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Trailer for Not Another Happy Ending, with Karen Gillan
Trailer for Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine with Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin et al
Trailer for Frozen Ground with Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and Vanessa Hudgens
Trailer for White House Down with Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx

UK TV

A second series for Blandings
Casting on Sky’s Chris Addison sitcom Trying Again
Cherie Lunghi and Barbara Flynn to star in ITV’s Cabbage and Pat
BBC developing Porters
ITV2 renews: Plebs
Saturday ratings

US TV

Trailer for season two of The Newsroom
Thursday ratings

New US TV shows

HBO developing sci-fi drama The Spark, with Karl Gajdusek
Showtime developing Heartland Trucking
ABC green lights: The Black Box
Trailer for HBO’s Hello Ladies, with Stephen Merchant
Behind the scenes trailer for Showtime’s Masters of Sex
Trailer for NBC’s Siberia

New US TV show casting

Recasting on Witches of East End

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Wednesday’s “Rogue renewed, Linus Roache is king and a trailer for Smaug” news

Tuesday’s “Christopher Eccleston is left over, Ray Winstone joins the Moonfleet and a Boardwalk Empire teaser” news

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The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

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