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Thursday’s “Weeds cancelled, Jeanne Trippelhorn joins Criminal Minds and Brent Spiner to recur on Warehouse 13” news

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Film

Dermot Mulroney to play Mike Markkula in Steve Jobs biopic

Trailers

Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike [NSFW]
International trailer for Django Unchained

UK TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV

Brent Spiner to recur on Warehouse 13
Big Love‘s Jeanne Trippelhorn joins Criminal Minds
Weeds cancelled
Jacinda Barrett to guest on Suits
Billy Baldwin and Richard Riehle to guest on Men At Work
Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

NBC greenlights Jerry Bruckheimer’s The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives

The UK does understand the word ‘gringos’

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Well, it’s up in Tube stations, so clearly the marketing people behind Casa de mi Padre think the people of the UK understand the word ‘gringos’ – the renaming of Get The Gringo remains a mystery.

Chuck Norris: The Movie

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Would you watch it?

Wednesday’s “Hugh Laurie joins Robocop, Portia De Rossi is a Munster and Yvonne Strahovski joins Dexter” news

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Film

Hugh Laurie to play Robocop villain?

Theatre

Matthew Horne to star in Charley’s Aunt
Sheridan Smith to star in Hedda Gabler
Don Warrington and Gwen Taylor to star in Driving Miss Daisy

Canadian TV

Space orders clone thriller Orphan Black

UK TV

Helen Baxendale and Greg Davies join Cuckoo

US TV

Bunheads starts soft
Bellamy Young promoted to regular on Scandal
Chuck‘s Yvonne Strahovski to recur on Dexter

New US TV shows

Portia De Rossi replaces Mariana Laveno on Mockingbird Lane

Tuesday’s “new Anne of Green Gables, Showtime picks up Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex, and Last Man Standing changes” news

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Film

Gary Oldman and Amber Heard off Motor City
Matt Damon joins The Magnificent Seven
Penelope Cruz confirmed for Ridley Scott’s The Counselor and Pedro Almodovar’s Los Amantes Pasajeros
Chris Hemsworth joins In the Heart of the Sea

Canadian TV

New Anne of Green Gables TV series planned
New Movie Central shows announced, including France 2 co-prod The Heretics

UK TV

US TV

New showrunner…
…and new eldest daughter for Last Man Standing
Sunday ratings
Ashley Tisdale to guest on Sons of Anarchy

New US TV shows

Showtime picks up Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex

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Thursday’s “Weeds cancelled, Jeanne Trippelhorn joins Criminal Minds and Brent Spiner to recur on Warehouse 13” news

The UK does understand the word ‘gringos’

Chuck Norris: The Movie

Wednesday’s “Hugh Laurie joins Robocop, Portia De Rossi is a Munster and Yvonne Strahovski joins Dexter” news

Tuesday’s “new Anne of Green Gables, Showtime picks up Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex, and Last Man Standing changes” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

Life and Beth and Night Sky

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Essex Serpent