• Blue Peter viewers get a chance to redesign the console

Film

• Rebecca Mader to appear in Ceremony and The Big Bang
• Showgirls to get a German sequel
• Gary Ross to write and direct Venom?
• Marlon Wayans to play Richard Pryor?
• Trailer for Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles
• Pirates of the Caribbean 4 to be based on Tim Powers book

Art

• The Louvre to return Egyptian fresco fragments?

British TV

• ITV1 to co-produce second series of Single Handed?
• Pauline Quirke's Missing gets a second series
• Stargate Universe gets good ratings, while The Fixer is down to 2.82m
• iPlayer to go global – for a fee?

US TV

• Kevin Murphy joins the staff of Caprica
• Ellen Page to write comedy Stitch N' Bitch for HBO
• Jason Clarke to star in a CBS drama pilot
• The Good Wife and NCIS: LA get full season pick-ups

• Sam Raimi to direct World of Warcraft
• Watchmen producer buys rights to Echo
• Sam Worthington to star in remake of Danish film The Candidate
• Three-part Bruce Lee biopic on the way
• Rights to Daniel Craig/Hugh Jackman play A Steady Rain sold
• Trailer for Howard Marks biopic Mr Nice
• Warner Bros to adapt Beginner's Greek

Art

• National Gallery to show Canaletto exhibition

British TV

• STV drops The Bill and other shows, but ITV3 to show catch-up episodes
• Report says Beeb should lose licence fee, BBC1 and BBC3

US TV

• Oh no. Deadliest Warrior gets a 13-episode second season
• Burn Notice gets record ratings again
• Joely Richardson to play Katherine Parr on The Tudors

This week, Ali Larter has been supporting modern art, which is jolly nice of her, if a bit random. Still, she does it a lot, since she's a bit of a collector, particularly of photography by Lillian Bassman. But this week she's been to the Whitney Museum's annual art party and auction.

I think the Whitney is amazing. It has an incredible collection of American art, and I think it’s important, especially in these times, to come out and support, to get the attention back to the museums. I think that art inspires people during difficult times and I hope that there is always funding, especially to keep the programs alive in the schools.

The Whitney houses one of the world's foremost collections of contemporary American art and programmes provocative special exhibitions by the most promising and influential American artists of the 20th and 21st century.

Look, here's a BLT at the Whitney. Giant BLTs – now that's random.

Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we'll tell everyone about it in "Random Acts of Ali Larter"

Film

• John Carpenter to direct The Ward
• Bill Murray and Lucas Black join the cast of Get Low
• Aaron Sorkin to write The Challenge for George Clooney
• Ernest Hemingway biopic on the way
• Rupert Friend, Ioan Gruffudd, Natascha McElhone and Liam Cunningham join The Kid
  

Art

• Titian painting secured

• Mark Heap to star as an alien, with Maxine Peake, Paul Ritter and Susan Jameson, in Radio 4 sci-fi play

British TV

• Channel 4 freezes pay and bonuses
• Rafe Spall and Tom Hollander join Aidan Turner, Zoe Tapper and Samuel Barnett in Desperate Romantics
• Prepare for lots of dramas about Africa

US TV

• TNT picks up a second season of Leverage
• CBS gives greenlight to thirtysomething creators' A Marriage and King of Queens' showrunners' The Fish Tank…
• …orders a pilot for political drama House Rules
• Super Bowl third most watched US TV show ever
• A sneak peak at The Prisoner

• David Tennant to host Comic Relief
• Pics of the busted bus

Film

• Kung Fu Panda director to direct Masters of the Universe
• Brotherhood of the Rose to get adapted again
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Hilary Swank in The Resident
• Emily Blunt out of Iron Man 2, into Gulliver's Travels?
• Get Smart sequel due by Spring 2010
• Puss in Boots spin-off from Shrek gets a writer
• Poster for State of Play

Art

• Turner landscape sold for £9.1m

• Sheila Hancock to star in Sister Act

British TV

• BBC to lead the push for universal broadband
• Five's VoD service now available to Mac and Linux users
• Morph gets a photoshoot for his 30th anniversary
• Martin Freeman and Joanna Page reunited for Q Pootle 5 animated pilot

US TV

• Lauren Graham pilot gets a green light
• CBS greenlights three new drama pilots
• Promo for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles promises fresh start
• Life on Mars' ratings not good

• Warner Bros and Fox make deal over Watchmen

Books

• Ructions at Asterix HQ

Art

• Exhibition of rare Constables at the National Portrait Gallery
• Czechs apologise to Bulgaria over toilet depiction
• Bacon portrait 'Man in Blue VI' likely to get £6m

Theatre

• Complicit premiere postponed

British TV

• Deadline of March for Gavin and Stacey scriptsd

US TV

• The Office and 30 Rock renewed, plus future NBC scheduling plans
• NBC looking to Bryan Fuller to rescue Heroes, fourth season still probable…
• …sees quality, cutting edge shows as way to rescue itself…
• …it won't cut back on pilots …
• …and it still has hopes for Lipstick Jungle
• Krod Mandoon clips and interviews
• Hugh Bonneville likely to join Legally Mad
• Four more cast members for Stargate: Universe
• Fox and CBS pick up Maggie Hill, Human Target and Tick Tock, while TNT orders five new episodes of Leverage
• Drop Dead Diva picked up by Lifetime
• CBS's plans for John Mayer, Moonlight's Alex O'Loughlin and the NCIS spinoff
  
• Rhea Seehorn to join James Van Der Beek in Eva Adams
• Eddie Falco guesting on 30 Rock
• Last episodes of Pushing Daisies, Dirty Money and Eli Stone postponed until summer
• Bye, bye Lana?
• Ashley Jensen not quitting Ugly Betty

• Greg Mottola to direct Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Paul
• Chris Cooper and Reeve Carney join The Tempest

Art

• Newly found Caravaggios go on display in Scotland

Comics

• Mike Mignola developing Hellboy spin-off

British TV

• Primeval fourth series already being worked on
• Five's Dawn Airey poaches Richard Woolfe from Sky

US TV

• NBC axes My Own Worst Enemy and Lipstick Jungle
• Sanctuary renewed for second season
• Prison Break close to cancellation
• Showtime and Stan Lee working on gay superhero project
• The CW orders five more episodes of Privileged
• Sasha Alexander to star in The Karenskys

• An interview with David Morrissey [spoilers?]

Film

• Universal Soldier 3 sort of news
• Jack Black to star in Gulliver's Travels
• Henry Cavill to star as Theseus, Sam Worthington to play Perseus in War of the Gods and the remake of Clash of the Titans
• John Boorman to direct CGI version of The Wizard of Oz
• Annette Bening and Naomi Watts to star in Mother and Child
• Antonio Banderas to play Dali?
• Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li and Jason Statham to star in The Expendables
• Ron Perlman and Saffron Burrows to star in Carjacked
• Marc Forster to direct Die Bad remake
• Brad Pitt to star in Battling Boy adaptation?
• Second Sex and the City movie will happen

Commercials

• Cadbury wants your help with Wispa campaign

• Tate lost out on 30 Rothko works

Music

• Kinks writing new material for reunion album

Theatre

• Mandy Patinkin one-man show coming to the West End

British TV

• True Blood acquired by (you guessed it) FX for Summer broadcast
• Five to launch on Freesat
• It's the Survivors press pack

US TV

• New promo for Dollhouse
• A&E developing paranormal procedural
• Alyssa Milano comedy cancelled before it airs
• James Van Der Beek and David Denman join Eva Adams pilot
• ABC reduces order for midseason dramas The Castle and The Unusuals
• Alex Kingston returning to ER for final series

Doctor Who

• New Doctor to be announced on Children in Need?
• Obama
• McGann denies rumours

Film

• Trailer for Dreamworks' Monsters vs Aliens
• Rays Winstone and Liotta to join cast of 13
• Franka Potente to star in Wave
• Obama

Art

• Edvard Munch's "Vampire" fetches $38m

British TV

• Being Human: the new cast
• Sky channels to return to Virgin
• Obama
• Gervais planning TV spin-off from next movie

US TV

• TNT announces casts for pilots The Line and Bunker Hill
  
• Obama
• Obama
• Obama

• James Strong to direct Easter special

Film

• Steve Carell to play Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard?
• Pics from Star Trek XI
• Trailer for Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson's Bride Wars

Art

• Welsh national art gallery delayed by four years

Canadian TV

• New channel for women, Viva, to show Lost in Austen
• CTV picks up Merlin

British TV

• BBC's Out of London plan moves Casualty to Cardiff
• Odeon to install IMAX screens at Greenwich and Wimbledon

• NBC picks up David E Kelley father-daughter legal drama
• HBO Film boss quits
• New Witchblade anime on iTunes
• Will Arnett signs seven-figure deal with Fox
• CBS orders full season of The Mentalist
• Tuesday ratings good
• Three more episodes of Medium ordered
• Amy Sedaris to write and star in a comedy series
• Simon Fuller looking for new Monkees
• CBS to make one of three Tribeca pilots
• James Van Der Beek to guest on One Tree Hill
• Jason Priestley to play Brandon on My Name is Earl
• Patrick Swayze in The Beast
• My Own Worst Enemy gets 7.3 million viewers

• Catherine Tate to co-star in Liam Neeson movie, make US version of her TV show?
• Things you can learn from the fourth series DVD commentaries

Film

• David Cronenberg to team with Denzel Washington for adaptation of Robert Ludlum's The Materese Circle?
• Forest Whitaker to play Louis Armstrong
• Tr2n to be 3D
• Ridley Scott still working on Brave New World

Theatre

• Girl With A Pearl Earring to close early

Art

• Charles Saatchi opens new gallery of modern Chinese art

British TV

• Dougray Scott to star in Irish thriller for ITV1
• Rescue Me to air exclusively on iTunes
• Sanctuary and The Story of Maths do well but tie in the ratings
• Derren Brown to make acting debut in Mark Gatiss's Crooked House

US TV

• My Boys gets a third season
• FX cancels The Riches
• NBC Monday night ratings plummeting
• Spike ordering Irish mob pilot
• Jack Kenny to show-run Warehouse 13
• David E Kelley does another legal drama
• Bryan Greenberg and Victor Rasuk to star in How To Make It In America
• Life on Mars radio spots, pictures, and article [via]

• Michael Peña offered role in The Green Hornet
• Rachel McAdams to play Irene Adler, Mark Strong to play Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes
• Will Smith to star in I Am Legend prequel
• Johnny Depp to play Tonto in The Lone Ranger
• Anne Hathaway to star in Opposite of Love
• National Treasure 3 given the go
• Cars 2 set for 2011
• John Travolta to star in From Paris With Love

Art

• 15 Rothko paintings reunited for Tate Modern exhibition

• Steven Colbert to appear in Amazing Spider-Man

Theatre

• Graham Norton to make West End debut in Cage Aux Folles

British TV

• The Queen to host 50th birthday party for Blue Peter
• James Corden and Ruth Jones pull out of Comic Relief panto writing job

• Knight Rider producers love Torchwood
• CBS options Hounding the Pavement
• HBO eyeing Tom Wolfe novel I Am Charlotte Simmons
• Tuesday night ratings
• The Wire's Amy Ryan to guest in The Office
• Four clips from the third episode of Heroes

• A chance to win a trip behind the scenes, plus the title of the Christmas special
• RTD turned down George Lucas

Film

• Billy Crystal joins The Tooth Fairy
• Bruce Willis to make his directorial debut
• Unbreakable 2?
• Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine to join Scarlet Johansson's Brilliant?
  

Art

• Edvard Munch's 'The Vampire' to be auctioned

Music

• A Kinks reunion?
• One-off show for the Killers to launch new album

• American Psycho: The musical!
• Sunday openings for all London theatres?

British TV

• Matt Lucas and David Walliams back UK version of Will Ferrell's Funny or Die comedy web site
• Lipstick Jungle premiere gets 198,000 viewers on Living
• Second series of Shaun the Sheep commissioned
• Final episode of The Wire gets just 36,000 viewers
• Amanda Donohoe and Maxwell Caulfield join Emmerdale
• Channel 4 to fire staff, cut budgets
• What's this? An original ITV drama? No it's Britannia High

US TV

• Promo for Little Britain USA
• Heroes' ratings down 25% on last year
• TNT commissions a crime micro-series to air during Law & Order
• Lisa Kudrow to star in web series for Lexus
• Karate kid Ralph Macchio to appear on Ugly Betty

• David Tennant stopped 'Potterisation' of Who
• Excerpts from Rusty's book
• Russell Tovey to replace DT?

Film

• Extended clip from The Day The Earth Stood Still

Art

• Damien Hirst auction brings in £70.5m

British TV

• Douglas Henshall, Paul McGann and Phil Davis to star in Collision by Anthony Horowitz for ITV1
• Michael Grade reckons Google is a parasite
• Touch of Frost to end finally
• Strictly gets 6m
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles gets 5.7m
• Wire in the Blood gets 5.6m
• Ocean Finance launches a loans and mortgages channel

US TV

• Children of the Corn remake to include David Anders and Daniel Newman
• Daivd Simon and Tom Fontana to make mini-series about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth
• Rumer Willis to appear on CSI:NY
• Steve Martin to gues on 30 Rock

• John Barrowman and Naoko Mori sing “The Last NIght of the World” at Comic-Con [video]
• Twist for Christmas special? [spoiler?]

Film

• Jack White and Alicia Keys writing the Quantum of Solace theme
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer
• Marvin the Martian being developed into a feature
• Johnny Depp to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland?
• Guillermo del Toro to produce remake of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Art

• Damien Hirst auction to fetch more than £65m

Theatre

• Simon MacCorkindale to play Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music

British TV

• BBC to celebrate 40 years of Dad's Army
• Cannibal sex for Wire in the Blood
• Gordon Ramsay nearly killed by puffins

US TV

• US version of Most Haunted commissioned
• Twist for KITT in Knight Rider [spoiler]
• Joss Whedon planning sequel to Dr Horrible
• Lex Luthor's replacement on Smallville
• HBO picks up Conversations With The Fat Girl for series
• Josh Lucas to star in Showtime's Possible Side Effects
• HBO orders pilot of comedy How To Make It In America
• L&O:CI to get two showrunners
• ABC to remake Fais pas ci, fais pas ça