Anyway, the project in question is Nativity 2, a sequel to – you guessed it – Nativity. In this movie, David Tennant plays not one but two roles – as a teacher, Mr Peterson, and his twin brother – with Joanna Page playing his wife. Being Nativity 2, she's pregnant, as she is in real life, and for another real-world tie-in, it's going to be in UK cinemas on November 23, the 49th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.

Here's the trailer: you may notice that he's got his normal Scottish accent in this… I think the blog might have to go and have another lie down.

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Nice trick if you can do it.

• Ridley Scott working on Blade Runner sequel

British TV

• Holly Hunter reunites with Jane Campion for Top of the Lake
• Royle Family Christmas special cancelled – because there's no script
• BBC hopes to attract rivals to Cardiff [subscription required]
• Top Boy finishes with 1 million viewers
• Joanna Page to star in BBC1's The Syndicate

US TV

• Thursday night ratings: Bones and Community up 22%,
• Friday night ratings: Fringe up, Grimm down, Chuck at all-time low
• Jenna Elfman to guest on Shameless
• John Schneider to guest on Glee
• Gary Busey to guest as himself on Two and a Half Men
• Megan Mullally joins Breaking In

Doctor Who

• Matt Smith not off

Film

• Anne Hathaway to produce and star in Three Days of the Condor-esque Puzzler
• Sequel planned for Dumb and Dumber
• Alice Cooper joins Dark Shadows
• New Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol promo
• Sean Penn to direct Robert de Niro and Kristen Wiig in The Comedian
• David Tennant, Joanna Page and Sheridan Smith start shooting Nativity 2 [subscription required]

Theater

• Ethan Coen writing stage comedies

British TV

• 3m HD Freeview boxes sold
• Cosgrove Hall resurrected
• BBC4 to lost history and science programming [subscription required]
• ITV commissions Ian Rankin drama from Stephen Fry's production company [subscription required]
• Being Human team working on female-oriented comedy-drama about witches [subscription required]

Canadian TV

• Primeval spin-off to be darker and scarier

US TV

• White Collar's Marsha Thomason to guest on 2 Broke Girls
• NBC spending $100m on developing shows
• FX buys Charlie Sheen's Anger Management
• True Blood's Kevin Alejandro and Grant Bowler to guest on GCB (aka Good Christian Belles)
• 24's Sarah Clarke to guest on Nikita
• Lou Diamond Phillips to guest on Southland
• ABC buys CIA comedy drama from Silvio Horta and Will Gluck
• The Mentalist's Eric Winter to star in Scent of the Missing
• Wednesday ratings: Happy Endings up 17%, Suburgatory up 10%…
• …American Horror Story up, too
• Dan Lauria to star in TBS's Sullivan and Son

So it's been a very random week for everyone this week. Scarlett Johansson is off drinking champagne with Bollywood stars and petitioning for more screen time in The Avengers so she won't be a token woman. But she's also singing duets with LuLu Gainsbourg as well as a virtual Dean Martin.

Meanwhile, not-normally-so-random Evan Rachel Wood has decided to lose a tooth and hit on Amber Heard…

…who's randomly off filming the USO episode of The Playboy Club and de-butching TV lesbians.

Meanwhile, Joanna Page is filming a documentary about romance in sitcoms for UKTV, praising Swansea and turning up on men's doorsteps with 56-man Welsh voice choirs to offer them holidays in Wales.

She probably wins for randomness this week.

• Colin Mochrie joins Please Kill Mr. Know It All
• Gossip Girl team to adapt The Luxe
• Treme's Kim Dickens moves to Heartland
• New film about Julius Caesar in the works
• Alexander Skarsgard joins The Vanguard
• Nick Frost to play a dwarf in Snow White and the Huntsman

British TV

• Joanna Page to star in Sky1's The Gates
• News Corp pulls out of BSkyB bid
• BBC HD boss quits, BBC2 HD to launch [subscription required]
• Channel 4 News launching free iOS app

US TV

• House's Kal Penn to recur on How I Met Your Mother
• Teen Wolf gets a second season
• 24's Penny Johnson Jerald joins Castle
• Jennifer Salke new president of NBC Entertainment
• Rebecca Mader to guest on Alphas

That would be appearing in things like Bedlam and White Van Man, BTW.

But there was also a two-part sketch, written by Steven Moffat at his muckiest best:

Joanna Page was also doing her thing:

While Lenny Henry and Richard Curtis had to call in James Corden (Smithy from Gavin & Stacey) to help save the show, which he did with the assistance of George Michael among others:

And then there was Alan Partridge…

What was your favourite?

So yesterday was of course the day when thanks to Top Gear, British men en masse discovered there exists a woman called Amber Heard and that not knowing this fact had substantially impoverished their lives. Now our Amber didn't come ex nihilo and had British men decided to watch Hidden Palms all of five years ago (despite - oh dear - my recommendations), they'd have known all about her. Here are a couple of her finest moments - she/Greta being easily the best thing in it - from the otherwise not that great pilot.

But they didn't so have lived in terrible ignorance for five years. You could tell this because at 11am yesterday, a Twitter search for Amber Heard would have got you about one Tweet an hour of something like "Amber Heard is the SITRPC on Top Gear? Who's she? I thought they were getting someone exciting."

By about 8.35pm, Amber Heard had become the number one Google image search and first a UK then a global Twitter trending topic. And let's just say The Informers was starting to get an awful lot of illegal downloads. If you thought Top Gear's ratings were sagging and it's been losing its influence this series, turns out you were wrong.

Here's the interview in case you missed it and want to know why British men went Amber-mad yesterday. Forgive Jeremy Clarkson - he's Jeremy Clarkson.

Moving on, another of last week's Random Acts participants, Serene Branson, who we all thought had a stroke live on air, fortunately only turned out to have a complex migraine.

And since this is TMINE, let's let Joanna Page get in on the randomness this week by designing a Welsh bra. It's for charity.

Just in case you're wondering what our Joanna has been up to of late, as well as appearing in Sky Living's forthcoming (fictional) haunted house show, Bedlam, which weirdly stars Will Young and less weirdly starts on Sunday, she's up in Manchester rehearsing for Private Lives with Imogen Stubbs. Here she is at the launch of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting with Imogen, talking about both the prize and the play, but she's in the Lounge chatting about it tonight, if you're in town tonight.

This is what Joanna Page is up to right now. Panto with Stavros Flatley. In Milton Keynes. What the hell did she do wrong? Still, her episode of Marple is coming up over the Christmas break and she's on Shooting Stars as well, so at least if you want to see her in something over Christmas, you won't have to go to Milton Keynes.

PS It sounds worse than it is – the panto is Dick Whittington and she's starring with Dirk Benedict (Face from the original The A-Team). Don't know why they've Photoshopped her to look more like Anthea Turner in the poster though.

Our Joanna's going to be the voice of Poppy Cat in a series of 52, 11 minute episodes for Nick Jr produced by (oh, this takes me back) King Rollo Films. She's already been Fly the dog in Mist: Sheepdog Tales and dealing with pets' shame on Sky 1. Is there any part of the animal kingdom she can't deal with?

Unfortunately, she doesn't say, "Let's go Superdrug" in it. You can see this on tele during Coronation Street if you're so inclined.

UPDATE: And ooh luck, it's the Making Of… video.

Let's not ask what Joanna Page has been up to of late. Okay, she's been judging pet shows and she is going to be in a BBC3 show called The Fades soon.

This isn't it.