Doctor Who

• Writers confirmed for series 7b

Film

• David Duchovny, Hope Davis and Timothy Hutton to star in After The Fall
• Diane Kruger and Anton Yelchin to star in 5 to 7
• Woody Harrelson and Martin Sheen to star in September Morn
• Elizabeth Banks to star in Walk of Shame
• Willem Dafoe joins Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac
• Alex Cross sequel already in development

Trailers

• Trailer for Mama, with Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
• Trailer for Jack Reacher with Tom Cruise

French TV

• Accused to be remade [subscription required]

UK TV

• Skins to conclude with old characters, different format
• Phil Davis to recur on Being Human
• Press pack for Secret State
• SyFy to broadcast ST:TNG in high def [subscription required]
• Sky1 acquires The Last Resort
• Tuesday ratings

US TV

• Tuesday ratings: Ben and Kate down 20%, Emily Owens starts low, Hart Of Dixie up

US TV casting

• Knots Landing's Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark to guest on Dallas
• Chuck's Vik Sahay to guest on Bones
• George Takei to guest on Hawaii Five-0
• Dylan McDermott to return to American Horror Story
• Donal Logue to guest on Sons of Anarchy
• Polly Walker to guest on Warehouse 13
• Cougar Town's Briga Heelan to guest on Happy Endings
• Royal Pains' Kyle Howard to guest on Apartment 23

New US TV shows

• ABC buys dramas Warriors and Grievances…
• …to adapt the Netherlands' Sea of Fire
• TNT picks up Frank Darabont's LA Noir for six episodes…
• …to adapt Dean Koontz's Frankenstein
• NBC buys two dramas
• Hallmark orders series of Andie MacDowell's Cedar Cove
• Amazon developing Support and The Face and the Heel

New US TV show casting

• Stargate Universe's Brian J Smith to guest on Defiance

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Film

• Fox News's Sean Hannity to make film debut in Atlas Shrugged II
• Julianne Moore joins Non-Stop
• Uma Thurman joins Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac
• Matt Damon joins Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem
• Looper director's commentary available to download

Trailers

• Trailer for Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren and James D'Arcy
• Trailer for The Dark Knight Returns Part 2

Books

• JRR Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur to be published

Canadian TV

• Chuck's Vik Patel to star in Satisfaction

French TV

• France 2 adapting Paris Burning?

UK TV

• E4 acquires Nashville, someone acquires The CW's Beauty and the Beast
• Charles Dance, Johnny Vegas, Katy Brand and Jessica Hynes to star in Sky Atlantic's Common People
  
• Tuesday ratings

US TV

• Made in Jersey cancelled
• The first five minutes of season 2 of American Horror Story
• Tuesday's ratings: NBC wins three nights in a row for first time in nine years

US TV casting

• Matt Bomer to guest on The New Normal
• Christie Brinkley to guest on Parks and Recreation
• Ian McShane to appear in American Horror Story
• The Newsroom's Kelen Coleman to guest on The Mindy Project
• White Collar's Marsha Thomason to guest on Men At Work
• Chris Diamantopoulos to guest on Arrested Development and Community
• Hamish Linklater to recur on The Good Wife
• Adam Goldberg to guest on Animal Practice

New US TV shows

• Modern Family's Ty Burrell sells comedy Babble to ABC with his brother
• Ed Brubaker sells Rising Sun to Fox with Kyle Killen, secret agent project to NBC
• ABC buys drama based on James Patterson's Michael Bennett
• Hollywood Assistants blog to become CBS comedy
• ABC to adapt Australia's Strange Calls paranormal cop comedy
• NBC to air failed Munsters reboot as a Halloween special?

New US TV show casting

• Kim Raver to star in Lifetime's The Secret Lives of Wives
• Law & Order's Jesse L Martin and Revenge's James Tupper to star in NBC's The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
• Miley Cyrus leaves Bonnie & Clyde mini-series
• The Closer's Jon Tenney to star in TNT's King and Maxwell
• Eric Dane to star in TNT's The Last Ship
• Page Keller joins ABC Family's Terminales
• Molly Shannon to guest on Hannibal

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Film

• Christian Bale joins American Bullshit
• Katee Sackhoff joins 'female Expendables'
• Nate Parker joins Non-Stop
• Tom Hiddleston joins Joanna Hogg's London project

Trailers

• Trailer for David Chase's Not Fade Away
• Clip from Skyfall

International TV

• Russia to adapt Prisoners of War

UK TV

• Blinkbox acquires The Newsroom
• 'Lost' Blackadder script found
• Red Dwarf X gives UKTV third biggest audience ever

US TV

• Jim Rash to write episode of Community
• Touch pushed back to mid-season
• Thursday ratings: 30 Rock returns lower than Community, Elementary down 16%, Last Resort down 18%
• Friday ratings: ABC wins, Made in Jersey falls 27%, Grimm steady

US TV casting

• Brie Larson to guest on Community
• Sentinel reunion as Richard Burgi to recur on Body of Proof

New US TV shows

• NBC orders pilot for Joe & Joe & Jane…
• …and buys Tommy Johnagin relationship comedy
• Elizabeth Banks sells female comedy to CBS, duo sell romantic comedy to Fox
• CBS working on Bad Teacher TV series
• Bob Daily and Mark Gordon sell drama to ABC
• Chuck creators sell Midnighters to Fox
• Michael Cuesta and Carol Mendelsohn sell detective drama to CBS
• NBC adapting The Slap
• Saving Grace's Nancy Davis adapting telenovela Teresa for ABC

New US TV show casting

• Natasha Lyonne, Pablo Schreiber and Michael Harney join Orange Is the New Black

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