Film

Films

• BBC Films working on Sex Education
• Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton to star in vampire story Byzantium…
• …and Arterton joins Neil LaBute’s Crooked House
• Hugh Bonneville to play Captain Nemo
• David Tennant talks about Fright Night, appears briefly in a trailer

British TV

• S4C voluntary redundancies ahead
• Shadow Line loses 1m

US TV

• CBS cancels typing challenge S#*! My Dad Says, The Defenders and Mad Love…
• …picks up Person of Interest and Two Broke Girls
• Treme gets a third season
• ABC cancels Brothers and Sisters, V, Mr Sunshine, Detroit 1-8-7, Off The Map, No Ordinary Family and Better With You…
• …renews Happy Endings and Body of Proof, picks up Charlie’s Angels, Pan Am, Last Man Standing, Apartment 23 et al
• CSI gets lowest-rated finale ever
• NBC cancels LOLA, holds off 30 Rock to mid-season…
• …cancels The Event…
• …and Outsourced…
• …brings back Chuck for a final season
• Smallville, Flashpoint do well in the ratings
• James Purefoy back as The Saint again?