Film
- Tony Shalhoub and Bar Paly join Michael Bay's Pain and Gain
- Kristen Wiig joins action comedy
- Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Beyonce and Andy Samberg to star in Ryan Murphy's One Hit Wonders
- The Avengers retitled Avengers Assembled for the UK
- Gareth Gates' Hair cancelled
- The Inbetweeners' Blake Harrison to star in Step 9 (of 12)
British TV
- Game On's Bernadette Davis writing football comedy Some Girls for BBC3
US TV
- Monday ratings: Smash up to 6.9m viewers
- Scott Bakula to recur on Desperate Housewives
- Homeland's Marin Ireland joins The Killing [minor spoilers]
US TV pilots
- Glee's Max Adler joins Last Resort
- Victor Garber to star in Notorious, Charlie's Angels Rachael Taylor joins 666 Park Avenue
- Missi Pyle to co-star in Prodigy Bully
- Suzy Nakkamura joins Go On, Linus Roache joins ABC's Roland Emmerich project
- Hollyoaks's Barry Sloane to star in Gotham
- TV Land fast-tracking sitcom about twin brothers, one gay, one straight
- My Boys' Jordana Spiro to star in Josh Berman medical drama
- Cougar Town's Josh Hopkins joins Lady Friends, plus other pilot casting
- The Descendants' Nat Faxon to star is Ned Fox is My Fanny
- Misfits producers working on sci-fi show Wired by Steven Volk and a paranormal show, The Dead Beat, from John Jackson for BBC America
- Sucker Punch's Jamie Chung joins The Asset
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