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Tuesday’s “David Tennant & Billie Piper return to Doctor Who, Joanna Page to guest, and a trailer for The Saint” news

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Doctor Who

David Tennant, Billie Piper, Joanna Page and John Hurt all lined up for 50th anniversary special
Eternity Clock sequels cancelled
Matt Smith says he’s staying on for 2014
Bells of Saint John gets 6.18m viewers

Film

Hot Tub Time Machine sequel to start shooting in June
Third GI Joe movie planned

Trailers

Trailer for This Is The End with Seth Rogen et al [NSFW]
Trailer for Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Canadian TV

Orphan Black gets 404,000 viewers

UK TV

BBC Television Centre to be redeveloped as a ‘digital experience’
Thursday ratings
Saturday ratings

US TV

Friday ratings: Happy Endings starts low, Touch goes lower
Sunday ratings: Red Widow hits low
Sunday cable ratings: The Bible gets 13.1m viewers

US TV show casting

Annabella Sciorra to guest on CSI

New US TV shows

A&E green lights: adaptation of Those Who Kill
Cinemax developing adaptation of The Straits
FX developing adaptation of They Marched Into Sunlight
Trailer for The Saint
Teaser for CBS’s Under The Dome

New US TV show casting

Matthew Broderick joins CBS’s Tad Quill comedy
Bess Rous joins TNT’s Murder In The First, Christopher Thornton joins CBS’s The Surgeon General, Matt Long replaces Luke Hemsworth on Lucky 7

Tuesday’s “More Cougar Town, Seth Green is a dad and Debra Messing is a mother” news

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Trailers

Trailer for World War Z with Brad Pitt
UFC’s Georges St-Pierre joins Captain America 2
A new Iron Man 3 TV spot

Canadian TV

John Cassini joins Blackstone

UK TV

BBC1 orders Matt Lucas silent comedy
BBC2 adapting The 13th Tale
BBC Wales and S4C working on multi platform drama PYC
Sunday ratings: Foyle’s War beats Our Girl

US TV

A fifth season for Cougar Town
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time hits a low, Red Widow up

US TV casting

Steve Carell and Billy Crystal to guest on Web Therapy
John Beard to return for Arrested Development
Morena Baccarin to guest on The Good Wife
Kate Danson to guest on CSI

New US TV shows

Showtime’s Penny Dreadful to shoot in the UK [subscription required]
US rights to Canal+’s Hard acquired [in French]

New US TV show casting

Rhys Darby to co-star on ABC’s Keep Calm and Karey On, Rhys Wakefield to be a regular on Bravo’s Rita
Nelson Franklin to replace Robert Buckley on NBC’s Holding Patterns
Kenneth Choi joins NBC’s Ironside remake, Tzi Ma joins NBC’s Bloodline, Erin Pineda joins Fox’s Dads…
…as does Seth Green
Debra Messing to star in CBS’s Mother’s Day
Xosha Roquemore to recur on TV Land’s Kirstie’s New Show

Monday’s “Jamie Bamber in The Smoke, Zeljko Ivanek on Banshee and Robert Redford in Captain America 2?” news

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Film

Ryan Reynolds not interested in Justice League or more Green Lantern at the moment

Film casting

Robert Redford for Captain America 2?

Trailers

Trailer for Hummingbird with Jason Statham

Canadian TV

Erin Karpluk to recur on Saving Hope

UK TV

Jamie Bamber to star in Sky 1’s The Smoke
BBC commissions BBC3 drama strand exclusively for iPlayer
Peter Kay joins BBC1’s Car Share

US TV

ABC Family renews Baby Daddy
New trailer for season 5 of Mad Men
Teaser for season 8 of Dexter
Thursday ratings: Community and 1600 Penn find new lows
Friday ratings: Everyone’s up

US TV casting

Zeljko Ivanek to recur on Banshee
John Noble to guest on The Good Wife
Bethany Joy Lenz to recur on Dexter

New US TV show casting

Jean Smart replaces Jane Adams on NBC’s Craig Robinson comedy
Mercedes Ruehl and Carla Gugino join ABC’s Doubt
William Daniels to return as Mr Feeny on Disney’s Girl Meets World
Zoe Lister Jones joins CBS’s Friends With Better Lives

Wednesday’s “Karl Urban goes back to TV, Alfred Molina goes back to comedy and Sherlock goes for a 4th season” news

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Film

Sony to adapt 70s sitcom Good Times

Film casting

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore to reunite for romcom

Canadian TV

Hugh Dillon to guest on Continuum

UK TV

Sherlock confirmed for a fourth season
BBC4 acquires Arne Dahl and Inspector Da Luca
Monday ratings

US TV

Sunday’s cable ratings
Monday’s ratings
Monday’s cable ratings: Dallas hits season high
Ratings: NBC drops to third place for 2012-2013

US TV casting

Marion Ross to guest on The Middle

New US TV shows

Sundance orders The Descendants [subscription required]
TBS developing Clipsters, Showtime working on servants comedy

New US TV show casting

James Spader to star in NBC’s The Blacklist
Karl Urban and Minka Kelly to star in Fox’s Human
Kristen Schaal to replace Mandy Moore on ABC’s Pulling remake
Louise Lombard to star in The CW’s The Selection
Tom Berenger to star in Fox’s Gang Related
Ann Cusack joins NBC’s Girlfriend in a Coma, John Billingsley joins CBS’s Intelligence
Alfred Molina to star in NBC’s Assistance
Kate Walsh to star in NBC’s Bad Judge?
Skeet Ulrich to star in CBS’s Anatomy of Violence
Kristoffer Polaha joins CBS’s Backstrom, Kelly Hu joins The CW’s The 100
Jason Jones joins ABC’s Divorce: A Love Story, Ryan Eggold joins NBC’s The Blacklist, Anna Wood joins CBS’s Reckless + other pilot casting
Stephen Lang to star in ABC’s Reckless (yes, there are two of them)
Christina Cole to star in CBS’s Second Sight, Kerry Bishe joins AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire
Michael Huisman to star in NBC’s The Sixth Gun
Stella Maeve to star in The CW’s Company Town, Heather Lind to star in AMC’s Turn
Casting on NBC’s Holding Patterns, Believe and Rand Ravich drama
Casting on The CW’s Reign and The 100

Friday’s “90210 cancelled, a Rebecca De Mornay pilot and Lost Girl gets a fourth season” news

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Happy St David’s Day, everyone. Are you wearing your leeks and daffodils?

Films

Joe Wright planning adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean At The End of the Lane
WB planning adaptation of JG Ballard’s The Drowned World

Film casting

Gary Oldman to star in Dawn of The Planet of the Apes
Susan Boyle joins The Christmas Candle
Halle Berry returning for X-Men: Days of Future Past?

Trailers

New trailer for Oblivion with Tom Cruise
Trailer for Erased with Aaron Eckhart

Canadian TV

Lost Girl gets a fourth season

US TV

90210 cancelled
Wednesday ratings: Psych season premiere up…
…Modern Family beats American Idol for the first time

US TV casting

Carol Burnett and Tim Conway to guest on Hot In Cleveland
Jimmy Smits back for Sons of Anarchy
Mary Kay to guest on The New Normal
Dermoy Mulroney to return to New Girl

New US TV shows

Comedy Central green lights: Bad Advice From My Brother
ABC developing How To Survive A Plague mini-series
Full-length Hannibal trailer

New US TV show casting

Will Sasso to co-star in ABC’s Middle Age Rage, Marie Avgeropoulos to co-star in The CW’s The Hundred
Rebecca De Mornay and Nick Westrate to star in NBC’s Hatfields & McCoys, Lincoln Lewis joins ABC’s Venice, Marta Milans joins ABC’s Killer Women
Sophia Bush to star in NBC’s Hatfields & McCoys, Celia Massingham to star in The CW’s The Selection
John Benjamin Hickey to star in The CW’s Blink
Eliza Taylor to star in The CW’s The Hundred
Allison Janney to recur on Showtime’s Masters of Sex
Michael Graziadei to co-star on ABC”s Venice, Enver Gjokaj and Brendan Hines join ABC’s Murder in Manhattan
Beth Riesgraf joins CBS”s Surgeon General, Rafi Gavron and Anisha Nagarajan join Bravo’s Rita
Michael Malarkey replaces Ethan Peck in The CW’s The Selection
Chris Zylka joins NBC’s Bloodline
John C McGinley joins TBS’s The Ground Floor

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Tuesday’s “David Tennant & Billie Piper return to Doctor Who, Joanna Page to guest, and a trailer for The Saint” news

Tuesday’s “More Cougar Town, Seth Green is a dad and Debra Messing is a mother” news

Monday’s “Jamie Bamber in The Smoke, Zeljko Ivanek on Banshee and Robert Redford in Captain America 2?” news

Wednesday’s “Karl Urban goes back to TV, Alfred Molina goes back to comedy and Sherlock goes for a 4th season” news

Friday’s “90210 cancelled, a Rebecca De Mornay pilot and Lost Girl gets a fourth season” news

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