Film

• Gina Gershon, Robert Patrick and Danny Glover to star in Five Minarets in New York
• Elisabeth Röhm to play Taylor Lautner's mum in Abduction

Radio

• 6 Music saved, Asian Network not

• BBC daytime output not good enough
• Two new Freesat channels
• BBC Worldwide gets record profits

US TV

• Javier Bardem to appear on Glee
• My Boys' Reid Scott to recur on The Big C
• BBC Worldwide considering more US channels

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Film

• Teaser trailer for Red
• International trailer for Predators
• Daniel Day Lewis to play Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes 2?
• Simon Rich's Elliot Allagash optioned
• Daniel Radcliffe to star in All Quiet on the Western Front
• Major League sequel will reunite original cast
• Matt Damon to star in Cameron Crowe's We Bought A Zoo?

Radio

• Radio 4 to run comedy pilot season

British TV

• Pilot episode of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret to be reshot without Russell Tovey
• Robson Green to guest star on Being Human?
• Channel 4 to get overhaul, boost budget [subscription required]
• Tony Garnett retires from production [subscription required]
• Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie to reunite for documentary
• Abi Morgan to writer BBC2 drama set in a 1950s TV newsroom [subscription required]
• E4 working on female companion to The InBetweeners [subscription required]

• Mos Def to join HBO's Enlightened
• Cynthia Nixon to recur on Big C
• Robert Singleton joins Walking Dead
• Lifetime orders three police procedural pilots
• Debbie Gibson to fight Tiffany in Mega Python vs. Gatoroid
• AMC considering college football drama
• Memphis Beat starts well

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Film

• Jennifer Garner and Nick Nolte to join Arthur?
• Castle's Stana Katic joins The Double
• Four minutes of The A-Team
• Wind in the Willows being developed  

• Johnny Vegas to play Les Dawson

British TV

• Mark Williams and Ayesha Dharker join Sanjeev Bhaskar in The Indian Doctor
• Channel 4 to subtitle all programmes from 2011 [subscription required]
• Channel 4 picks up Pillars of the Earth [subscription required]
• FX acquires The Walking Dead [subscription required]
• ITV Player coming to smartphones and PlayStation 3?
• Freeview HD available to 50% of the UK

US TV

• Joanne Whalley joins The Borgias, Brian Cox joins The Big C
• Aya Cash replaces Alexandra Breckenridge on Mixed Signals
• Maria Doyle Kennedy joins Dexter

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Film

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt to be an action hero
• Another Hunter S Thompson movie planned
• Sam Rockwell joins Cowboys and Aliens
• Trailer for George Clooney's assassin drama The American
• Steven Spielberg to direct War Horse
• Jon Hamm and Matt Lucas to appear in Bridesmaids
• Castle's Stana Katic to star in For Lovers Only
• Naomi Watts to star in The Impossible
• Kevin McKidd says Rome movie 'almost there'

Radio

• 6 Music gets a 50% increase in listeners year-on-year

British TV

• Peter Capaldi among stars in Tony Jordan's The Nativity
• Kevin Lygo leaves Channel 4 for ITV Studios
• Mentalist Mark Thompson dresses down Janice Hadlow over BBC2 direction [subscription required]
• Beeb poaches Mad Men exec Vlad Wolynetz
• The Prisoner ratings plummet

French TV

• Watch the first part of season 3 of Engrenages/Spiral for free [no subtitles, of course]

US TV

• Spike unveils its development slate
• Justified gets a second season
• NBC picks up JJ Abrams' Undercovers
• Party Down ratings double
• Miami Medical ratings improving
• Oliver Stone working on drama for Epix
• Sarah Wayne Callies joins Walking Dead
• Zoe Kravitz joins Californication
• Ghost Whisperer and New Adventures of Old Christine moving to ABC?
• One in eight Americans to quit cable over costs?
• Castle co-showrunner Rene Echevarria leaving

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Doctor Who

• The Time of Angels gets 6.6m

Film

• John Schneider to play Doonby
• Clive Owen joins The Killer Elite
• Neil Marshall to remake 70s TV show The Professionals
• Emma Thompson to adapt Effie

• Charlie Brooker to host Radio 4 show

Canadian TV

• Being Erica gets a third season  

• Which pilots are likely to get picked up
• Miami Medical down, Smallville up
• Thursday night ratings drop

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Doctor Who

• The Beast Below gets 6.6m
• The BBC Archive reveals LSD trip regeneration

Film

• Kevin Bacon joins Steve Carell film
• Rachel Weisz to star as Jackie Kennedy?
• Man from UNCLE scriptwriter hired
• Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell to star in Lunatic at Large
• Sharlto Copley to star in I Am Number Four
• Joss Whedon to direct The Avengers?

Radio

• Catherine Tate and Tracy-Ann Oberman to play Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

British TV

• Ashes to Ashes drops to 4.9m
• BBC3 acquires La La Land [subscription required]
• David Abraham to start as chief executive of C4 next month [subscription required]
• Idris Elba calls for more diversity on British TV
• Survivors cancelled

• Sophia Bush joins Southern Discomfort
• Treme gets a second season
• Billy Campbell joins The Killing
• Kristen Johnston joins Beach Lane
• Sarah Chalke joins Team Spitz
• Law & Order: Los Angeles picked up for 13 episodes
• Delroy Lindo joins Ride-Along
• A Spartacus prequel mini-series?
• CSI co-showrunner Naran Shankar leaving

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Ooh, a radio question. That's novel.

For the benefit of overseas readers, 6Music is a BBC radio station that's available on the Internet or on DAB radios (you don't have those either). It covers "new music" (something close to US indie music) and other genres that appeal to musophiles.

And the BBC is about to close it. The reasons given are that it competes with commercial radio stations (maybe, but only in terms of the listeners, not in terms of content), it costs too much (it only costs a few million pounds to run), it doesn't have enough listeners (although it has enough apparently to compete with commercial radio stations, except it doesn't. Square that circle if you can), and the resources will be used elsewhere (true enough).

To replace it, the current plan is to provide a "Radio 2 Extra" – just as ITV2 gives related content to ITV1 programmes as well as original content of its own, so the new 6Music would do the same for Radio 2.

So this week's question is:

Why are the BBC really closing 6Music? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Do you care? Will you listen to the replacement? Or is all this a storm in a teamcup, you can't get this DAB thing anyway, and to hell with Internet radio?

For the advanced reader: repeat but for the closing of the Asian Network.

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

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

• 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

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Film

• Elizabeth Banks joins Dark Fields
• Catherine Keener, Allison Janney and Adam Brody up for Hugh Laurie's Oranges
• Johnny Depp and Venessa Paradis to star in My American Lover

Radio

• BBC Cymru Wales to double network radio drama output

British TV

• Beeb to make drama and documentary about destruction of Atlantis – aka the eruption of the volcano on Santorini
• Inquiry into STV "cash for programmes" row

US TV

• Yet more pilot casting, including Dylan Walsh and Joely Richardson
• Dermot Mulroney to play Jim Rockford in Rockford Files remake
• Grace Park to join Hawaii Five-O as Daniel Dae Kim's niece, plus Tricia Helfer joins Dark Blue as a regular
• My Boys' Jordana Spiro joins Love Bites
• Janeane Garofalo joins John Wells' medical drama
• James Callis joins FlashForward

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