News

BBC1 to adapt JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy
Loads of stars to star in Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s BBC2 anthology show Inside No. 9
Casting on Broadchurch, Endeavour and Murder On The Home Front

US TV

Newt Gingrich to cameo on Parks and Recreation
Promo for season 4 of Justified

US TV casting

Piper Perabo to recur on Go On
Joel Johnstone to recur on The Newsroom

New US TV shows

ABC developing Rookie
Sunday cable ratings: Boardwalk Empire down for finale, The Walking Dead gets 10.5m

New US TV show casting

S Epatha Merkerson to recur on Deception, Jere Burns to recur on Bates Motel

Monday’s “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell TV series, 50 Cent and Molly Ringwald: TV producers, and lost Anthony Burgess epic” news

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Doctor Who

David Warner to appear in an episode

Film

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo leaves Highlander

Trailers

Trailer for Warm Bodies
Featurette for A Good Day To Die Hard
Five clips from Les Miserables

Radio

Lost Anthony Burgess Napoleon epic to be dramatised on Radio 3

Theatre

Nathaniel Parker et al join The Audience

UK TV

BBC1’s new drama commissions, including Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Casting on Bluestone 42, Heading Out and Way To Go
Helen Baxendale joins final Poirot

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Girls
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Ashanti et al join Army Wives
Bones casting [spoilers]
Edward Hogg to recur on The Borgias
Spartacus‘s Manu Bennett to play Deathstroke on Arrow [minor spoilers]
Nate Corddry to guest on New Girl

New US TV shows

ABC Family developing I Hunt Killers
Teasers for Bates Motel
Diane Farr sells comedy to NBC
Molly Ringwald developing Lifetime drama
50 Cent developing Power for Starz

New US TV show casting

Robin of Sherwood‘s Mark Ryan joins Black Sails
Breakout Kings‘ Serinda Swan promoted to regular on Graceland

Friday’s “MacGyver cameo, CBS’s Stephen King adaptation and more original iPlayer content” news

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Films

Nick Hornby to adapt Wild for Reese Witherspoon

Film casting

Hailee Steinfeld joins McG thriller

UK TV

BBC1 and BBC2 factual quota abolished
Netflix picks up Chuck, Fringe and more
Katherine Kelly joins Fields of Blood
Call the Midwife‘s Christmas special and second series
Welsh government demands Pobol Y Cwm badgers episode be pulled
Doug Naylor writing new Red Dwarfs
BBC to add more original content to the iPlayer

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Richard Dean Anderson to guest on Don’t Trust The B—-
Seth Rogen and Jeff Goldblum to return to The League
Regina King to guest on Big Bang Theory
Richard Karn to guest on Last Man Standing
Diane Farr to recur on Private Practice

New US TV shows

ABC to remake BBC2’s Vexed [subscription required]
Fox to adapt Rubí, developing Slaty Fork
Cinemax developing Kingpin
CBS orders adaptation of Stephen King’s Under The Dome from Steven Spielberg
Wonder Woman to be (codenamed?) Iris?

Thursday’s “InBetweeners, Emily Owens, Mob Doctor cancelled, new Howards End and a Spartacus spin-off” news

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Films

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s period Icelandic Heaven and Hell trilogy to be adapted
George Clooney and Paul Greengrass team up for thriller

Film casting

Angela Bassett joins White Bird In A Blizzard
Hugh Jackman returning for X-Men: Days of Future Past
Charlize Theron to star in Lady Vengeance

Trailers

Clip from Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim with Idris Elba, Ron Perlman et al
Trailer for Black Rock with Kate Bosworth

Canadian TV

CTV picks up Backpackers web series
Tom Green to guest on Seed

UK TV

BBC2 working on Howards End mini-series
Daniela Nardini joins Waterloo Road
Channel 5 acquires Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
Tuesday ratings

US TV

Five more episodes for Last Man Standing and Malibu Country
Emily Owens MD cancelled
The InBetweeners cancelled
Mob Doctor cancelled
The Wire writers join Boardwalk Empire
Trailer for season 2 of Enlightened
Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Lisa Edelstein to guest on House of Lies
Sendhil Ramamurthy to guest on Hot in Cleveland
Chad Michael Murray joins Southland
Laura Vandervoort to guest on CSI:NY

New US TV shows

A Spartacus Julius Caesar spin-off?
CW Digital picks up Backpackers web series

New US TV show casting

Barry Watson joins Terminales

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