Doctor Who
- Matt Smith not off
Film
- Anne Hathaway to produce and star in Three Days of the Condor-esque Puzzler
- Sequel planned for Dumb and Dumber
- Alice Cooper joins Dark Shadows
- New Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol promo
- Sean Penn to direct Robert de Niro and Kristen Wiig in The Comedian
- David Tennant, Joanna Page and Sheridan Smith start shooting Nativity 2 [subscription required]
Theater
- Ethan Coen writing stage comedies
British TV
- 3m HD Freeview boxes sold
- Cosgrove Hall resurrected
- BBC4 to lost history and science programming [subscription required]
- ITV commissions Ian Rankin drama from Stephen Fry’s production company [subscription required]
- Being Human team working on female-oriented comedy-drama about witches [subscription required]
Canadian TV
- Primeval spin-off to be darker and scarier
US TV
- White Collar‘s Marsha Thomason to guest on 2 Broke Girls
- NBC spending $100m on developing shows
- FX buys Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management
- True Blood‘s Kevin Alejandro and Grant Bowler to guest on GCB (aka Good Christian Belles)
- 24‘s Sarah Clarke to guest on Nikita
- Lou Diamond Phillips to guest on Southland
- ABC buys CIA comedy drama from Silvio Horta and Will Gluck
- The Mentalist‘s Eric Winter to star in Scent of the Missing
- Wednesday ratings: Happy Endings up 17%, Suburgatory up 10%…
- …American Horror Story up, too
- Dan Lauria to star in TBS’s Sullivan and Son