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Thursday’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Monster, Arte’s Odysseus and Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing” news

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Film casting

Armie Hammer to star with Tom Cruise in The Man From UNCLE
Aasif Mandvi joins Million Dollar Arm

Trailers

Trailer for Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing

Canadian TV

Continuum premiere down with 375,000 viewers

French TV

Trailer for Arte’s Odysseus

UK TV

BBC Wales launches Swansea season

US TV

Netflix to launch up to 20 original shows in the next two years [subscription required]
Tuesday ratings
Sunday cable ratings: Game of Thrones sets another record

New US TV shows

Guillermo del Toro and HBO developing adaptation of Monster
ABC Family green lights: Terminales as Chasing Life

New US TV show casting

Nat Faxon to star in Andrew Gurland’s comedy pilot

Wednesday’s “Thor 2 trailer, Bomb Girls cancelled and Bluestone 42 gets a 2nd series” news

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Film casting

Ophelia Lovibond joins, Lee Pace to play a baddie in Guardians of the Galaxy?
Amanda Seyfried to star in The Girl Who Conned The Ivy League
Amanda Kendrick and Gemma Arterton join The Voices

Trailers

Trailer for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring with Emma Watson
Trailer for Thor: The Dark World

Canadian TV

Bomb Girls cancelled

UK TV

Bluestone 42 gets a second series
BBC2 green lights: Andrew Davies Dylan Thomas biopic A Poet In New York
Stephen Tompkinson to star in BBC1’s Truckers
Danny Cohen appointed director, BBC Television

US TV

Malibu Country show runner leaves
Monday ratings: The Following up

US TV casting

Arnold Vosloo to guest in Elementary finale [spoilers]

New US TV shows

A&E green lights: Whitey

Tuesday’s “More Vera, Broadchurch and Dodgeball, Futurama cancelled and Spartacus meets Hercules” news

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Film

Dodgeball 2 in development

Film casting

James Franco, Kate Hudson and Omar Sy to star in Good People
Liam McIntyre joins Hercules 3D
Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Michael Raymond-Jones join The Salvation
Robert De Niro and Shia LaBeouf to father and son in Spy’s Kid?

UK TV

Broadchurch gets a second season
Vera gets a fourth season
Casting on Breathless, Burton & Taylor and The Guilty
Sunday ratings: Endeavour gets 5m viewers

US TV

Futurama cancelled again
Revenge creator to leave show
Five more scripts for Psych
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

FX developing adaptation of James Ellroy’s Shakedown
E! developing scripted dramas

New US TV show casting

Robin Givens and Jessica Tuck to recur on Twisted

Monday’s “Two more Glee seasons, Anthony Head a Warehouse 13 villain and The Name of the Doctor” news

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Doctor Who

Alex Kingston to return for The Name of the Doctor

Film casting

Viola Davis to star in Michael Mann cyber drama?
Jason Sudeikis and Rose Byrne to star in Tumbledown

Trailers

Trailer for Keanu Reeves’ Man of Tai Chi

UK TV

Sophie Rundle to star in Sky Living’s Talking To The Dead

US TV

A Dexter spin-off?
Glee gets two more seasons
Thursday ratings: Hannibal dips

US TV casting

Anthony Head to recur on Warehouse 13

Friday’s “A Weird Science remake, a Bergerac remake and Dexter’s last season” news

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Film

Joel Silver to remake Weird Science

Film casting

Hailee Steinfeld to star in Barely Legal
Cameron Diaz to replace Reese Witherspoon on Sex Tape
Will Ferrell and Jack Black to star in Tag Brothers
Keanu Reeves joins Passengers

UK TV

BBC to remake Bergerac
ITV developing The Widower
Wednesday ratings

US TV

Netflix acquires BBC2’s The Fall
Dexter confirmed to finish with eighth season
Final Apartment 23 episodes to air online
Wednesday ratings: Suburgatory down

US TV casting

Autumn Reeser and Garcelle Beauvais to guest on Necessary Roughness

New US TV shows

FX green lights: Saint George
NBC orders four more episodes of After Hours
HBO developing Down Lo
Trailer for Vampire Diaries spin-off The Originals
Eddie Izzard to star in new Jekyll and Hyde drama

New US TV show casting

Giovanni Ribisi replaces Tommy Dewey in Fox’s Dads

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Thursday’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Monster, Arte’s Odysseus and Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing” news

Wednesday’s “Thor 2 trailer, Bomb Girls cancelled and Bluestone 42 gets a 2nd series” news

Tuesday’s “More Vera, Broadchurch and Dodgeball, Futurama cancelled and Spartacus meets Hercules” news

Monday’s “Two more Glee seasons, Anthony Head a Warehouse 13 villain and The Name of the Doctor” news

Friday’s “A Weird Science remake, a Bergerac remake and Dexter’s last season” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

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