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News

The Daily News might be back tomorrow, but more likely it’ll be back on Monday

UK TV

Drop The Dead Donkey/Outnumbered‘s Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton working on satirical comedy for Sky Atlantic’s second comedy phase
Freeview/Internet TV service YouView launched
George Entwistle appointed BBC director general

Wednesday’s “Sky acquires four US shows, The Newsroom down 20% in ratings and Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher” news

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Film

Lizzy Caplan and Titus Welliver to star in The Avengers Blu-Ray short Item 47
Crispin Glover joins Motel
Sharon Stone joins Mother’s Day
Audrey Fleurot joins La Vraie vie des profs

Trailers

Trailer for Why Stop Now, with Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo and Tracy Morgan
Trailer for Jack Reacher, with Tom Cruise

Comics

Marvel’s plans to counter the nu-52

UK TV

Sky 1 HD acquires Arrow; Sky Atlantic HD acquires The Following and Vegas; Sky Living acquires Elementary

US TV

Trailer for season seven of Dexter
Christine Lahti joins Hawaii Five-O
Sunday ratings: Weeds, Episodes down for premieres…
…The Newsroom down 20% for second episode

Tuesday’s “More Newsroom and True Blood, the Bates Motel series and US Sirens gets picked up” news

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Doctor Who

Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling to guest on Doctor Who

Film

Dylan McDermott joins Olympus Has Fallen

Trailers

Trailer for Compliance with Dreama Walker
Trailer for The Tall Man, with Jessica Biel

US TV

Terry Crews to recur on The Newsroom…
…which has just got a second season, True Blood getting a sixth season
Peter MacNicol to recur on Necessary Roughness
Agnes Bruckner to guest on Covert Affairs
Eight more episodes of Eastbound & Down ordered

New US TV shows

A&E orders Carlton Cuse’s Bates Motel to series
Trailer for Tom Hanks’ web series Electric City
Lili Taylor and Kandyse McClure to appear in Netflix’s Hemlock Grove
USA picks up Paging Dr Freed and Sirens

Monday’s “Unforgettable resurrected, Graceland picked up and Elizabeth Mitchell joins the Revolution” news

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Film

Luc Besson to adapt graphic novel Valerian

Theater

Sigourney Weaver and David Hyde Pierce to star in Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Mike

Canadian TV

Final Destination‘s Bobby Campo and Nikita’s Xander Berkeley to recur on Being Human

US TV

Men At Work gets a second season,…
…as do the previously cancelled Unforgettable…
…A&E’s Longmire…
…and TNT’s Dallas, while Rizzoli & Isles gets a fourth season
Thursday ratings: Anger Management sets cable comedy record…
…while Awkward returns to a solid start

New US TV Shows

Josh Cooke joins TV Land’s Brothers-in-Law
USA orders Jeff Eastin’s Graceland to series
Elizabeth Mitchell joins NBC’s Revolution
Casting on The Office spin-off, The Farm

Friday’s “Netflix UK acquires Arrested Development and Damon Lindelof to develop The Leftovers” news

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Film

Stellan Skarsgard confirmed for Thor 2

Trailers

Trailer for Man With The Iron Fists, with Russell Crow, Lucy Liu, Jamie Chung and Pam Grier [NSFW]

Theatre

Rob Brydon and Ashley Jenson to star in Alan Ayckbourn’s A Chorus of Disapproval

Canadian TV

CTV order pilots for Satisfaction and Spun Out
More casting on Vikings

UK TV

Netflix UK acquires new Arrested Development

US TV

Wednesday ratings: Final Witness starts poorly
CSI‘s José Zúñiga to guest on Burn Notice

New US TV shows

Damon Lindelof to develop The Leftovers for HBO
The League of Pan, based on Peter Pan, being developed

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Wednesday’s “Sky acquires four US shows, The Newsroom down 20% in ratings and Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher” news

Tuesday’s “More Newsroom and True Blood, the Bates Motel series and US Sirens gets picked up” news

Monday’s “Unforgettable resurrected, Graceland picked up and Elizabeth Mitchell joins the Revolution” news

Friday’s “Netflix UK acquires Arrested Development and Damon Lindelof to develop The Leftovers” news

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