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Monday’s “Community showrunner fired, Ryan Reynolds to be the Highlander? and Jackie Chan quits action movies” news

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Film

Blade Runner 2 to have a female protagonist
Rachel McAdams joins A Most Wanted Man
BBC Films announces its production slate
Simon Pegg to star in Hector and the Search for Happiness
Duncan Jones working on Ian Fleming biopic
Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage and James Earl Jones to star in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Peter Weir to adapt The Keep
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy to star in a cop comedy
Ryan Reynolds to star in Highlander?
Jackie Chan to quit action movies
Elizabeth Banks to star in Alan Ball’s What’s The Matter With Margie?
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska to star in adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Carol

Trailers

Trailer for Hyde Park On Hudson, starring Bill Murray

Theatre

Will Young to star in Cabaret

Canadian TV

Kate Kelton and Southland’s Dorian Missick join Haven

UK TV

Seven new episodes for The Thick of It
Big Bang Theory gets 1.4m viewers
Trailer for Sinbad
Tim Vine quits Not Going Out
Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm to star in Sky Arts’ A Young Doctor’s Notebook

US TV

Lost‘s Harold Perrineau joins Sons of Anarchy
David Guarascio and Moses Port to take over from Dan Harmon on Community…
…after Harmon was fired…
…The cast offer their support
Friday ratings: Grimm finishes up 33%

US TV pilots

Tim Roth working on FX bank robbery drama

Friday’s “NBC and ABC’s renewals, Cougar Town moves and NBC and CBC’s new series” news

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Film

Catherine Zeta-Jones joins Red 2
Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro to star in Agent: Century 21
Rachel McAdams to star in Richard Curtis’s About Time
Robert De Niro joins Last Vegas
Film4 to spend £1m more on developing comedies
David Hasselhoff and Kelly Brook join Keith Lemon: The Movie
David Heyman to adapt Paddington Bear

Canadian TV

CBC unveils 2012-3 season, including Cracked and Titanic: Blood and Steel, as well as the return of Arctic Air

UK/French TV

France’s Canal+ and Sky Atlantic to remake Sweden and Denmark’s The Bridge
Sky Arts orders Psychobitches, with Catherine Tate, Rebecca Front and Sharon Horgan, as well as a full series of Nixon’s the One with Harry Shearer, while Sky Living commissions The Spa by Derren Litten and Gates with Sue Johnston and Joanna Page
Next series of Top Gear postponed until 2013

US TV

30 Rock and Parenthood to return for shortened seasons…
…as will Community
Cougar Town moving to TBS
ABC renews Grey’s Anatomy, Revenge, Modern Family, Once Upon A Time, Castle, The Middle and Suburgatory
DirecTV orders full series of Thandie Newton drama Rogue
Alcatraz‘s Parminder Nagra joins Psych

US TV pilots

Luther creator to write NBC’s Republic of Pirates
NBC orders Do No Harm and Infamous

Thursday’s “Fox renews Touch, cancels Alcatraz & The Finder; plus NBC and Fox’s new shows” news

10 May 2012 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Film

Jon Hamm to star in Million Dollar Arm
Lucy Punch and Derek Jacobi join Of Corset’s Mine
Roman Polanski to direct D, based on the Dreyfus Affair
Dark Blue/Prometheus‘s Logan Marshall Green to play Tennessee Williams in Lonely Hunter
Cameron Diaz joins Ridley Scott’s The Counselor
Rookie Blue‘s Missy Peregrym to star in Anthony E Zuiker’s Cybergeddon

Theatre

Des O’Connor joins The Wizard of Oz

Canadian TV

Murdoch Mysteries to air on CBC instead of Citytv

UK TV

Paula Milne to write The Politician’s Husband for BBC2
Channel 4 orders full series of Ricky Gervais’s Derek
ITV grows in Q1 thanks to production revenue increases

US TV

Fox renews Touch, cancels Alcatraz, The Finder, Breaking In and I Hate My Teenage Daughter
NBC renews L&O:SVU
Happy Endings‘ Gail Lerner joins Animal Practice as showrunner
Cougar Town‘s Josh Hopkins to guest on TBS’s Men At Work
Tuesday ratings: New Girl finishes up 27% on last week, Cougar Town up 15%

US TV pilots

Lifetime adapting Danish crime series Lulu and Leon
Fox green lights Ben & Kate, It’s Messy, The Following, The Goodwin Games and The Mob Doctor
NBC picks up Guys With Kids…
…and Chicago Fire

Tuesday’s “new seasons for The Client List, The Borgias and Southland; and NBC picks up five pilots” news

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Film

Guillermo Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness likely not to happen now
Brendan Gleeson and Abbie Cornish to star in An Ordinary Man
Ray Liotta joins The Devil’s In The Details
Jonah Hill joins Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street

Canadian TV

Bree Williamson joins Haven

UK TV

Homeland finishes with 3m viewers…
…and C4 acquires season two rights
Douglas Henshall to star in Shetland
Lewis‘s Kevin Whately to guest on Inspector George Gently
Thursday ratings

US TV

Judy Greer to guest on Royal Pains
Matthew Lillard to guest on Leverage
James Cromwell joins American Horror Story
Jon Lovitz, Vivica A Fox and Gary Busey to star in Mr Box Office
The Client List gets a second season
The Borgias gets a third season
Southland gets a fifth season
Dish Network to drop AMC
Trailer for season 3 of Pretty Little Liars
Trailer for season 2 of Teen Wolf
Teaser trailer for BBC America’s Copper
Bones: the fake movie trailer
Thursday ratings: Touch and Scandal up, Missing very down
Friday ratings: Fringe, Grimm down
Sunday ratings: Desperate Housewives up a bit…
…while Sherlock gets 3.2m viewers

US TV pilots

NBC picks up 1600 Penn, Animal Practice, Save Me, The New Normal and Revolution
TNT’s Tin Star not going forward

Friday’s “David Cronenberg back on TV, Michael Bay’s Treasure Island TV prequel, Supernatural renewed and the BBC’s new dramas” news

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The Daily News will return on Tuesday

Film

David Tennant to appear in Fast and Furious 6??
Amber Heard joining Machete Kills
Kellan Lutz and Spencer Locke to star in Tarzan
Nick Frost and Olivia Colman join Cuban Fury
Michael Biehn to star in Treachery
Robert Pattinson joins The Rover

Trailers

New trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man
Trailer for End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena
Trailer for The Expendables 2

Theatre

Sadie Frost to star in Touched… Like a Virgin
Bobby Cannavale to star in The Big Knife

Canadian TV

William Shatner to guest star on season opener of Rookie Blue

UK TV

Misfits loses another Misfit
BBC Drama commissions Frankie, The Musketeers, The Lady Vanishes and In The Flesh
Claire Skinner, Clare Higgins and Nicola Stephenson to star in ITV’s Homefront
Comedy Central orders pilot of Big Bad [subscription required]
The Killing (US) returns to fewer viewers than The Killing got on BBC4

US TV

Amazon to start making sitcoms
HBO lost $35m by cancelling Luck
The CW renews Supernatural, Vampire Diaries and 90210
Starz greenlights Michael Bay’s Treasure Ireland prequel
Lost‘s William Mapother to guest on Burn Notice
Community co-showrunners leave
Wednesday ratings: Don’t Trust The B—– up a bit

US TV pilots

Jeff Fahey and David Cronenberg to guest on SyFy’s Rewind
AMC orders pilots for two shows, including Low Winter Sun

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Tuesday’s “new seasons for The Client List, The Borgias and Southland; and NBC picks up five pilots” news

Friday’s “David Cronenberg back on TV, Michael Bay’s Treasure Island TV prequel, Supernatural renewed and the BBC’s new dramas” news

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