Film

• Doug Liman to direct film about Attica uprising
• Al Pacino to replace Robert De Niro on Son of No One
• BBC making a movie about Seb Coe and Steve Ovett
• Jeffrey Wright joins Duncan Jones' Source Code
• Gwyneth Paltrow joins Contagion

• Joanna Lumley, David Hyde Pierece and Mark Rylance to star in La Bête

British TV

• BBC to launch mobile phone apps
• Merlin gets an iPhone app…
• …as does Freeview
• One-stop video on demand service SeeSaw launches with BBC, C4 and Five content

• Pilot casting, including Scrubs' Donald Faison on The Odds
• Steven Spielberg's Nine Lives moves from SyFy to NBC after four years in limbo
• History Channel to make its own version of Top Gear?
• Better Off Ted's Jay Harrington joins Nathan vs Nurture
• Courtney Thorne-Smith to recur on Two and a Half Men
• The CW goes action with Nomads from Numb3rs producer Ken Sanzel
• NBC picks up Friends… with Benefits
• More pilot casting, including Primeval's James Murray on Chaos
• Eugene Levy joins Hitched
• Poppy Montgomery and Marc Blucas join True Blood
• Taryn Manning joins Hawaii Five-O
• Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl and Supernatural get renewed
• Lost ratings down to 9.8m
• 24 hits series low
• Paul Blackthorne to recur on CSI: Miami
• Elisabetta Canalis to recur on Leverage

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Film

• Guy Ritchie pulling out of Lobo for Sherlock Holmes 2?

British TV

• BBC4 to have a maps season
• S4C to launch digital children's service

US TV

• ABC greenlights crime drama
• The top names of the TV pilot season: Julianne Moore, Maria Bello, Christina Applegate, Matt Dillon and Jason Isaacs
• CBS picks up dramas and comedy from HIMYM creators and Brett Ratner
• Castle gets all-time high, Heroes picks up, 24 continues to drop in the ratings…
• …and Damages starts badly for season 3
• Who's coming and going at Brothers and Sisters? [spoilers]
• House spin-off still on?
• Supernatural to have a Ghostfacers web series spin-off
• Conan O'Brien's production company sells a pilot to NBC
• Vampire Diaries-Gossip Girl crossover?
• Apple trying to cut iTunes prices for SD episodes to $0.99
• Caprica starts poorly in the ratings

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Doctor Who

• Fox planning to make US version of Torchwood

Film

• (500) Days' Marc Webb to direct Spider-Man trilogy
• Andrea Arnold to direct Wuthering Heights
• Paranormal Activity 2 to get Saw 6 director

British TV

• Beeb to run a multi-platform science season

French TV

• ITV Studios sets up a French arm

US TV

• Fox, CBS and ABC pick up pilots
• ABC picks up two medical pilots as well
• And NBC picks up a comedy pilot
• Summit planning TV series based on movie Push
• Life Unexpected does well, Chuck and 24 ratings drop, Heroes falls to new low in ratings
• Billy Baldwin to guest on Gossip Girl [spoilers]
• A character returns to Smallville [spoilers]

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Film

• The A-Team teaser trailer
• Gossip Girl's Blake Lively to co-star in Green Lantern
• Another trailer for Kick Ass
• Trailer for From Paris With Love
• Remakes of Robocop and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes shelved
• John Malkovich joins Red

Theatre

• Jeremy Irons returning to the RSC for The Gods Weep

US TV

• Jeremy Irons to star in The Borgias
• Maz Jobrani to star in Funny in Farsi
• Day One cut back to a two-hour movie
• NBC greenlights six drama pilots…
• …considers Law and Order: Los Angeles…
• …after moving Jay Leno from primetime…
• …but what's going to happen to Heroes, Chuck, Trauma, Mercy et al?
• ABC greenlights Scoundrels based on NZ series Outrageous Fortune
• CBS cancels Three Rivers
• A sixth season for Supernatural?
• …and a tenth for Smallville?
• Someone's coming back to Chuck [spoilers]
• Dana Carvey to develop and star in new Fox comedy show
• Alexis Denisof discusses his supernatural pilot for ABC/ABC Family
• Moonlight to return?

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Film

• Pierre Morel to direct Dune
• Rosemarie DeWitt joins Earthbound
• Sandra Bullock becomes biggest female star
• Gossip Girl's Sebastian Stan joins Apparition
• Noel Fielding to star in Paddington Bear
• Denzel joining Will Smith in Uptown Saturday Night remake?

British TV

• Being Human gets a third series
• ITV to remake The Crystal Maze with Amanda Holden?

US TV

• New promo for 24 – day 8 [video, US only]
• TV One acquires Martin Lawrence's sitcom Love That Girl
• NBC orders Adam Carolla sitcom pilot
• The Wire's Pablo Schreiber joins FX's Lights Out
• ABC picks up crime drama pilot 187 Detroit
• James Van Der Beek joins Mercy as a recurring
• Heroes most pirated show of 2009
• NBC has 18 pilots in the works

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Film

• Director found for 47 Ronin
• Simon Baker acquires rights to Breath
• The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel acquired
• Sam Worthington to star in American Criminal

British TV

• BBC thriller The Silence to star profoundly deaf actress
• BBC3 commissions comedy pilot centered on pub

US TV

• Brooke Shields to guest on The Middle
• Heroes ratings drop again
• V ratings drop again
• Kiele Sanchez, Carlos Gomez land roles in Sugarloaf
  
• Hilary Duff leaving Gossip Girl?
• More original Melrose Place characters to return
• Aaron Sorkin working on another behind-the-scenes TV show

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Film

• Sam Lavender to become head of development at Film4
• Matt Damon, Josh Brolin to star in True Grit remake?
• Ron Livingston joins cast of Dinner for Schmucks
• Keira Knightley to star in My Fair Lady remake
• Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire to star in The Third Man remake

Theater

• Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson to star in A View From the Bridge

British TV

• BBC to cut Scottish radio stations to make room for Freeview Gaelic channel?
• Yet, BBC to auction off under-used Freeview streams
• Peep Show goes out with 1.41m viewers

US TV

• Microsoft pulls out of Family Guy sponsorship
• James Van Der Beek to guest on The Forgotten
• White Collar starts with 5.4m viewers
• George Clooney's Elvis-impersonating cop show Delta Blues gets greenlight from TNT
• Sherri Saum to recur on Gossip Girl
• Elizabeth Banks and Chazz Palminteri to guest on Modern Family
• Promos for season eight of 24

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Doctor Who

• David Tennant's Hamlet to air on Christmas Day

Film

• Robert de Niro and Jude Law join Thor?
• Jackie Earle Haley to play the villain in Green Lantern?
• John Ashton to return to Beverly Hills Cop franchise?
• What's up with Deadpool, Wolverine 2 and Magneto
• Laura Dern joins Little Fockers

Theater/Theatre

• Alan Rickman's production of Strindberg's Creditors to run in New York
• Eoin Colfer to write swing musical

British TV

• TVCatchup comes to the iPhone
• Press pack for Minority Report-ish Paradox
• Amanda Burton to join Waterloo Road
• Tories to 'rip up' Royal Charter

Canadian TV

• Canwest launching a new channel

US TV

• Ratings: 30 Rock down 27% on last year, FlashForward recovers and more
• Victoria Beckham to appear on Gossip Girl?
• Two networks looking at Southland
• Fox picks up comedy Rehab
• Simpsons contest lets fans create new character
• Sarah Michelle Gellar's HBO pilot dead?
• Elisabeth Moss to guest on Mercy

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Film

• Uma Thurman to star in Ceremony
• Unique acquires screenrights to paranormal romance Shiver
• Jessica Alba to join cast of third Meet the Parents movie?
• Another Thomas the Tank Engine movie planned
• George Clooney to star as an assassin in The American
• James Purefoy and Mark Strong to join John Carter of Mars?

British TV

• Primeval to get two more series thanks to co-production deal
• Sci Fi acquires V, Eastwick and Hard Target
• FlashForward gets 3m viewers
• Billie Piper to star in BBC1 adaptation of A Passionate Woman
• Andrew Davies attacks BBC downmarket drama
• Everyone with Freeview: get ready to retune

• Jason Priestley to star in Meet Phil Fitz

US TV

• Trailer for SyFy's The Phantom mini-series
• Monday night ratings tanked
• Trailer for SyFy's Riverworld
• CBS planning a Criminal Minds spin-off
• Robot Chicken gang to make animated series for Fox
• Kevin Zegers joins Gossip Girl
• Californication and Dexter hit ratings highs

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Doctor Who

• John Barrowman talks about meeting Matt Smith

Awards

• The results of the Emmys

• Fox picks up vigilante angels drama Fallen
• Matt Damon to star as Liberace's lover
• Trailer for Michael Caine's Harry Brown
• Disney Studios head Dick Cook stands down

British TV

• Reggie Perrin likely to get second series
• Launch of ITV1+1 delayed
• Star says Demons axed because "it wasn't good enough"
• Brian Cox and Lindsay Duncan to star in The Sinking of the Laconia
• Indies to shoulder the burden of ITV compliance

Czech TV

• Prima TV to remake Cold Feet

US TV

• Desmond Harrington returning to Gossip Girl
• Andrew Connolly joins Heroes

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