Doctor Who/Torchwood
- It’s RTD OBE now
- Which evil genius might that be (spoiler alert)
- Russell T to write one of the new Torchwood episodes
- John Barrowman to be a judge on Canada’s How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
- Gareth David-Lloyd trying to crack Hollywood
Awards
- Winners of the Monte Carlo TV festival [free registration required]
- John Pilger’s War on Democracy wins Best Documentary at One World Media awards [free registration required]
Theatre
- Kevin Spacey to teach theatre at Oxford
Film
- Eva Mendes to star opposite Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant
- The first seven minutes of Wanted
- Aaron Ashmore joins Val Kilmer in The Thaw
British TV
- Maggie Thatcher drama gets BBC4 third highest ever ratings [free registration required]
- Noel Edmonds to ‘mend broken Britain’ for Sky One
- BBC preparing to launch integrated next generation iPlayer [free registration required]
- Chris Morris goes to CERN
- New DVD label for stand-up comics launches, with Stewart Lee as first disk
US TV
- AMC adds more dramas, include adaptation of Carter Beats The Devil, to roster
- Janel Moloney and Patrick Breen to star in Captain Cook’s Extraordinary Atlas
- Life on Mars makes the move to New York
- Jason Bateman makes first-look deal with Fox
- NBC picks up John Wells’ LAPD pilot
- More BSG next season plus TV movie prequel