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Wednesday’s “Eternal Law not eternal, Sheridan Smith is Mrs Biggs and Israeli Homeland in the Sky” news

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Film

Michael Fassbender to star in Ridley Scott’s The Counselor

British TV

Sheridan Smith to star in Mrs Biggs with Ashes to Ashes‘ Daniel Mays
Eternal Law cancelled
Sky Arts acquires Israeli progenitor to Homeland, Prisoners of War

US TV

Walking Dead gets 6.9m viewers
Robert Englund and Juliet Landau to guest on Criminal Minds
Ashley Tisdale to star in CBS comedy
Milo Ventimiglia to star in LA Noir
Titus Welliver to star in Midnight Sun
Dichen Lachman joins Last Resort
Jeanne Tripplehorn to guest on New Girl
Monday ratings: Smash and Alcatraz drop, other shows rebound

Tuesday’s “Orlando Bloom to star in Zulu, Lucy Lawless in Top of the Lake and HBO’s Girls” news

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Jim Caviezel to star with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Tomb
Orlando Bloom and Djimon Hounsou to star in Zulu

Radio

David Schneider to star in Births, Deaths and Marriages

British TV

Martin Csokas to star in Sky Atlantic’s Falcón: The Blind Man of Seville
Call The Midwife most successful new BBC1 drama series for over 10 years
Francesca Annis and Alfred Molina to star in Victoria Wood’s Loving Miss Hatto
Lucy Lawless joins Top of the Lake

US TV

Trailer for HBO’s Girls
Spike cancels Blue Mountain State
Vampire Diaries‘ Taylor Kinney joins Chicago Fire
House‘s Peter Jacobson joins Ray Donovan

Monday’s “John Leguizamo is US Del Boy, Matthew Perry joins Good Wife, and Steve Coogan is Paul Raymond” news

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Steve Coogan, Anna Friel and Imogen Poots to star in King of Soho
Adrianne Palicki joins Coffee Town
Michael Fassbender working on Cuchulain story
Kyle Chandler joins Kathryn Bigelow’s hunting Bin Laden movie
Dean Parisot to direct Red 2
Kevin Durand and Lukas Haas to star in Dark Was The Night

Radio

David Tennant and Emilia Fox to star in Love Virtually

British TV

Last Hustle watched by 5.3m
Jennifer Saunders to star in Sharon Horgan’s Dead Boss
Vision TV adds foreign channels to Internet-connected Freeview HD boxes [subscription required]

US TV

Mad Men season 5 teaser trailer
Friday ratings
Why have the ratings been lower this week?
Anthony LaPaglia to star in Americana
John Leguizamo to star in Only Fools and Horses
Matthew Perry to recur on The Good Wife
Sharon Osbourne and Henry Winkler to guest on Up All Night
Donald Sutherland joins Living Loaded, Life Unexpected‘s Austin Basis joins Beauty and the Beast + other pilot casting
Prime Suspect‘s Brian O’Byrne joins Gilded Lilys
Mary McCormack to star in ABC comedy pilot
Perfect Couples‘ Hayes MacArthur to star in Rebounding

Thursday’s “Ali Larter is The Asset, Black Canary cast, Valentine’s ratings disasters and Archbiship Desmond Tutu” news

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Forest Whitaker to play Desmond Tutu
Michael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan to star in Joss Whedon’s In Your Eyes
Meryl Streep to play Julia Roberts’ mother in August: Osage County

British TV

Coup adds Gina McKee, Charles Dance, Rupert Graves and Sylvestra Le Touzel to cast
More Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

Canadian TV

Ratings for the week of the 6th

US TV

Netflix working on Orange Is The New Black
Michaela Watkins joins Prairie Dogs…
…as does House‘s Kal Penn
Rescue Me‘s Steve Pasquale joins Do No Harm
Terry O’Quinn to star in 666 Park Avenue
Zeus be praised! Ali Larter to star in The Asset
Katie Cassidy to play Black Canary on Arrow…
…to be joined by Susanna Thompson and Willa Holland
Heroes‘ Dania Ramirez to star in Devious Maids
Valentine’s ratings: Cougar Town returns to all-time low, Ringer drops 40% to series low, The River drops 29%
HBO buys 44th Street
Paget Brewster leaving Criminal Minds again
Shameless‘s Zach McGowan promoted to series regular
Mimi Kennedy joins Judy Greer comedy pilot

Wednesday’s “Hannibal Lecter: the TV series, Jonny Lee Miller is Sherlock Holmes and Smash drops 29%” news

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Trailer for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Trailer for remake of Pusher with Richard Coyle
Michael Rosenbaum to direct and co-star in Old Days

British TV

Whitechapel rises to 5.8m viewers

US TV

Shawn Ashmore joins Kevin Bacon/James Purefoy serial killer show
Jonny Lee Miller to play Sherlock Holmes in Elementary, plus other pilot casting
Hannibal Lecter series Red Dragon gets picked up to series, Notorious gets a pilot
Allison Janney to guest on The Big C
Regis Philbin and Joan Rivers to guest star on Hot In Cleveland
Monday ratings: Smash down 29%
The Daily Show‘s John Hodgman to guest on Community

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Wednesday’s “Eternal Law not eternal, Sheridan Smith is Mrs Biggs and Israeli Homeland in the Sky” news

Tuesday’s “Orlando Bloom to star in Zulu, Lucy Lawless in Top of the Lake and HBO’s Girls” news

Monday’s “John Leguizamo is US Del Boy, Matthew Perry joins Good Wife, and Steve Coogan is Paul Raymond” news

Thursday’s “Ali Larter is The Asset, Black Canary cast, Valentine’s ratings disasters and Archbiship Desmond Tutu” news

Wednesday’s “Hannibal Lecter: the TV series, Jonny Lee Miller is Sherlock Holmes and Smash drops 29%” news

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