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[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Tuesday’s “David Tennant & Billie Piper return to Doctor Who, Joanna Page to guest, and a trailer for The Saint” news

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Doctor Who

David Tennant, Billie Piper, Joanna Page and John Hurt all lined up for 50th anniversary special
Eternity Clock sequels cancelled
Matt Smith says he’s staying on for 2014
Bells of Saint John gets 6.18m viewers

Film

Hot Tub Time Machine sequel to start shooting in June
Third GI Joe movie planned

Trailers

Trailer for This Is The End with Seth Rogen et al [NSFW]
Trailer for Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Canadian TV

Orphan Black gets 404,000 viewers

UK TV

BBC Television Centre to be redeveloped as a ‘digital experience’
Thursday ratings
Saturday ratings

US TV

Friday ratings: Happy Endings starts low, Touch goes lower
Sunday ratings: Red Widow hits low
Sunday cable ratings: The Bible gets 13.1m viewers

US TV show casting

Annabella Sciorra to guest on CSI

New US TV shows

A&E green lights: adaptation of Those Who Kill
Cinemax developing adaptation of The Straits
FX developing adaptation of They Marched Into Sunlight
Trailer for The Saint
Teaser for CBS’s Under The Dome

New US TV show casting

Matthew Broderick joins CBS’s Tad Quill comedy
Bess Rous joins TNT’s Murder In The First, Christopher Thornton joins CBS’s The Surgeon General, Matt Long replaces Luke Hemsworth on Lucky 7

Thursday’s “HBO’s Borgen, CBS renews 9 shows, and Pixie Lott joins George Gently” news

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The Daily News will be back on Tuesday – have a nice Easter weekend!

Doctor Who

Three new Doctor Who clips
Sophia Myles returning to Who?

Film

No sequel to Dredd
Bad Ass getting a sequel

Film casting

Kate Mara joins Transcendence
Peter Fonda to star in Milton’s Secret
Anne Hathaway, Chloe Moretz and Sam Rockwell to star in Laggies
Nicola Peltz to star in Transformers 4

Trailers

Trailer for Kick Ass 2
US and International trailers for The Wolverine

UK TV

Pixie Lott to guest on Inspector George Gently
More casting on Atlantis

US TV

CBS renews (deep breath): Elementary, The Good Wife, 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly, NCIS: LA, Person of Interest, The Mentalist, Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods
ReelzChannel acquires Cracked
Tuesday ratings: NCIS: LA hits low, Go On and New Normal surge

US TV show casting

Adrian Pasdar to recur on Burn Notice
Karissa Lee Staples to be a regular on Necessary Roughness
Luke Grimes joins True Blood

New US TV shows

Bravo red lights The Joneses, puts Witch Hunt into development
NBC working on Chicago Fire spin-off
Netflix orders 10 episodes of Sense8
HBO developing adaptation of Borgen [subscription required]
Trailer for How To Live With Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)

New US TV show casting

Paul Adelstein to star in CBS’s show formerly known as (SFKA – new jargon, guys) Mother’s Day
Regina King to co-star in ABC’s Divorce: A Love Story
Rob Huebel joins CBS’s Jacked Up, Griffin Newman to star in untitled NBC comedy pilot

Wednesday’s “Juliet Stevenson joins Atlantis, Mark Rylance joins Wolf Hall and more Pretty Little Liars” news

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Doctor Who

Neil Gaiman’s episode gets a new title

Film casting

Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson to star in North of Hell
Jack Huston joins American Bullshit
Dermot Mulroney joins Careful What You Wish For
Tom Hiddleston to return to The Muppets

Trailers

Trailer for Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain, with Mark Wahlberg and The Rock
Teaser for The Wolverine

UK TV

Juliet Stevenson joins BBC1’s Atlantis
Barry Humphries and Sally Phillips to guest on Sky1’s Chickens
Mark Rylance to star in BBC2’s Wolf Hall
Amanda Abbington to guest on Sherlock

US TV

A fifth season for Pretty Little Liars
Crackle’s Chosen gets a second season
Monday ratings: Revolution down
Monday cable ratings: Bates Motel steady

US TV casting

Frances Conroy to recur on Royal Pains
Casey Wilson to guest on How I Met Your Mother finale
Jessica Camacho to guest on Nikita
Karolina Wydra joins True Blood

New US TV shows

ABC Family green lights: Pretty Little Liars spin-off Ravenswood
ABC Studios developing time travel drama Fix It Men

Tuesday’s “More Cougar Town, Seth Green is a dad and Debra Messing is a mother” news

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Trailers

Trailer for World War Z with Brad Pitt
UFC’s Georges St-Pierre joins Captain America 2
A new Iron Man 3 TV spot

Canadian TV

John Cassini joins Blackstone

UK TV

BBC1 orders Matt Lucas silent comedy
BBC2 adapting The 13th Tale
BBC Wales and S4C working on multi platform drama PYC
Sunday ratings: Foyle’s War beats Our Girl

US TV

A fifth season for Cougar Town
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time hits a low, Red Widow up

US TV casting

Steve Carell and Billy Crystal to guest on Web Therapy
John Beard to return for Arrested Development
Morena Baccarin to guest on The Good Wife
Kate Danson to guest on CSI

New US TV shows

Showtime’s Penny Dreadful to shoot in the UK [subscription required]
US rights to Canal+’s Hard acquired [in French]

New US TV show casting

Rhys Darby to co-star on ABC’s Keep Calm and Karey On, Rhys Wakefield to be a regular on Bravo’s Rita
Nelson Franklin to replace Robert Buckley on NBC’s Holding Patterns
Kenneth Choi joins NBC’s Ironside remake, Tzi Ma joins NBC’s Bloodline, Erin Pineda joins Fox’s Dads…
…as does Seth Green
Debra Messing to star in CBS’s Mother’s Day
Xosha Roquemore to recur on TV Land’s Kirstie’s New Show

Monday’s “Jamie Bamber in The Smoke, Zeljko Ivanek on Banshee and Robert Redford in Captain America 2?” news

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Film

Ryan Reynolds not interested in Justice League or more Green Lantern at the moment

Film casting

Robert Redford for Captain America 2?

Trailers

Trailer for Hummingbird with Jason Statham

Canadian TV

Erin Karpluk to recur on Saving Hope

UK TV

Jamie Bamber to star in Sky 1’s The Smoke
BBC commissions BBC3 drama strand exclusively for iPlayer
Peter Kay joins BBC1’s Car Share

US TV

ABC Family renews Baby Daddy
New trailer for season 5 of Mad Men
Teaser for season 8 of Dexter
Thursday ratings: Community and 1600 Penn find new lows
Friday ratings: Everyone’s up

US TV casting

Zeljko Ivanek to recur on Banshee
John Noble to guest on The Good Wife
Bethany Joy Lenz to recur on Dexter

New US TV show casting

Jean Smart replaces Jane Adams on NBC’s Craig Robinson comedy
Mercedes Ruehl and Carla Gugino join ABC’s Doubt
William Daniels to return as Mr Feeny on Disney’s Girl Meets World
Zoe Lister Jones joins CBS’s Friends With Better Lives

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Tuesday’s “David Tennant & Billie Piper return to Doctor Who, Joanna Page to guest, and a trailer for The Saint” news

Thursday’s “HBO’s Borgen, CBS renews 9 shows, and Pixie Lott joins George Gently” news

Wednesday’s “Juliet Stevenson joins Atlantis, Mark Rylance joins Wolf Hall and more Pretty Little Liars” news

Tuesday’s “More Cougar Town, Seth Green is a dad and Debra Messing is a mother” news

Monday’s “Jamie Bamber in The Smoke, Zeljko Ivanek on Banshee and Robert Redford in Captain America 2?” news

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