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News

Watch out for strange men in ski masks

Film

JK Rowling writing Harry Potter spin-off movie series

Film casting

Luca Calvani to play the villain in The Man From UNCLE
Delroy Lindo joins Cymbeline
Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis to star in Hellion

Trailers

Trailer for Grudge Match with Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Kim Basinger et al
Trailer for The Homefront with Jason Statham and James Franco

UK TV

Sky 1 cancels: Starlings
Wednesday ratings

New UK TV shows

BBC Alba films pilots of Bannan

US TV

BET cancels: Reed Between The Lines

US TV casting

Eliza Coupe, Mekhi Phifer et al to recur on House of Lies
Jane McGrath joins Game of Thrones

New US TV shows

The CW developing: transgender drama ZE
MTV green lights: Finding Carter and Eye Candy
BET orders second season of Being Mary Jane

Thursday’s “Breaking Bad spin-off a go, Endemol to remake Spiral for the US and John Oliver returns to Community” news

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Film casting

Jessica Brown Findlay to star in Frankenstein
Jim Broadbent joins Samuel L Jackson’s Big Game
Djimon Hounsou joins Fast & Furious 7

Trailers

Trailer for Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom with Idris Elba

Theatre

Maxine Peake to play Hamlet

French TV

Exports up 10% [subscription required]

UK TV

SyFy acquires: The CW’s The Originals
Press pack for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD

US TV

Promo for season 9 of Supernatural
Promo for season 5 of White Collar
Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Kim Raver returns for 24: Live Another Day
Steve Kazee to guest on Elementary [spoilers]
John Oliver returns to Community

New US TV shows

AMC green lights: Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul
Endemol to remake Engrenages/Spiral for the US
NBC developing: alien drama
Fox developing: Far From The Tree
ABC developing: Princess, Stuck and Women & Girls

New US TV show casting

Carly Pope to recur on The CW’s The Tomorrow People
Annie Wersching to guest on CBS’s Intelligence
Julia Goldani Telles joins Showtime’s The Affair
Catriona Balfe to star in Starz’s Outlander

Wednesday’s “Doctor Who’s 50th celebrations, American Psycho TV sequel and Sigur Ros on Game of Thrones” news

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Doctor Who

50th anniversary celebration details

Trailers

Trailer for The Railway Man, with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman
Trailer for JJ Abrams’s S

UK TV

Virgin adds Netflix content
Alibi drops: White Collar
Monday ratings

US TV

Sundance acquires: Canal+’s The Returned
The CW acquires: City TV’s Seed
AMC cancels: The Killing (US)
USA renews: Graceland
Trailer for season 4 of Treme

US TV casting

Sigur Ros to appear on Game of Thrones
Jonathan Togo to guest on Covert Affairs
Skye Noyes to recur on Beauty and the Beast

New US TV shows

Clips from Agents of SHIELD, including a Cobie Smulders cameo
Man on Fire being adapted
FX developing: American Psycho sequel
Almost Human showrunner quits
Teaser for HBO’s Hello Ladies

New US TV show casting

Duncan Lacroix joins Starz’s Outlander
Michelle Monaghan joins HBO’s Open

Tuesday’s “Ellen Page in Queen and Country?, Amber Heard in London Fields, Watch’s Legion, and Dead Boss remake” news

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Film

Sharon Horgan to direct Meet Me In Ten Years
More Agent Carter shorts for Marvel Blu-rays?

Film casting

Ellen Page to star in adaptation of Greg Rucka’s Queen and Country?
Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Theo James…
…and Jaimie Alexander to star in adaptation of Martin Amis’s London Fields
Bruce Willis to star in The Prince
Lea Thompson joins Left Behind
Eric McCormack to star in The Architect, Dawn Olivieri to star in To Whom It May Concern

French TV

Carole Bouquet to replace Nathalie Baye on Les Hommes de l’Ombre

International TV

Australia’s ABC, HBO and BBC3 green light: Ja’mie: Private School Girl

UK TV

Lovefilm acquires: BBC America’s Copper

New UK TV shows

Watch green lights: Tony Jordan’s Legion

US TV casting

Paul Adelstein to recur on ABC’s Scandal

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: remake of BBC3’s Dead Boss
NBC orders: Katherine Heigl CIA drama pilot

New US TV show casting

Rory Kinnear, Harry Treadaway and Reeve Carney join Showtime’s Penny Dreadful
DB Sweeney to recur on ABC’s Betrayal
Stephen Rider to recur on ABC’s Lucky 7

Monday’s “Cynthia Nixon joins Hannibal, a trailer for Atlantis and Shivers to be remade”

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Film

Shivers to be remade
Anne of Green Gables to be a musical
Jason Momoa to star in and direct Kane
Nathalie Emmanuel joins Fast and Furious 7

Film casting

Emma Watson to star in adaptation of Your Voice In My Head
Tom Hiddleston replaces Benedict Cumberbatch on Crimson Peak
Katee Sackhoff joins Somnia
Jeremy Irvine joins The Reach
Rupert Grint joins Macbeth
Christopher Plummer joins The Forger
Amber Stevens joins 22 Jump Street

Trailer

Trailer for Richard Ayoade’s The Double, with Jesse Eisenberg

Comics

Smallville to become mini-series

UK TV

Trailer for BBC1’s Atlantis
Trailer for A Touch of Cloth, with Karen Gillan
Thursday’s ratings
Saturday’s ratings

US TV casting

Cynthia Nixon joins Hannibal
Danny Huston joins American Horror Story
Christina Chang to recur on Nashville
Annie Ilonzeh and Blair Redford join Beauty and the Beast

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s True Detective, with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson
Fox developing: tiger parents comedy
USA orders: Matt Nix’s Complications
Tim Kring adapting Dorothy Must Die for The CW

New US TV show casting

Candice Bergen and Charles Grodin to play Michael J Fox’s parents on NBC’s The Michael J Fox Show
Simon Merrells to recur on The CW’s The Tomorrow People
Greg Germann to co-star on Lifetime’s HR, Ravi Patel to recur on ABC’s Super Fun Night
Chris Egan and Alan Dale to star in SyFy’s Dominion

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Tuesday’s “Ellen Page in Queen and Country?, Amber Heard in London Fields, Watch’s Legion, and Dead Boss remake” news

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