Canadian TV

What stars are earning right now
Nurse Jackie‘s showrunners leaving
First episode of The LA Complex available on Hulu
Smallville/V‘s Laura Vandervoort to guest on White Collar
Dan Futterman and Roger Bart join Political Animals
Grimm‘s Bree Turner promoted to series regular
Angel‘s Amy Acker to guest on Person of Interest
Monday ratings: Gossip Girl up to 1.1m viewers, How I Met Your Mother falls to season low

US TV pilots

Kevin Williamson’s serial killer pilot now called Mastermind
Showtime developing The Angry Buddhist

Thursday’s “CBC job cuts, mad Mad Men ratings, Watson & Oliver 2nd series and a Mummy reboot” news

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The Daily News will return on Tuesday. Happy Easter everyone (in the UK)!

Film

Sebastian Koch and Yulia Snigir join A Good Day To Die Hard
Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson to star in Paul Haggis’s Third Person
And now, a Mummy reboot
True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgard to star in Hidden

Trailers

Trailer for Take This Waltz with Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen

Canadian TV

CBC to slash jobs
Alan Thicke to recur on The LA Complex

UK TV

Watson & Oliver gets a second series
Ratings: Touch up to 600k viewers; Mad Men down 50% on first episode; Game of Thrones opens with 522,000
Sky Go now has 2.5m users
S4C’s 2012 work plan

US TV

Bent dead
Campbell Scott and Brooke D’Orsay to be regulars on Royal Pains
Entourage‘s Emmanuelle Chriqui to recur on The Mentalist [minor spoilers]
1m people dumped cable for Netflix and Hulu last year
Dollhouse‘s Tahmoh Penikett to recur on Castle [minor spoilers]
Being Human‘s Jeremy Carver to replace Sera Gemble as co-show runner on Supernatural

US TV pilots

Body of Proof‘s Jeffrey Nordling joins Malibu Country, Party Down‘s Ryan Hansen joins Louis CK comedy, Penelope Mitchell joins Hemlock Grove
Cougar Town‘s Briga Heelan joins Counter Culture
Bryan Greenberg leaves Greg Berlanti comedy
Greek‘s Martha MacIsaac replaces Brittany Snow on 1600 Penn

Friday’s “Bones renewed, ITV2 orders witches, CBC cuts, S4C to go Danish and Eddie Murphy in Twins sequel?” news

30 March 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Gerard Butler for Motor City?
Eddie Murphy to join Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito for Triplets?

Trailers

Trailer for Alex Kurtzman’s People Like Us, with Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks
Trailer for House at the End of the Street with Jennifer Lawrence

Canadian TV

Canadian government slashes CBC and NFB funding

UK TV

Jeremy Piven confirmed for, Katherine Kelly joins Mr Selfridge
ITV2 orders Switch, starring Lacey Turner as one of four witches, from Being Human makers
S4C to emulate Denmark and create worldwide programming [subscription required]
BBC1 Daytime commissions modern day Nicholas Nickleby [subscription required]

US TV

Bones renewed for eighth season
Elias Koteas to guest on Unforgettable finale
Alex O’Loughlin to only miss one episode of Hawaii Five-0
Chazz Palminteri, Ed Begley Jr and Chris Vance all returning to Rizzoli & Isles
Wednesday ratings: Whitney and Are You There Chelsea? end low, Bent steady
Elizabeth Banks returning to 30 Rock
More House of Cards casting

US TV pilots

L&O:LA‘s Regina Hall joins Martin Lawrence comedy

Friday’s “Hugh Dancy is Hannibal’s Will Graham, Bent broken and a second season for Smash” news

23 March 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Michael Wincott, Toni Collette, Danny Huston and Michael Stuhlbarg join Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho
NSFW teaser for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson
Usher to play Sugar Ray Leonard
Trailer for The Host
The Wire‘s Michael K Williams to play Ol’ Dirty Bastard

Theatre

New boss for the RSC

Canadian TV

A second season for The LA Complex

UK TV

Maryam D’Abo, Geraldine James and Gemma Jones to star in ITV adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s Thirteen Steps Down
Luther to become a movie after third series
UKTV to come to BT Vision
ITV appoints Little Britain producer commissioner for comedy
Eragon‘s Ed Speleers joins Downton Abbey

US TV

Seinfeld‘s Jason Alexander to guest on Two and a Half Men
Nick At Nite picks up Scott Baio comedy Daddy’s Home
Lost‘s Rebecca Mader to guest on Fringe
A returning Burn Notice character [minor spoilers]
Smash gets a second season, loses its showrunner
Ciaran Hinds joins Political Animals
Wednesday ratings: Bent starts terribly
Netflix to save The River?

US TV pilots

Waterloo Road‘s Lucien Laviscount joins Midnight Sun
Jennifer Beals joins Widow Detective
Alyssa Milano joins Mistresses, Amanda Walsh replaces Aly Michalka on Rebounding
Hugh Dancy to play Will Graham in Hannibal

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