Happy fourth of July weekend!

Film

• Nimrod Antal to direct Predators

Commercials

• Dominic West, Greg Wise and Dan Stevens to read from novels for coffee ads

Theatre

• Minimum wage will 'destroy fringe theatre'

British TV

• Robin Hood axed
• Freeview to take on BSkyB over HD with Freeview+
• History Channel to rebrand as AETN UK
• No revival of Don't Wait Up
• SciFi picks up second season of Dollhouse
• Bravo to try to woo female audiences
• Martina Cole's The Take gets 608,000 viewers
• Press pack for BBC2 finance drama Freefall
• Hulu to launch in September in the UK

Canadian TV

• HBO launches on iTunes

US TV

• Paula Abdul to guest on Drop Dead Diva

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Film

• BBC Films picks up rights to the forthcoming Ordinary Thunderstorms
• Oh surely not. Universal wins movie rights to Atari's 'Asteroids'

• Catcher in the Rye 'sequel' blocked

Theatre

• The Shawshank Redemption moves to the West End
• Jude Law's Hamlet moves to Broadway

British TV

• SciFi acquires Legend of the Seeker
• ITV1 ratings slump to all-time low
• CSI: Miami gets best ever ratings

US TV

• Someone's making a comeback in Supernatural [spoilers]
• Hilary Duff joining Gossip Girl
• A Moonlight movie?
• Callum Keith Rennie joins 24
• Christian Slater to replace Rupert Penry-Jones on The Forgotten?
• Options kept on four pilots
• Piper Perabo to star in USA's Covert Affairs
• Rocky Carroll to appear on both NCIS and NCIS: LA

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Doctor Who

• John Barrowman annoyed by Torchwood episode cut

Film

• What wasn't in Star Trek
• Amy Adams to star in The Fighter?
• Trailer for Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying
• Unstoppable stopped?
• Trailer for Gamer

• John Simm, Ian Hart and Kerry Fox to appear in Speaking in Tongues
• Gareth Gates to star in touring Les Mis

US TV

• Promos for season three of Mad Men
• Showtime cancels Brotherhood
• Mental's Chris Vance to appear in four episodes of Burn Notice [spoilers]
• Virtuality gets rubbish ratings
• Greg Garcia heads for Fox
• Drea de Matteo joins Desperate Housewives

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Doctor Who

• Rusty talks about Torchwood and Doctor Who [spoilers]
• Another Torchwood trailer

Film

• An American Werewolf in London remake?
• How Marvel's The Avengers movie is going to work
• Trailer for vampire movie Daybreakers
• Trailer for Earhart biopic Amelia

Theatre

• Rain Man to go on tour with Neil Morrissey
• Alan Cumming to play the Green Goblin in Spiderman musical

British TV

• Last of the Summer Wine back for six episodes
• Ofcom report says Sky needs to offer its movie and sports channels to other providers
• Mighty Boosh to split?

US TV

• An extra episode for Lost
• Bones to shoot more episodes in the UK
• Supernatural finds its devil - on Lost
• Heroes to get more complicated?
• Missy Peregrym to co-star in Copper
• TJ Ramini joins 24
• What was the German's/the triplets' storyline originally on Heroes?

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Doctor Who/Torchwood

• Spoilers for series five?
• Series four of Torchwood ready to go?
• Extended trailer for Torchwood series three

Film

• Prepare to snivel. Trailer for The Time Traveler's Wife
• Casting for John Carter of Mars
• Frost/Nixon writer to write next Bond movie
• Rare British comedies returned to BFI

Theater

• Bonnie Langford to make her Broadway comeback
• Evan Rachel Wood back on as Mary Jane in Spiderman musical

British TV

• Kröd gets 1.8m viewers
• Big Brother averages 2.7m viewers
• BBC Scotland to make three new comedy series

US TV

• 50 Cent to cameo in Entourage?
• Nurses angry with Nurse Jackie?
• Clips from Melrose Place, The Beautiful People and Vampire Diaries
• What's planned for the new Futurama
• House most popular show in the world?
• Mad Men not selling well
• Chuck could return early and with more episodes

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Doctor Who

• Cardiff Bay to get The Torchwood Experience?

Film

• Mission: Impossible IV still happening?
• Trailer for indie romcom with Zooey Deschanel 500 Days of Summer
• Seven Golden Vampires to be remade?

Theater

• Jonny Lee Miller to star with Sienna Miller in After Miss Julie

• BBC stars to take pay cuts
• BBC3 to start at 3pm?
• BBC4 to have a Scottish season
• Mitchell and Webb can Playing Shop, plan rewrites

US TV

• Michael Shanks to guest star on Sanctuary
• Heroes writers signed up for two year deal
• 2.8m unprepared for digital switchover
• Rob Buckley replaces Brian Austin Green on One Tree Hill
• House premiere to run to two hours and new characters for The Mentalist and Dexter [spoilers]
• What the next season of Lost is going to be like [spoilers]
• More returning characters on Lost?

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Awards

• Results of the Tony Awards

Film

• Ben Bova's Immortality Factor to be adapted
• Liam Neeson to play Hannibal, Bradley Cooper to play Face in The A-Team?
• Kirsten Dunst back for Spiderman 4

East European TV

• In Treatment to be remade in Romanian, Hungarian, Czech and Polish

British TV

• Channel 4 closing down download version of 4oD and putting all back catalogue up for streaming
• Primeval ends with 4.3m viewers
• Ashes to Ashes gets final series
• Press pack for moon season, which includes lots of James May
• Sir Alan wanted to hire both Kate and Yasmina but the producers wouldn't let him
• £25m fund needed to safeguard ITV Wales

Canadian/German TV

• Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland to star in Pillars of the Earth

US TV

• Kathy Bates, Tim Curry and Colm Meaney to star in updating of Alice in Wonderland
• BSG's Katee Sackhoff to be a regular on 24
• My Name is Earl to continue on TBS?

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Doctor Who

• Season five to be split in two?

Film

• Javier Bardem to star in Eat, Pray, Love with Julia Roberts?
• Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway to reunite for Love and Other Drugs
• Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave to star in Letters to Juliet
• Neil Patrick Harris to co-star in Beastly

Theatre

• Kevin Spacey to star in Inherit the Wind at the Old Vic

US TV

• Clips from Stargate: Universe
• Dominic Monaghan to star in unspecified ABC show – not Lost
• Another room-mate for Claire in Heroes
• Gilles Marini to appear on Brothers and Sisters
• Royal Pains and Burn Notice do well in the ratings
• William Fichtner among cameos in Entourage

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Doctor Who

• Lawry Lewin gets role in Christmas specials

Film

• Jack Nicholson to play Paul Rudd's dad instead of Bill Murray?
• Stretch Armstrong: the movie
• Kurt Wimmer to write Total Recall remake script
• Emile Hirsch to star in modern day version of Hamlet
• Paul Haggis to remake Pour Elle as The Next Three Days
• Robert Luketic to direct Barbarella remake?
• Brian Blessed joining cast of Thor?

Theatre

• Sanaa Lathan joins James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad and Adrian Lester in all-black cast of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

British TV

• jPod coming to Virgin Media
• BBC1 boss rules out US acquisitions
• Government to fund a food show
• Welsh language actors to get pay cut?
• BBC pissed with S4C after Ofcom submissions

Canadian TV

• CTV picks up Vampire Diaries
• CBC to be sold off?

US TV

• Tim Kring lets everyone know the set-up for Heroes next season [lots of minor spoilers]
• Californication's Madeline Zima joins Heroes
• Gregg Henry joins Hung, Courtney Ford joins Dexter
• USA to pick up pilot for spy thriller Covert Affairs?
• Hannah Montana gets a fourth season
• Images from Virtuality
• Important Things with Demitri Martin gets a second season
• Zac Efron cameos in Entourage

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Doctor Who

• New trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Gareth David-Lloyd to direct student play

Film

• Trailer for New Moon
• Danny McBride to play supervillain's henchman in Hench…
• …and will be joined by Natalie Portman in Your Highness
• Lucy Punch replaces Nicole Kidman on Woody Allen movie
• Alien remake to be a prequel
• Toy Story 3 teaser trailer
• Die Hard prequel comic planned

Theatre

• June Brown and Jerry Hall join Calendar Girls

British TV

• BSkyB bidding £160m to buy Virgin Media's TV channels?
• Pam Ferris to play Smithy's mum on Gavin & Stacey
• Sarah Beeny has a new show
• David Suchet filming four new Poirot episodes

US TV

• How Pushing Daisies was supposed to end [spoilers]
• Chuck to have webisodes over summer [spoilers]
• Mykelti Williamson to run CTU on 24
• Sarah Chalke's Maneater could become a series

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