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Film

Trailer for New Year’s Eve
Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel join Danny Boyle’s Trance
Teaser trailer for Battleship
Simon Pegg signs on for A Fantastic Fear of Everything

British TV

The Hour drops to 1.9m viewers
ITV to trial additional pay content online…
…gets revenues of £1.03bn for 1st six months of 2011
Virgin Media grows 3.9%

Canadian TV

Regulator renews licences but requires more home-grown investment

US TV

A SHIELD TV series?
Mike Doyle to recur on A Gifted Man
Jericho‘s Alicia Coppola to guest on Suits
The Unit‘s Max Martini to recur on Revenge
Glen Mazzara signs up as Walking Dead showrunner

Friday’s inadmissible news

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Doctor Who

Karen Gillan to make theatre debut in Inadmissible Evidence
Caroline Skinner joins Doctor Who as producer

Film

Annette Bening to play Kristen Wiig’s mother in Imogene
Oscar Isaac joins The Bourne Legacy
Trailer for Drive
Trailer for Paranormal Activity 3
Escape from New York remake dumped

British TV

S4C announces details of its co-production fund
Barbara Machin adapting Susan Hill’s ghost story The Small Hand for BBC2 and Simon Serrailler’s crime books for ITV
Robert Bathurst joins Wild at Heart
Rick Edwards in Channel 4 Comedy Labs satire
The BBC’s new drama trailer
No firm plans for a second series of The Trip
Public service broadcasters’ spending on original programmes falls 6%

Canadian TV

Ratings for week of July 15

US TV

Heroes‘ Santiago Cabrera to guest star on Covert Affairs
Hot in Cleveland gets season high with 2.4m viewers
Robert Wagner exits Charlie’s Angels
Burn Notice gets digital comic spin-off
Trailer for Dexter – season 6 [spoilers]
New promo for The Ringer
Kenny Johnson joins Prime Suspect
More appalling leaked Wonder Woman clips
Clip from season 6 of Psych
Sundance Channel picks up ITV’s Appropriate Adult with Dominic West

Tuesday’s news

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Doctor Who

Torchwood ratings on a par with Camelot‘s

Film

Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in The Last Stand
Chris Hemsworth to play James Hunt in Rush
Elizabeth Banks joins What To Expect When You’re Expecting
Michael Chiklis to be villain in Jason Statham’s Parker
Trailer for The Inbetweeners
Christian Slater and Adewale Akkinuoye-Agbaje join Bullet To The Head
New trailer for Tintin
Teaser trailer for Sherlock 2

Theatre

Theatres cutting back on actors and shows

British TV

Virgin launches smartphone app for TiVo customers
Trailer for Life’s Too Short

Canadian TV

Flashpoint returns to 1.4m viewers
Rookie Blue picked up for third season

US TV

Watch one minute of the new Dallas
ABC Family renews Melissa & Joey
Better With You‘s Jennifer Finnegan to guest on Psych
Christopher McDonald to be a regular on Harry’s Law
Dylan Baker to guest on White Collar
Callum Keith Rennie joins The Firm

Monday’s “Who re-commissioned JR?” news

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Film

Ray Stevenson to play a villain in GI Joe sequel
Dollhouse‘s Harry Lennix joins Man of Steel
Take That to sing Three Musketeers theme tune
Michael Fassbender joins Brendan Gleeson’s At Swim-Two-Birds

British TV

BSkyB deal stalled
Gillian Anderson and David Suchet to star in BBC1’s Great Expectations
Jesse Armstrong to write an episode of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror
The Killing starts with 2.2m on C4

Canadian TV

Nine more episodes of Lost Girl

US TV

Spike puts Bomb Squad into development
Dallas sequel picked up with original cast members returning
Ion acquires The Border
The Good Wife‘s Karen Olivo joins Harry’s Law as a regular
Lamorne Morris to replace Damon Wayans Jr on New Girl
Michael B Jordan to recur on Parenthood
Life Unexpected‘s Shiri Appleby to appear on Royal Pains

Monday’s “Wonder Joe” news

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Happy Independence Day, American readers!

Film

Adrianne Palicki joins GI Joe 2

Radio

David Warner to play anti-war activist in Radio 4 drama

British TV

BBC considers anti-Twitter leaks clause in contracts
Channel 4 to produce twice as many new dramas this year
Stephen Fry to play God in BBC4 Monty Python drama
S4C to cut £14m a year from its programmes budget, largely through repeats
ITV Player app available for iPhone and iPad
Trailer for The Hour with Dominic West

Canadian TV

Cineflix Media moving into TV drama and comedy

US TV

Are You There, Vodka? ditches three stars
Trailer for ThunderCats
Richard T Jones joins Hawaii Five-0 [minor spoilers]

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