Film

• Warner Bros and Fox make deal over Watchmen

Books

• Ructions at Asterix HQ

Art

• Exhibition of rare Constables at the National Portrait Gallery
• Czechs apologise to Bulgaria over toilet depiction
• Bacon portrait 'Man in Blue VI' likely to get £6m

Theatre

• Complicit premiere postponed

British TV

• Deadline of March for Gavin and Stacey scriptsd

US TV

• The Office and 30 Rock renewed, plus future NBC scheduling plans
• NBC looking to Bryan Fuller to rescue Heroes, fourth season still probable…
• …sees quality, cutting edge shows as way to rescue itself…
• …it won't cut back on pilots …
• …and it still has hopes for Lipstick Jungle
• Krod Mandoon clips and interviews
• Hugh Bonneville likely to join Legally Mad
• Four more cast members for Stargate: Universe
• Fox and CBS pick up Maggie Hill, Human Target and Tick Tock, while TNT orders five new episodes of Leverage
• Drop Dead Diva picked up by Lifetime
• CBS's plans for John Mayer, Moonlight's Alex O'Loughlin and the NCIS spinoff
  
• Rhea Seehorn to join James Van Der Beek in Eva Adams
• Eddie Falco guesting on 30 Rock
• Last episodes of Pushing Daisies, Dirty Money and Eli Stone postponed until summer
• Bye, bye Lana?
• Ashley Jensen not quitting Ugly Betty

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Doctor Who

• Torchwood to air in summer simultaneously on BBC1 and BBC America
• John Barrowman to write Torchwood comic with his sister

Film

• Danny Elfman to score Terminator: Salvation

British TV

• Flight of the Conchords's Kristen Schaal's Penelope: Princess of Pets to be turned into Channel 4 pilot
• BBC1 director urges Channel 4 and Five to merge

US TV

• Two regulars leaving Ugly Betty
• Moonlighting reunion film being planned?
• First night of 24 does well in ratings
• TNT picks up Ray Romano drama
• Hilary Duff to star in HBO's Barely Legal
• Clip from Damages season two
• 18-49 demographic not so appealing any more

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Film

• John Singleton quits The A-Team
• Trailer for Friday The 13th remake
• McG to direct Dead Spy Running
• Harold Perrineau to exec and star in Case 219
• Crispin Glover joins Alice in Wonderland
• Irvine Welsh to write film about Scottish rappers
• Steven Soderbergh to direct Cleopatra - with Catherine Zeta and Hugh Jackman?
• Trailer for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
• What's going on with Buck Rogers?
• Stephen Chow helping to rewrite Green Hornet
• Chris Columbus to direct Ripley's Believe it or Not!?

British TV

• Public fund to save ITV Wales
• Virgin messed up Watch's launch
• ITV axes Imagine innovation arm
• Clip from new series of Spooks
• BBC to adapt Andrea Levy's Small Island
• Stephen Merchant up for extra Extras, too

US TV

• Gary Cole joins Entourage as a regular
• CBS moving Gary Unmarried into Worst Week's slot
• Lindsay Lohan kicked off Ugly Betty

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Doctor Who

• A chance to win a trip behind the scenes, plus the title of the Christmas special
• RTD turned down George Lucas

Film

• Billy Crystal joins The Tooth Fairy
• Bruce Willis to make his directorial debut
• Unbreakable 2?
• Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine to join Scarlet Johansson's Brilliant?
  

Art

• Edvard Munch's 'The Vampire' to be auctioned

Music

• A Kinks reunion?
• One-off show for the Killers to launch new album

• American Psycho: The musical!
• Sunday openings for all London theatres?

British TV

• Matt Lucas and David Walliams back UK version of Will Ferrell's Funny or Die comedy web site
• Lipstick Jungle premiere gets 198,000 viewers on Living
• Second series of Shaun the Sheep commissioned
• Final episode of The Wire gets just 36,000 viewers
• Amanda Donohoe and Maxwell Caulfield join Emmerdale
• Channel 4 to fire staff, cut budgets
• What's this? An original ITV drama? No it's Britannia High

US TV

• Promo for Little Britain USA
• Heroes' ratings down 25% on last year
• TNT commissions a crime micro-series to air during Law & Order
• Lisa Kudrow to star in web series for Lexus
• Karate kid Ralph Macchio to appear on Ugly Betty

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Film

• Trailer for The Spirit

British TV

• ITV2 commissions drama Trinity…
• …and cancels Jordan's chat show

Australian TV

• Big Brother cancelled

US TV

• Fringe episodes will be 50 minutes long
• The first of the Heroes webisodes [video, US only]
• Christina Ricci joining Saving Grace for three episodes
• Crash won't be depressing or about race much
• Christopher Gorham leaving Ugly Betty
• Casting for Valentine Inc, plus Dexter and The Unit

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Doctor Who

• More information on next year's specials

Film

• A trailer for Max Payne
• Jon Favreau will direct Iron Man 2

British TV

• UKTV rebranding its non-Dave channels to Watch, GOLD and Albi
• BBC secures lifetime rights to Heroes
• Friends' Adam Chase talks about writing Clone for BBC3
• BBC2's Autumn highlights
• RDF launches a comedy downloads site

US TV

• New cast members for Ugly Betty, Heroes and Damages
• Scott Bakula to star opposite Ray Romano in Men of a Certain Age
• New pilots ordered by HBO, including projects from David Simon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Martin Scorsese
• And HBO announces Fall premiere dates for True Blood and Little Britain USA
• ABC willing to rip off foreign formats?
• Guest appearances on Criminal Minds and Psych for Jason Alexander and Justine Bateman
• BBC America will censor Skins

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Doctor Who

• Little Dorrit to feature Freema Agyeman as well as Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones
• Daleks get their own street sign

Film

• Common joins Terminator 4
• Ellen Page to play Jane Eyre

British TV

• ITV HD to launch soon
• BBC commissions Chris Langham-inspired drama
• Stewart Lee finally gets his own BBC2 show
• Meera Syal's new sitcom

US TV

• Men in Trees cancelled
• Casting for Caprica and Warehouse 13
• Katee Sackhoff turned down as Jorja Fox's CSI replacement
• David Kelley may be leaving Life on Mars as it nears pick-up
• Ugly Betty hires Lindsay Lohan and may move to New York

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Doctor Who

• David Tennant to propose marriage to first person who leaves a comment on this blog entry before midday
• DT 'informally committed' to series five
• A Gareth David-Lloyd interview
• Four different DW Radio Times covers

Film

• Scott Bakula to star opposite Matt Damon in The Informant
• Brad Pitt goes Amazon shopping

Comics

• Who owns Superman?

Theatre

• Kevin Spacey has a go at BBC1 talent shows

British TV

• Cranford returning for Christmas

US TV

• What's up on Supernatural this season (and next) [minor spoilers]
• Jay Leno turns down Top Gear hosting gig for fear NBC will ruin it
• Sleeper Cell creators to head up probable Eleventh Hour series
• William Petersen will be returning for the next season of CSI
• Ray Romano to do an hour-long drama pilot for TNT
• Season four of The Unit still likely
• ABC unveils summer schedule
• Eddie Cibrian to join Ugly Betty
• Ioan Gruffudd and Robin Tunney, among others, cast in pilots

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Doctor Who

• Rusty unveils his 20-year plan and what UNIT now stands for
• Peter Davison talks Big Finish, Time Crash and about his daughter

Film

• Ben Affleck acquires rights to The Blade Itself
• The Mummy 4 is definite. Probably
• Bryan Singer working on Superman Returns sequel still
• Wolfgang Petersen to direct sci-fi resistance movie Uprising
• Paramount acquires rights to Monster Zoo
• St Trinian's director planning Dorian Gray adaptation

British TV

• BBC launches comedy college

US TV

• John C McGinley says Scrubs is definitely on ABC now
• Ratings not so good for new Fox shows
• Fox drops FBI series
• Aussie fan Josh Lawson gets the lead in Spaced remake
• Arrested Development creator working on animated sitcom for Fox
• Britney Spears' guesting in How I Met Your Mother causes Alicia Silverstone to leave and be replaced by Sarah Chalke
• Ugly Betty showrunner signs seven figure deal to stay
• Wire stars have secured funding for a movie - but David Simon doesn't have a script

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Film

• Remake of The Birds with Naomi Watts planned

Music

• U2 reissuing 'The Joshua Tree' for 20th anniversary

British TV

• Myleene Klass leaving The One Show
• James Nesbitt to play journalist in ITV1 conspiracy thriller
• Dermot Murnaghan leaving the Beeb for Sky News
• ITV Factual looking for voluntary redundancies
• ITV could face £70m fine over premium phone cheating
• Beeb announces cuts, including Bill Oddie shows and £10m from BBC3
• BBC staff ready to strike

US TV

• SciFi green-lights Revolution pilot
• Private Practice, The Big Bang Theory and The Unit all get full-season confirmations
• Complete Daily Show archive now online while Jon Stewart agrees to host until at least 2010
• Bionic Woman ratings dropping
• Toni Collette to star in Spielberg's The United States of Tara
• Dean Cain talks Smallville
• The Wire to focus on Baltimore Sun
• John Travolta and Kirstie Alley to cameo together in Ugly Betty

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