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Film

Takeshi Kitano returns to gangster movies
Silent Hill sequel planned
Inglourious Basterds‘ Christoph Waltz to be the villain in The Green Hornet?

British TV

iPlayer and 4oD to be regulated
Noel Fielding joins Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Press pack for Criminal Justice – series two

US TV

HBO working on two historical mini-series
Helen Hunt to replace Maura Tierney on Parenthood?
Eric Balfour joins Beautiful Life
Defying Gravity cancelled?

Monday’s UK CBS news

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Doctor Who

Guess who’s been spotted on set [spoiler?]

Film

So much Disney news
James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn to star in Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination movie The Conspirator
East is East to get a sequel: West is West
Gabriel Macht, Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt join Ed Zwick romcom Love and Other Drugs
Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Red Dawn remake
Arnie, Bruce Willis and Sly Stallone shoot a scene together for The Expendables

British TV

STV defends dropping ITV1 dramas
CBS to launch six channels in the UK
Product placement to be allowed in British TV shows

US TV

Trailer for Hanks/Spielberg’s HBO mini-series The Pacific
Julian Sands to play middle-aged Jor-El on Smallville
Vampire Diaries gets largest ever ratings for a CW premiere
ABC orders pilots of 18 Years, a sitcom from Samantha Who?‘s Don Todd and a remake of Gavin & Stacey
TBS renews My Boys
ABC Family orders 10 more episodes of 10 Things I Hate About You, cancels Ruby and the Rockits
Eric McCormack gets a sitcom pilot

Friday’s “no more imports?” news

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Film

Jeff Bridges to star in Coen Brothers remake of True Grit?
Sam Trammell to star with Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks and Laura Linney in Details
Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman to reunite for Hancock 2
Warner Bros pulls out of He-Man film
Timothy Dalton joins Toy Story 3

Theatre

Peter Davison and Jill Halfpenny join Legally Blonde: The Musical

British TV

Royal wedding to be backdrop to BBC2 drama set in Wales
Derren Brown to front C4 web series debunking psychics
Mad Men and Heroes could be dropped in cost-cutting exercise by Beeb

Canadian TV

The Saint to be remade with Dougray Scott by Brightlight Pictures

German TV

William Hurt and Ethan Hawke to star in Moby Dick

US TV

Maura Tierney drops out of Parenthood

Thursday’s modern hulk news

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Film

Max Ryan joins Sex and the City 2

Theatre

Rupert Friend and Tamsin Greig to star in The Little Dog Laughed

British TV

Fiver acquires Knight Rider, The City and 10 Things I Hate About You
Second series of Whitechapel to feature the Krays

US TV

Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer to make SelleVision comedy for NBC
Peggy Lipton replaces Valerie Perrine on Crash
Edward Norton to guest star on Modern Family
CSI: Miami‘s Adam Rodriguez leaving for Ugly Betty

Tuesday’s Dicky Doctor news

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Doctor Who

Richard Curtis to write an episode of Doctor Who

Film

Charlie Sheen to cameo in Wall Street 2
MMA star Gina Carano to star in Soderbergh’s Knockout

Comics

Alan Moore talks about the future of Marvelman

Theatre

Keith Allen, Kulvinder Ghir and Reece Shearsmith to join Matthew Kelly in Comedians
Enron to transfer to West End and Broadway?

British TV

Andy Duncan negotiating his Channel 4 exit package?
BBC Worldwide chief steps down

US TV

ABC to make comedy Family Business by Always Sunny… writers
New cast members for White Collar and Covert Affairs
More 24 casting [spoilers]
Richard Russo to write HBO show about the Catskills Gas Rush

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