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News

The Daily News will return on Thursday 18th February 2010

Film

Andy Serkis to star in Nick Cave’s motion capture version of ‘The Threepenny Opera’
Noel Clarke to write and direct Fast Girls?

British TV

Sky close to buying Virgin Media channels including Virgin1 and Living
Reggie Perrin gets a second series
BBC1 drops The Omid Djalili Show

US TV

Pilot casting including Amy Smart on CBS’s medical drama

Monday’s digital illustrated Torchwood news

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Doctor Who

Torchwood: the digital comic

Awards

Results of the whatsonstage.com awards

Film

Martin Scorsese and Robert de Niro want to work together again
Bradley Cooper to star in The Grey
Treasure Island to be adapted again
Mike Newell to direct The Terminal Spy about Alexander Litvinenko
Glenn Close to star in Albert Nobbs
Sean Bean and Dougray Scott to join Irvine Welsh’s The Magnificent Eleven
Trailer for Centurion with Michael Fassbender and Dominic West
Clash of the Titans featurette

British TV

Ricky Gervais working on TV show with Warwick Davis

US TV

Production on 24 stops while Kiefer Sutherland undergoes an operation
Kathryn Bigelow to direct Miraculous Year for HBO
Beau Garrett to star in Criminal Minds spin-off
The Closer‘s Stephen Martines to recur on Vampire Diaries
Ausiello’s view on what will be cancelled and what won’t
BSG‘s Michael Trucco joins V [spoilers]
Being Human series two to start in March

Friday’s “on the bubble” news

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Film

Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins The Unblinking Eye
Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen join Michael Winterbottom’s The Promised Land
Another Riddick film
Kevin Costner to star in A Little War of Our Own
The Three Musketeers to get the Sherlock Holmes treatment
Trailer for Russell Brand’s Get Him To The Greek
Alicia Silverstone and Amy Heckerling reunite for Vamps
Full Toy Story 3 trailer

British TV

Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter to star in Channel 4 comedy
Nickelodeon UK to rebrand
S4C cutting jobs

US TV

The chances of survival for various shows in danger of cancellation, including Heroes, 24, and FlashForward…
…and for Smallville, Supernatural, Fringe, The Forgotten, Chuck and Human Target
More pilot casting including Kate Mara on Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours
Dennis Pennis’s Paul Kaye to star in Larry Charles comedy for CBS
HBO picks up Kate Winslet mini-series
Season highs for The Middle and Modern Family
Marsha Thomason to return to White Collar as a series regular [spoilers]
Hulu to work on iPad/iPhone?

Thursday’s “The Best Little Akira, Laverne and Shirley in a Big Whorehouse Valley in Hawaii” remake news

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Doctor Who

Interview with guest actor Neve McIntosh reveals returning monster [spoilers]

Film

Dune gets a writer
Susan Sarandon to star in film version of The Big Valley?
Trailer for Katherine Heigl/Ashton Kutcher’s Killers
Hughes brothers to direct Akira?
Penelope Cruz to star in Pirates of the Carribbean 4?
Trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender
Universal to remake The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
An interview with Chris Morris about Four Lions
Jennifer Garner and Jessica Biel to star in remake of Laverne and Shirley?

British TV

350,000 Sky subscribers to switch to Freeview HD?
Channel 4 and E4 to stop showing Friends next year
Bravo acquires White Collar

US TV

Numb3rs‘ David Krumholtz joins IRS + other casting
Moonlight‘s Alex O’Loughlin to play Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O remake
Molly Shannon to appear on Glee
Rena Sofer joins Bones
New showrunners for FlashForward
Friday Night Lights to end after its fifth season

Wednesday’s flashing FlashForward forward news

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Doctor Who

Matthew Graham to write for series six?

Film

Tom Cruise commits to Mission: Impossible 4
Christopher Nolan to ‘mentor’ new Superman movie
Penelope Cruz to star in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia

British TV

Neil Dudgeon to replace John Nettles on Midsomer Murders
Hustle beats Law & Order UK in the ratings
BBC spent £229m on talent last year [subscription required]
Product placement to be allowed on TV
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle gets a second series
Behind the scenes of Russell Tovey’s Young, Unemployed and Lazy

Canadian TV

FreeHD Canada cleared for launch
CBS picks up Men With Brooms

US TV

TBS picks up two more comedy pilots
Casting on ABC’s The Gates
Andrea Anders to star opposite Matt Perry in Mr Sunshine + other casting
NBC ready to order Paul Reiser pilot
FlashForward episodes cut?
Heroes finale ratings up slightly
Melrose Place not coming back?
New arrivals on Brothers & Sisters

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