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Film

Angelina Jolie to direct Unbroken

Film casting

Katey Sagal joins There’s Always Woodstock
More Walk of Shame casting
Jackie Chan joins Expendables 3

Trailers

Trailer for Identity Thief with Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy

Comics

DC loses rights to The Spirit, Doc Savage and Avenger

UK TV

Monday ratings

US TV

Monday ratings: Gossip Girl up for finale, 1600 Penn starts well
Game of Thrones to have extra-long episodes

US TV casting

Anthony Ruivivar and Annie Monroe to recur on Southland
David Faustino to guest on Modern Family
Robbie Jones to guest on 90210
James Callis to guest on Arrow
Tippi Hedren to guest on Cougar Town

New US TV shows

Starz developing drama about the birth of hip-hop
Fox developing sibling comedy starring Natasha Lyonne
Trailer for Vikings

New US TV casting

Lacey Chabert guests on Baby Daddy

Tuesday’s “Vin Diesel is Kojak, Ghost Ghirls and another horrendous Carrie Diaries trailer” news

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Doctor Who

New titles and theme tune for Christmas special

Film

Skyfall writers scripting Kojak for Vin Diesel

Film casting

Josh Hutcherson joins Paradise Lost
Samuel L Jackson joins Kite

Trailers

New Star Trek 2 trailer
Smurfs 2 trailer
Trailer for No, with Gael Garcia Bernal [US only]

International TV

Joan of Arc novel The Maid to be adapted

UK TV

Saturday ratings
IT Crowd special to air in summer 2013
Casting on Psychobitches

US TV

Sunday ratings: Dexter and Homeland beat records

New US TV shows

Ben Stiller sells You’re Not Doing It Right and Between Two Kings to ABC
Greg Daniels sells tennis pro comedy to Fox
Jack Black working on Ghost Ghirls web comedy
New Carrie Diaries trailer

New US TV show casting

Steve Harris joins Legends
Kevin Bishop and Kelen Coleman join Super Fun Night, plus Hot Mess casting
David Zayas to guest on The Following

Monday’s “Absolutely runion, US Brit TV adaptations and Spartacus trailer” news

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Film casting

Mireille Enos, Scott Speedman join Ryan Reynolds in Queen of the Night

Trailers

Trailer for I Give It A Year with Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall, Anna Faris, Simon Baker and Olivia Colman
Trailer for Parker with Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis et al
Trailer for Allen Hughes’ Broken City with Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones

Radio

Absolutely reunion being planned

UK TV

C4 launches 4oD app for Windows 8
Thursday ratings

US TV

Trailer for Spartacus: War of the Damned
Amazon launches instant video app

US TV casting

Abby Elliott to guest on Happy Endings
Beth Grant to return to The Mindy Project as a regular
Thursday ratings
Saturday ratings

New US TV shows

Trailer for A&E’s Bates Motel
Trailer for Adult Swim’s Newsreaders
ABC working on Justin Bieber sitcom…
…orders pilot of How The F Am I Normal
AMC orders series based on C4’s Low Winter Sun
Fox adapting BBC’s Linda Green
NBC developing The Fosters
HBO orders pilot of Lorimer…
…picks up People In New Jersey

New US TV show casting

Amber Valletta, Rob Mayes and Tina Majorino join TNT’s Legends
Lizzy Caplan too busy to be a SHIELD regular
Rob Benedict to guest on The Mentalist

Friday’s “More Psychobitches, USA’s ‘transhuman’ drama, and cancellations and renewals” news

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Film

Cary Elwes to direct biopic about The Who’s manager

Film casting

Dylan McDermott joins Mercy
Bobby Moynihan joins Delivery Man
Sheridan Smith joins Powder Room
Amber Heard joins Three Days To Kill
Garrett Hedlund returning for Tron 3

Trailers

Final trailer for Zero Dark Thirty

UK TV

Sky Arts orders full series of Psychobitches
BBC2 hoping to air archive shows during the daytime
Sky 1 ratings down [subscription required]
C4 reducing its commissioning budget [subscription required]
Watch acquires Do No Harm
CBS Drama joins Virgin

US TV

Retired at 35 cancelled
Three more episodes for Whitney
A second season for The Soul Man and a third season for The Exes
OWN orders Tyler Perry drama and comedy series
Wednesday ratings: everything’s down

US TV casting

Adam Brody to recur on House of Lies
Ashley Benson to guest on How I Met Your Mother
Rosie O’Donnell to guest on Smash

New US TV shows

HBO developing Laughs Unlimited
USA developing ‘transhuman’ mystery DarkNet

New US TV show casting

Kelen Coleman joins Super Fun Night

Thursday’s “Gillian Anderson to guest on Hannibal, MTV acquires Underemployed and a Southland teaser” news

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Film casting

Peter Fonda joins The Harvest
Penn Badgley and Hill Harper join Parts Per Billion
Johnny Depp joins Transcendence

Trailers

Trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim
Trailer for GI Joe: Retaliation
Trailer for Haunting in Georgia
Clip from Freeloaders, with Olivia Munn

International TV

Unit One with Mads Mikkelson out on DVD on 21st January in the UK

UK TV

MTV picks up Underemployed
Angus Deayton joins Waterloo Road

US TV

Teaser for season 5 of Southland
Hell on Wheels finds a new showrunner
Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Sandra Vergara to guest on CSI
Billy Campbell, Brent Sexton and Michelle Forbes out of The Killing (if it happens)

New US TV shows

John Leguizamo developing ABC comedy based on his life
ABC developing The Returned

New US TV show casting

Margo Martindale joins The Americans
Gillian Anderson to recur on Hannibal

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Monday’s “Absolutely runion, US Brit TV adaptations and Spartacus trailer” news

Friday’s “More Psychobitches, USA’s ‘transhuman’ drama, and cancellations and renewals” news

Thursday’s “Gillian Anderson to guest on Hannibal, MTV acquires Underemployed and a Southland teaser” news

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