Film

• Rachel McAdams joins new Woody Allen movie
• Robert de Niro joins Dark Fields
• Neil Patrick Harris joins The Smurfs
• Hugh Jackman to star in Lee Daniels' Selma

Music

• Mutya Buena wants to own the Sugababes name

British TV

• ITV returns to profit
• Warner to launch VoD service with mobile phone company 3 [subscription required]
• Five Days gets 6.8m for second episode
• Discovery to launch TLC in the UK next year [subscription required]
• Ofcom to probe STV

US TV

• Disney Channel to have animated spin-off show from Tron: Legacy
• Pilot roles for Ana Ortiz, Alicia Witt, Will Yun Lee and Nicole Steinwedell
• Ryan Devlin joins Shit My Dad Says
• Debra Messing to star in Wright vs Wrong
• FNL's Scott Porter to star in Nomads
• Dana Delany to star in Body of Evidence?
• Blair Underwood to star as US president in The Event
• Southland off to modest start on TNT with 2.5m viewers
• Parenthood gets off to okay start with 8.1m viewers
• Rob Lowe joins Parks and Recreation
• 9.2m tune in for Lost
• Firefly's Jewel Staite to guest on Warehouse 13
• Returning characters for the Ugly Betty finale [spoilers]
• Trailer for final season of The Tudors

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John Barrowman sings 'The Doctor and I' - it's on his latest album.

I won't say a word.

The Doctor & I - 1'30'' by lucidonline

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Look! It's John Barrowman from TV's Torchwood dancing to Beyoncé's 'Single Ladies'. I hope your retinas don't get scarred by this.

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Film

• DreamWorks to adapt Ghost in the Shell
• Wicked novels to be adapted into a series
• Iain M Banks' Culture to be filmed

Music

• Bon Jovi to take up residency in the O2 from 2010

British TV

• NCIS: LA premiere gets 505k viewers
• News at Ten to lose Big Ben

US TV

• In Treatment to get a third season?
• Wednesday's ratings
• NBC orders three comedies, one starring Adam Carolla
• Hulu to start charging
• Angie Harmon to star in TNT's Rizzoli
• Two regulars fired from Melrose Place
• Kristen Bell and Jane Lynch to return to Party Down

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Doctor Who

• David Tennant to guest host on Absolute Radio

Film

• Stephenie Meyer's adult novel The Host acquired
• The Rock, Samuel L Jackson and Steve Coogan join The Other Guys
• Fast and Furious's Justin Lin to direct Highlander remake
• Dennis Hopper, Scott Caan, Tricia Helfer and JK Simmons join A Beginner's Guide to Endings
  
• Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore join Thor
• Bryan Singer to direct Jack the Giant Killer

• Chas and Dave split up

British TV

• ITV sues STV; STV to sue ITV
• BBC to boost children's and BBC2 drama budgets
• Top Gear to go HD from November
• ITV appoints an acquisitions chief

US TV

• Heroes gets disappointing ratings
• Campbell Scott and Martin Short to join Damages
• Fox working on half-hour medical comedy
• Cast changes at Southland
• Three Rivers' replacement pilot replaced
• Heather Locklear to appear on Melrose Place

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Doctor Who

• Sheridan Smith leaving eighth Doctor stories?

Film

• Wentworth Miller joins Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter on Resident Evil: Afterlife
• Brad Pitt to play Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes sequel?
• John Malkovich to join Secretariat
• Columbia picks up screen rights to Enron
• Walden picks up Gene, a modern genie story
• Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart join Dylan's Wake
• Darren Aronofsky to direct Heist

Music

• Last original Sugababe quits  

• Jack Kirby's estate serves copyright notice on Marvel

• ITV1 to screen new version of Bouquet of Barbed Wire
• ITV1 misleading advertisers?
• BBC to show Heroes late this year or early next year
• Press pack for Emma
• Richard Eyre slams BBC for drama dereliction of duty

US TV

• Heroes webisodes to focus on Lydia the tattooed lady
• Fox picks up Glee
• Charlie Sheen leaving Two and a Half Men?
• Betty White to cameo on 30 Rock

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Look, it's all the stars of HBO's vampire show True Blood in a video for the always cheery Depeche Mode's song 'Corrupt'

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Doctor Who

• Awe-inspiringly spoilery pictures from the finale

Film

• Producers having difficulty with Birds remake

Comics

• Captain America coming back

• The Nolans are reforming

British TV

• Travel Channel's Pat Younge to head up BBC Vision Productions
• ITV drops Primeval
• Reece Shearsmith talks about Psychoville
• Digital Britain report to cut £130m from BBC's share of licence fee
• It's the Torchwood press pack
• BBC2 and BBC4 to run Modern Beauty season

US TV

• Fox's fall shows to start the same time as everyone else's
• Sendil Ramamurthy to guest on Psych
• Steven Spielberg wants Noah Wyle to star in his alien invasion pilot for TNT

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The Economist staff have more time on their hands than I thought. Come on guys: there's a recession on! All hands to the pumps…

Film

• Arnie willing to appear in Terminator film if he doesn't have to do anything
• Angelina to star in adaptations of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books
• Demetri Martin to appear in Moneyball
• Noel Clarke, Ray Winstone, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams and Toby Jones join Andy Serkis in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
• Jason Statham to star in remake of The Mechanic?

Radio

• Alex Zane quits XFM

Theatre

• Sheridan Smith and Duncan James to star in Legally Blonde: The Musical

British TV

• Ashes to Ashes back with 7m viewers

US TV

• BBC America acquires Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and The Inbetweeners
• Samantha Who? yanked from schedules but may yet return
• ABC trying to acquire The New Adventures of Old Christine from CBS again

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