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Film

Guillermo del Toro talks about Hobbit casting and the plot
Neil Marshall to direct Predators?
Marcus Nispel to direct Conan
Deadworld to become film series
Brittany Murphy joins Something Wicked

British TV

Sky1 to run eight new documentary series
Five gets the final Freeview HD slot
Sky News to go HD
Professor Brian Cox gets a kids science show

US TV

Eric Roberts joins the cast of Crash
My Name is Earl definitely dead now
Icelandic series The Nightshift to be adapted for US
Interview with Jeffrey Donovan of Burn Notice [vid, spoilers]
Reaper creators join Dollhouse

Thursday’s Rob Buckley news

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Doctor Who

Cardiff Bay to get The Torchwood Experience?

Film

Mission: Impossible IV still happening?
Trailer for indie romcom with Zooey Deschanel 500 Days of Summer
Seven Golden Vampires to be remade?

Theater

Jonny Lee Miller to star with Sienna Miller in After Miss Julie

British TV

BBC stars to take pay cuts
BBC3 to start at 3pm?
BBC4 to have a Scottish season
Mitchell and Webb can Playing Shop, plan rewrites

US TV

Michael Shanks to guest star on Sanctuary
Heroes writers signed up for two year deal
2.8m unprepared for digital switchover
Rob Buckley replaces Brian Austin Green on One Tree Hill
House premiere to run to two hours and new characters for The Mentalist and Dexter [spoilers]
What the next season of Lost is going to be like [spoilers]
More returning characters on Lost?

Wednesday’s spiffing termination news

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Film

Robert Rodriguez to direct live-action The Jetsons
Alien prequel only happening if Ridley Scott directs?
Terminator 5 to be set in London?
Bruce Boxleitner appearing in Tron 2

British TV

Ashes to Ashes finale gets 6.4m viewers

Canadian TV

Success of US TV could lead to shortage of Canadian talent [subscription required]
Canadian kids TV under threat

US TV

What all the characters in season eight of 24 will be doing
26 new episodes of Futurama on the way
Interview with the exec producer of The Beautiful Life
FX greenlights pilot for Shawn Ryan’s Terriers
Nurse Jackie gets a second season
Casting on NCIS: LA and Boardwalk Empire
The Closer premiere gets 7.1m while Raising the Bar drops 53%

Tuesday’s “You’re both hired!” news

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Awards

Results of the Tony Awards

Film

Ben Bova’s Immortality Factor to be adapted
Liam Neeson to play Hannibal, Bradley Cooper to play Face in The A-Team?
Kirsten Dunst back for Spiderman 4

East European TV

In Treatment to be remade in Romanian, Hungarian, Czech and Polish

British TV

Channel 4 closing down download version of 4oD and putting all back catalogue up for streaming
Primeval ends with 4.3m viewers
Ashes to Ashes gets final series
Press pack for moon season, which includes lots of James May
Sir Alan wanted to hire both Kate and Yasmina but the producers wouldn’t let him
£25m fund needed to safeguard ITV Wales

Canadian/German TV

Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland to star in Pillars of the Earth

US TV

Kathy Bates, Tim Curry and Colm Meaney to star in updating of Alice in Wonderland
BSG‘s Katee Sackhoff to be a regular on 24
My Name is Earl to continue on TBS?

Monday’s split Time Lord news

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Doctor Who

Season five to be split in two?

Film

Javier Bardem to star in Eat, Pray, Love with Julia Roberts?
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway to reunite for Love and Other Drugs
Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave to star in Letters to Juliet
Neil Patrick Harris to co-star in Beastly

Theatre

Kevin Spacey to star in Inherit the Wind at the Old Vic

US TV

Clips from Stargate: Universe
Dominic Monaghan to star in unspecified ABC show – not Lost
Another room-mate for Claire in Heroes
Gilles Marini to appear on Brothers and Sisters
Royal Pains and Burn Notice do well in the ratings
William Fichtner among cameos in Entourage

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