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Doctor Who

Waters of Mars gets highest ratings ever for the show
Pic of David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Catherine Tate: Nan’s Christmas Carol
Pic of David Tennant and June Whitfield in The End of Time – Part 1

Film

Trailer for Knight and Day with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and some of the supporting cast of Buffy
Trailer for The Wushu Karate Kid
Trailer for Robin Hood
Trailer for Kick Ass
Teaser trailer for Sex and the City 2
Trailer for Gerard Butler/Jennifer Aniston’s Bounty Hunter

Theatre

Legally Blonde musical is a hit

British TV

Tales of Beatrix Potter to be animated
Season four of Heroes to start January 9th on BBC2
Top Gear team urged to lose ‘cartoon characters‘ [registration required]

Canadian TV

Heartland gets a fourth season

US TV

Apple considering TV subscription service with CBS and Disney [registration required]
Nurse Jackie drops a recurring character
Former HBO programming president Chris Albrecht to run Starz
Trailer for Chuck season 3

Tuesday’s cancellations and remakes news

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Doctor Who

Fourth series of Torchwood to be 13 episodes

Film

John Madden to direct My Fair Lady remake?
I Spit on Your Grave to be remade?
Paul Greengrass quits Bourne 4
Tron: Legacy team to remake Black Hole?

Theater

Kelsey Grammer to star in Broadway version of La Cage aux Folles

Books

Jonathan Littell wins the Bad Sex in Fiction award

British TV

Casting on BBC1’s Five Daughters

Canadian TV

Canada looking for more sitcoms
Molly Parker joins Shattered

German TV

ProSievenSat. 1 to sell N24 news channel?

US TV

Barry Sonnenfeld to direct pilot for ABC’s Funny in Farsi
SyFy to make a series based (loosely) on Stephen King’s Colorado Kid
Nicole Richie getting a comedy on ABC
Raising the Bar and Three Rivers cancelled
Heroes‘ Sendhil Ramamurthy and Jane Curtin join Rex is Not Your Lawyer
Prison Break‘s Marshall Allman to join True Blood

Monday’s cartoon McConaughey news

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Doctor Who

The End of Time to air on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day

Books

Borders and Books Etc to close all branches after going into administration

Film

Another remake of The Amityville Horror?
Jim Sheridan talks about I, Claudius and Dreamhouse
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to appear in Woody Allen’s next movie

British TV

Christopher Eccleston to play John Lennon in BBC4 drama
Sky to launch 3D TV channel next spring? (subscription required)
Gavin & Stacey gets 5.63m viewers
BBC looking to cut US shows
Joanna Lumley joins Mistresses

Canadian TV

Callum Keith Rennie to star as MPD cop in Showcase’s Shattered

US TV

The life of Matthew McConaughey’s brother to become a Fox cartoon
Ryan Devlin to recur on Cougar Town
Aunjanue Ellis joins The Mentalist [spoilers]
Lucas Black and Cary Elwes join Epix

Wednesday’s “well it’s one way for STV to make money” news

18 November 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Clip from End of Time to feature in Children in Need on Friday

Film

Jennifer Hudson to star in Winnie

British TV

Screenwipe to return for review of the year
STV sues ITV again – this time for VoD rights
Sky launches Christmas movie channel
Cast on ITV1’s Murder on The Orient
Consortium to provide Wales and Scotland with news on channel 3 to be ready by March
Photos from Gavin & Stacey series 3

Canadian TV

The Listener gets a second season

US TV

The CW orders up another pilot for Global Frequency
Will Arnett to guest on NBC’s Parks and Recreation
Prison Break‘s Amaury Nolasco and Ethan Embry get cast on pilots
Gretchen Mol joins Boardwalk Empire
Jason Lee to star in Delta Blues
Fred Willard to guest on Modern Family

Monday’s “you looking at Odin?” news

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Doctor Who

David Tennant’s Hamlet to air on Christmas Day

Film

Robert de Niro and Jude Law join Thor?
Jackie Earle Haley to play the villain in Green Lantern?
John Ashton to return to Beverly Hills Cop franchise?
What’s up with Deadpool, Wolverine 2 and Magneto
Laura Dern joins Little Fockers

Theater/Theatre

Alan Rickman’s production of Strindberg’s Creditors to run in New York
Eoin Colfer to write swing musical

British TV

TVCatchup comes to the iPhone
Press pack for Minority Report-ish Paradox
Amanda Burton to join Waterloo Road
Tories to ‘rip up’ Royal Charter

Canadian TV

Canwest launching a new channel

US TV

Ratings: 30 Rock down 27% on last year, FlashForward recovers and more
Victoria Beckham to appear on Gossip Girl?
Two networks looking at Southland
Fox picks up comedy Rehab
Simpsons contest lets fans create new character
Sarah Michelle Gellar’s HBO pilot dead?
Elisabeth Moss to guest on Mercy

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