• 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

• Behind the scenes of the new series [spoilers]
• An interview with Karen Gillan

Film

• Orlando Bloom and Jonathan Rhys Meyers join Albert Nobbs
• Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell join The Tourist

• Trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

British TV

• BBC to launch second Freeview HD service because Five can't?
• BBC shouldn't have bid on Harper's Island [subscribers only]
• Sci Fi HD coming to Virgin
• ITV1 HD also coming to Sky

US TV

• SyFy working on Three Inches, Alphas and another BSG spin-off
• Mia Maestro to star in Cutthroat + more pilot casting
• Actor leaving True Blood for The Good Wife?

However, those stories weren't the only Colin Baker stories that fell by the wayside. Here we have Leviathan, a story written by the late veteran TV writer Brian Finch for season 22. Despite getting as far as a rehearsal script, the story never got made, probably because it would have been too damn expensive to make.

In the story, the Doctor and Peri land in a medieval forest near a castle. They come across some villagers who are being pursued by Herne the Hunter.

Cue the Celtic charms of Clannad and the theme to Robin of Sherwood? No, because this Herne is mean and he's out for blood…

• Wii game a go

Film

• Hugo Weaving to play the Red Skull in Captain America?
• Trailer for Shrek Forever After
• Sam Worthington to play Dan Dare?
• Leonardo Da Vinci – action hero?
• Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman to star in Change Up

Radio

• What the Beeb plans to do after closing 6Music and the Asian Network

British TV

• Sky looking for 13-part dramas [subscription required]

US TV

• Firefly/Dollhouse's Alan Tudyk to co-star on Rockford Files
• Pilot casting, including Malcolm McDowell in Franklin & Bash
• John Voight signs up for Fox's Midland
• Katherine Heigl to be released from Grey's Anatomy
• Michael Madsen to guest on 24
• Grace Park and Moon Bloodgood to guest on Human Target
• Nurse Jackie season two trailer

• 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

• David Tennant to do Karate Kids narration
• Billie Piper and David Tennant to star in Love On The Murder Mile

Awards

• The results of the Oscars
• The results of the Razzies – surprising overlap with Oscars

Film

• Midnight Run 2 will happen
• New Iron Man 2 trailer  

• Sleepless in Seattle: the musical

US TV

• Scott Foley joins True Blue, plus other pilot casting
• Kathy Bates to star in Kindreds?
• Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar to star in Franklin & Bash
• Worst Week's Kyle Bornheimer joins CBS pilot
• Fringe gets a third season
• The Office, Community and 30 Rock all get another season each
• NBC to pick up 24 if Fox doesn't?
• House re-runs to include extra footage

• The Sarah Jane Adventures gets two more series
• Series five to be fairy-tale like

Film

• Police Academy to be revived
• Pet Sematary to be remade
• Rome movie moving forward
• Trailer for The Runaways with Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett

British TV

• MTV acquires The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Sweet Valley High [subscription required]
• Being Human creatives want to launch production company, have new idea for a show [subscription required]
• BBC4 to go back to its high-brow roots [subscription required]

US TV

• Casting, including Jeri Ryan on Body of Evidence, Robert Patrick on Edgar Floats and Nate Corddry on Our Show
• Scott Caan to play Danno on Hawaii Five-O
• Smallville gets a 10th season
• NBC's Angela Bromstad discusses the chances of Chuck and Heroes returning
• 24 on the bubble still

• An interview with Matt Smith

Film

• Sean Bean joins Luke Goss in Death Race 2
• Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
• Nicole Kidman to star in The Wedding Doctor?

British TV

• Being Human finale gets 1m viewers

US TV

• Pilot casting, including Julie Benz on No Ordinary Family and Alexandra Breckenridge on Traffic Light
• Dustin Hoffman to star in Luck – his first TV show in 40 years
• TV Land orders 10 episodes of Hot in Cleveland
• American Idol's Katharine McPhee to star in The Pink House
• Matt Frewer to guest on Supernatural [spoilers]

Now Big Finish can be a little off the wall sometimes, but usually they're quite conventional. However, this time – for three plays only – they've done something that I bet Steven Moffat never, ever considered: they've given him a racist, fascist, time-travelling Nazi scientist as an assistant. Yeah, beat that Stevie, you no-talent hack.

For those of you who haven't been listening to the Big Finish plays for the last decade or so, Colditz has probably slipped under your radar, especially since it's a Seventh Doctor/Ace play, so likely to be languishing at the bottom of any collection/bargain bin. Just to jog your memory, it's the one with David Tennant doing the bad German accent.

You probably won't recall the actual plot, however, so let me remind you: the Doctor and Ace land in/near Colditz; they do lots of dumb things; the Nazis capture them and the TARDIS; a Nazi scientist called Klein takes the TARDIS into the future where the Third Reich have won the Second World War; through timey-wimey machinations the alternative future gets undone, Herr David Tennant gets killed off, and Klein is left lurking around somewhere in the world, possessing knowledge of science and the alternative future that she shouldn't have.

A Thousand Tiny Wings picks up where Colditz left off by plopping the companionless Seventh Doctor down into 1950s Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau uprising. Here he comes across a bunch of posh English people stuck in a house and slowly being killed off by a mysterious poison. And Dr Elizabeth Klein.

Sounding good yet? No? Thought not.

Yet, despite sounding extremely bad on paper, it's actually a pretty decent play in practice.

I won't say a word.

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• BBC America to show new series starting April 17th [spoilers]

Film

• Christina Applegate and Alyssa Milano join Hall Pass
• Odeon U-turns over Alice in Wonderland boycott
• Nicole Kidman to cameo in Adam Sandler's Just Go With It?
• Trailer for A Nightmare on Elm Street remake
• Bree Larson and Lucy Liu join Michael C Hall in East Fifth Bliss
• Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester to star with Hugh Laurie in The Oranges
• Bradley Cooper drops out of This Means War
• An Iron Man 2 featurette
• TV spot for The Losers with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans and Idris Elba

British TV

• BBC to cut radio stations including 6 Music, "halve web pages", reduce US imports?
• STV threatens third lawsuit against ITV over X-Factor
• Five signs VoD agreement for shows including Neighbours and Home and Away
• Bridget Jones: The TV series?

Canadian TV

• Bridget Jones: The TV series?

French TV

• Bridget Jones: The TV series?

US TV

• Three ER actors wind up in pilots
• Past Life's Ravi Patel ends up Nirvana, and another Better Off Ted actor gets a pilot
• Dennis Farina and John Ortiz join Michael Mann's Luck
• Spike's Blue Mountain State gets a second season
• Starz CEO discusses plans, including cancelling Crash
• Neil Patrick Harris to guest on Glee
• Malcolm McDowell to guest on The Mentalist
• Bridget Jones: The TV series?

• Ian McShane to play the villain in Pirates 4?
• Odeon boycotts Alice in Wonderland because of DVD window
• Isla Fisher to star in Kiss & Tell
• Stephen Chow to star with Jack Black and Anne Hathaway in Way of the Dragon remake?
• Kevin James joins Vince Vaughn in Your Cheating Heart
• David Tennant, Jason Isaacs and Thandie Newton to star in Retreat

British TV

• iPlayer gets 120m views in January
• Eurosport offers live iPhone streaming [subscription required]

US TV

• Mucho, mucho pilot casting including Adam Arkin in Who Gets the Parents?, Leah Remini in It Takes a Village and Zeljko Ivanek in The Event
• Archer gets a second season
• Jim Belushi to star in Defenders
• T:TSCC's Leven Rambin joins Scoundrels
• Gil Bellows to guest on Smallville

• James Corden to guest star

Awards

• Results of the Writers' Guild Awards
• Results of the Berlin Film Festival awards
• Results of the BAFTAs
  

Film

• Stephen Merchant joins Hall Pass

Theatre

• Derek Jacobi to play Lear at the Donmar

• Erica Jonge's Fear of Flying to be adapted by ITV

US TV

• Men in Trees' Jenny Bicks to showrun The Big C
• Katee Sackhoff to star in ABC crime drama
• Rachael Leigh Cook, Jere Burns and Lea Thompson all land pilots
• Ugly Betty's Becki Newton to star in Love Bites
• William Shatner to star in Shit My Dad Says
• Bill Pullman joins Nathan vs Nurture
• Greek gets a fourth season
• Women are Crazy, Men are Stupid gets shelved
• Past Life gets cancelled
• Kristin Kreuk and Jack Carpenter to star in Hitched
• Adam Rodriguez returning full-time to CSI: Miami
• Will Arnett pilot close to getting a green light

• David Tennant to star in Single Father
• Doctor Who to get a 3D trailer

Film

• Amanda Seyfried to star in The Girl in the Red Riding Hood?
• Laurence Fishburne joins Contagion
• Ben Stiller to star in Brett Ratner's Tower Heist
• Ethan Hawke and Kristen Scott Thomas to star in The Woman in the Fifth
• Trailer for Wall Street 2
• Matt Damon and Ben Affleck up for wife swapping
• Julian McMahon to star with Milla Jovovich in Faces in the Crowd

• Yes, Prime Minster: the play

British TV

• Another series of Taggart commissioned
• Rufus Sewell to star as Aurelio Zen for BBC
• BBC Worldwide looking to create drama franchises like 24 and Heroes [subscription required]
• Alibi acquires Castle [subscription required]

US TV

• Maggie Q to star in La Femme Nikita, Roselyn Sanchez in Cutthroat
• Rita Moreno and Allison Janney to guest on In Plain Sight
• The Deep End/Life on Mars's Rachelle Lefevre joins John Wells' new medical drama
• Lost's Harold Perrineau to guest on CSI:NY
• Smallville/The Dukes of Hazzard's John Schneider to star in Back Nine for Spike
• Heroes does well in DVR ratings