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News

Film

Christopher Meloni to star in White Bird in a Blizzard

Radio

Benedict Cumberbatch returning for Cabin Pressure

UK TV

BBC2 acquires HBO’s Family Tree

US TV

Boss cancelled
Another CSI/CSI:NY crossover
Amanda Setton off The Mindy Project, Anna Camp demoted to recurring, new character on the way
Monday ratings

US TV casting

Brian Dennehy to guest on The Big C
The Wire‘s Chad Coleman to guest on The Walking Dead [spoilers]
Hugh Laurie to play Blackbeard in NBC’s Crossbones?
The Office‘s Ellie Kemper to guest on The Mindy Project

New US TV shows

Fox developing pot legalisation show The Happy Tree

New US TV casting

Mia Kirshner to guest on Graceland

Tuesday’s “Hannibal casting, trailers for Smash and Shameless, and Scott & Bailey casting” news

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Films

The Strange Case of Mr Hyde to be adapted

Film casting

Lou Diamond Phillips to star in The Boys of Eloy

Trailers

Trailer for Broken, starring Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy
Trailer for This is 40 with Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Megan Fox et al

UK TV

Nicola Walker and Tracie Bennett to guest on Scott & Bailey

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Smash
Trailer for season 3 of Shameless
Sunday DVR ratings

New US TV shows

Trailer for David E Kelley’s Monday Mornings
NBC acquires The Messed Uptons…
… and developing a comedy for Kenan Thompson
CBS developing spiritual drama

New US TV show casting

Veep‘s Anna Chlumsky to guest on Hannibal…
…Raul Esparza to play Dr Chilton
Minor pilot casting

Monday’s “Last Resort, Partners, 666 Park Avenue cancelled, Web Therapy renewed and ITV1 becomes ITV again” news

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Doctor Who

Details of the Christmas special
David Tennant back for anniversary special?

Film

Vincent D’Onofrio and Anton Yelchin to star in Broken Horses

Trailers

Trailer for The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
Trailer for Beautiful Creatures, with Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson et al
Trailer for Now You See Me with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson et al
Trailer for Admission with Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen et al

Canadian TV

Five more episodes for Saving Hope

UK TV

ITV in major rebranding exercise, including renaming of ITV1 back to ITV
S4C now available throughout the UK on Virgin
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV

Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue cancelled
Partners cancelled
Showtime renews Web Therapy for third season
Elementary gets two more episodes, Vegas cut by one
Guys With Kids gets four more episodes
Hot in Cleveland to have a live episode
Thursday ratings: The CW down, Elementary up
Friday ratings: Malibu Country down 41% on first episode

US TV casting

True Blood‘s Janina Gavankar to recur on Arrow
Mykelti Williamson to recur on Touch
Rebecca Mader to guest on 30 Rock

New US TV shows

MTV acquires Blackwood series of books
Lifetime developing Paranormal Housewives

New US TV show casting

Eddie Izzard to guest on Hannibal

Monday’s “Last Resort, Partners, 666 Park Avenue cancelled, Web Therapy renewed and ITV1 becomes ITV again” news

19 November 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Details of the Christmas special
David Tennant back for anniversary special?

Film

Vincent D’Onofrio and Anton Yelchin to star in Broken Horses

Trailers

Trailer for The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
Trailer for Beautiful Creatures, with Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson et al
Trailer for Now You See Me with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson et al
Trailer for Admission with Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen et al

Canadian TV

Five more episodes for Saving Hope

UK TV

ITV in major rebranding exercise, including renaming of ITV1 back to ITV
S4C now available throughout the UK on Virgin
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV

Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue cancelled
Partners cancelled
Showtime renews Web Therapy for third season
Elementary gets two more episodes, Vegas cut by one
Guys With Kids gets four more episodes
Hot in Cleveland to have a live episode
Thursday ratings: The CW down, Elementary up
Friday ratings: Malibu Country down 41% on first episode

US TV casting

True Blood‘s Janina Gavankar to recur on Arrow
Mykelti Williamson to recur on Touch
Rebecca Mader to guest on 30 Rock

New US TV shows

MTV acquires Blackwood series of books
Lifetime developing Paranormal Housewives

New US TV show casting

Eddie Izzard to guest on Hannibal

Tuesday’s “Saw’s James Wan to direct MacGyver, new seasons for Redfern Now and Girls, & Matthew Lillard joins US The Bridge” news

13 November 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on Friday

Film

Saw co-creator James Wan to direct MacGyver
Fox working on 10 new Marvel comic-book movies

Film casting

Ali Larter et al join You’re Not You
Anne Hathaway joins Robopocalypse
Sean Penn to star in Prone Gunman

International TV

Australia’s Redfern Now gets a second season

UK TV

Filming begins on S4C’s Mathias, starring Richard Harrington
Trailer for A Young Doctor’s Notebook with Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe
John Bishop to write and star in Panto!, with Sheridan Smith and Chesney Hawkes

US TV

A third season for Girls
A full season for Nashville
Malibu Country and Last Man Standing get more scripts
Hawaii Five-0 to remake Hawaii Five-O episode
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time down 23% to series low

US TV casting

Ernie Hudson to recur on The Last Resort
Lorraine Toussaint to recur on Body of Proof
The Partridge Family‘s Shirley Jones to guest on Cougar Town

New US TV shows

The CW working on Jane Whitefield, based on Vanishing Act books
One fewer episode for Do No Harm
Kesem Al Yam Kineret to be adapted as TV series

New US TV show casting

Mena Suvari and Henry Simmons joins Stalkers
Matthew Lillard joins The Bridge

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Monday’s “Last Resort, Partners, 666 Park Avenue cancelled, Web Therapy renewed and ITV1 becomes ITV again” news

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