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Film

BFI to launch online player of 10,000 archive films
Hilary Swank leaves, Gael Garcia Bernal joins The Dallas Buyer’s Club

Trailers

Trailer for Movie 43 with so many people, I can’t list them all
Trailer for The Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp
Trailer for Parker with Jason Statham, Michael Chiklis and Jennifer Lopez

Theatre

Lucy Benjamin joins Hairspray, Mel Giedroyc joins Cinderella

UK TV

Jimmy McGovern writing Common for BBC1
Strike Back gets a fourth series
Channel 4 HD to broadcast in Wales once S4C HD Clirlun stops

US TV

Strike Back gets a third season
SyFy and Hulu acquire Primeval: New World
Trailer for season 2 of American Horror Story
Tuesday ratings: CBS dominates, New Girl steady, everything else down

US TV casting

Alex Kingston to guest on NCIS
Ally Sheedy to return to Psych
Colin O’Donoghue becomes a regular on Once Upon A Time
Californication‘s Pamela Adlon to guest on Parenthood

New US TV shows

Smurfs writers developing comedy for CBS
NBC acquires Lost Horizon from M Night Shyamalan and John Glenn
CBS developing drama about the Surgeon General
Julia Roberts developing Taming of the Shrew for ABC

New US TV show casting

Jodi Lyn O’Keefe joins Stalkers
Ellen Greene to recur on Hannibal

Wednesday’s “Black Widow back, Revolution, Go On, New Normal, Boardwalk Empire get renewed and JMS-Wachowski’s Sense8” news

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Film

Jake Gyllenhaal joins Prisoners
Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow likely to be back for Captain America 2
Amanda Peet, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, William H Macy et al to star in Clark Gregg’s Trust Me
Ashley Judd, Seth Green, Ray Liotta to star in The Identical
Kevin Costner joins McG’s latest

UK TV

Martine McCutcheon, Charlie Baker, Russ Abbott to star in the BBC’s The Home Office

US TV

NBC gives full seasons to Revolution, Go On and The New Normal
Boardwalk Empire gets a fourth season
Monday ratings: Mob Doctor, Partners struggle

US TV show casting

Bradley Whitford to recur on Shameless
Dylan Walsh to guest on CSI [minor spoilers]
Callie Thorne and Lisa Edelstein to guest on Elementary [minor spoilers]
Whoopi Goldberg to guest on 666 Park Avenue
Stephen Collins to guest on Falling Skies
Patton Oswalt joins Justified
Daniel Henney to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Tony Hale to guest on Up All Night

New US TV shows

Fox buys Reese Witherspoon’s Wendy & Peter
NBC buys Jason Bateman’s 80s comedy Then Came Elvis
CBS orders pilot of Jerry Bruckheimer’s adaptation of Hostages

New US TV show casting

Mike Vogel and Nestor Carbonell join Bates Motel
Drea De Matteo to star in Lifetime’s Stalkers
Robbie Amell joins 1600 Penn
J Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis working on Sense8

Tuesday’s “Murder Bitches, cable up, network down ratings, and dead Munsters” news

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Doctor Who

The Angels Take Manhattan gets 5.9m viewers

Film

Longmire‘s Bailey Chase joins Ashley Scott and Cuba Gooding Jr in Summoned

Trailers

TV spot for Alex Cross, with Tyler Perry, Mathew Fox, Rachel Nichols and Jean Reno

Canadian TV

Adam Korson and Carrie-Lynn Neales to star in Seed
Ratings for week of Sept 17
Ratings for week of Sept 23

UK TV

Downton Abbey hits series high

US TV

Premiere week full ratings
Friday ratings: Made in Jersey starts low
Sunday ratings: 666 Park Avenue starts low
Sunday cable ratings: Homeland up 60% in season premiere, Dexter has most watched season opener

US TV casting

Gerald McRaney to guest on Mike & Molly

New US TV Shows

Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane ironically probably dead
ABC buys Dakota, CBS buys The Centurion
Ryan Murphy to produce drama Montauk for Fox, comedy for NBC
Shonda Rhimes sells I Hate LA Dudes and The Mix to ABC
CBS buys single-camera family comedy
The Mentalist producers sells Murder Bitches to CBS
Fox buys two couples comedies
The CW developing supernatural ‘fixer’ drama Abaddon’s Journal
The SHIELD characters [minor spoilers]

Monday’s “Channel 4’s winter dramas, Greg Kinnear returns to TV and Morrison redoes Watchmen” news

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Doctor Who

The Angels Take Manhattan gets 5.9m viewers

Film

No Taken 3?
Andrew Garfield confirmed for The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan join Edgar Wright’s The World’s End
Judi Dench and Steve Coogan to star in Stephen Frears’ Philomena

Trailers

Clip from Red Dawn remake with Chris Hemsworth and Adrianne Palicki
Trailer for Bullet to the Head with Sylvester Stallone and Christian Slater

Comics

Grant Morrison to finish Alan Moore’s original Watchmen idea

UK TV

A Downton prequel?
Blinkbox acquires Veep
Sky Living acquires Chicago Fire
Top Gear presenters sign up for another three years
Channel 4’s autumn/winter showlist and drama showreel…
…details of new commissions…
…casting on Southcliffe

US TV

Thursday ratings: Elementary starts big, The Last Resort starts okay
A third season for Franklin & Bash

US TV casting

Nicole Richie and George Takei join American Horror Story
Michael Trucco to recur on Revenge

New US TV shows

Jason Katims to adapt About A Boy
Craig Ferguson sells two shows to CBS
CBS buys dating comedy Nerds in Love

New US TV show casting

Greg Kinnear to star in adaptation of Rake
CBS picks up Jerry Bruckheimer FBI drama The Bureau
Ken Leung to recur on Infamous

Friday’s “Jeffrey Archer TV series, William Hurt to play Richard Feynman and Citizen Khan gets a 2nd series” news

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The Daily News will be back on Tuesday

Film

Patrick Stewart back for X-Men
Mark Millar to look after Fox’s Marvel movies

Theater

Scrubs: the musical?

Canadian TV

Trailer for Primeval New World

International TV

Australia’s ABC buys Jimmy McGovern-developed Aboriginal drama Redfern Now

UK TV

William Hurt to play Richard Feynman in BBC Challenger docu-drama [subscription required]
Citizen Khan gets a second series [subscription required]
Harry Enfield and Bryan Elsley sell Dates to Channel 4
Wednesday ratings

US TV

Promo for season 7 of Dexter
Major Crimes gets a second season
Tuesday cable ratings: Sons of Anarchy comes second
Wednesday ratings: The Neighbors starts okay, NBC comedies down a lot

US TV casting

Olivia Munn to recur on New Girl
Lauren Graham to guest on Go On
Henry Ian Cusick to guest on The Mentalist

New US TV shows

ABC buys heist drama from 24‘s Evan Katz
NBC developing New Orleans marching band comedy The Swamp
Gale Anne Hurd developing adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s The Eleventh Commandment for NBC
NBC buys This Thing Called Love
Fox buys buddy-buddy-buddyette cop show from House and Rescue Me creators
CBS buys medical drama from Reaper creators
Medium’s Glenn Gordon Caron sells Motor City Shakedown and Near Dead to CBS

New US TV show casting

Kirstie Alley to star in Giant Baby
John Larroquette to recur on Infamous
Kate Mulgrew joins Orange Is The New Black

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