Doctor Who

• David Tennant to do Karate Kids narration
• Billie Piper and David Tennant to star in Love On The Murder Mile

Awards

• The results of the Oscars
• The results of the Razzies – surprising overlap with Oscars

Film

• Midnight Run 2 will happen
• New Iron Man 2 trailer  

• Sleepless in Seattle: the musical

US TV

• Scott Foley joins True Blue, plus other pilot casting
• Kathy Bates to star in Kindreds?
• Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar to star in Franklin & Bash
• Worst Week's Kyle Bornheimer joins CBS pilot
• Fringe gets a third season
• The Office, Community and 30 Rock all get another season each
• NBC to pick up 24 if Fox doesn't?
• House re-runs to include extra footage

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Doctor Who

• Titles for the first three episodes of the next series

Film

• Kathy Bates and Whoopi Goldberg join Earthbound
• Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko to star in Terrence Malick pic
• A sequel for Enchanted?

British TV

• Caprica starts with poor ratings

US TV

• Lost ratings go up for the first time
• Gary Cole to star in Uncle Nigel
• Big Love gets a fifth season
• CBS picks up Rob Riggle comedy pilot
• Sarah Chalke to star in Freshmen
• Caprica ratings down, Spartacus ratings up
• Rob Lowe to join Criminal Minds spin-off?
• Lost's Cynthia Watros joins House as… [spoilers]

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Doctor Who

• Sophie Okonedo to appear in episode two of the new series [spoilers?]
• Bill Nighy to guest star in Richard Curtis's episode
• David Tennant to play Craig Murray in Radio 4 play

Film

• Orlando Bloom to star in The Good Doctor
• Next Bourne movie to be a prequel?
• International trailer for Clash of the Titans
• House's Olivia Wilde to star with Daniel Craig in Cowboys & Aliens?

British TV

• Gavin & Stacey helps iPlayer soar on Virgin [subscription required]
• Being Human dips below 1m

US TV

• CBS greenlights two pilots
• Matthew Broderick to star in Beach Lane
• ABC picks up It Takes A Village
• Heroes' Tim Kring to receive 2010 Pioneer Prize
• Andy Samberg to guest on Parks & Recreation

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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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Film

• A sequel to Four Brothers?
• Kevin Spacey to star in Inseperable
• Trailer for Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer
• Bryan Cranston joins John Carter of Mars
• Trailer for James Purefoy's Ironclad
• Ivan Reitman to direct Ghostbusters 3

British TV

• Beeb to cut some long-running dramas?
• Bravo picks up Leverage
• Survivors gets 4.5m viewers

US TV

• Casting on Ben Stiller's pilot The Station
• Ben Schwartz joins Undercovers
• Rob Zombie to direct an episode of CSI: Miami
• A returning character on House [spoilers]

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Film

• Stephen Norrington to write and direct WW2 film The Lost Patrol
• Peter Sarsgaard to play the villain in Green Lantern?
• Vera Farmiga and Michelle Monaghan sign up for Duncan Jones' Source Code
• Paul Rudd and Zach Galifinakis to star in Angel comedy Will
• Chris Rock to remake La Premiere Etoile
• Mannequin remake being planned
• Trailer for remake of Chloe with Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore
• Peter Serafinowicz to play Paul McCartney in remake of Yellow Submarine

British TV

• Hugh Dennis to replace James May on Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure? [registration required]
• Law & Order watched by 5.6m viewers
• Glee does well, too
• iPlayer now available on Freesat

Canadian TV

• Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald to make half-hour 80s nostalgia comedy for Canwest

US TV

• Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star in JJ Abrams' Undercovers
• ABC Family renews Secret Life of the American Teenager and Make It Or Break It
• Matthew Perry's Mr Sunshine pilot greenlit by ABC
• Modern Family, Cougar Town and The Middle renewed by ABC
• Dana Delany to guest on Castle
• David Strathairn to guest on House
• Take a tour of the new CTU from 24
• Chuck does well, Heroes does badly on Monday
• A teaser trailer for HBO's Treme
• Writers for Being Human announced

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Doctor Who

• Waters of Mars gets 9.1m viewers

Film

• Universal acquires TMI for Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris
• Anna Faris to play Robin Williams' daughter in Wedding Banned?
• Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano join Thor?
  
• Captain Nemo stops production

Theatre

• Hair returns to the West End
• Abi Titmuss to play Lady Macbeth

US TV

• Trailer for HBO/Spielberg/Hanks's Pacific
• WGBH acquires ITV1's Collision
• Amanda Tapping to guest again on Stargate Universe
• Orlando Jones to play Foreman's brother on House
• Buffy: the webisodes
• Mad Men's Abigail Spencer joins Rex is Not Your Lawyer
• Lorraine Bracco joins Rizzoli
• The Prisoner gets 2.2m viewers
• Mandy Patinkin gives Three Rivers highest ever ratings
• Kevin Murphy replaces Jane Espenson as Caprica showrunner

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In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, NBC

Time for a third-episode verdict on "Jerry Bruckheimer's Casualty" aka Trauma. After an opening episode that made it hard to spot the wheat (most of the writing and characters) from the chaff (the colossal, ridiculous explosions and accidents), Trauma settled into a second episode that did more or less the same thing again - but with fewer explosions.

Episode three, however, was a far better beast. There's still the Casualty/House gambit of setting up an obvious accident then substituting a less obvious accident later on - in the world of Trauma, the obvious accident is the mysterious arrival of a car from nowhere which then ploughs through pedestrians/the wall of a house/whatever.

But the whole episode was considerably less over the top and gave us a kind of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead view of a typical police drama: while the exciting hostage negotiation is going on, we found out what the paramedics have been up to the whole time and they're pretty impressive, as it happens.

The third episode also saw the characters begin to work dramatically for me. Until now, they've just really been types and case studies, but they're starting to becoming more real now. Cliff Curtis's chopper pilot is still the most interesting character (although not necessarily for the right reasons), although Anastasia Griffith's promiscuous but authoritative lead paramedic comes a close second. The others need work, but are getting there.

I'm very tempted to keep watching, now the writers are getting on with telling stories rather than establishing the characters, but it's not engrossing enough that I'm guaranteed to. In all likelihood, I'll give up. But it's good enough that I'm split on the decision.

Carusometer rating: 2
Rob's prediction: Very expensive (c$3m per episode) so liable to get cancelled very soon. But better than Mercy and a lot of the other new dramas, so deserves more of a chance at life than them.

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Film

• Chris Pine to play Jack Ryan?
• Trailer for The Expendables
• A Millennium movie without Chris Carter?
• Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis to make film about double suicide
• Screen rights acquired to Rashida Jones' Frenemy of the State
• Justin Long joins The Conspirator
• Gary Ross moves from Venom to Matt Helm
• DJ Caruso to direct Chris Pine in The Art of Making Money

Theatre

• Nigel Harman to star in Public Property

British TV

• ITV to sell bonds, but not SDN
• FlashForward ratings holding up

US TV

• Gilmore Girls creator writing dramedy for HBO
• Trailer for Friday Night Lights
• Heroes up, House down
• Burn Notice writer creating undercover investigator pilot for Fox
• ABC wins Matthew Perry's pilot
• Benjamin Bratt to guest star on Modern Family
• Todd Stashwick to guest on Heroes

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As you may have guessed, I've been watching quite a bit of tele this week and you should have seen the result in a big wodge of reviews. However, on top of this I've also seen:

• Accidentally on Purpose: Episode 2, which was truly dreadful so I've given up on it. E4 viewers steer clear of it when it arrives on our scene
• The Vampire Diaries: Episode 2, to which I can only say, ditto.
• Hank: review later
• The Middle: review later
• The Fixer: Little bit daft, but interesting to see MMA on a mainstream UK show
• Supernatural: As excellent as always, and nice to see Hector off The Unit getting a job as an archangel
• House: weird. No instant reset button. A good twist at the end, too (although I did see it coming). No longer can House be accused of being formulaic
• CSI: Miami: back to insulting our intelligence. I knew it couldn't last longer than a week
• Community: last week's was absolutely sensational, with an ending as well written as 30 Rock. It's really must-see TV already
• Mad Men: I played catch-up (not seen Sunday's though), but the last-but-one episode was excellent

So I've still got a big pile of programmes to watch as you can probably tell. Any I should avoid?

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