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Another clip from The Avengers
Gemma Arterton to star in Wright Girls
X-Men: First Class sequel to shoot in January
Joseph Gordon-Levitt leaves Django Unchained
Community‘s Ken Jeong joins Pain and Gain
BSkyB to invest in British TV movies

Trailers

Trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything with Simon Pegg
Trailer for Oliver Stone’s Savages

UK TV

A fifth series for Horrible Histories
The Fades axed
Saturday ratings: The Voice up to 10m

US TV

Glee, New Girl and Raising Hope all renewed
ReelzChannel acquires XIII
Breaking Bad final season to be split in two
Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Aykroyd to guest on Happily Divorced
Frasier‘s Peri Gilpin to play Ted Danson’s wife on CSI
Jimmy Smits joins Sons of Anarchy
A returning Burn Notice character [minor spoilers]
Thursday ratings: Community down 24% to series low
Friday cable ratings: Magic City starts badly
Sunday ratings
Sunday cable ratings: everything’s steady

US TV pilots

Bent‘s David Walton joins Bryan Greenberg comedy
John Amos and My Name is Earl‘s Ethan Suplee join Martin Lawrence pilot

First clip from The Avengers: Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow

5 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Scarlett Johansson, doing her thing. Some of the distances look off – naughty Joss Whedon – but pretty promising, no? At one point, they might even get Natasha Romanoff to speak Russian…

Top Cat: the movie

5 April 2012 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Who is this aimed at? And will it be called Boss Cat in the UK?

The new Bond girl is Greek

5 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Just thought I’d mention it (her name’s Tonia Sotiropoulou BTW)

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Thursday’s “CBC job cuts, mad Mad Men ratings, Watson & Oliver 2nd series and a Mummy reboot” news

5 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on Tuesday. Happy Easter everyone (in the UK)!

Film

Sebastian Koch and Yulia Snigir join A Good Day To Die Hard
Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson to star in Paul Haggis’s Third Person
And now, a Mummy reboot
True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgard to star in Hidden

Trailers

Trailer for Take This Waltz with Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen

Canadian TV

CBC to slash jobs
Alan Thicke to recur on The LA Complex

UK TV

Watson & Oliver gets a second series
Ratings: Touch up to 600k viewers; Mad Men down 50% on first episode; Game of Thrones opens with 522,000
Sky Go now has 2.5m users
S4C’s 2012 work plan

US TV

Bent dead
Campbell Scott and Brooke D’Orsay to be regulars on Royal Pains
Entourage‘s Emmanuelle Chriqui to recur on The Mentalist [minor spoilers]
1m people dumped cable for Netflix and Hulu last year
Dollhouse‘s Tahmoh Penikett to recur on Castle [minor spoilers]
Being Human‘s Jeremy Carver to replace Sera Gemble as co-show runner on Supernatural

US TV pilots

Body of Proof‘s Jeffrey Nordling joins Malibu Country, Party Down‘s Ryan Hansen joins Louis CK comedy, Penelope Mitchell joins Hemlock Grove
Cougar Town‘s Briga Heelan joins Counter Culture
Bryan Greenberg leaves Greg Berlanti comedy
Greek‘s Martha MacIsaac replaces Brittany Snow on 1600 Penn

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Tuesday’s “Glee, New Girl and Raising Hope renewed, a Frasier reunion and Community hits low” news

First clip from The Avengers: Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow

Top Cat: the movie

The new Bond girl is Greek

Thursday’s “CBC job cuts, mad Mad Men ratings, Watson & Oliver 2nd series and a Mummy reboot” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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