get the science right. Shame about the comedy
• NBC adapting advertising novel e for summer comedy
• Strike forces ABC to put Cashmere Mafia on hold

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Doctor Who

• John Barrowman's on tour and helping with an anti-bullying campaign
• David Tennant talks to The Stage about the stage

Film

• Guillermo del Toro to write, direct and produce remake of The Champions!
• Roman Polanski to direct Robert Harris's The Ghost
• Mike Newell to direct Prince of Persia?
• Josh Lucas to star in Tell-Tale?
• Bruce Greenwood is Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek XI

Web TV

• 4oD to carry 20th Century Fox movies

US TV

• 24 postponed until strike resolved
• More shows shutting down, including Pushing Daisies
• Tim Kring admits season two mistakes with Heroes [spoilers]
• Gina Torres cast in Dirty Sexy Money (subject to strikes)
• Madchen Amick to star in Lifetime pilot

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Isn't that a bit too left wing for it, owning a phone made by those hippies at Apple? I can't believe it would have bought it on the strength of its video playback alone.

Blimey, next week it'll be eating granola and believing global warming is real.

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There's something about the Big Finish Sapphire and Steel plays. They make you acutely aware of time.

Tick tock. Tick tock. Your life is ebbing away. Tick tock. That's two hours you could have been using for something else. Instead, you're now two hours closer to being dead.

Certainly, for the first half of The Mystery of the Missing Hour, that's how I was feeling (hence the somewhat tardy nature of this review - I wasn't exactly desperate to get through this one). I even reached the point where I was considering pretending to have listened to the whole thing and reviewing it all the same.

It really was that bad. I'd even consider using a word beginning with s.

But I'm glad I'm conscientious enough to have stuck through it. Because disk two is a cracker.

Big Finish (and the writer Joseph Lidster) have essentially taken a huge gamble: that because you've ponied up the cash for the play, you're going to listen to something that is deliberately complete crap and stick through to the end.

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Film

• Winona Ryder to play Spock's mum on Star Trek XI. Jennifer Morrison to play Janice Rand?
• First trailer for Tom Cruise's Valkyrie
• Mark Wahlberg to play Max Payne

British TV

• ITV commissions Mr Eleven, after research suggests that “a number of British women settle down with their 11th partner”
• Lily Allen to front BBC3 social networking show
• BBC challenges us to find the science in new series of Horizon
• Tom Hardy writing a sitcom
• Five dropping comedy?

US TV

• Dexter gets a third season [spoilers]
• Bionic Woman's audience has fallen 50% but Miguel Ferrer reckons the show's just finding its voice
• The behind-the-scenes story behind BSG's third season webisodes
• Paul Feig to direct Kath & Kim pilot
• Bernie Mac getting a Fox sitcom?

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