Film

News

The Daily News will return on Monday

Film

David Spade to direct Daredevil sequel
Alec Baldwin drops out of Men in Black III
Christina Hendricks joins Seconds of Pleasure
Sundance Festival expands to London
Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell and Deborah Kara Unger return for Silent Hill sequel
Michael Ealy joins Underworld: New Dawn
Trailer for Bridesmaids
Drew Barrymore to direct How To Be Single

Theatre

Richard Schiff joins Tom Conti in SMASH!

British TV

Jed Mercurio to make BBC2 police drama
BBC Daytime commissions legal drama The Case

US TV

Netflix outbids HBO to get 26 episodes of House of Cards
Starz developing The Brink with Gore Verbinski
Frances Conroy joins Bad Mom
Sandman TV series continuing without Eric Kripke
Madeleine Stowe, David James Elliott and Robert Knepper join pilots + other casting
Trailer for season 2 of Treme

Tuesday’s The Sandman goeth news

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Film

Hayley Atwell joins I, Anna
Logan Marshall-Green joins Prometheus
Brendan Fraser joins Whole Lotta Sole
Yellow Submarine cancelled

Radio

Asian Network gets a reprieve

British TV

Elias Koteas and Deborah Kara Unger to star in UK-Canadian co-prod The Hot Zone
BBC to cut US movie budget?
More people using S4C’s Clic player
Outcasts cancelled

US TV

No The Sandman TV series
CBS wins Sunday’s ratings
Larry King to contribute to The Daily Show?
Cybill Shepherd to star in My Freakin’ Family
Leslie Hope to star in The River
Chloe Sevigny to star in HBO’s Lizzie Borden mini-series
Vanessa Ferlito joins Cooper & Stone
Casting on REM
Sean Maguire joins Lovelives plus more pilot casting
Julie Benz to co-star in CBS pilot
Kristin Chenoweth joins Good Christian Bitches
Rashida Jones to guest on Wilfred
Mary Steenburgen joins Bored to Death
Terry Kinney joins Rookies
Colin O’Donoghue joins Identity
Tom Sizemore joins Exit Strategy
Kate Burton joins Grimm

Monday’s catch-up news

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Awards

Results of the Olivier Awards

Film

Trailer for The Smurfs
10-minute short TRON: The Next Day
Trailer for JJ Abrams’ Super 8
Steven Soderbergh to retire

British TV

Becoming Human to air on BBC3 next Sunday

US TV

Louise Lombard returns to CSI [minor spoilers]
Kristin Kreuk joins 17th Precinct
Jennifer Morrison joins Once Upon A Time
Michael Chiklis joins Vince Uncensored
Jordana Spiro joins Lost and Found
Ellen Barkin joins A Mann’s World
Thomas Dekker joins Secret Circle
Kristoffer Polaha joins Ringer
Paul F Tompkins to star in Evil Genius
Eddie Cibrian to replace Jeff Hephner on Playboy
Paget Brewster to co-star in My Life As An Experiment
Scott Foley and Kyle MacLachlan join The Doctor
HBO developing 1980s Russian spy drama
Cheryl Hines joins Suburgatory
Jason Priestley to recur on Haven

A heads-up for Network Awesome

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Just a little heads-up for Network Awesome, which is a slightly awesome web site that’s a bit like a TV station. It doesn’t actually make programmes, but instead has a daily playlist of old TV and movies that they think is worth watching. They’re currently airing an episode of The Prisoner a week and were showing the BBC’s 1984 last night, so give them a try.

Friday’s “international Wonder Woman of mystery” news

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The Daily News will return on Monday 14th March

Film

Mira Sorvino, Dermot Mulroney to star in Trade of Innocents
Catherine Zeta-Jones joins Lay The Favourite

Books

New Bridget Jones book and movie planned

British TV

News Corp cleared to spin off Sky News, take over BSkyB
Whitechapel to return as six-part series

US TV

Casting on Wonder Woman, including Elizabeth Hurley as the villainess
Ginnifer Goodwin joins Once Upon a Time
Kevin Spacey and David Fincher team up for House of Cards remake
The appropriately named Jeff Hephner joins Playboy
Lucy Griffiths to star in Awakening, Robin Givens in Tagged plus other pilot casting
Aidan Quinn joins Prime Suspect
Rebecca Mader joins No Ordinary Family, James Callis joins 17th Precinct + other pilot casting
Nadine Velazquez joins the Rob Schneider pilot
Ben Aldridge joins Heavenly
New characters on Rizzoli & Isles
Teaser trailer for Tron: Uprising
Mr Sunshine and Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior get better ratings

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