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News

Film

Kevin Kline joins Last Vegas
Robin Williams to play Eisenhower in The Butler, star in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Jessica Biel leaves Wolverine
Amy Adams joins American Bullshit
CSI:Miami‘s Adam Rodriguez and The Hangover‘s Rachael Harris join Lovesick

Canadian TV

BBC Kids acquires K9
Linda Hamilton to guest on Lost Girl
CBC orders pilot of Leilah and Jen
Local TV subsidy to end

French TV

Jean Reno’s Le Grand renamed Jo

UK TV

Tuesday ratings: Line of Duty up to 3.24m
Hulu to co-produce The Thick of It

US TV

Desperate Housewives‘ Richard Burgi to guest on Blue Bloods
SyFy acquires K9
Heroes‘/Merlin‘s Santiago Cabrera to recur on Dexter
Hulu acquires The Thick of It, will stream it uncensored
Paget Brewster to guest on Law & Order: SVU
Unforgettable to purge supporting cast

Trailers

Teaser for season 2 of Homeland
Teaser for season 5 of Castle

Wednesday’s “RDM to adapt Outlander books, Hilary Swank in Richard Curtis BBC movie and Andrew Stanton gets a job” news

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Film

Daniel Radcliffe joins The F Word
Steve Guttenberg and Samantha Mathis join Affluenza
Kristen Bell to star in The Lifeguard
John Carter‘s Andrew Stanton to direct Finding Nemo 2
Amanda Plummer joins Hunger Games 2

UK TV

Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn to star in Richard Curtis’ malaria drama Mary and Martha

US TV

FNL‘s Gaius Charles joins Grey’s Anatomy
BSG‘s Ty Olsson to recur on Supernatural [spoilers]
Smash‘s Will Chase to guest on Necessary Roughness
Trailer for season 2 of Hell on Wheels
Monday ratings

New US TV shows

Sebastian Arcelus joins House of Cards
BSG‘s Ronald D Moore to adapt Outlander books

Tuesday’s “Now TV launches, Michael Bay TV show gets greenlit and a trailer for the US Inbetweeners” news

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Doctor Who

Episode titles revealed [minor spoilers]

Film

Johnny Depp to star in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel

UK TV

BBC Worldwide posts £155m in profits
Lord Sugar signs up for two more series of The Apprentice
BBC drama down by 150 hours last year [subscription required]
Alibi acquires The Glades [subscription required]
ITV to adapt Frances Hodgson Burnett‘s The Making of a Marchioness
Sky launches Now TV streaming movies service
BBC sells Television Centre for £200m

US TV

Mark Consuelos joins American Horror Story
Sunday ratings: Political Animals starts with 2.6m viewers…
…Breaking Bad returns to 2.9m viewers…
…while Longmire gets 4.5m viewers and The Glades gets 3.4m viewers

New US TV shows

Michael Bay’s The Last Ship greenlit to pilot by TNT
Trailer for the US remake of The Inbetweeners

Monday’s “Plenty of trailers, Diana Rigg joins Game of Thrones and Joss Whedon starts acting” news

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Film

True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten to star in Sex and Sunsets
Jessica Biel cast in The Wolverine?

Theatre

Chicago to close at the Garrick

UK TV

The Killing director to helm BBC2’s Murder

US TV

Community‘s Joel McHale to guest on Sons of Anarchy
Joss Whedon to appear in Jane Espenson’s Husbands
Hulu acquires Prisoners of War
Street Fighter: the TV series
Diana Rigg, Mackenzie Crook, Tara Fitzgerald, Paul Kaye et al join Game of Thrones
Original Eddie Munster to cameo on Mockingbird Lane reboot
Kelly Hu to play China White on Arrow
Ed Asner returning to Hawaii Five-0
Anger Management down another 28%
Bruce Boxleitner developing Lantern City

Trailers

Trailer for Da Vinci’s Demons
Trailer for Spartacus: War of the Damned
Trailer for season five of Breaking Bad
Trailer for season three of Treme
Trailer and other videos for season two of Once Upon A Time
Trailer for season three of The Walking Dead

Friday’s news

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Film

Karen Gillan to star in Oculus
Mads Mikkelsen out of Thor 2
Ashley Judd and Robert Forster join Olympus Has Fallen

Comics

Neil Gaiman to write a new Sandman mini-series

UK TV

Trailer for Charlie Brooker’s A Touch of Cloth
Mount Pleasant to return for a second series on Sky Living
Peep Show‘s Sam Bain working on Strange Pairs for Sky
Famous Five to return in TV series
Black Mirror gets a second series

US TV

Alcatraz‘s Jeffrey Pierce to recur on Nikita [spoilers]
Teen Wolf gets a third season
The Chicago Code‘s Todd Williams to recur on Vampire Diaries
Psych to have a two-hour musical episode

New US TV shows

New trailer for The Mindy Project
Hung co-creators developing supernatural series Sleep No More
Bravo developing The Joneses

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Thursday’s “Unforgettable purge, Santiago Cabrera on Dexter and Linda Hamilton on Lost Girl” news

Wednesday’s “RDM to adapt Outlander books, Hilary Swank in Richard Curtis BBC movie and Andrew Stanton gets a job” news

Tuesday’s “Now TV launches, Michael Bay TV show gets greenlit and a trailer for the US Inbetweeners” news

Monday’s “Plenty of trailers, Diana Rigg joins Game of Thrones and Joss Whedon starts acting” news

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