Doctor Who

• Matt Smith signs on for series seven and 50th anniversary special

Film

• Amber Heard and Dominic Cooper to star in Motor City
• Chris Evans to replace James Franco in The Iceman
• Trailer for Gone, with Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Carpenter

British TV

• Chiwetel Ejofor and Matthew Goode to star in Poliakoff's The Lost Prince
• Kudos to adapt Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans [subscription required]

US TV

• Joanna Garcia to play the Little Mermaid on Once Upon A Time?
• Up All Night gets two more episodes
• Grimm gets a full season, special Thursday episode
• Frances Sternhagen to guest on Parenthood

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Film

• Leslie Bibb, Amy Smart and Ryan Kawnten to star in 7500
• Titans will clash again… again
• Trailer for Underworld: Awakening
• Jason Statham to star in Hummingbird
• Trailer for 21 Jump Street
• Alice Eve joins Decoding Annie Parker

Radio

• Women under-represented in UK radio

Canadian TV

• Ratings for the week of the 24th
• 12 episodes of Saving Hope with Erica Durance and Michael Shanks ordered

US TV

• Charisma Carpenter to recur on The Lying Game
• NBC working on Major Crimes
• Andrew Dice Clay to return to Raising Hope
• Mary Steenburgen to recur on 30 Rock [spoilers]
• Ana Gasteyer promoted to regular on Suburgatory
• Robin Hood's Lucy Griffiths to be a regular on True Blood
• The Black Donnellys's Jonathan Tucker to recur on Parenthood…
• …and Michael Rispoli to co-star on The Manzanis
• The Corrections gets the go-ahead for a pilot
• Alcatraz pauses for reshoots

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Film

• Trailer for Contraband, with Kate Beckinsale and Mark Wahlberg
• Malin Akerman joins Tyler Labine in Cottage Country

Comics

• Now Marvel's rebooting

• Abigail Thaw joins Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour
• Sky Arts acquires The Onion News Network [subscription required]

• InSecurity retooling from spy parody to workplace sitcom

• John Hurt joins Holy Grail mini-series, Labyrinth

US TV

• ESPN sells ABC a sports fan comedy…
• …Lost's Carlton Cuse sells them a spiritual drama…
• …and Barry Schindel sells them a lawyer jailhouse comedy
• Stan Lee to guest star on Chuck
• The X-Files' Chris Carter to write, produce and exec mystery drama for MRC
• House's Michael Weston to guest on CSI:NY
• Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jack McBrayer, Penny Marshall, Andy Samberg and Amber Tamblyn to guest on Portlandia
  
• Melinda McGraw to guest on NCIS [minor spoilers]
• Dean Cain, Eric Roberts and Kristanna Loken to appear on Burn Notice
  
• Rescue Me's John Scurti to guest on House
• Wednesday ratings: Happy Endings returns to series high, Revenge drops 18%, Up All Night down 12%, Free Agents down 23%, Suburgatory gets 9.8m
• Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci sell Wyatt Earp western to Fox, which also buys dating comedy The Good Life
• Parenthood gets another two episodes

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