News

Film

• Locke & Key trilogy in development

Film casting

• Gemma Arterton joins Absolutely Anything
• Dominic Cooper joins The Need for Speed
• Jared Leto joins The Dallas Buyers Club

Trailers

• Trailer for Paul Hyett’s Seasoning House with Sean Pertwee
• Teaser for World War Z with Brad Pitt
• Trailer for Movie 43 with practically everyone

Theatre

• The Good Life being adapted into a stage show

UK TV

• BBC4 acquires Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War
• Jonathan Ross to front ITV film show
• James Blunt and Jack Whitehall to star in sitcom?
• Monday ratings

US TV

• Reelz acquires Bomb Girls
• Trailer for Spartacus: War of the Damned
• Monday ratings: Mob Doctor up, Gossip Girl down, Castle hits series low

US TV casting

• Patricia Arquette to guest on Law & Order: SVU
• Mad Men‘s Sam Page to guest on Last Resort
• Peter Gallagher to guest on How I Met Your Mother
• Michelle Trachtenberg to guest on Criminal Minds
• Bridget Regan to guest on Beauty and the Beast
• Coldplay’s Will Champion to cameo on Game of Thrones

New US TV shows

• Mila Kunis producing Women’s Lib drama Meridian Hills for The CW
• Chelsea Handler to produce ABC workplace comedy Discounted
• Martha Stewart to exec produce Tao of Martha for Fox
• Seth Gordon sets up Run Black at Fox and Bar Scene at NBC
• NBC buys Grow The F**k Up and CBS developing How To Grow Up…
• …NBC buys Slouching Toward Adulthood and a multi-generational comedy

New US TV show casting

• Eric Petersen joins TV Land’s Giant Baby
• Ken Leung joins After Hours, plus other pilot casting
• ABC Family‘s Phys Ed adds Samm Levine, Sunkrish Bala and Chelsea Harris