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

• Tom Wilkinson and Isla Fisher join Burke & Hare
• Stargate Atlantis's Jason Momoa to play Conan, Mickey Rourke to play his dad
• New trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine
• Sam Jackson and Josh Duhamel sign up for Sympathy for the Devil
• Robert Pattinson joins Reese Witherspoon in Water For Elephants

Theatre

• Danny Boyle to direct Frankenstein at the National Theatre

British TV

• All-star cast for second series of Moving On, including John Simm and Roy Marsden, with Dominic West directing an episode
• BSkyB forced to sell most of its stake in ITV [subscription required]
• BBC Wales tries to attract indies to its new drama hub [subscription required]
• Fiver picks up Melrose Place, Archer and Burn Notice
• What everyone's been waiting for: the Dragons' Den/Hustle crossover [spoilers]
• The InBetweeners to end after series three?
• More4 picks up The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
• BBC to work on iPhone, Wii et al games for Top Gear and Doctor Who?

• Someone's leaving Brothers and Sisters [spoilers]
• ABC picks up Matadors and True Blue
• TNT picks up all three of its pilots
• Robot Chicken gets two more seasons

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Happy New Year everyone!

Doctor Who

• End of Time - Part 2 most loved by women and older men
• Murray Gold to write series five music and theme
• 10.4m people watch End of Time - Part 2

Film

• English language trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception
• Trailer for Shrek: How To Train Your Dragon
• James McAvoy to play Ian Fleming?
• The Thing prequel to begin shooting in March
• Trailer for Rhys Ifans's Howard Marks biopic, Mr Nice
• Pics from The Eagle of the Ninth

• Life on Mars (US)'s Jason O'Mara to star in Serenading Louie at the Donmar

• Jam and Jerusalem cancelled
• Top Gear most watched programme on the iPlayer
• Day of the Triffids gets 5.6m viewers
• New Year's Eve ratings
• STV to start showing ITV1 dramas again
• BBC claims to generate £7.6bn for Britain
• Beeb in talks to bring back Gavin & Stacey next Christmas…
• …after 8.7m viewers watch the finale
• Hamlet only gets 896,000 viewers

US TV

• Julie Benz to join Desperate Housewives for at least three episodes [spoilers for Dexter]
• Year-end ratings for the cable networks: USA grows audience 15%
• Law & Order gets a 21st season
• Kevin Alejandro joins True Blood
• Casting on Retired at 35
• Catherine McCormack and Stacy Keach to co-star on FX's Lights Out
• Luke Wilson and Diane Ladd to co-star in Laura Dern's Enlightened
• Kim Raver joins Grey's Anatomy full-time

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The Daily News will return in the New Year. You can follow me on Twitter for breaking updates. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Doctor Who

• Waters of Mars gets highest ratings ever for the show
• Pic of David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Catherine Tate: Nan's Christmas Carol
• Pic of David Tennant and June Whitfield in The End of Time - Part 1

Film

• Trailer for Knight and Day with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and some of the supporting cast of Buffy
• Trailer for The Wushu Karate Kid
• Trailer for Robin Hood
• Trailer for Kick Ass
• Teaser trailer for Sex and the City 2
• Trailer for Gerard Butler/Jennifer Aniston's Bounty Hunter

Theatre

• Legally Blonde musical is a hit

British TV

• Tales of Beatrix Potter to be animated
• Season four of Heroes to start January 9th on BBC2
• Top Gear team urged to lose 'cartoon characters' [registration required]

• Heartland gets a fourth season

• Apple considering TV subscription service with CBS and Disney [registration required]
• Nurse Jackie drops a recurring character
• Former HBO programming president Chris Albrecht to run Starz
• Trailer for Chuck season 3

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Doctor Who

• David Tennant to guest host on Absolute Radio

Film

• Stephenie Meyer's adult novel The Host acquired
• The Rock, Samuel L Jackson and Steve Coogan join The Other Guys
• Fast and Furious's Justin Lin to direct Highlander remake
• Dennis Hopper, Scott Caan, Tricia Helfer and JK Simmons join A Beginner's Guide to Endings
  
• Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore join Thor
• Bryan Singer to direct Jack the Giant Killer

• Chas and Dave split up

British TV

• ITV sues STV; STV to sue ITV
• BBC to boost children's and BBC2 drama budgets
• Top Gear to go HD from November
• ITV appoints an acquisitions chief

US TV

• Heroes gets disappointing ratings
• Campbell Scott and Martin Short to join Damages
• Fox working on half-hour medical comedy
• Cast changes at Southland
• Three Rivers' replacement pilot replaced
• Heather Locklear to appear on Melrose Place

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Doctor Who

• No decision yet on Torchwood series four

Film

• Matthew Gratzner to direct UFO remake
• Unstoppable back on – again
• Steve Coogan replaces Robin Williams as Blackbeard
• Len Wiseman to develop and direct Shrapnel
• Trailer for Kate Beckinsale in Whiteout
• Trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

British TV

• Desperate Romantics gets 2.5 million viewers
• Joy. High def Mr Bean for his 20th anniversary
• Setanta EPG slots up for sale
• BBC Wales may be only English-language news option by 2010 (in Wales)
• Top Gear to do The Italian Job in Belfast
• Spending on UK children's shows down 70% at ITV, C4 and Five

Canadian TV

• Canwest commissions pilot of comedy Rise Up

US TV

• Atlas Shrugged to become a mini-series?
• Casting on Hank and Gary Unmarried
• Drawn Together – the movie
• NBC commissions lawyer/family pilot from ER's David Zabel
• Disney to charge for content online

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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

• All 11 Doctors to reunite for Comic Relief??

Film

• Trailer for The Last Airbender

French TV

• French TV dominated by US programmes

British TV

• Top Gear gets 7.1m viewers
• Andy Duncan to stay at Channel 4 for another three years?
• ITV to make Irish policeman drama Single-Handed

US TV

• Ashley Jensen may return to Ugly Betty
• Merlin gets rubbish ratings
• Don't say I didn't warn you: Bryan Fuller leaves Heroes
• Royal Pains' ratings continue to rise

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At last! Top Gear's Stig takes off his helmet to reveal his true identity. Maybe.

I've posted the vid after the jump to avoid spoilers, from, erm, the title of the vid.

Continue reading "The Stig revealed - sort of"

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Look, here's a trailer to prove it:

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