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Film

Ellen Page to direct Anna Faris in Miss Stevens
Justice League to get a rewrite

Film casting

Kristen Stewart and Elizabeth Banks to star in The Big Shoe
Katherine Heigl to star in A Moment To Remember
Sean Pertwee, Colm Meany et al join The Alan Partridge Movie
Jesse Eisenberg and Diane Kruger to star in Midnight Sun

UK TV

Being Human to end after fifth series
Theo Paphitis out of Dragons’ Den
Doon Mackichan to star in Quick Cuts for BBC Four
Dave launches an iOS on-demand app

US TV

Wednesday ratings: Modern Family hits low, Arrow up
Wednesday cable ratings: The Americans down 40%

New US TV shows

CBS greenlights: Jacked Up and two other comedies
TBS greenlights: Do It Yourself
Trailer for BBC America’s Orphan Black

New US TV show casting

Jacki Weaver to star in CBS’s The McCarthy’s
Emma Roberts to star in Fox’s Delirium
James Wolk to co-star in CBS’s Crazy Ones
David Walton to star in NBC’s About A Boy
Miranda Otto to star in NBC’s Rake
Casting on Amazon’s Zombieland

Thursday’s “Doctor Who’s new Susan, John Corbett in NCIS:LA spin-off, Smash tanks and more HD Freeview” news

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Doctor Who

Claudia Grant to play Carole Ann Ford in 50th anniversary special

Film

Pierce Brosnan to star in Craig Ferguson’s Last Man Out
JJ Abrams working on Half-Life and Portal

Film casting

Matt Smith, Christina Hendricks and Eva Mendes to star in Ryan Gosling’s How To Catch A Monster
Jennifer Aniston joins Convention
Colin Firth joins Before I Go

Canadian TV

Ratings for the week ending January 27th

UK TV

Universal Channel acquires Major Crimes
Fox acquires Monday Mornings
Freeview could get 10 more HD channels
Tuesday ratings: The Undateables beats Dallas

US TV

Chicago Fire gets another episode
Monday ratings: Smash tanks – down 71% on last year

US TV casting

Taissa Farmiga returns to American Horror Story
Donal Logue joins Copper
Miguel Ferrer promoted to regular on NCIS: LA
Brooke Langton and John Reardon to guest on Supernatural

New US TV shows

ABC Family greenlights to series: The Fosters and Twisted

New US TV show casting

Ellie Kemper to star in Brenda Forever
Keith David to star in Fox’s Enlisted, Jack McGee joins CBS’s McCarthys
Dave Annable to star in NBC’s Joe, Joe & Jane, Echo Kellum joins Sean Hayes’ NBC comedy
Casting on ABC’s Mixology
David Denman joins CBS’s Beverly Hills Cop
John Corbett and Miguel Ferrer join NCIS: LA spin-off

Wednesday’s “Courtney Cox and Matthew Perry Go On together, Channel 4’s super star dates and Seed fails” news

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Film

Disney planning Star Wars spin-off films

Film casting

Paul Walker to star in new Hitman movie
Jane Levy joins in A Dark Place
Sean Bean joins Jupiter Ascending
Chris Pratt to star in Guardians of the Galaxy
Joseph Fiennes and Morena Baccarin to star in The Unholy
Gillian Anderson to star in Our Robot Overlords

Canadian TV

Seed starts poorly

UK TV

Sheridan Smith, Katie McGrath, Will Mellor et al to star in Dates
A second series for Cuckoo?
Stewart Wright joins Love and Marriage
4oD launches on Android
Monday ratings

US TV

An extra episode for Castle
Monday ratings: HIMYM and Carrie Diaries hit season highs, The Following down
Monday cable ratings: Monday Mornings and Dallas low

US TV casting

Courtney Cox reunited with Matthew Perry on Go On
Steve Aoki to guest on Arrow
Aimee Garcia promoted to regular on Dexter

New US TV shows

CBS greenlights: legal soap Reckless

New US TV show casting

Casting on Fox and ABC comedies…
…including James Caan
Kevin Pollak joins Beverly Hills Cop
The Originals casting
Aisha Hinds joins Under The Dome
Brooke Smith to recur on Ray Donovan

Tuesday’s “Blair Underwood is Ironside, Robin Williams returns to TV and no more Good Cop” news

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Films

Renny Harlin to direct Hercules 3D

Film casting

Colin Farrell joins Solace
Kristen Wiig joins Anchorman 2
Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson to star in The Book Thief
Bruce Greenwood joins Queen of the Night

UK TV

ITV remaking Thunderbirds
No second series for Good Cop
Friday, Saturday and Sunday ratings…
…with Being Human getting 731,000 viewers

US TV

Trailer for season four of Community
Sunday ratings: Elementary flops post-Superbowl

US TV casting

JK Simmons to guest on Parks and Recreation

New US TV shows

ABC greenlights: John Leguizamo comedy
NBC greenlights: Ironside remake with Blair Underwood
CBS greenlights: Anatomy of Violence, Intelligence and Crazy Ones, with Robin Williams

New US TV show casting

Edwin Hodge joins CBS’s NCIS: LA spin-off
Casting on NBC’s Sean Hayes pilot and HBO’s Masters of Sex
Jeffrey Tambor to star in Amazon’s The Onion Presents

Monday’s “Iron Man and Star Trek trailers, more NCIS, more pilots and Do No Harm flops” news

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Film casting

Samuel L Jackson joins Kite
Emily VanCamp to star in Captain America 2?
Johnny Depp to star as Whitey Bulger

Trailers

Trailer for Iron Man 3 (plus extended trailer)
Trailer for Oz: The Great and the Powerful
Trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness
Trailer for Neil Jordan’s Byzantium
Trailer for Spring Breakers [NSFW]

UK TV

ITV picks up 1960s gynaecologists drama Breathless
Keeley Hawes and Liz Smith to guest on The Tunnel, plus other Tunnel casting
Thursday ratings

US TV

NCIS gets an 11th season
Do No Harm gets record-breakingly low ratings
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV casting

Odette Annable to recur on New Girl
Kyle MacLachlan to return to How I Met Your Mother
Lee Majors to recur on Dallas

New US TV shows

CBS greenlights: adaptation of Second Sight
ABC greenlights: Divorce: A Love Story, based on Life Isn’t Everything
Amazon greenlights: Betas
Showtime redlights: Chew
Trailer for Under The Dome

New US TV show casting

Victoria Smurfit joins NBC’s Dracula
Casting on The CW’s The Originals
Casting on HBO’s Silicon Valley
Kevin Dunn to recur on HBO’s True Detective
Anna Gunn to star in Bravo’s Rita
Rob Riggle to star in Fox’s The Gabriels
Recasting on The Gates: Aasif Mandvi and Justin Chon out

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