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Film

Sam Mendes to direct, Daniel Craig star in next Bond movie, due November 2012
David Duchovny, Vera Farmia, Keri Russell, Minnie Driver and Will Arnett join Goats
Pippi Longstocking: the movie
Lena Headey joins Dredd
Missile Command movie on the way

British TV

Glee gets record-breaking 1.6m viewers
BBC2 suffered biggest audience share drop in 2010
Gerry Anderson working on new Thunderbirds series
Cold Feet revival planned

US TV

Trailer for Fox’s Breaking In, with Christian Slater
Monday night ratings down
Raising Hope gets a second season
Three actors out of L&O:LA, including Skeet Urich

Tuesday’s showy Showtime news

11 January 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

John Michael Higgins joins We Bought A Zoo
Michelle Pfeiffer to play Chris Pine’s mother in Welcome to People
Ron Livingston to star in Ten Year and The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Charlize Theron leaves J Edgar, Gossip Girl‘s Ed Westwick joins
Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis confirmed for The Hobbit

British TV

ITV restructures [subscription required]
Channel 1 to close next month [subscription required]
S4C/BBC partnership details announced, including programming on iPlayer and budget cuts
Highlights of S4C’s 2011 programming

US TV

Ryan Devlin to return to Cougar Town
Californication, Shameless and Episodes all do well for Showtime
ABC Family renews Pretty Little Liars and Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Cape starts modestly
Modern Family and Grey’s Anatomy get picked up for another season
HBO passes on Documental with Steve Coogan and Ben Stiller
Johnny Galecki to recur on Entourage plus casting on True Blood and TBS pilots
Adrian Pasdar to recur on Castle
ABC picking up Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt 23

Monday’s Doctor and companion reunion news

10 January 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who/Theatre

David Tennant and Catherine Tate to star in Much Ado About Nothing
Rusty reveals Torchwood: Miracle Day‘s plot [minor spoilers]

Film

Elijah Wood to return as Frodo in The Hobbit
Vera Farmiga and Omaii Hardwick join Pure Life

British TV

David Hare spy drama to star Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon and Ralph Fiennes
Being Human press pack
Primeval does poorly
Hustle returns with 5.7m viewers
Not Going Out returns with 4.7m viewers

US TV

ABC orders pilots of Man Up and Smothered
Salma Hayek and ABC working on Wicked mini-series
Mad Men gets a fifth season
No one picks up Wonder Woman
HBO picks up neo-Sex and the City, Girls
History cancels The Kennedys before it even airs
Dollhouse‘s Enver Gjokaj to guest on Community
New trailer for Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
AMC orders up a fourth season of Breaking Bad
Sebastian Roche signs up for Criminal Minds spin-off
Mark Pellegrino to recur on Breakout Kings

Friday’s spin-off news

7 January 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Randy Couture to co-star on Set Up
Edgar Ramirez to play Ares in Wrath of the Titans
Trailer for John Carpenter’s The Ward, with Amber Heard
New trailer for Paul, with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann to star in Judd Apatow spin-off from Knocked Up

British TV

Waking the Dead to get spin-off The Body Farm, starring Tara Fitzgerald

US TV

Katy Perry to guest on How I Met Your Mother
Christine Taylor, Kristen Johnston, Donald Faison and Amy Acker all join pilots
Four minute preview of Parks and Recreation‘s third season
Mena Suvari, Elliot Gould to guest on The Cape
Jason Alexander to guest on Franklin & Bash
Cougar Town launches webisodes

Thursday’s Sky Atlantic news

6 January 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Alex Havins joins Torchwood cast, Dichen Lachman to guest in premiere

Film

Robert Pattinson to star in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
Sam Rockwell joins Cogan’s Trade
Sienna Miller joins New Year’s Eve

British TV

The Sky Atlantic 2011 highlights…
…including newly acquired The Borgias and Blue Bloods

US TV

NBC orders 1960s Playboy drama pilot
ABC picks up another Canadian drama
Tuesday night ratings
Lou Diamond Phillips to guest on Chuck
HBO working on bodybuilding drama

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