Film
- John Carpenter to direct The Ward
- Bill Murray and Lucas Black join the cast of Get Low
- Aaron Sorkin to write The Challenge for George Clooney
- Ernest Hemingway biopic on the way
- Rupert Friend, Ioan Gruffudd, Natascha McElhone and Liam Cunningham join The Kid
Art
- Titian painting secured
Radio
- Mark Heap to star as an alien, with Maxine Peake, Paul Ritter and Susan Jameson, in Radio 4 sci-fi play
British TV
- Channel 4 freezes pay and bonuses
- Rafe Spall and Tom Hollander join Aidan Turner, Zoe Tapper and Samuel Barnett in Desperate Romantics
- Prepare for lots of dramas about Africa
US TV
- TNT picks up a second season of Leverage
- CBS gives greenlight to thirtysomething creators’ A Marriage and King of Queens‘ showrunners‘ The Fish Tank…
- …orders a pilot for political drama House Rules
- Super Bowl third most watched US TV show ever
- A sneak peak at The Prisoner