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Trailer for Moneyball with Brad Pitt
Trailer for The Double with Richard Gere
Olivia Munn joins Magic Mike
Taylor Lautner and Dwayne Johnson to play David and Goliath?

British TV

Channel 5 beating ITV in the ratings
4oD getting 3.4m viewers

Canadian TV

Ratings for last week

US TV

Kevin McNally to guest on Supernatural
Transporter TV series loses its showrunners
Jason Priestley joins Bag of Bones
A Blues Brothers TV show?
The Shield‘s Benito Martinez and David Rees Snell to guest on Sons of Anarchy
Knight Rider‘s Justin Bruening to guest on CSI:NY
Greek‘s Scott Michael Foster to recur on The River
Bill Lawrence and Greg Malins sell girl band comedy pilot to CBS
Greg Berlanti cop drama gets pilot at CBS
Cinemax developing vigilante drama, Sandbox
Attack the Block‘s John Boyega to star in Da Brick
NBC to adapt Romancing The Stone

Random Acts: Scarlett planks in wellies, Amber and Johnny rewrite The Rum Diary

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This week, Scarlett Johansson has chosen to lie around in wellies on a tree, which is fairly random of her.

Meanwhile, after two years in random development hell, the reliably random Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s movie, The Rum Diary, is finally going to be released in October/November this year. The somewhat nasty and misogynistic ‘lost’ novel of Hunter S Thompson, however, has been rewritten by Withnail and I‘s director, Bruce Robinson, so that not only is it a lot more like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it’s also a comedy and a romance. It’s still set in Puerto Rico, though, and involves lots of drinking. Lucky Johnny. Lucky Amber.

Tuesday’s “return of the news” news

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Doctor Who

Let’s Kill Hitler gets 6.2m viewers

Film

George Clooney drops out of The Man from UNCLE

British TV

Big drama changes at BBC1 by the end of the year
BBC1 to broadcast comedy pilots
Billie Piper to star in BBC3’s Tom and Jenny
John Hannah and Suranne Jones to star in Sky1’s spoof crime drama A Touch of Cloth by Charlie Brooker
C4 to plough £2.5m more into daytime TV [subscription required]
The Hour gets a second series [subscription required]
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais writing BBC4 wartime drama [subscription required]
David Tennant to star in improvised BBC1 drama [subscription required]
BBC1 trailer, including clips from Sherlock and The Borrowers
Channel 4 to make phone hacking comedy written by Guy Jenkin

US TV

Jason Dohring to recur on Ringer
Judy Greer to recur on Two and a Half Men
Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke to adapt Deadman comics for The CW
Fox to adapt Leif GW Persson’s crime books
A&E picks up Longmire with Katee Sackhoff and Lou Diamond Phillips
TNT developing drama with Jerry Bruckheimer about PI pawn shop owner
Trailer for season two of Boardwalk Empire
NBC adapting Israeli drama Pillars of Smoke
My Boys‘ Jordana Spiro to recur on Dexter
True Blood‘s Jessica Tuck to guest on Castle
TNT orders Breckin Meyer bromance comedy pilot
Suits creator to become its new showrunner
ABC adapting How To Con Your Kid
Apple ending TV rentals
Heroes‘ Zachary Quinto to recur on American Horror Story
DB Woodside to recur on Parenthood
NBC to adapt Stupid and Contagious

Friday’s “Really Watch Dave” news

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The Daily News will return in September or maybe a little sooner. But probably September.

Doctor Who

A new trailer for the rest of season six

Film

Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Seyfried to join Now You See Me?
Benjamin Walker joins Paradise Lost
New trailer for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Kenneth Branagh to direct The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Game of Thrones‘ Brian Kirk to direct Thor 2?

British TV

Channel 4 acquires 2 Broke Girls
Watch acquires Grimm, Dave acquires Suits, Really acquires Covert Affairs
True Blood‘s Lara Pulver to play Irene Adler in Sherlock
New Freeview slot up for grabs [subscription required]

US TV

Homicide‘s Isabella Hofmann to guest on Criminal Minds
Is Mad Men causing AMC to cut budgets on other shows, causing Frank Darabont to quit The Walking Dead?
PBS acquires George Gently
Michael Dorn to recur on Castle
Misfits a hit on Hulu
Jason Gedrick to recur on Necessary Roughness
Robbie Amell to recur on Revenge
Chi McBride to guest on Suits
Patty Duke to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Seth MacFarlane to produce sequel to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
JAG’s Catherine Bell to star in backdoor pilot Good Morning, Killer
Eureka‘s sixth season to be only six episodes
Teaser trailer for American Horror Story…
…No Ordinary Family‘s Jamie Harris to recur
Marg Helgenberger leaving CSI in January

Thursday’s “not Ideal” news

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Doctor Who

50th anniversary celebrations to be “huge”

Film

Mark Steven Johnson to direct Autobahn
Trailer for The Darkest Hour
New trailer for The Killer Elite
Trailer for In Time
No Sex and the City prequel – at least with Michael Patrick King

British TV

Misfits‘ Ruth Negga to star in Shirley Bassey: A Very British Diva
Ideal cancelled
Shaun Evans to play young Inspector Morse

Canadian TV

Jewel Staite to star in Highland Gardens

US TV

CBS to drop Flashpoint?
Dan Castellaneta to guest on Parks and Recreation
The CW orders more eps of Gossip Girl, 90210, Supernatural and Nikita
ABC orders Kirstie Alley pilot
Michael Rapaport and Ed Burns to star in HBO’s 40
Ray Romano to guest on The Middle

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