Doctor Who

• Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson and Sarah Sutton reunited for Big Finish plays
• Frazer Hines to appear in Sixth Doctor stories for Big Finish

Film

• Green Lantern could be cancelled because of currency issues
• Hayden Christensen to star in Vanishing on Seventh Street
• Smallville creators to write adaptation of I Am Number Four
• Christina Hendricks to star with Katherine Heigl in Life as We Know It
• Blake Lively joins Ben Affleck's The Town

British TV

• Channel 4 unveils its Autumn season
• Sky1 acquires Modern Family
• BBC4 wants to adapt more works of fiction
• C4 to overhaul its output after Big Brother cancellation
• Shane Meadows to make a drama for C4
• Sky unveils its Autumn line-up

US TV

• Gossip Girl and Chuck producers to create comedy series
• Lennie James to play Tim Roth's nemesis in Lie To Me. I might even watch it now
• Melissa McCarthy joins Hank
• V shuts down production for two weeks
• Summer Glau joins Dollhouse

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Film

• Susan Sarandon to join Wall Street 2
• Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland and Mark Strong join The Eagle of the Ninth
  
• Trailer for Zombieland
• Simon Pegg to play William Hare in John Landis' Burke and Hare
• Megan Fox to play Catwoman in next Batman movie?
• Todd McFarlane to make new Wizard of Oz 'comparable to Alien'
• Scarlett Johansson to appear in The Avengers?

British TV

• ITV set to join Hulu
• Arqiva completes acquisition of Project Kangaroo VoD technology
• Big Brother to be dropped after next year?

US TV

• True Blood getting great ratings
• Beau Bridges to guest star on The Closer

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Film

• Natalie Portman to star as Jane Foster in Thor
• Ioan Gruffudd to play Kenneth Grahame

Theatre

• Danny Dyer to play Sid Vicious in Kurt & Sid

British TV

• Tony Garnett slams BBC to producing junk TV
• Nasty Nick pulls out of Big Brother return
• Jay Leno behind the scenes of Top Gear [vid]

US TV

• Steven Weber to join Happy Town?
• Stephen King's The Cell to be a mini-series?

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Doctor Who

• Doctor Who meets Torchwood for Children in Need

Film

• Jon Favreau's plans for Iron Man 2
• Ray WInstone to replace Robert De Niro in Edge of Darkness
• Adam Arkin joins the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man
• Relativity Media picks up rights to I, Claudius
• Steven Soderbergh wants Michael Douglas and Matt Damon for Liberace biopic
• Trailer for Clint Eastwood's Changeling
• Trailer for The International with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts
• Sex and the City sequel in negotiation

British TV

• Disney to adapt Welsh radio sitcom
• T4 most likely to be cut by Channel 4 in budget round
• David Starkey to profile Henry VIII
• Press pack for BBC2 comedy Beautiful People
• Trailer for Charlie Brooker's “BB meets zombies” drama Dead Set
• Channel 4 commissions full series of School of Comedy

US TV

• Golfer enters witness protection for HBO pilot
• Two more seasons for Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen
• Canadian trailer for third season of Heroes
• More money for Hugh Laurie…
• …and a preview of this season on House and what went wrong last season [spoilers]
• Katee Sackhoff to star in Dick Wolf's Lost and Found
• Cybill Shepherd to guest on Samantha Who?
• Shannen Doherty leaving 90210

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Film

• Trailer for The Spirit

British TV

• ITV2 commissions drama Trinity…
• …and cancels Jordan's chat show

Australian TV

• Big Brother cancelled

US TV

• Fringe episodes will be 50 minutes long
• The first of the Heroes webisodes [video, US only]
• Christina Ricci joining Saving Grace for three episodes
• Crash won't be depressing or about race much
• Christopher Gorham leaving Ugly Betty
• Casting for Valentine Inc, plus Dexter and The Unit

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Film

• Chris Carter secretly filming Fencewalker
• New Bourne movie 'coming soon'

British TV

• Promo video for the new-look iPlayer

Australian TV

• BBC Worldwide buys up UKTV and launches new services
• Pamela Anderson entering the Big Brother house
• iTunes starts offering TV shows

US TV

• Teaser trailer for Joss Whedon's Dr Horrible
• Nicole RIchie to guest star on Chuck
• Timothy Olyphant joins Damages
• John Schneider to star independent twentysixmiles
• Aidan Quinn and Rutger Hauer joins ABC's Hamlet-esque Prince of Motor City
• Lara Logan gets a promotion at CBS
• Heroes to answer 'deep questions' next season

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Doctor Who

• Freema Agyeman among stars of Survivors remake
• Catherine Tate wants to make another series of her sketch show

Film

• Judd Apatow to direct movie about stand-up comedy
• Trailer for new Coen Brothers/George Clooney movie
• Emily the Strange to become a movie
• Bryce Dallas Howard to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg on Terminator 4?
• Daniel Craig to become honorary green beret?
• Danny Glover, Oliver Platt and Thandie Newton to star in 2012?

Books

• Brian Cant reads downloadable fairy tales for free
• Gavin & Stacey: the book

Radio

• GCap sells Xfm South Wales [free registration required]

Musicals

• Gone with the Wind to close after just 79 performances
• An Inconvenient Truth to become an opera

British TV

• Sex discrimination on BBC news?
• Jonathan Ross to host Dad's Army special
• FIve to re-enact SAS missions [free registration required]
• No new US shows acquired yet
• Davina will “never quit” Big Brother
• Britain's Got Talent finale gets 14.4m viewers
• Jonathan Creek back for Christmas special

US TV

• Law and Order producer to head second season of In Treatment?
• Tim Minear signs two-year deal with 20th Century Fox TV
• Kim Cattrall to star in remake of Joanna Lumley's Sensitive Skin for HBO
• Time travelling Mad Men [minor spoilers]
• More pilot casting
• Harold Perrineau joins The Unusuals… and he's not happy about Lost
• A Lost deleted scene
• Scrubs: The Next Generation
• TBS launching female commuter micro-series

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Film

• Mission Impossible 4?
• Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in 500 Days of Summer

British TV

• New series of Lead Balloon commissioned
• No more Davina for BB?
• Beeb drops Out of the Blue after six episodes [free registration required]

US TV

• Bruce Boxleitner to appear in Heroes
• Private Eye spin-off from House planned?
• Knight Rider TV series will be different from the TV movie
• Breaking Bad gets a second season
• Stephen Root to play lonely vampie in HBO's True Blood
• Gossip Girl to get extended second season

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Doctor Who

• John Barrowman prefers David Tennant to Chris Eccleston

Film

• New Freddie Krueger franchise planned by Michael Bay and co
• Robert Redford to star in Bill Bryson adaptation?
• Gerard Butler and Katherine Heifl to star in offensive romcom

Books

• A video game version of Ender's Game is being planned

British TV

• Primeval commissioned for a third series, airing in January 2009
• Beeb sells its Australian soap back to Australia [free registration required]
• Ross Kemp in Afghanistan does better in the ratings than Celebrity Hijack finale
• It's the Phoo Action press pack - blimey, Carl Weathers is in it!

US TV

• SJP's production company to create Project Runway for the art world
• An interview with Damon Lindelof about season four of Lost
• Behind the scenes video of the new Knight Rider movie
• More crossovers planned between Heroes and Heroes: Evolutions
• Eli Stone will go out with a health warning
• Pushing Daisies probably won't be back now until season two

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Doctor Who

• A certain new Who monster will appear in The Sarah Jane Adventures, as will Jane Asher, Phyllida Law and Floella Benjamin [minor spoilers]

Film

• Steve Coogan to star in high school comedy Hamlet 2
• Journeyman's Kevin McKidd may be Thor. But probably not
• Set footage from The Hulk

Commercials/Music

• Brian Ferry appears in a Carling ad

British TV

• Wall to Wall up for sale
• BB8 had to play it safe after Celebrity BB fall out

US TV

• Glen Morgan quits Bionic Woman because of creative differences
• Apple would like to cut iTunes TV prices to 99?Ǭ¢
• Alyssa Milano to join My Name is Earl as a love interest for Earl
• Edie Falco to appear on three episodes of 30 Rock
• Californication renewed

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