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Shiloh Fernandez to star in Evil Dead remake
Katherine Heigl to star in Face Blind
Sharon Stone to star in Tony Kaye’s Attachment
Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall to star in thriller
Viola Davis joins Beautiful Creatures

British TV

BBC1 commissions series based on PG Wodehouse’s Blandings, starring Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders
S4C lobbies for investment in online-only content [subscription required]
Midsomer Murders gets more than 6m viewers

US TV

Munsters remake to be called Mockingbird Lane
Lost‘s Ken Leung joins Sarah Silverman comedy
ABC Family renews The Secret Life of the American Teenager, picks up new Baby Daddy
Jamie Bamber to star in Chelsea General
TV Land renews The Exes
FX developing comedy starring Dana Gould
NBC orders JJ Abrams/Eric Kripke’s Revolution
Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan to star in Masters of Sex

Thursday’s “Kevin Bacon in Fox series, Kata Mara in House of Cards remake, Showtime renews Shameless, House of Lies, Californication” news

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Film

Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasilkowska to star in Richard Ayoade’s The Double
Damian Lewis joins Romeo and Juliet

British TV

Prisoners’ Wives get 4.9m viewers

US TV

Barbara Hershey to guest on Once Upon A Time [spoilers]
Chris Klein comes to Franklin & Bash
Kevin Bacon to star in Kevin Williamson’s serial killer drama
Jennifer Finnigan joins David E Kelley’s TNT pilot Chelsea General, Kate Mara joins Netflix’s House of Cards remake
ABC adds comedy pilots
Showtime renews Shameless, Californication and House of Lies

Wednesday’s “Death Wish remake, Bad Girls remake, new Green Arrow and dead Body Farm” news

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Film

Ben Kingsley joins Ender’s Game
Joe Carnahan to remake Death Wish

British TV

Netflix acquires It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Body Farm axed
Sky launching Internet streaming service for non-subscribers
BT Vision to offer Miramax movies

US TV

Trailer for Eastbound & Down season 3
ABC orders four drama pilots: Devious Maids, Gotham, Zero Hour and Penoza…
…and Judy Greer comedy American Judy
Stephen Amell to play Green Arrow
The CW orders three drama pilots: Shelter, The Selection and Joey Dakota
Sunday cable ratings: Shameless beats Luck…
…which still gets a second season
NBC orders Bad Girls remake

The return of Ferris Bueller as ‘Matthew Broderick’ for the Superbowl

31 January 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

It’s a longer version of an ad for Honda that’ll be airing during the Super Bowl that lovingly recreates aspects of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, just with Matthew Broderick taking the day off instead.

Tuesday’s “X-Men: Second Class, Hunky Dory, Downtown Abbey’s new American, Arrested Development reunion” news

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Tom Hiddleston joins Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper join Serena
Matthew Vaughn signs on for X-Men: First Class sequel
Rooney Mara replaces Blake Lively on Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects
Trailer for Hunky Dory with Minnie Driver
Vera Farmiga joins The Drummer

Music

Original Happy Mondays to reform

Theatre

Danny DeVito to make West End debut in The Sunshine Boys

British TV

Shirley MacLaine joins Downton Abbey
BSkyB profits up despite ad decline
Sky Anytime+ to offer BBC iPlayer and ITV Player

US TV

Original cast all back for Arrested Development
Spartacus gets 2.7m viewers
USA orders Political Animals from Greg Berlanti
Chicago Code‘s Matt Lauria to guest in Person of Interest
David Krumholtz and Mary Birdsong to guest on Raising Hope
Fox picks up Mindy Kaling pilot
Susan Sarandon joins The Big C
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time comes out top
Louis CK sells comedy pilot to CBS
ABC greenlights adaptation of Judith Krantz’s Scruples

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Friday’s “Jamie Bamber pilot, Michael Sheen masters sex, and Munsters are not Munsters” news

Thursday’s “Kevin Bacon in Fox series, Kata Mara in House of Cards remake, Showtime renews Shameless, House of Lies, Californication” news

Wednesday’s “Death Wish remake, Bad Girls remake, new Green Arrow and dead Body Farm” news

The return of Ferris Bueller as ‘Matthew Broderick’ for the Superbowl

Tuesday’s “X-Men: Second Class, Hunky Dory, Downtown Abbey’s new American, Arrested Development reunion” news

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