Doctor Who

• Sixth series and Christmas special confirmed
• There almost certainly will be a Tom Baker Big Finish play
• From the new series press launch, a video interview with Matt Smith…
• …and a video interview with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, including a clip from the first episode

• Final Destination 5 a go
• Jamie Foxx joins Bruce Willis on Kane and Lynch
• Trailer for Predators
• New trailer for Kick-Ass
• Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher join Ivan Reitman's Friends with Benefits
• Film rights to Andy McNab's Nick Stone series acquired
• Tim Burton doing 3D stop-motion Addams Family movie

British TV

• Lucy Gaskell joins Casualty
• Adam Crozier to earn at least £1m a year at ITV [subscription required]
• Justified acquired by Five USA
• Wii and iPhone now responsible for 4% of iPlayer views each
• John Pilger to make Afghanistan documentary for ITV1 [subscription required]

Canadian TV

• Lots of money spent on US shows

US TV

• Beau Bridges to co-star in The Rockford Files
• Skeet Urich gets a pilot
• Ashley Tisdale to star in Hellcats
• Human Target's ratings hold up
• BSG's Michael Trucco to recur on Castle
• A returning True Blood character [spoilers]

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Doctor Who

• Steven Moffat offers Steven Spielberg the chance to direct an episode
• Karen Gillan reveals more about her character, as well as her inability to do anagrams [spoilers]

Films

• Peter Mullan to star in The Lion Inside
• Glee/Heroes' Jayma Mays to star in The Smurfs…
  
• …with Hank Azaria playing Gargamel
• Spooks' David Oyelowo to play Martin Luther King
• Amanda Seyfried to star in McG's The Girl Who Conned The Ivy League
• Trailer for Jason Statham's The Mechanic
• Trailer for The Romantics
• Reese Witherspoon signs up for blog-based The Pioneer Woman
• A Tron: Legacy set visit or two (with pics) [spoilers]

British TV

• Five to go HD on Sky
• Five won't help FlashForward if it's cancelled

• CTV acquires The Borgias

US TV

• Larry Charles creating Steve Jobs satire
• Pilot casting
• Brotherhood's Jason Clarke to star in Shawn Ryan's Ride-Along
• 24's Howard Gordon to adapt Israeli format Prisoners of War
• Justified FX's second biggest debut ever
• Daylight savings time continues to cause ratings drop
• Robert Wisdom to appear in Burn Notice [spoilers]
• James Marsters joins the Hawaii Five-O pilot
• Jane Espenson to write for Game of Thrones

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Film

• Judy Greer, Robert Forster and Beau Bridges join George Clooney on The Descendants

Radio

• Just under 8,000 complaints about 6Music closure

British TV

• ITV to launch ITV1 HD on Virgin
• Skins gets two more series and another new cast
• BBC1 to make four-night siege drama
• Sky to launch Hallmark Channel HD
• Kevin Bishop Show returning?

Canadian TV

• MovieTime goes HD

US TV

• Casting on Lights Out and Hung, plus a departure on White Collar [spoilers]
• Colm Feore to star on The Borgias
• Sarah Shahi's Facing Kate gets a series order
• BSG's James Callis to join Eureka
• Mary Steenburgen to star in Southern Mom, Xander Berkeley joins Nikita + more casting
• Summer Glau joins The Cape
• Annabeth Gish joins FlashForward
• Paul Schneider leaving Parks & Recreation as a regular
• Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood and Melissa Leo join Kate Winslet on Mildred Pierce
• Julie Roberts to guest on Glee?

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Doctor Who

• An interview with Matt Smith
• Bus with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan to tour the UK

Film

• Liam Hemsworth joins Arabian Nights
• Proper trailer for Tron: Legacy
• The Book of Genesis: 3D
• Trailer for American: The Bill Hicks Story

Theatre

• Laurence Fishburne's Riff Raff coming to the Arcola Theatre

British TV

• Bravo acquires Spartacus: Blood and Sand
• Film4 HD and E4 HD to launch only on Virgin [subscription required]
• Men outnumber women two to one on TV
• True Blood gets 206k
• Benidorm back for fourth series – one ep possibly live

Canadian TV

• Canadian viewers prefer really bad sitcoms to drama

US TV

• Brittany Snow and 24's Sarah Wynter join pilots
• Lennie James joins Hung + more
• Nick Nolte to join Lucky?
• Heroes' Sendhil Ramamurthy joins Covert Affairs
• Jean Smart joins Hawaii Five-O, Tom Cavanagh joins Edgar Floats
• Numb3rs' Rob Morrow joins The Whole Truth
• Coby Bell joins Burn Notice as a regular [spoilers]
• Brothers and Sisters gets a fifth season [spoilers for Lost]
• American Idol's Katherine McPhee turns down Trauma in favour of Community

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Doctor Who

• Matthew Graham to write for series six?

Film

• Tom Cruise commits to Mission: Impossible 4
• Christopher Nolan to 'mentor' new Superman movie
• Penelope Cruz to star in Lars von Trier's Melancholia

British TV

• Neil Dudgeon to replace John Nettles on Midsomer Murders
• Hustle beats Law & Order UK in the ratings
• BBC spent £229m on talent last year [subscription required]
• Product placement to be allowed on TV
• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle gets a second series
• Behind the scenes of Russell Tovey's Young, Unemployed and Lazy

Canadian TV

• FreeHD Canada cleared for launch
• CBS picks up Men With Brooms

• TBS picks up two more comedy pilots
• Casting on ABC's The Gates
• Andrea Anders to star opposite Matt Perry in Mr Sunshine + other casting
• NBC ready to order Paul Reiser pilot
• FlashForward episodes cut?
• Heroes finale ratings up slightly
• Melrose Place not coming back?
• New arrivals on Brothers & Sisters

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I haven't watched all the second season of Being Erica - still got seven episodes to go since it was proving a bit of a downer and not quite as interesting as the first season - but for those of you who haven't started yet, here's star Erin Karpluk talking about it and what you have to look forward to, since there are still quite a few things to look forward to.

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Film

• Stephen Norrington to write and direct WW2 film The Lost Patrol
• Peter Sarsgaard to play the villain in Green Lantern?
• Vera Farmiga and Michelle Monaghan sign up for Duncan Jones' Source Code
• Paul Rudd and Zach Galifinakis to star in Angel comedy Will
• Chris Rock to remake La Premiere Etoile
• Mannequin remake being planned
• Trailer for remake of Chloe with Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore
• Peter Serafinowicz to play Paul McCartney in remake of Yellow Submarine

British TV

• Hugh Dennis to replace James May on Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure? [registration required]
• Law & Order watched by 5.6m viewers
• Glee does well, too
• iPlayer now available on Freesat

Canadian TV

• Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald to make half-hour 80s nostalgia comedy for Canwest

US TV

• Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star in JJ Abrams' Undercovers
• ABC Family renews Secret Life of the American Teenager and Make It Or Break It
• Matthew Perry's Mr Sunshine pilot greenlit by ABC
• Modern Family, Cougar Town and The Middle renewed by ABC
• Dana Delany to guest on Castle
• David Strathairn to guest on House
• Take a tour of the new CTU from 24
• Chuck does well, Heroes does badly on Monday
• A teaser trailer for HBO's Treme
• Writers for Being Human announced

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New Year's here and we're all snowed in, so hopefully we'll all have been watching a load of tele. Apart from the stuff I've reviewed already, here's what I've been watching:

• 18 To Life: A new Canadian comedy about to 18-year-olds who decide to get married. One's the son of a straight-laced Jewish family, the other is the daughter of a bunch of right-on hippy-types. It has to be said, it's even less funny than it sounds, although the casting's quite good and nothing's done in an OTT Dharma and Greg kind of way. I gave up before the end – you probably will too.
• The Day of the Triffids: Probably the scariest version so far, it had a whole lot going for it, managed to amp everything up a notch by dumping the irrelevant and dull parts of the book, and fleshed out Jo's character. The Triffids were very well done, too. However, it was basically killed stone dead by having Eddie Izzard as the baddie. He came close to menacing a few times, but he couldn't even walk in an unfunny way, let alone deliver dialogue without making you want to smirk at his semi-American accent and occasional tendencies to become James Mason.
• Above Suspicion: Now I watched the first one of these back in January last year and it was all right. It was a complete retread of Prime Suspect, but starred the insanely hot Kelly Reilly, so I was able to overlook its faults. This year's three-parter couldn't sustain my interest until even the end of the first episode. My, there was some bad acting and dialogue going on there. Sure, no one on British TV does realistic looks at police procedure as well as Lynda La Plante, but this was clunky and obvious and not even Kelly could save the day. Plus, yet again, it's another poor woman being hacked to death by a serial killer. Could we have a little variety please?

What have you been watching though?

As always, no spoilers unless you're going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please. If you've reviewed something on your blog, you can put a link to it here rather than repeat yourself (although too many links and you might get killed by the spam filter).

The Daily News will return in the New Year. You can follow me on Twitter for breaking updates. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Doctor Who

• Waters of Mars gets highest ratings ever for the show
• Pic of David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Catherine Tate: Nan's Christmas Carol
• Pic of David Tennant and June Whitfield in The End of Time - Part 1

Film

• Trailer for Knight and Day with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and some of the supporting cast of Buffy
• Trailer for The Wushu Karate Kid
• Trailer for Robin Hood
• Trailer for Kick Ass
• Teaser trailer for Sex and the City 2
• Trailer for Gerard Butler/Jennifer Aniston's Bounty Hunter

Theatre

• Legally Blonde musical is a hit

British TV

• Tales of Beatrix Potter to be animated
• Season four of Heroes to start January 9th on BBC2
• Top Gear team urged to lose 'cartoon characters' [registration required]

• Heartland gets a fourth season

• Apple considering TV subscription service with CBS and Disney [registration required]
• Nurse Jackie drops a recurring character
• Former HBO programming president Chris Albrecht to run Starz
• Trailer for Chuck season 3

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Doctor Who

• Fourth series of Torchwood to be 13 episodes

Film

• John Madden to direct My Fair Lady remake?
• I Spit on Your Grave to be remade?
• Paul Greengrass quits Bourne 4
• Tron: Legacy team to remake Black Hole?

• Kelsey Grammer to star in Broadway version of La Cage aux Folles

• Jonathan Littell wins the Bad Sex in Fiction award

British TV

• Casting on BBC1's Five Daughters

Canadian TV

• Canada looking for more sitcoms
• Molly Parker joins Shattered

• ProSievenSat. 1 to sell N24 news channel?

US TV

• Barry Sonnenfeld to direct pilot for ABC's Funny in Farsi
• SyFy to make a series based (loosely) on Stephen King's Colorado Kid
• Nicole Richie getting a comedy on ABC
• Raising the Bar and Three Rivers cancelled
• Heroes' Sendhil Ramamurthy and Jane Curtin join Rex is Not Your Lawyer
• Prison Break's Marshall Allman to join True Blood

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