• Armie Hammer to star with Tom Cruise in The Man From UNCLE
• Aasif Mandvi joins Million Dollar Arm

Trailers

• Trailer for Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing

• Continuum premiere down with 375,000 viewers

• Trailer for Arte's Odysseus

UK TV

• BBC Wales launches Swansea season

US TV

• Netflix to launch up to 20 original shows in the next two years [subscription required]
• Tuesday ratings
• Sunday cable ratings: Game of Thrones sets another record

• Guillermo del Toro and HBO developing adaptation of Monster
• ABC Family green lights: Terminales as Chasing Life

New US TV show casting

• Nat Faxon to star in Andrew Gurland's comedy pilot

In the US: Fridays, 9pm, Starz
In the UK: Fridays, 10pm, Fox. Starts 19th April

You might have thought the horror that was Torchwood: Miracle Day had ended. There's no more Torchwood, thanks to the series being so poorly received, even the majority of die-hard Torchwood fans couldn't bear any more episodes. Yet like that giant hole in the middle of the Earth, sucking the joy from life in that show's finale, so its legacy carries on.

That legacy is an alliance between BBC Worldwide and Starz aimed at creating yet more dramas as good as Torchwood: Miracle Day - yes, that good - and Da Vinci's Demons is its first bastard offspring. On paper, it might have seemed a good idea, with David Goyer, the co-writer of Batman Begins, crafting a historical fantasy series about the early life of Leonardo Da Vinci. The well known Renaissance polymath, he's popped up in enough shows over the years that he probably deserved a show of his own.

But in practice, it's not. Starz has tried to do historical shows before. It's had huge, deserved success with Spartacus; Magic City may just be nasty but it's a loving recreation of the 1950s Miami at the very least. Unfortunately, rather than aping either of those two shows, it's decided to go the Camelot route and produced a genre-busting show that marries Camelot's sex, nudity, poor action and complete bypass of virtually all history; the BBC's child-friendly but atrocious Merlin, Robin Hood and Bonekickers; the setting and political intrigue of The Borgias; the ridiculous conspiracy theories of The Da Vinci Code; and elements of movies ranging from Batman Begins to Hudson Hawk. Yes, the probably gay Florentine polymath Leonardo Da Vinci is actually a leather-jacket wearing shagger of women, prone to the occasional sword-fight with the local guards, who somehow gets mixed up with the magical secret society that is the Sons of Mithras, all while flying people around in his inventions.

And it's all filmed in Wales with an almost entirely British cast. Be proud. We made this.

• Peter Jackson willing to direct Doctor Who for 1 Dalek
• Matt Smith leaving after Christmas??

• Neil Gaiman returns to Marvel, bringing Angela from Spawn along

Film

• Seth Rogen to direct, produce and star in The Interview by Seth Rogen

Film casting

• Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt, Rebecca Ferguson and Askel Hennie join Hercules
• Gary Oldman joins Child 44
• Maximiliano Hernandez to return for Captain America 2, Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde to star in Endless Love

• New trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness

UK TV

• Sky green lights: Mr Sloane, with Nick Frost, and Yonderland…
• …confirms third series for Moone Boy
• S4C to develop more digital content
• Only one in ten TV drama series directors are women
• Clip from Life Too Short special

US TV

• Wednesday ratings: ABC sitcoms hit lows

US TV show casting

• F Murray Abraham to guest on Elementary
• Nadine Velazquez to be a regular on Major Crimes
• Karen Gillan joins NTSF:SD:SUV::, David Anders joins Necessary Roughness
• Bob Newhart to guest on The Big Bang Theory
• A Mary Tyler Moore reunion on Hot In Cleveland
• Kevin Dunn to be a regular on Veep
• Ana Walczah joins Teen Wolf

• HBO green lights: remake of Getting On
• MTV red lights: Hot Mess
• Hallmark green lights: When Calls The Heart…
• …developing My Gal Sunday, Dead Letters
• Fox pushes: Wild Blue
• Showtime developing remake of Hellfjord
• Teaser for AMC's Low Winter Sun
• First look at NBC's Hannibal

• Matthew Wilkas joins NBC's Undateable
• David Wilson Barnes joins AMC's Halt & Catch Fire
• Mamie Gummer joins CBS's Backstrom, Ashley Williams joins ABC's Keep Calm & Karey On
• Luka Jones joins NBC's Holding Patterns, Tonita Castro joins Fox's Dads

Film casting

• Hayley Atwell returning for Captain America 2
• Peter Dinklage joins X-Men: Days of Future Past

Trailer

• Trailer for The Internship with Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell et al

• Linda Hamilton to guest on Lost Girl

UK TV

• BBC3 to make comedy about Afghanistan soldiers, Bluestone 42…
• …and Morgana Robinson pilot
• Channel 5 on-demand service coming to Windows 8 [subscription required]
• S4C working on more co-productions
• Sky Atlantic acquires Banshee for May premiere
• Sony Entertainment Television acquires season 3 of Community
• Press pack for Channel 4 sitcom The Mimic [great big spoilers]

US TV casting

• Eric Mabius to guest on Scandal
• Nick Gomez to guest on Dexter [spoilers]
• Dog The Bounty Hunter and wife Beth to play themselves on Hawaii Five-0
• Gary Cole to return to The Good Wife

• Trailer for ABC's Red Widow
• AMC developing The Terror
• Reamde to be adapted as TV series
• NBC cuts Camp episodes from 13 to 10

New US TV show casting

• Rupert Grint to star in CBS's Super Clyde
• Dylan McDermott to star in CBS's Hostages
• Mike Vogel to star in CBS's Under The Dome
• JK Simmons joins NBC's DJ Nash comedy
• KaDee Strickland to co-star in NBC's Bloodline
• Mason Cook joins ABC's Spy
• Mark Consuelos joins Amazon's Alpha House, plus other Amazon pilot casting
• Casting on Joe, Joe & Jane

Now, admittedly I'm an outlier, since I do scour the planet's TV schedules, looking for stuff to watch. So to work out whether I'm just unrepresentative or not, today's question is a simple one:

Is there too much good television on at the moment?

As always, answers below or on your own blog?

• Julia Stiles to play Frances Marion in The First
• Jeremy Renner to star in Kill The Messenger
• Mark Duplass joins Mercy and Parkland
• Frank Langella joins Reykjavik

Trailers

• Trailer for World War Z, with Brad Pitt
• Trailer for Somebody Up There Likes Me, with Nick Offerman
• Trailer for Superman Unbound

UK TV

• SyFy acquires Defiance
• S4C to adapt Theatr Genedlaethol dramas
• Wednesday ratings: 1.4m watch Derek

US TV

• Hulu acquires more Prisoners of War
• Wednesday ratings: comedies hit series lows
• Wednesday cable ratings: The Americans gets 3.22m viewers

US TV casting

• Roseanne Barr to recur on The Office
• Michaela McManus and David Cassidy to guest on CSI
• Lily Rabe for American Horror Story – season 3

New US TV shows

• Lifetime greenlights: Witches of East End
• ABC greenlights: Syndicate adaptation Lucky 7
• Teaser for A&E's Bates Motel
• Roseanne Barr developing Roseanne's Nuts for NBC
• Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner developing All Dressed Up and Everywhere To Go for HBO

• Ellen Muth to guest on Hannibal

New US TV show casting

• John Goodman to star in Amazon's Alpha House
• Brenda Song to star in Fox's Seth MacFarlane comedy

• Duncan Jones to direct World of Warcraft

Film casting

• Jessica Chastain joins Miss Julie
• Tom Welling joins Parkland
• Sam Worthington to star in Phillip Noyce's For The Dogs

Trailers

• Teaser for Iron Man 3 Superbowl trailer
• Trailer for Alex Winter's Downloaded

Theatre

• National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations

UK TV

• Two Christmas Mrs Brown's Boys
• S4C funding agreed

US TV

• ABC acquires CTV's Motive
• A whole load of mini-series for ReelzChannel
• How I Met Your Mother gets ninth, final season
• Tuesday ratings: Fox up, NBC way down

US TV casting

• Gerald McRaney to recur on Southland [minor spoilers]
• Melinda Clarke to guest on Vegas [spoilers]
• Kate Micucci to recur on The Big Bang Theory
• Michael Urie to guest on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

• ABC greenlights: Middle Age Rage, Crazy Gene and Sharon Horgan's Bad Management
• Fox greenlights: Gang Related and Graham Yost's Wild Blue

New US TV show casting

• TJ Miller and Thomas Middleditch cast in Silicon Valley
• Merlin's Katie McGrath joins Dracula
• Vincent Laresca to recur on Graceland

Film

• Salt 2 gets a new writer

Film casting

• Ray Liotta joins Uwe Boll's Suddenly
• Michael Shannon and Samantha Morton to star in John McNaughton's The Harvest
• Gillian Jacobs joins Walk of Shame

Trailers

• New trailer for The Lone Ranger
• New trailer for Man of Steel
• Trailer for Welcome To The Punch with James McAvoy and Mark Strong

UK TV

• Some Girls gets a second series
• Sky 1 acquires Revolution
• Morph returns online
• S4C budget for the next two years

US TV

• More episodes for Arrested Development
• Sunday cable ratings: Homeland and Dexter still growing
• Monday ratings: CBS wins for the first time this fall

US TV casting

• Teen Wolf's Colton Haynes to recur on Arrow

New US TV shows

• ABC shelves Weird Desk
• ABC Family developing two Romeo and Juliet dramas
• Lifetime developing modern day Pride and Prejudice Darcy's Town
• CBS buys single mum comedy from Chuck Lorre
• Bravo developing Moguls
• Discovery working on first scripted series, Klondike
• AMC developing period comedy We Hate Paul Revere

New US TV show casting

• James Cromwell to guest on Do No Harm

• Nick Hornby to adapt Wild for Reese Witherspoon

Film casting

• Hailee Steinfeld joins McG thriller

UK TV

• BBC1 and BBC2 factual quota abolished
• Netflix picks up Chuck, Fringe and more
• Katherine Kelly joins Fields of Blood
• Call the Midwife's Christmas special and second series
• Welsh government demands Pobol Y Cwm badgers episode be pulled
• Doug Naylor writing new Red Dwarfs
• BBC to add more original content to the iPlayer

US TV

• Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

• Richard Dean Anderson to guest on Don't Trust The B----
• Seth Rogen and Jeff Goldblum to return to The League
• Regina King to guest on Big Bang Theory
• Richard Karn to guest on Last Man Standing
• Diane Farr to recur on Private Practice

New US TV shows

• ABC to remake BBC2's Vexed [subscription required]
• Fox to adapt Rubí, developing Slaty Fork
• Cinemax developing Kingpin
• CBS orders adaptation of Stephen King's Under The Dome from Steven Spielberg
• Wonder Woman to be (codenamed?) Iris?

Doctor Who

• Details of the Christmas special
• David Tennant back for anniversary special?

Film

• Vincent D'Onofrio and Anton Yelchin to star in Broken Horses

Trailers

• Trailer for The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
• Trailer for Beautiful Creatures, with Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson et al
• Trailer for Now You See Me with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson et al
• Trailer for Admission with Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen et al

Canadian TV

• Five more episodes for Saving Hope

UK TV

• ITV in major rebranding exercise, including renaming of ITV1 back to ITV
• S4C now available throughout the UK on Virgin
• Thursday ratings
• Friday ratings

US TV

• Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue cancelled
• Partners cancelled
• Showtime renews Web Therapy for third season
• Elementary gets two more episodes, Vegas cut by one
• Guys With Kids gets four more episodes
• Hot in Cleveland to have a live episode
• Thursday ratings: The CW down, Elementary up
• Friday ratings: Malibu Country down 41% on first episode

US TV casting

• True Blood's Janina Gavankar to recur on Arrow
• Mykelti Williamson to recur on Touch
• Rebecca Mader to guest on 30 Rock

New US TV shows

• MTV acquires Blackwood series of books
• Lifetime developing Paranormal Housewives

New US TV show casting

• Eddie Izzard to guest on Hannibal

Film

• Saw co-creator James Wan to direct MacGyver
• Fox working on 10 new Marvel comic-book movies

Film casting

• Ali Larter et al join You're Not You
• Anne Hathaway joins Robopocalypse
• Sean Penn to star in Prone Gunman

International TV

• Australia's Redfern Now gets a second season

UK TV

• Filming begins on S4C's Mathias, starring Richard Harrington
• Trailer for A Young Doctor's Notebook with Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe
• John Bishop to write and star in Panto!, with Sheridan Smith and Chesney Hawkes

US TV

• A third season for Girls
• A full season for Nashville
• Malibu Country and Last Man Standing get more scripts
• Hawaii Five-0 to remake Hawaii Five-O episode
• Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time down 23% to series low

US TV casting

• Ernie Hudson to recur on The Last Resort
• Lorraine Toussaint to recur on Body of Proof
• The Partridge Family's Shirley Jones to guest on Cougar Town

New US TV shows

• The CW working on Jane Whitefield, based on Vanishing Act books
• One fewer episode for Do No Harm
• Kesem Al Yam Kineret to be adapted as TV series
  

New US TV show casting

• Mena Suvari and Henry Simmons joins Stalkers
• Matthew Lillard joins The Bridge

• Matt Smith and David Tennant: together at last

Film

• Trey Songz and Taye Diggs join Baggage Claim

Trailers

• Trailer for A Good Day To Die Hard with Bruce Willis
• Trailer for Broken City with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe

UK TV

• BBC1 orders who series of Lapland
• S4C doing bilingual detective series co-production Mathias
• Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran, Darren Boyd and Rebecca Front join Little Crackers
• Sheridan Smith and Johnny Vegas joins BBC1's Mr Stink, now in 3D

US TV

• Pretty Little Liars gets a fourth season
• Childrens Hospital and NTSF:SD:SUV get extra seasons
• Trailers for Cougar Town
• Wednesday ratings: Supernatural steady, NBC comedies up, ABC comedies down

• LeVar Burton and Wil Wheaton return to The Big Bang Theory for Star Trek special
• Jill Scott to guest on Fringe
• Ivan Sergei to guest on Body of Proof
• Vanessa Marcil and Tom Arnold to guest on Hawaii Five-0
• Rutger Hauer joins True Blood

New US TV shows

• Gordon Ramsay's production company moves into drama [subscription required]
• CW picks up post-apocalyptic show The Hundred
• CBS orders pilot of Anatomy of Violence
• Kate Walsh sells comedy to NBC
  
• NBC buys Leisure Club and family show…
• …and a music dramedy…
• …and a marriage comedy from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay
• The X-Files' Chris Carter working on The After
• Sofia Vergara adapting Mujeres Asesinas
• Rob Brydon working on The Valleys for HBO

US TV show casting

• Martin Henderson to star in The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
• Avan Jorgia joins Socio

• BFI to launch online player of 10,000 archive films
• Hilary Swank leaves, Gael Garcia Bernal joins The Dallas Buyer's Club

Trailers

• Trailer for Movie 43 with so many people, I can't list them all
• Trailer for The Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp
• Trailer for Parker with Jason Statham, Michael Chiklis and Jennifer Lopez

Theatre

• Lucy Benjamin joins Hairspray, Mel Giedroyc joins Cinderella

UK TV

• Jimmy McGovern writing Common for BBC1
• Strike Back gets a fourth series
• Channel 4 HD to broadcast in Wales once S4C HD Clirlun stops

US TV

• Strike Back gets a third season
• SyFy and Hulu acquire Primeval: New World
• Trailer for season 2 of American Horror Story
• Tuesday ratings: CBS dominates, New Girl steady, everything else down

US TV casting

• Alex Kingston to guest on NCIS
• Ally Sheedy to return to Psych
• Colin O'Donoghue becomes a regular on Once Upon A Time
• Californication's Pamela Adlon to guest on Parenthood

New US TV shows

• Smurfs writers developing comedy for CBS
• NBC acquires Lost Horizon from M Night Shyamalan and John Glenn
• CBS developing drama about the Surgeon General
• Julia Roberts developing Taming of the Shrew for ABC

New US TV show casting

• Jodi Lyn O'Keefe joins Stalkers
• Ellen Greene to recur on Hannibal

• Chuck's Zachary Levi confirmed for Thor 2
• Joe Cornish to direct Rust
• Fox to reboot Fantastic Four and Daredevil
• Alex Proyas and Mike Mignola to adapt Joe Golem and the Drowning City
• Richard Armitage and Sarah Wayne to star in Category 6
• Tobey Maguire joins Jason Reitman's Labor Day
• Olivia Wilde, Ron Livingston and Jake M Johnson join Drinking Buddies

UK TV

• Lennie James and Jaime Winstone join Run
• S4C to close its HD channel to save money [subscription required]

US TV

• Falling Skies renewed for a third season
• Devon Sawa promoted to regular on Nikita
• Amanda Peet to recur on The Good Wife
• Entire cast of NCIS to return for 10th season
• Pearlena Igbokwe rejoins Bob Greenblatt at NBC to become head of drama development
• TNT and TBS revamp their original programming unit
• Microsoft leaves MSNBC

New US TV shows

• Ike Barinholtz to recur on The Mindy Project
• Spartacus producers working on sci-fi show Incursion and Vlad Dracula with J Michael Straczynski

• Brie Larson joins Don Jon's Addiction
• The King of Soho forced to change its name
• Radha Mitchell joins Olympus Has Fallen

Trailers

• A 13-minute Dark Knight Rises TV special
• A Robocop viral video
• New trailer for Lawless

Canadian TV

• Claudia Black to guest on Haven
• Continuum's Lexa Doig and Eureka's Colin Ferguson to guest on Primeval: New World
• Fiona Conway to be CBC executive director of programming

UK TV

• S4C to commission digital content for the first time
• Comedy Central acquires Anger Management

US TV

• Krysta Rodriguez joins Smash
• Best Friends Forever's Luka Jones joins Up All Night
• Sarah Bolger to play Sleeping Beauty, Jamie Chung to play as Mulan on Once Upon A Time
• Sean Astin, Lauren Holly, C Thomas Howell et al to guest on Alphas
• Ratings: Anger Management down 40% in the ratings…
• …Saving Hope still going down

New US TV shows

• Wass Stevens joins House of Cards, Aaron Douglas joins Hemlock Grove
• Jennifer Lopez developing drama about lesbian couple adopting a teenage girl
• Ringer's Kristoffer Polaha joins Made in Jersey