Theatre
- Ian McDiarmid to star as Galileo at the RSC
UK TV
- 4oD coming to Sky [subscription required]
- Brian Blessed joins Wizards vs Aliens, which gets a teaser trailer
- Bad Sugar gets a series [subscription required]
- Thursday ratings: The Bletchley Circle beats Good Cop
US TV
- Law & Order‘s Jesse L Martin to recur on Smash
- Carla Gugino to guest on New Girl…
- …Rob Reiner and Jamie Lee Curtis to play Jess’s parents
- Ringer‘s Tara Summers to guest on CSI:NY
- Isla Fisher and Terry Crews to guest on Arrested Development
- Isaiah Mustafa to guest on Nikita
- Human Target‘s Mark Valley joins Body of Proof
- Southland‘s Benjamin McKenzie to guest on Men At Work
New US TV shows
- Jim Gaffigan to star in CBS comedy based on his life
- Jeff Astrof’s Fat, Forty and Fired ends up at ABC
- NBC buys workplace comedy Assistance from Will Ferrell’s production company
- Freddie Highmore to play Norman Bates in A&E’s Bates Motel…
- …Max Thieriot to play his older brother
- Trailer for USA’s Graceland
- Fox picks up FBI drama
- USA orders pilot from Numbers creators based on Elmore Leonard’s When The Women Come Out To Dance
- Maddie Hasson and Kylie Bunbury to star in Socio
- Howard Gordon and Shaun Cassidy sell CIA family drama to Fox
- Jenna Dewan joins Witches of East End
- Annie Potts to guest on Animal Practice
- DC’s Geoff Johns to co-write Huntress episode of Arrow
- Breaking Bad‘s Jonathan Banks to guest on Vegas
- Grace Gummer to recur on Zero Hour