
Because you need it
Doctor Who
- Torchwood goes filming in the Rhondda
- Peter Davison “too tubby” to wear his original costume for Comic Relief
- Mackenzie Crook willing to take over from David Tennant if asked
Film
- Nicolas Cage to become The Wrestler
- Two more Transformers movies on the way
- Screen tests for Justice League under way
Invasive intrusions into people’s personal lives
British TV
- Miller and Armstrong reunite for The Armstrong & Miller Show on BBC1. Casual nudity anyone?
- Anna Maxwell Martin to star in Channel 4 adaptation of Poppy Shakespeare
- BBC works out what to cut
- Celebrity Apprentice returns for Sports Relief
US TV
- Lipstick Jungle recasts: Paul Blackthorne now Brooke Shields’ husband
- David Simon to make HBO series about musicians in New Orleans
- Old people ejected from Jericho
- Al Gough discusses things coming up on Smallville [spoilers]
- First ep of Women’s Murder Club does well in the ratings
- George Lucas looking for writers for Star Wars TV series
- TV Land to stream Andy Griffith, Gunsmoke and Leave It To Beaver
- Parker Posey’s new show cut from 13 to seven episodes
- Patrick Swayze to star in A&E pilot, The Beast, about unorthodox FBI vet. No, not that sort
- Will Smith turning Hitch into a sitcom